Carrey's first good movie to date

Rating: 7/10 (22 May 2004)

The film starts with Carrey, a divorced father, having to cancel on his son's birthday party because his boss suddenly wants to have sex with him and for the sake of his job, he can't refuse. His son then makes a wish that his father won't lie for a day, and unfortunately for the dad, who's trying to win a case in court for a client who's clearly guilty. As you can see, it's a very funny setup and the movie delivers constant laughs, thanks to Carrey's 110% efforts in the physical comedy department. Throughout most of the movie, Carrey's character doesn't want to have to tell the truth so the a highly visible battle between the side of him that doesn't want to tell the truth and the spell cast on the other side of him which, provides Carrey with the perfect arena he's been looking for to showcase his high-energy antics since his sophomoric days of Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber. What's more, there's also some sentimental value to the story.