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Jim Carrey gave Universal one of their biggest hits of all time. Does it still hold up over 20 years later? Nostalgia Critic takes a look at Liar Liar.
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Liar Liar is a 1997 American satirical fantasy comedy film, directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Paul Guay and Stephen Mazur. It stars Jim Carrey as a lawyer who built his entire career on lying but finds himself cursed to speak only the truth for a single day, during which he struggles to maintain his career and to reconcile with his ex-wife and son whom he alienated with his pathological lying.
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A lawyer who can't lie.
A man who can't say no.
A man whose memory is slowly being erased.
A man whose whole life is televised.
A man with the power of God.
Carrey just knows how to make gimmick movies work.
Excuse me, I need a spoõüuu- It’s okay, I found one!
Clever Comment, and for those wondering the name of each film here:
1. Liar Liar
2. Yes Man
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Truman Show
5. Bruce Almighty
@@CLDJ227 I love the "Yes Man", but i personally wish the movie didn't have a third-act break-up. it doesn't even needed one.
You could rewrite the film to have carrey's character, carl, tell his love interest allison (zooey deschanel's character), his "curse to say yes only", from the very first moment they met at the gas station (him, still angry he had to walk to get the gas he need for his car, telling her he only got into this mess because a "covenant" he made with a spokesman to only say yes to everything). And that making her take an interest on him (at first testing him if he really has to say yes to everything, but eventually liking him for real)
You could still have a climax with carl's "say yes to everything" coming back to bite him either in form of him being considered a terrorist, or, after he says no once, and "breaking the covenant", causing his bad luck to escalate to the point of maybe even getting hit by a lightning or his apartment catching in flames.
And the movie could still have that scene of carl realizing "bad things happened simply because that's life, not because he broke the covenant", and the spokesman saying "Yes. Shit happens."
And then ending with a scene basically copying "it's a wonderful life", with all the people carl helped across the film, thanks to the "say yes commitment", coming to help him back.
Don't forget the split personality one, my favorite Jim Carrey movie: My, Myself, and Irene.
A man who's dumber
Jim Carrey's pen scene is nothing short of amazing
"it's blue...the g*ddamn pen is blue..."🤣🤣🤣
I think as a kid that was the first time a movie made me laugh so hard I could not breathe.
It's such a Looney Tunes moment that there's a video on CZcams where someone dubs over the lines in the scene with a Daffy Duck impression.
@@brandonspain12345 Which is strange to me that Jim Carrey hasn't done anything Looney Tunes.. A missed opportunity right there..
@@mathewhaightI laughed my a__ at that when I was a kid as well.. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 My sisters, mother and I was literally gut holding laughing.. Jim is just amazingly special...Never forget those Vanilla Ice skits he did in on *"In Living Color"* Pure genius..
I honestly think the scene with his boss taking all the insults as jokes makes complete sense; it's essentially the old saying that only the jester could speak the truth to the king.
And how can you not love when he goes on a list of roasts with everybody else:
"Loser! Idiot! Wimp! Degenerate! SLLLLLLLLUT!!!!" 😂
@@welcometothemetaverse2523 I'll see you later dickhead! 😂
I love it because it's great scene that betrays your expectations.
You think it's going to go horribly like everything else when it actually works out.
I know some people say it's forced, but I think it makes sense if you realize the guy was looking for someone honest and not another brown nose suck up.
This movie taught me what "pedantic" and "belligerent" meant too. 🤣
I always thought Mr. Alan made an exception b/c he thought Fletcher was an asset to the firm. Taking Fletcher's words as the cocky behavior of a yuppie high on his success, he reframed it as a "roast" with the intention of dressing him down later.
"He's badgering the witness!"
"It's his witness." 🤣🤣 God I love this movie.
I always thought that was the funniest bit.
Okay but "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!!!" still gets a big laugh out of me after all these years
To be fair, that is pretty good legal advice.
If there's ever a day I don't laugh at "YOUR HONOUR, I OBJECT!" "On what grounds?" "BECAUSE IT IS DEVESTATING TO MY CASE!" then just consider my soul dead.
I also like that part in the boardroom where he takes that guys toupee and puts it against the wall like he scalped him xD
I like to think that's the advice Trump is getting A LOT from his lawyers, word for word.
I yell that out loud while driving all the time.
At least they didn't make the new boyfriend a catoonishly evil villain. He was genuinely nice, and actually let Audrey go back to Fletcher so that Max still has his father in his life.
He’s played by Westley from The Princess Bride. That helps.
@@chasehedges6775 And a Robin Hood who, unlike some others, could speak with an ENGLISH accent.
That honestly makes it worse. Carrey is basically the villain for most of this movie, and then because he has a moment of clarity, the good guy gets screwed over and banished.
@@SionnachOghma moments like that makes me appreciate movies like enchanted. where the supporting cast got a happy ending too.
@@ianr.navahuber2195And Venom, where the new boyfriend is a great guy and she stays with him. So instead of getting back together they just become friends again.
Boss, he knocked over another ATM, he needs your legal advice.”
“STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE!!!!
Always killed me!😂😂😂😂
Ah, Skull. And 18:34 Doug ain't crazy because that's Skull
The sheer despairing acceptance in the delivery of the line, "The pen is blue...the goddamned PEN IS BLUE!" never ceases to amuse me.
Yes! I like that line delivery better than either of the two he called the funniest.
@@someguy7424 honestly the pen line and the back and forth of "What in god's name are you doing?!" "I'm kicking my own ass do you mind?!" Are for me the best lines in the film
@@grandadmiralzaarin4962used to watch this with my grandpa and the line “I’m kicking my ass!! Do you mind?!” Always made both of us cry with laughter
This is hands down ONE of my all-time favourite films in general... it is at the very least my absolute favourite starring Jim Carey! Really glad that Critic picked to do this one. 🤩
Mine is the second ace Ventura movie.
Mine has to be the Truman Show. Though The Cable Guy is delightfully dark. I mostly remember this movie for the blooper reel (which was fantastic).
My input:
1. I actually LOVE the boardroom scene. When he starts riffing on the other people, it's GOLD! And it had to take at least 15 takes of Flecther laughing right in Miranda's face before she could do it without breaking down herself.
2. There's been a controversy surrounding how Jerry was a genuinely good person who legit tried to connect with his would-be stepson, and got shafted in the end. That's all true, but I truly believe he ended up alright. He had a good paying job in Boston, and a charming personality that would have gotten attention. He found love again, I'm sure of it.
3. The outtakes during the credits are as much a part of this movie as anything else, so excluding them except for throwaway references is a disservice.
4. No mention of my favorite gag where Fletcher tells a repeat offender client "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!"
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
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He's Elwes, Cary Elwes! Nobody in their right mind would pass up that gem of a person.
@@Grintock A lot us who saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights did not know it was him in Liar Liar since we were used to how he looked as Robin Hood.
@@Grintock I met him a few years ago and HE IS STILL SO HOT...my gawd. 🥵
I asked him what his favorite PB quote was and he said "Anybody want a peanut?" 😆
I like to think that he got those kids back to the dad as well in that one year later title sequence...
The horrified look on his face when he says "I'm a bad father" is possibly my favorite piece of Carreys acting. He really is talented when he needs to be.
Yes, even while he's saying it, you can even see him hearing it for the first time while it's coming out of his mouth, like he was expecting to say something else. It's amazing.
What makes the scene more impactful is that the way the curse works is that he can only say things he knows are true. We see this with Kevin while he's prepping him for his testimony. He loses his ability to question him once he knows Kevin plans to lie. This means that Fletcher himself believes he is a bad father and that he's been lying to himself.
The small moments when a comedian can show some acting chops is always truly appreciated
Check him out in the movie the majestic
"Stop breaking the law, asshole!" is still one of the greatest comedic lines ever. 😂😂
I think the reason why it is such a killer line is because of his delivery mixed with the facial expression mixed with the phone so far from his face
Preceded by "Your client is on the phone and wants your legal advice." 😆
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the PERFECTION of Jim Carrie's haircut?
I've never thought about it, but you're absolutely right
I always pay attention to hair, his is always noticed in his movies, he looks like an actual lawyer in this aka an a hole
His hair is incredible in this film.
As a stylist dude I must respect that hair
Right after we appreciate Jennifer Tilly's cleavage. It'll only take a minute.
It's a dumb movie but I love Jim Carreys acting especially the " I'm a bad dad" line
Dumb in concept, smart in execution is the perfect way to describe this movie.
This scene was when I realised Carrey was in fact a good actor.
This was before The Trueman Show or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I still just saw him as a goofy guy making funny faces for a living, I didn't expect that kind of scene from that kind of film.
@@traditionalempress6961 That really describes a lot of jim carrey movies, they would be shitty bad movies if anyone else did them, but some how he makes it work.
Not even a dumb movie at all. A habitual liar who is suddenly unable to lie is actually a smart premise.
I remember the blooper of "Overactor" and Carrey's sarcastic response of "Oh no, they're on to me" being a cliffnotes version of Jim's comedic antics in the 90s. However, the supporting cast holds their own with his "overacting" which makes this an underrated 90s classic in my opinion.
This movie has one of my favorite Carrey moments: He yells some advice to a conman into a phone at arm's length "STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!!" I break into laughter just thinking about that moment.
i dont care what anyone says, Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey ALWAYS makes me smile
7:55 “Saying the pen is blue when it’s red” Dang, looks like Doug was cursed with the opposite of the truth wish lol
My mom worked at a movie theatre when this came out. We had to be there at 7:30 AM for the film to be delivered. She put it together, and then she let me watch it by myself before anyone else in my town. Good times.
I worked at a movie theater back in the 90s and saw pretty much every movie before the general public did.
thats pretty neat, it probably felt exciting knowing that you were the first before many
That’s so cool!
The way he sings "Here she comes to wreck the day" when his client enters the court is still one of my most quoted movie lines to this day 😂😂
My friend says that whenever his sister comes in
Know what that's a reference to?
@@johnnythewalrus didn't know it was a reference? 🤔 Just always thought it was a funny line
You can see the sheer energy of Jim Carrey in this film and how his actions feel so explosive and really make this film stand out even more
Honestly, the "Contempt" scene may very well be one of the best scenes ever put to film. It not only shows Carrey's acting range, but also the range a film can have; it goes from comedic (how he wins), to serious and morose (the eponymous contempt line), right back to comedy (Jose).
I will always love this movie.
Until this review I actually remembered that as being a line from the Crucible. It's that good.
The pen scene is definitely one of my favorite scenes. Him beating the shit out of himself and not being able to lie about it is another favorite.
“I’m kicking my ass, do ya mind?!”
@@Duckman_Drake Him describing himself to the letter and no one picking up on it just kills me. 💀
@@QuantaSolace Big teeth, kind of gangly. 😂
Best line of the whole movie...
Rando entering bathroom: "What are you doing?"
Carrey: "I'm kicking my a@$$! DO YOU MIND?!!!"
Carrey's line was actually "I'm Kicking my own a@$$! DO YOU MIND?!!!"
I also love that scene! I also have "Liar Liar" on DVD 😉😉😁😁
Yet another Jim Carey classic.
Yes, can I ask you a question… would you call him corny?
"STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE"
Is so memorable😂
@@nsasupporter7557 He is very corny.
@@titusmccarthy then you don’t know the definition of the word, either that or haven’t really seen any of his movies…
Jim Carrey is not corny!! He’s the most amazingly talented entertainer in cinema history. Would you ever call someone who’s as talented as him corny? Since you don’t seem to know what corny means it means “cheap,” “not very good,” “laughably bad”
To this day, the bathroom scene remains favorite part!
“What the hell are you doing?”
“I’m kicking my ass! DO YOU MIND?!!”
In a college class myself and some other students had to re-create that scenes audio and it was a blast trying to match Carreys performance while just voice acting
25 years. Watched this movie as a kid and wrestling religiously, and JUST NOW I realize that Taker was referencing that scene when he beat up David Flair.
"I've had better" was an amazing line that always made me break
Yeah, imagine a man saying that to a woman. I know the feeling.
And when he keeps repeating the line and laughing to himself afterwards while brushing his teeth makes it even funnier lol
I was 8 when I first saw this and had to ask what he meant by that. My dad said it meant he was a bad man, so I spent a few years thinking “I’ve had better” was some kind of metaphor or idiom to mean “I’m a bad man”.
It is a tribute to Cary Elwes acting that I forgot he was in this. He has such great comedy chops and makes a great leading man. He was the perfect level of lame in this and nailed the supporting role.
Who'd he play?
I'm blanking right now.
@@jacenskywalker507the mothers new boyfriend, it took me a good minute to recognize that it was actually him! Maybe it’s because he doesn’t have a mustache haha
@@kendrickdingeror blond hair
cary has some of the best comedic timing in the biz
@@MineralTown which always shocked me that i never saw him in much things after Men in Tights, one of my favorite comedies growing up
Another Fun Fact: Jennifer Tilly described her character as a "Beverly Hills socialite. Her idea of weightlifting is to wear really heavy bracelets."
Was her idea of jogging to run to the mall for Black Friday?! 😂
They Reference
Lair Lair in the Chucky TV season😂
Heavy lifting???? Yeah, "In her bra!!!"
@@RolandStone32 😂😂😂
The bloopers to this movie were gold
A goose
I can imagine!
I agree. The trailer cut is soo much better x3
It's not censorship, it's just very efficient and comedic editing.
ya, sometimes its best to use your imagination of knowing what he said that makes it funnier, i remember thinking the trailer edit was hilarious, and then seeing the scene i just kinda went "oh no!"
So many lines became iconic XD
"Don't ask! For God's sake don't ask!"
"Stop breaking the law asshole!"
and
"Here she comes to wreck the day!"
Much like The Mask, Liar Liar was made pacifically for Jim Carrey! NO ONE else would have pulled this movie off but him! One of his BEST movies and performances! The man is a real life cartoon character you love to watch! Decades later and it still holds up! 😎👍
Please tell me you said “pacifically” as a joke.
Fun fact about The Mask... I have this far a grave total of 27 women have sex with me based entirely on quotes from that movie, also if their too young to know what a VHS CASSETTE is, those numbers more than Triple.... morale of the story? KNOW YOUR COMEDY FELLAS! IT GETS YOU LAID!
Despite having seen this movie a billion times
I laugh every time
Same
This and a Bruce Almighty are pure comedy gold
@@bogartwilley so true
@@gilly5809 and Gex was a PIMP even befote the Kid Rock sex tape lol
I think my favourite part is when he's beating himself up in the bathroom and the old guy comes in and asks what he's doing to which Carrey's response is "I'M KICKING MY ASS!"
Yeah that thing with the poor dude loosing his children was horrible, and it hits too close to reality in a way.
This and the Grinch are my favorite Jim Carrey movies. Such a great actor.
To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Jim Carrey might be thinking about is "I’ve just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn’t know them, I wouldn’t know they were funny from the television. I don’t know what it does, it just sucks it away.”
“How’s it hangin’, Fletcher?!”
“Short, shriveled and always to the left.”
Man, that line flew WAY over my head as a kid lmao😂
I know there are some great actors out there, but Jim Carrey is and always will be my favorite, he always brings a smile to my face
The beginning claw scene is so wholesome. I can't help but smile at it.
Especially finding out that it's what his own father use to do with Jim and his siblings. So much like The Mask, we get some kind of insight of the actor through a character
This was one of the best comedy movies ever made!!! Jim Carrey was perfect!!
I met the Nostalgia Critic at a convention in Pensilvania and the dude is just as delightful and energetic as he is in the videos. A cool 90s dude for a corny 90s movie.
The pen scene and the court scene are both comedy gold 🤣
😊…..I’ve had better.😱
One thing I always look forward about the movie are the bloopers and just need a good laugh from jim Carey funny performance. My favorite line when a guy walk in seeing him beating himself up and is like “wth are you doing?” And Jim respond by saying “I’m kicking my ass!!!!😠😠 DO YOU MIND!?”
I remember seeing this in theaters with my dad when I was 7-8 years old. The boardroom scene was the first time I’d ever been in a theater where the entire audience, including my dad, was rolling out of their seats laughing.
From that point on, I can only name a handful of movies where I got to experience that same feeling of community with a group of people I didn’t know.
Borat, Jackass 2 and 3 are 3 of the other movies that come to mind.
aah Borat and Jackass 2, i think the last times i legit cried laughing.
Well at least Chucky doesn't try to sell someone life insurance
When Fletcher is lying on the stretcher talking to Max, you can briefly see Fireman Bill in amongst the crowd
One of my favorite movies of all time!
One of Jim Carrey’s best films
This movie still makes me laugh twenty years later
I remember seeing this in the theater and leaving at the end, wiping tears of laughter from my face! It's still a classic for me!
My first experience with this film was when I was like 10 and saw a chunk of it on TV.
Similar experience for me
Same here.
One my top 5 Jim Carey movies man the bloopers were pure gold my favorite one is when he crumbles the paper up lol "A Goose!"
Funny you mention how the film quickly moves on from the sad destruction of the family in the court. I got this from someone else, but I think a more perfect ending would have included a scene or just a mention at the birthday party that Fletcher decided to be the divorced dad's lawyer to try to help him keep custody of the kids
I guess it's just one of those "unavoidable facts of life" moments or something they put in movies, like the donkey scene in Pinocchio?
17:33 I like this scene because (jokes aside), it shows a lawyer can do his work with honesty.
Whenever you do Jim Carrey the review is always peak
What makes this film so good is that it takes a place like a court which you wouldn't think would be as funny as it is and somehow makes it amazingly funny
"He tries to tell the lie that the pen is blue when it's red."
"Strike that. Reverse it."
"Who did this?"
"A MAD MAN YOUR HONOR... A DESPERATE FOOL AT THE END OF HIS PITIFUL ROPE!!!"
I swear, I may have watched this film on a handful of time, but I have watched this scene over and over again beyond count and I find just as funny if not more each time I see it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another Fun Fact: Fletcher's line "...ridden more than Seattle Slew..." is referencing an American Thoroughbred racehorse, only the tenth horse of a total of thirteen to win the "Triple Crown" as of September 2021. Seattle Slew achieved the feat in 1977. At the time of the film's release the horse was still alive, but died in 2002.
That Jim Carrey movie is so freakin' crazy,
it even made me laugh as hard as hell,
when i saw it for the first time on VHS back in 1997 😹!
I was 14 years old 😹.
Another great NC video! One random thing: when describing the pen scene, NC says that the he tries to say "the pen is blue when really it's red", when it's actually the other way around.
14:39 Imagine how funny it also would have been if Fletcher said: "no it actually was from Tiffany's....you were so salty about not me not giving you a raise so I thought it would shut you up!".
A Neato Fact: In one scene, Jim Carrey bellows out in courtroom "Here she comes to wreck the day!" in a vocal song style in parody of Mighty Mouse's "Here he comes to save the day!" Two years later, he would go on to play Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon (1999), who was known for a stage performance of Mighty Mouse.
I get the urge to sing that line prob once a week whenever someone is late to something XD
Great review. No silly story. No annoying side characters 👍
I love how THE CLAW hand was the one doing the Blue Pen scene.
Spotted a goof. You switched the colors of the pen around. “The simple lie that the pen is blue when it’s red.”
🤓☝️
@@1standlast pretty much
I can confirm that the claw slays. I have a thousand versions of it as a dad and the kids always go nuts. Thanks Jim.
Liar Liar is such a classic! It definitely takes advantage of Carrey's overacting in all the right ways, glad to see a review of this one!
I still remember that my dad did "The Claw" when I was a kid.
I wonder how many attorneys would love to stand up in court and yell: “Settle settle settle SETTLE!!!” when they know they are going to lose their case?
YES! The best Jim Carey movie finally gets reviewed!
I watched this movie again recently, i still find it to be one of the funniest movies Jim Carrey has made.
One of my favorite hidden easter eggs in this film is that scene at the airport at the end when hes on the stretcher, in the background of the crowd there is Jim as Fire Marshall Bill from In Living Color.
DUDE @16:30. That line made me literally lol. 😂😂😂❤❤❤
I watched this on VHS everyday.. I use to quote that damn pen scene constantly.
God I love this movie so much. It balances whimsical, straight up comedy, drama and even court scenes perfectly. The writers and director really deserve some recognition for this.
If you watch the physical comedy, you can see the influence of other comedians in there too. The walk he does at 21:20 is basically a Carrey-Cleese mashup for example
20:43 "SAW"!? No obviously Jerry became the guy from Idle Hands...hand possessed killing people? Jessica Alba in a slutty angel costume? Also I forgot that Randal "Tex" Cobb was in this too, where he and Jim buddies? He was in Ace Ventura as well.
14:49 might be my favorite reaction out of him throughout the movie.
Jennifer Tilly is PERFECTLY cast!!
13:50 I'm not sure if this is just for the joke or if Critic/Doug ACTUALLY didn't notice this, but that's Fletcher seeing if he has a pen to test if he can lie about the color. That's a great, subtle callback.
Fun fact: In the scene where he beats himself up in the restroom, that last sound of his head hitting the floor at the end is not added in later. That was legitimately the sound of Carry's head hitting the ground.
One of my all-time favorite comedies. So happy to see Doug's take on it.
Yes! You finally did a review of Liar Liar. I knew you'd one day do a review of that film. Not going to lie. I laughed my ass off to the scene where Fletcher was giving everyone a roast in that meeting room when they all think he's joking or something and are all laughing. But he's really telling them the truth of what he thinks of everyone and Miranda's revenge plan laughs in her face, literally.
Yeah, I dunno what he's talking about this scene being forced, I thought it works as well as any other.
Yeah; I didn't think that scene was forced at all. There's a reason there's an old saying that only the court jester could speak the truth to the king; that scene in Liar Liar is running on the exact same logic.
@@Punished_Trump Do you mean you find the scene funny?
@@matthewmuir8884 Do you mean you find the scene to be funny and not forced?
@@brocksampson3405 Yes, I mean that I find the scene funny and not forced.
Jim standing in front of thousands of people asking "how was your weekend" is an underrated flex.
My coworker loves to quote the "take it up the tailpipe" scene when something out of his control happens at work.
Jennifer Tilly is Rocking It❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
This movie is so fantastic. You know they had a blast making it.
7:53
“Trying to say the simple lie that the pen is blue when it’s red.”
Isn’t he trying to say the pen is red when it’s blue?
The acting performance Carey gives in one of the last court scenes when the father doesn’t get custody of the kids is amazing. the acting on his face carries the scene.
7:49 Hey Doug? How's the colourblindness treating you?
Caught that too lol
The pen is r-r-royal blue!
The humor in this movie comes from imagining him as an actual lawyer acting this way in court. That would never happen, and that's why this movie kills me to this day.
15:41 probably the most hilarious edit I've ever laughed hard at.
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This was my first Jim Carry movie!
😁
im surprised Doug didn't bring up the Fire Marshal Bill cameo.