I didn't realise it was this bad!

Big Fat Liar should change its name to Big Fat Turkey.

Neil Heath

This is an awful film. It's as funny as getting your arm trapped in a bailing machine.

It makes Britney's 'Crossroads' look like an Oscar winner, and amazingly it took two men to write it.

The plot
Frankie Muniz star of 'Malcom in the Middle', plays Jason Shepherd, a school kid with an appetite for telling porkies.

After getting into trouble with his teacher over a late story assignment, he's given a few hours to write a new one and return it to her, or he'll have to spend the summer in school.

But after he bumps into a film producer's limo, Jason has his story 'Big Fat Liar', stolen.

The slimy producer Wolf (Giamatti), needs a box office hit and amazingly he sees the potential for a smash hit in Jason's page long story.

Now it's up to Jason and school pal Kaylee (Bynes) to make the trip to Hollywood and get Wolf to confess to his Father, that he has stolen Jason's story.

Not exactly Citizen Kane eh?

Review
A cross between Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Home Alone, the only thing that this film establishes is that Frankie Muniz should stick to sitcoms, and the writers shouldn't write.

Blue skin is all the rage in Hollywood nowadays.

Considering how bad some Hollywood films are, It wouldn't be surprising if some producers did seek help from 14 year olds.

And it does feel like Big Fat Liar was put together by a pubescent in a 30 minute detention.

The irony of this film is, whilst poking fun at producers - who think they're more important than life itself - and their terrible films, they've actually made a stinker themselves.

Yes, it is a kids film, but for a kid's film to be successful, it has to appeal to adults, and it appeals about as much as drinking poison.

Definitely not one to spend money on, wait for the Sunday morning showing on TV in a few years time.

One final point, If the director, writers and producers of Big Fat Liar can't be bothered to make a decent and enjoyable film, why should you bother making the effort to see it?