Comedy with a moral message

Rating: 7/10 (17 April 2007)

I saw this movie on YTV, Canada's channel for children and pre-teens. It's too bad that it got classified that way because the movie does deal with a moral issue: what if we had to go through a whole day or even a lifetime telling the truth to our children, friends and co-workers? Do some of us not recognize the truth when we're told it, like Fletcher's senior partner? it's too bad that these questions are put forward in something that appears to be just another silly comedy.
OK, maybe that's the way to deal with these issues, in an entertaining vehicle, even if Jim Carrey goes over the top trying to suppress the truth from coming out of his mouth. This movie obviously isn't perfect but it's not half bad. To me, it's worth watching just to hear the lines: "My teacher says that beauty comes from within." "That's just something ugly people say." Isn't that something you've always thought to yourself?