The film directed by Tom Shediak, which premiered in 1997, was released at the national box office with the title “Liar, Liar”. Moreover, in the original - Liar Liar, there is no comma between the words. The fact is that the title is based on a play on words that are directly related to the professional activities of the main character Fletch Reed. The lawyer in English is pronounced as “Loyer”, and the liar as “Layer”, that is, the name contains the main reference to the storyline. The film is dedicated to Jason Bernard, who played the role of Judge Stevens, who suddenly died shortly after the completion of the filming process. Many critics in their reviews of “Liar, Liar” expressed their condolences to the relatives and friends of the performer.
The result of creative collaboration
The movie "Liar, Liar" reviews are positioned as the second joint project of director Tom Shediak and Jim Carrey. Indeed, their acquaintance took place during the creation of the comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Tracing. Four years after the triumphant premiere, they decide to work together again. In the future, filmmakers will meet again on the set, already during the creation of the comedy "Bruce Almighty." The script for the 1997 film was made by the recent playwright debutants Paul Gue and Stephen Mazur, who before this wrote the story that formed the basis of the plot of “Little Wretches”, which were very warmly received by critics and viewers. The fruit of the joint efforts of the creative group of creators exceeded all expectations. The film "Liar, Liar" received positive reviews, its IMDb rating: 6.30.
Plot
The plot of the comedy is based on the story of the main character - the successful lawyer Fletcher Reed (Jim Carrey), who is fully focused on career development, always winning one thing after another. A man is an excellent liar, but the habit of lying extends not only to work. Often Reed does not notice how he is deceiving relatives and friends. In desperation, the wife of Audrey (Mora Tierney) leaves her husband, and his son Max, blowing out the candles on the birthday cake on his birthday, wants his father to stop lying.
In a magical way, this desire is fulfilled, turning for a lawyer into a real curse. From this moment on, his career flies downhill. A lawyer is not able to lie to clients and opponents in litigation. The overwhelming majority of reviewers in reviews of the film "Liar, Liar" praise the idea at the heart of comedy, you definitely cannot call it secondary.
Benefit Kerry
According to the authors in their reviews of Liar, Liar, the image of Fletcher Reed, who has lost the ability to lie, is one of the most famous in the track record of Jim Carrey. The actor appears in amazing shape, grimaces with pleasure, while remaining cute, handsome and even touching. However, few people know that the picture could have turned out completely different if the performer accepted Mike Myers’s proposal and played the role of Doctor Evil in his project about Austin Powers. When Kerry refused, Mike Myers himself embodied the image of a supervillain. Also reviews on “Liar, Liar” are noted by Kerry's cameo, which, in addition to the main role, appeared in the episodic one. In the final episode at the airport, he flashed in the background, reincarnating as a firefighter Bill. This character is familiar to fans of the actor’s early sketches, with which Kerry performed on TV.
The efforts of the performer were appreciated. In 1998, he received a Golden Globe nomination and won the MTV Channel Award.
Viewer reaction
The audience’s feedback on Liar Liar is extremely laudatory. The authors consider the success of the comedy to be largely due to the leading actor. According to their statements, Kerry once again confirmed that he is the main comedian of Hollywood. After all, who else from the comedians is able to keep the audience on watch for an hour and a half, tirelessly demonstrating the whole spectrum of their talent, with dignity to get out of the most inconceivably difficult scrapes and earn the producers ten times more than the film spent on shooting? After this comedy, the audience felt that the performer was able to play, and not just grimace in front of the camera. Many reviewers explained the excitement around the comedy show by the fact that almost every second American at least once in his life came across a rogue lawyer.
Acting Ensemble
In addition to the enchanting Jim Carrey, movie experts in reviews of Liar, Liar praised the wise melodramatic background of the family value tape and the chicly selected entire cast ensemble. You can not underestimate the contribution made to the perception of comedy by the public by the young Justin Cooper, who played Max Reed. In his eyes there is an unprecedented sadness from unfulfilled promises of his father and an unprecedented sincere joy when his father finally comes to his senses.
Organically fit into the concept of the tape Mora Tierney as the wife of the protagonist. However, she was sometimes lost in the background of the collected, serious secretary Greta, played by Ann Haney. We can say with confidence that the casting experts did a good job.
Fireworks of instructive humor
Many filmmakers could not recognize the work of Tom Shediak as a full-fledged family comedy, because for all the hilarious component, Gue and Mazur saturated the narrative with a significant moral background, in the center of which family values. The project’s dialogs are sometimes very sharp, but they are diluted with funny episodes, such as the main character’s struggle with the blue pen, which leads the audience into ecstasy. In addition to positive emotions, the creators force viewers to cheer for the long-awaited ending to the story. The audience expresses special gratitude to the authors for cutting funny moments that go after the final credits.