Friday, July 09, 2010

Movie review – “The Invention of Lying” (2009) **1/2

A funny idea – Ricky Gervais lives in a world without lies and discovers how to lie. But it doesn’t quite last the full distance. It changes gears in act three, pulling punches with the religion satire and becoming more of a film about how you should be nice to fat people. (Which is kind of hypocritical because the love interest is pretty Jennifer Garner.) The endless cameos get irritating after a while although Jennifer Garner is very pleasant – she joins a long noble line of leading ladies required to fall in love with unattractive stars.

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