Frankie Muniz,
Paul Giamatti,
Amanda Bynes,
Amanda Detmer,
Donald Faison
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Former co-stars of the TV sitcom Head of the Class teamed up to write the story and script for this teen comedy. When junior high-school student Jason Shepherd (Frankie Muniz) realizes that his class ... read more
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Release Date: February 8, 2002
Keywords:
kids,
www,
amanda bynes,
paul giamatti,
frankie muniz,
big fat,
Amanda Bynes ,
Paul Giamatti ,
Frankie Muniz ,
Big Fat Liar
DVD Release Date: September 24, 2002
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January 23, 2011I loved this as a kid, but now as I watch it again, it's not that good. It has it's moments though. The whole "blue" part with Paul Giamatti makes it hilarious.
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January 11, 2010fb733768972This has it's moments, but ultimately unfolds towards the end!
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August 2, 2009fine for the first ten minutes, then it just turns into another frankie muniz film.
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November 23, 2008Not so bad to be a kidsmovie. ...and let's just say there was a lot of familiar faces. But the thing that made the movie was the guy at the end screaming "You suck marty!"
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June 23, 2007Fun rebellious comedy for younger people. Fun sweet revenge with the "Malcolm in the Middle" Frankie Muniz. There's a hilarious scene where the baddie Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) gets dyed blue!
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January 8, 2007paul giamotti and amanda bynes before they were somone, still worth it
Critic Reviews
February 11, 2002
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
February 11, 2002
Joel Siegel, ABCNEWS.COM
Home Alone goes Hollywood, a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even Steven Spielberg would know how to do. Besides, real movie producers aren't this nice.
February 8, 2002
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time. Full Review
February 8, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
A children's movie that's almost worth seeing even when not accompanied by a child. Full Review
February 8, 2002
Damien Cave, Salon.com
Never pushes its pranks far enough to reach laugh-out-loud success and never gives its actors enough comedic support. Full Review
February 8, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Becomes a progression of increasingly elaborate slapstick stunts, in the brutal, noisy Home Alone vein, in which the complexity of the pranks rarely yields a commensurate comic reward. Full Review
February 8, 2002
Susan Stark, Detroit News
In gleefully, thumpingly hyperbolic terms, it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass, jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz. Full Review
February 8, 2002
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
I'd be the one lying if I said that Muniz and his inspired payback aren't sometimes funny. Full Review
February 8, 2002
Paul Tatara, CNN.com
The overall effect is less like a children's movie than a recruitment film for future Hollywood sellouts. Full Review
February 8, 2002
Jay Carr, Boston Globe
Where there's dumb and dumber, there's invariably dumbest, a case in point being Big Fat Liar. Full Review
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