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* VillainBall: If Marty had just called Jason's father like he asked, asked (and he had the chance to ''twice''), Jason would have just let the whole thing go and he'd still have his movie. After all, who's going to believe Jason's father over a famous Hollywood producer?
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'''''Big Fat Liar''''' is a 2002 kid's film starring [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Frankie Muniz]] Muniz as a 14-year-old Jason Shepherd, [[TheAmandaShow Amanda]] [[Series/AllThat Bynes]] Creator/AmandaBynes as 14-year-old Kaylee, and PaulGiamatti Creator/PaulGiamatti as the villain. Very over-the-top, although [[{{Series/Zoey 101}} what]] [[Series/DrakeAndJosh can]] [[TheAmandaShow [[Series/TheAmandaShow you]] [[Series/AllThat expect]] [[Series/ICarly from]] writer Creator/DanSchneider.
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* HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath: Jason has a mild one when [[spoiler: Marty breaks his promise to tell the truth about Big Fat Liar to Jason's parents in exchange for help on the movie and tells his security guard Rocko to send them back home to Michigan(but snaps out of it when Wolf's secretary Monty, who,is fed up with Wolf's constant mistreatment her agrees to help them out.)]]
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* AdultsAreUseless: While played straight in the beginning, Jason and Kaylee soon find that there is a healthy number of adults in Hollywood who help them in their payback plot.
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''Film/BigFatLiar'' is a 2002 kid's film starring [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Frankie Muniz]] as a 14-year-old Jason Shepherd and [[TheAmandaShow Amanda]] [[AllThat [[Series/AllThat Bynes]] as 14-year-old Kaylee. Very over-the-top, although [[{{Zoey101}} what]] [[Series/DrakeAndJosh can]] [[TheAmandaShow you]] [[AllThat [[Series/AllThat expect]] [[Series/ICarly from]] writer Creator/DanSchneider.
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* TheCameo: Director Shawn Levy, Bynes' ''AllThat'' ''Series/AllThat'' colleague [[KenanAndKel Kenan]] [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Thompson]], and [[Series/SavedByTheBell Dustin Diamond]] all appear at Wolf's house party.
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* MoralityPet: Marty Wolf's doll, Mr. Bubbles, is the closest thing to something he genuinely cares about.
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BigFatLiar is a 2002 kid's film starring [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Frankie Muniz]] as a 14-year-old Jason Shepherd and [[TheAmandaShow Amanda]] [[AllThat Bynes]] as 14-year-old Kaylee. Very over-the-top, although [[{{Zoey101}} what]] [[DrakeAndJosh can]] [[TheAmandaShow you]] [[AllThat expect]] [[ICarly from]] writer DanSchneider.
In a modern-day retelling of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, Jason Shepherd is a [[TitleDrop Big Fat Liar]] who lies all the time to everyone. Then a greedy movie director- Marty Wolf- steals his creative writing essay to use it as the basis for his next blockbuster, and no-one will believe Jason when [[YouHaveToBelieveMe he explains what happened]]. Thus, Jason decides that the only way to convince everyone that he's being honest is to sneak off to L.A. with his friend Kaylee and inflict a series of increasingly harmful pranks on Wolff until he has a nervous breakdown and confesses. HilarityEnsues.
It got 44% rotten on RottenTomatoes, but surprisingly received 3 stars from RogerEbert.
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* AssholeVictim: Wolf is such a huge jerk throughout the film that the studio's ''entire staff'' hates him. Naturally, everyone points and laughs and helps Jason expose him and get him fired.
* BareYourMidriff: Kaylee wears a belly shirt for part of the movie.
* BigOMG: Marty gets one when he's in the shower and finally realizes that he's covered in blue thanks to the blue dye put in his pool, and has just put orange coloring in his hair to top it all off.
** The wrestler guy also does this when he recognizes him from earlier in the ending of the film.
* BreakTheHaughty
* BrickJoke: At one point in Jason's revenge scheme against Wolf, he tricks his assistant into having him going to a stunt actor's grandson's birthday party, with the kids mistaking his blue and orange "features" as his being a birthday clown. [[spoiler:After he ends up fired, his new job is being an actual birthday clown.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Jason.
* TheCameo: Director Shawn Levy, Bynes' ''AllThat'' colleague [[KenanAndKel Kenan]] [[SaturdayNightLive Thompson]], and [[SavedByTheBell Dustin Diamond]] all appear at Wolf's house party.
* CassandraTruth: Main plot of the movie.
* CharacterAsHimself: Jaleel White as... Jaleel White
* ChekhovsSkill: All of Marty's former employees utilize one in the payback.
* CirclingMonologue: Between Jason and Marty.
* CoolOldGuy: Vince.
* CryingWolf: Doing this all the time is what keeps everyone from believing that Jason lost his homework on his way to school.
* DeadpanSnarker: Marty Wolf, when he's not SCREAMING IN EVERYONE'S FACES.
* DisturbedDoves: See IronicEcho below.
* DIYDisaster: Jason and Kaylee purposely wire Marty's car to do this, with the brake making the car horn go off, and a lot of other stuff.
* TheDogBitesBack: See HeelFaceTurn and AssholeVictim.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: [[spoiler:Jaleel]].
* DumbMuscle: Bret Callaway.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EngineeredPublicConfession [[spoiler:The ending]].
* FatBastard: How Marty treats ''his own public relations manager''.
* FormallyNamedPet: Marty Wolf has a stuffed monkey named Mr. Funnybones that he's... [[CargoShip oddly attached to]].
* FormerChildStar: Poor [[strike:[[FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]]]] Jaleel White just can't be taken seriously.
* GirlFriday: Without Kaylee, Jason is dead in the water. Seriously, he can't pull off anything without her.
* GrandparentalObliviousness: Grandma Pearl. "That woman doesn't even know what year it is".
* GroinAttack: Heavily implied to be what Marty (dressed as "Wolfy the Clown") got in the ending.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Monty has one, along with all of Marty Wolf's employees]]
* HighSchoolHustler: Jason at school.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Marty's over-arrogance is what pretty much does him in.
* HollywoodCalifornia: The setting of most of the movie.
* HollywoodSkydiving
* HumiliationConga: What Marty goes through throughout the movie when Jason goes after him.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Monty has been writing Wolf's scripts for him for years. Overlaps with BeleagueredAssistant, as she gets nothing but grief for her trouble.
* IAmNotSpock: Poor Jaleel White...
-->"How many times have I told you not to call me "Urkel?!" My name is Jaleel White!"
* InAWorld: Parodied in the BFL Trailer.
* IronicEcho: "12 camera angles with birds flying around..."
* {{Jerkass}}: Marty Wolf should be a 7-letter word.
* JerkJock: Bret Calloway.
* KitschCollection: The secretary's tacky stuffed dog collection.
* LargeHam: Paul Giamatti ''really'' enjoyed himself making this movie.
* LateForSchool: The opening.
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: [[spoiler:Once he captures Jason and Kaylee, Wolf sends them back to the prop warehouse to pack for their flight home. The same warehouse where they previously got every tool they'd used against him so far....]]
* MassiveMultiplayerScam: emphasis on Massive.
* MeanBoss: Marty Wolf.
* MeaningfulName: Perpetual liar Jason Shepherd has his English paper stolen by Marty and, of course, Jason isn't believed when he explains this. Note: Their last names refer to Aesop's fable the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}:
--> Kaylee: I wanna see a broken man, people. I mean, broken as in, "I hit a baseball through the window" broken. I want you to turn him into mince meat, and I don't even know what mince meat is! I want him to cry for his mommy! "Wah! Wah! Mommy, mommy, mommy!" Do you read me?! 'Cause I don't think you read me!
* MexicanStandoff
* MoralityPet: Marty Wolf's doll, Mr. Bubbles, is the closest thing to something he genuinely cares about.
* TheNicknamer: Marty Wolf, and a mean one at that.
* NoRespectGuy: ''Anyone'' who works for Marty. Just pick 1 person.
** Rocko Malone, the security guy?
* ObsoleteMentor: Poor "Gramps".
* TheOner: Jaleel White's intro scene. The deleted scenes reel has an even longer version.
* PaperThinDisguise: Bret as Kaylee, although justified, considering Grandma Pearl is half-blind.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Jason and Kaylee
* RefugeInAudacity: Like any director would steal creative writing from some kid's backpack and turn it into his next big movie...
* SarcasticConfession
* SlowMotionDrop: Parodied in the movie trailer of the movie-in-a-movie Big Fat Liar
* StealthPun: Jason always lies until he finally tells the truth that someone stole his paper, and no one believes him. The thief? Director Marty Wolf. Jason is the Boy Who Cried Wolf, literally.
* SternTeacher: Mrs. Phyllis Caldwell, Jason's English teacher.
* SurrogateSoliloquy: Marty with Mr. Funnybones
* ThrowItIn: Most of Kaylee's gags were ad-libbed.
* TwoWordsObviousTrope: Parodied in the awful movie-in-a-movie Whittaker and Fowl:
--> Listen Whitaker, I am not your father and I'm not your priest I got two words for you: shut the heck up! You talk way too much... can we cut?
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Oh boy.
--> Marty: Yeah, I stole your story, whoop-de-doodle-do! I STOLE JASON SHEPARD'S STORY AND TURNED IT INTO BIG FAT LIAR! Do you know who's listening? Nobody and get used to it. Because I will never-ever-never-ever-ever-ever-ever-infinity tell the truth!
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Pretending the dog-lover secretary's car is [[CrossesTheLineTwice ''parked on a dog's tail'']]
* YouGetMeCoffee: Marty's attitude to Monty
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Poor Jason
* ZanyScheme: Jason comes up with these, ASimplePlan, and then the most elaborate plan of all
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BigFatLiar is a 2002 kid's film starring [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Frankie Muniz]] as a 14-year-old Jason Shepherd and [[TheAmandaShow Amanda]] [[AllThat Bynes]] as 14-year-old Kaylee. Very over-the-top, although [[{{Zoey101}} what]] [[DrakeAndJosh can]] [[TheAmandaShow you]] [[AllThat expect]] [[ICarly from]] writer DanSchneider.
In a modern-day retelling of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, Jason Shepherd is a [[TitleDrop Big Fat Liar]] who lies all the time to everyone. Then a greedy movie director- Marty Wolf- steals his creative writing essay to use it as the basis for his next blockbuster, and no-one will believe Jason when [[YouHaveToBelieveMe he explains what happened]]. Thus, Jason decides that the only way to convince everyone that he's being honest is to sneak off to L.A. with his friend Kaylee and inflict a series of increasingly harmful pranks on Wolff until he has a nervous breakdown and confesses. HilarityEnsues.
It got 44% rotten on RottenTomatoes, but surprisingly received 3 stars from RogerEbert.
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!!!Tropes used by the film:
* AssholeVictim: Wolf is such a huge jerk throughout the film that the studio's ''entire staff'' hates him. Naturally, everyone points and laughs and helps Jason expose him and get him fired.
* BareYourMidriff: Kaylee wears a belly shirt for part of the movie.
* BigOMG: Marty gets one when he's in the shower and finally realizes that he's covered in blue thanks to the blue dye put in his pool, and has just put orange coloring in his hair to top it all off.
** The wrestler guy also does this when he recognizes him from earlier in the ending of the film.
* BreakTheHaughty
* BrickJoke: At one point in Jason's revenge scheme against Wolf, he tricks his assistant into having him going to a stunt actor's grandson's birthday party, with the kids mistaking his blue and orange "features" as his being a birthday clown. [[spoiler:After he ends up fired, his new job is being an actual birthday clown.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Jason.
* TheCameo: Director Shawn Levy, Bynes' ''AllThat'' colleague [[KenanAndKel Kenan]] [[SaturdayNightLive Thompson]], and [[SavedByTheBell Dustin Diamond]] all appear at Wolf's house party.
* CassandraTruth: Main plot of the movie.
* CharacterAsHimself: Jaleel White as... Jaleel White
* ChekhovsSkill: All of Marty's former employees utilize one in the payback.
* CirclingMonologue: Between Jason and Marty.
* CoolOldGuy: Vince.
* CryingWolf: Doing this all the time is what keeps everyone from believing that Jason lost his homework on his way to school.
* DeadpanSnarker: Marty Wolf, when he's not SCREAMING IN EVERYONE'S FACES.
* DisturbedDoves: See IronicEcho below.
* DIYDisaster: Jason and Kaylee purposely wire Marty's car to do this, with the brake making the car horn go off, and a lot of other stuff.
* TheDogBitesBack: See HeelFaceTurn and AssholeVictim.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: [[spoiler:Jaleel]].
* DumbMuscle: Bret Callaway.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EngineeredPublicConfession [[spoiler:The ending]].
* FatBastard: How Marty treats ''his own public relations manager''.
* FormallyNamedPet: Marty Wolf has a stuffed monkey named Mr. Funnybones that he's... [[CargoShip oddly attached to]].
* FormerChildStar: Poor [[strike:[[FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]]]] Jaleel White just can't be taken seriously.
* GirlFriday: Without Kaylee, Jason is dead in the water. Seriously, he can't pull off anything without her.
* GrandparentalObliviousness: Grandma Pearl. "That woman doesn't even know what year it is".
* GroinAttack: Heavily implied to be what Marty (dressed as "Wolfy the Clown") got in the ending.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Monty has one, along with all of Marty Wolf's employees]]
* HighSchoolHustler: Jason at school.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Marty's over-arrogance is what pretty much does him in.
* HollywoodCalifornia: The setting of most of the movie.
* HollywoodSkydiving
* HumiliationConga: What Marty goes through throughout the movie when Jason goes after him.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Monty has been writing Wolf's scripts for him for years. Overlaps with BeleagueredAssistant, as she gets nothing but grief for her trouble.
* IAmNotSpock: Poor Jaleel White...
-->"How many times have I told you not to call me "Urkel?!" My name is Jaleel White!"
* InAWorld: Parodied in the BFL Trailer.
* IronicEcho: "12 camera angles with birds flying around..."
* {{Jerkass}}: Marty Wolf should be a 7-letter word.
* JerkJock: Bret Calloway.
* KitschCollection: The secretary's tacky stuffed dog collection.
* LargeHam: Paul Giamatti ''really'' enjoyed himself making this movie.
* LateForSchool: The opening.
* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: [[spoiler:Once he captures Jason and Kaylee, Wolf sends them back to the prop warehouse to pack for their flight home. The same warehouse where they previously got every tool they'd used against him so far....]]
* MassiveMultiplayerScam: emphasis on Massive.
* MeanBoss: Marty Wolf.
* MeaningfulName: Perpetual liar Jason Shepherd has his English paper stolen by Marty and, of course, Jason isn't believed when he explains this. Note: Their last names refer to Aesop's fable the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}:
--> Kaylee: I wanna see a broken man, people. I mean, broken as in, "I hit a baseball through the window" broken. I want you to turn him into mince meat, and I don't even know what mince meat is! I want him to cry for his mommy! "Wah! Wah! Mommy, mommy, mommy!" Do you read me?! 'Cause I don't think you read me!
* MexicanStandoff
* MoralityPet: Marty Wolf's doll, Mr. Bubbles, is the closest thing to something he genuinely cares about.
* TheNicknamer: Marty Wolf, and a mean one at that.
* NoRespectGuy: ''Anyone'' who works for Marty. Just pick 1 person.
** Rocko Malone, the security guy?
* ObsoleteMentor: Poor "Gramps".
* TheOner: Jaleel White's intro scene. The deleted scenes reel has an even longer version.
* PaperThinDisguise: Bret as Kaylee, although justified, considering Grandma Pearl is half-blind.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Jason and Kaylee
* RefugeInAudacity: Like any director would steal creative writing from some kid's backpack and turn it into his next big movie...
* SarcasticConfession
* SlowMotionDrop: Parodied in the movie trailer of the movie-in-a-movie Big Fat Liar
* StealthPun: Jason always lies until he finally tells the truth that someone stole his paper, and no one believes him. The thief? Director Marty Wolf. Jason is the Boy Who Cried Wolf, literally.
* SternTeacher: Mrs. Phyllis Caldwell, Jason's English teacher.
* SurrogateSoliloquy: Marty with Mr. Funnybones
* ThrowItIn: Most of Kaylee's gags were ad-libbed.
* TwoWordsObviousTrope: Parodied in the awful movie-in-a-movie Whittaker and Fowl:
--> Listen Whitaker, I am not your father and I'm not your priest I got two words for you: shut the heck up! You talk way too much... can we cut?
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Oh boy.
--> Marty: Yeah, I stole your story, whoop-de-doodle-do! I STOLE JASON SHEPARD'S STORY AND TURNED IT INTO BIG FAT LIAR! Do you know who's listening? Nobody and get used to it. Because I will never-ever-never-ever-ever-ever-ever-infinity tell the truth!
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Pretending the dog-lover secretary's car is [[CrossesTheLineTwice ''parked on a dog's tail'']]
* YouGetMeCoffee: Marty's attitude to Monty
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Poor Jason
* ZanyScheme: Jason comes up with these, ASimplePlan, and then the most elaborate plan of all
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