TheRetroCritic

Soon after Jim Carrey's darker turn in Ben Stiller's The Cable Guy , he partnered up again with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective director Tom Shadyac for Liar Liar , a much more family-friendly commercial hit about a lawyer cursed by his son to not lie for an entire day. If The Cable Guy alienated audiences from Carrey, Liar Liar got them back. The film saw the comedian go back to his manic, rubber-faced roots and deliver an over-the-top, cartoon-esque performance. Re-watching it, Liar Liar walks a weird line as it looks and feels like a kids movie and yet boasts a lot of adult humour. After all, Fletcher Reed's (Carrey) entire case revolves around an affair, one which we actually hear going on in a recording at one point, and he himself is portrayed as something of a womaniser here and there. Yet the tone throughout is very easy-going, light-hearted and its hook is something right out of, say, Jumanji or a similar type kid-friendly outing. In fact, Liar Liar is sort of li