The Invention of Lying reminds me a little of Plain and Normal. Which isn't really a good thing. The humor is a little more palatable, but it is depressing, dry british humor all the way though. Occasionally, it is very, very funny. More and more so as the movie progresses. But the movie really shouldn't have been created as a romance. It's a very bad romance.
The movie also has trouble staying consistent with itself. It's 'world without lying', where everyone also blurts out everything they think without filter, is unthought out. It is an interesting concept that is poorly pulled off kinda like Avatar's hair linking system (wonderful idea with poor execution in that case).
Eh, the movie's a "Little Less than OK", but it's worth a few laughs.
Analysis (spoiling the movie!):
In the first two minutes of having begun The Invention of Lying, Ellie "Doodlepad" Fortune predicted the entire plot with impressive accuracy. Unfortunately, I don't find this to be at all movie writing. Especially because of the character she predicted.
The movie is paternalistic. The shallow ugly guy gets the shallow pretty girl after she hurdles her shallowness and doesn't reject him because of his looks. The fact that shallow ugly man is shallow himself and never has eyes for anyone but the pretty girl isn't even questioned.
When Lying Mark becomes moses and devises his own religion (seeing as there is no religion in a world without lies...) he makes his deity every race, but doesn't seem to even realize that he chose a superior sex and no one else in that world realizes it either.
This movie would have benefitted from an ending more akin to Bedazzled. Instead, it's just an average and kinda poor movie.
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