Ricky Gervais,
Jennifer Garner,
Jonah Hill,
Louis C.K.,
Jeffrey Tambor
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Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
DVD Release Date: January 19, 2010
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February 1, 2010The Invention of Lying is about a world where no one has ever lied. No one knows how. Until one day Ricky Gervais does.
Now I know the movie is called the Invention of Lying, but it seems more like the Invention of Knowing when to shut the hell up. Sure, you don't have to lie, b...( read more) -
January 26, 2010THE INVENTION OF LYING is a very original film, and a rather funny one, but it's first half (bordering on genius) gives way to a pretty weak second, and a very abrupt ending doesn't really help matters.
It's a film worth seeing, but it's premise greatly outweighs it's execution! -
January 25, 2010Really a far-fetched concept, much like Idiocracy even though the two are extremely different. It was interesting to watch in the beginning but I began to lose interest by the middle and then fell asleep. I'm aliiiiiive, for you I'm awaaaake, that's a lieeeeeeeee, cuz i'm just ...( read more)
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January 25, 2010I have a feeling this cute, amusing comedy worked better on the page than it does on screen. It never quite feels fully thought out, and that kept it from really soaring as a comedy. That said, there's still enough clever goings on to recommend it.
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January 24, 2010This could have been so much better but giving it some respect where due, the idea behind the movie is very original and as such not a total flop, defo one to watch with the missus for the romance elements
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February 10, 2010to be honest i didnt finish this yet......but while i'm here lol it's pretty funny, especially for pg-13
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February 9, 2010I?m wondering why the comments I've been seeing on this movie are so negative. This is very special movie ? not actually the movie but the idea - In a world where everyone must tell the truth, one man after being fired and almost evicted is pushed to the limits. His brain does s...( read more)
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February 9, 2010This movie was pretty sacreligious, although it had some good points. Everyone lies these days. If everyone were completely honest with eachother there would be no such thing as flattery.
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Critic Reviews
October 5, 2009
A.O. Scott, At the Movies
October 5, 2009
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
The last third of the movie is as bad as anything I've seen this year, with the laughs trailing off, and half of the supporting characters, the zestier ones, being airbrushed from the frame. full review
October 4, 2009
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
The laughs rain down early on; later - Messiah moment apart - they thin to a drizzle, deprived of variation. full review
October 2, 2009
Kurt Loder, MTV
"The Invention of Lying" harvests so many sharp laughs from its fertile premise, it's too bad the picture slides into gooey platitude at the end. Getting to that point, though, is a lot of fun. full review
October 2, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
There's no hope that Gervais' performance in The Invention of Lying will open up new hope for a different kind of leading man -- and that's what makes his resoluteness so great. full review
October 2, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
It's no fun watching Gervais work out a tired fantasy of turning hot babes into chubby chasers. We want Gervais in all his merry, malicious glory. That's no lie. full review
October 1, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Sublimely funny, slyly satirical and deliberately designed to upset Aunt Prissy, The Invention of Lying weaves quite a wicked web. full review
October 1, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Gervais, who co-directed and co-wrote with Matthew Robinson, walks a delicate tightrope above hazardous chasms. full review
September 30, 2009
Armond White, The New York Press
Gervais' ridicule proves his lack of sophistication. Not only the most brutally photographed movie of the year, The Invention of Lying is so foully directed and carelessly acted it ultimately proves d... full review
September 21, 2009
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The movie is something rare, a boisterous American comedy with the power to trigger philosophical disputes -- even, if taken really seriously, fisticuffs. One can hope! full review
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