History Film / BigFatLiar

* UngratefulBastard: Jason helps Wolf make the BFL premiere party a smashing success and restore the latter's career to impress Mr. Duncan. How does Wolf repay him? Go back on his promise once again to and instead have security escort him and Kaylee out. Especially despicable since he had just ''sincerely'' thanked him for his help with the party!

''Big Fat Liar'' is a 2002 kids' comedy film starring Creator/FrankieMuniz, Creator/AmandaBynes, and Creator/PaulGiamatti. Very over-the-top, although [[{{Series/Zoey 101}} what]] [[Series/DrakeAndJosh can]] [[Series/TheAmandaShow you]] [[Series/AllThat expect]] [[Series/ICarly from]] writer Creator/DanSchneider?

--> '''Marty''': Yeah, I stole your story, whoop-de-doodle-do! You happy now? '''I STOLE JASON SHEPHERD'S PAPER AND TURNED IT INTO ''BIG FAT LIAR''!''' Do you know who's listening? No one. And they never will. So for the last time, give it up. Because I will never-ever, like never-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-infinity tell the truth!

-->'''Marty:''' [[SoreLoser I am gonna]] ''[[SuddenlyShouting GET YOU, SHEPHERD!!!]]''

--> '''Marty''': Yeah, I stole your story, whoop-de-doodle-do! You happy now? I STOLE JASON SHEPHERD'S PAPER AND TURNED IT INTO ''BIG FAT LIAR''! Do you know who's listening? No one. And they never will. So for the last time, give it up. Because I will never-ever, like never-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-infinity tell the truth!

* MortalityPhobia: During the part of the climactic hustle where Marty is forced to of a tandem jump with stuntman Vince, Marty is screaming he doesn't wants to die all the way down.

* DumbMuscle: The Masher. Marty has a good reason to call him a steroid-pusher... except for the fact that the man beats Marty up and runs over Marty's car with his monster truck. Marty said that within earshot of The Masher so... yeah, he was asking for it.

* ConfucianConfusion: "Confucius say, Kastang! You're busted! Rock and roll, baby!"

* MockingMusic: Thanks to Jason and Kaylee tampering with his car, Marty's radio is stuck on a station playing Eifel 65's "I'm Blue (Ba Da Bee)", right after getting his skin tinted.

A quasi-sequel/remake, ''Bigger Fatter Liar'', was released DirectToVideo on April 18, 2017 starring Creator/BarryBostwick, Ricky Garcia and Creator/JodelleFerland. Here's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0WPB-uvNYA trailer]].

* AdamWesting: Jaleel White. Don't call him Urkel--he ''will'' get pissed. (One has to wonder what would've happened if they called him [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog the]] [[WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM fastest thing]] [[WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground alive]].)
* AdultsAreUseless: While played straight in the beginning, [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] Jason and Kaylee soon find that there is a healthy number of adults in Hollywood who help them in their payback plot.

* BoxOfficeBomb: In-universe, Wolf's film ''Whittiker and Fowl'' about a police officer who's partners with a ''chicken'', is a 30 million dollar bomb (not to mention the scathing reviews it receives by critics) which almost gets production of ''Big Fat Liar'' shut down.
* BreakTheHaughty: The main plot of the film - the protagonists prank him over and over in an attempt to get him to give Jason the credit.

** Wolf calls his overweight PR VP the "VP of Twinkies". [[spoiler:Guess what she chows down on after bringing a crowd to Wolf's EngineeredPublicConfession?]]

* EngineeredPublicConfession [[spoiler: In the climax, Wolf shouts "I stole Jason Shepard's paper and turned it into ''Big Fat Liar''!", then brags to Jason that nobody will ever know the truth about the plagiarism. Director Dustin "Dusty" Wong and his crew were filming the whole thing on multiple cameras and showing it to the news media, Marcus Duncan, and Jason's parents, dramatically vindicating Jason once and for all and destroying Wolf's career]].

* EngineeredPublicConfession [[spoiler: In the climax, Wolf shouts "I stole Jason Shepard's paper and turned it into ''Big Fat Liar''!", then brags to Jason that nobody will ever know the truth about the plagiarism. The director and his crew were filming the whole thing on multiple cameras and showing it to the news media, Marcus Duncan, and Jason's parents, dramatically vindicating Jason once and for all and destroying Wolf's career]].

* WouldHurtAChild: Marty would, especially if that child makes a fool out of him.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Marty accidentally rear ended The Masher's tire from his monster truck, resulting his CoolCar to be smashed.

%%** Rocko Malone, the security guy?

--> '''Marty''': Yeah, I stole your story, whoop-de-doodle-do! You happy now? I STOLE JASON SHEPHERD'S PAPER AND TURNED IT INTO ''BIG FAT LIAR''! Do you know who's listening? No one. And they never will. So for the last time, give it up. Because I will never-ever-never-ever-ever-ever-ever-infinity tell the truth!

** 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.

* ActorAllusion: Vince the stuntman that defends practical stunts and effects to JerkAss producer Marty who thinks CGI can do anything and thus derisively calls him an "old man", played by Lee Mayors... [[Series/TheFallGuy Gee, Colt, times have changed, haven't they?]]

%%** The "VP of Twinkies" makes a BrickJoke out of hers.

** Kaylee definitely qualifies as this to Jason, though it's nothing compared to Monty's situation.

It got 44% (rotten) on Website/RottenTomatoes, but surprisingly got two thumbs up from Creator/RogerEbert and Richard Roeper.

In a modern-day retelling of ''[[CryingWolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf]]'', 14-year-old Jason Shepherd (Muniz) is a [[TitleDrop Big Fat Liar]] who lies all the time to everyone. Then a greedy movie director Marty Wolf (Giamatti) [[PlagiarismInFiction 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]]. Jason decides that the only way to prove his case is to sneak off to L.A. with his best friend Kaylee (Bynes) and convince Wolf to confess, which soon involves inflicting a series of escalating pranks on the guy until he has a nervous breakdown. HilarityEnsues.

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* CryingWolf: Doing this all the time is what keeps everyone from believing that Jason lost his homework on his way to school. That and the fact that a director stealing a kid's script is highly ''improbable'' under ordinary circumstances, so unfortunately, even if Jason ''didn't'' have a reputation as a liar, it would be a pretty easy thing to disbelieve anyway.

* EngineeredPublicConfession [[spoiler: In the climax, Wolf shouts "I stole Jason Shepard's paper and turned it into ''Big Fat Liar''!", then brags to Jason that nobody will ever know the truth. The director and his crew were filming the whole thing (on multiple cameras) and showing it to the news media, Marcus Duncan, and Jason's parents, dramatically vindicating Jason once and for all and causing Wolf's downfall]].

* MeanBoss: Marty Wolf is a hardcore example of this, demeaning every single employee that works for him and the majority of them get it by him screaming to their faces.

* TheReveal: In the rooftop climax, Marty gloats that Jason is the only one who's heard the confession he's about to make. Following the multiple cameras that caught him there, he goes over to the edge of the roof to find... a giant crowd, including most of the not-yet-accounted-for victims, and a collection of TV screens on which it was clearly broadcast.

* VillainBall: If Marty had just called Jason's father like he asked (and he had the chance to ''twice''), Jason would have just let the whole thing go and he'd [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot still have his movie]] ''and'' career. After all, who's going to believe Jason's father over a famous Hollywood producer?

* VillainBall: If Marty had just called Jason's father like he 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?