The Invention of Lying (2009)

“Your baby is so ugly, it looks like a little rat.” Now is that the kind of thing we’d hear in our world? I think not. After seeing Ghost Town, which also featured Gervais, which I did enjoy, I was excited to see this. And while I didn’t like this as much as I did Ghost Town, I laughed out loud quite a few times, where as I never did in Ghost Town. That might be because where Ghost Town is a comedy-drama, The Invention of Lying is a comedy. It is commonly labeled as a romantic comedy, but I never saw it as that. This movie didn’t place the emphasis on the romantic subplot in the film, but it is there. And thankfully for all of the dudes watching the film, most of the time in the film is dedicated to the jokes, which can fall flat sometimes. The rest of the time is dedicated to some very hilarious jokes, beautifully written by Ricky Gervais. The plot is that Gervais plays a man who can tell a lie, in a world where everyone only tells the truth. The plot is clever, but knowing Gervais, I just thought that he could have come up with something better. I also thought that this could have been done better, with some awful romance elements that I thought wasn’t necessary at all. Also, there were some moments that will spike a lot of controversy, as people usually get to be upset when an atheist makes up a fake ‘Man In The Sky’ and then holds up rules on pizza boxes, in a scene very reminiscent of The Ten Commandments. Yeah. But, it still was fun, and a good daytime film.
7.5/10