If the goal of Jim Carrey’s latest movie, ‘Liar, Liar,’ was to show the ill effects that dishonesty can have on somebody’s life, then I will be honest and say that I thought the movie was pretty lame.’Liar, Liar’ begins by showing the lives of a family that has been divorced for a couple of years. Carrey plays Fletcher Reede, a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son blows out the candles on his birthday cake, he has only one wish, that his father will stop lying for a day. His son’s wish miraculously comes true, and Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset, is his worst liability.Carrey has an uncanny ability to make the characters he plays funny. He did it with ‘Ace Ventura’ and ‘Fire Marshal Bill,’ from Fox’s ‘In Living Color,’ but Carrey seems to have trouble playing ‘normal’ characters like Fletcher Reede, the dishonest lawyer in ‘Liar, Liar.” The movie is funny for the first 20 minutes after Fletcher’s son makes his wish. The ‘I’ve had better’ line has got to be one of the funniest lines I have seen in a movie in a long time. Carrey does his typical job of making faces, contorting his body, and generally overacting to make his point. If you are a Carrey fan, this is funny stuff, and this is what I, and many others, paid to see. The movie continues to follow this 24 hours of unnatural honesty that Fletcher has had wished on him, when the movie starts to become repetitious and overdone. Not only does this movie burn out fast, I really think that Carrey stinks at playing ordinary people. What’s more ordinary than a dishonest lawyer? When Carrey tries to show Fletcher’s paternal instincts for his son, he appears awkward, as though this is not a natural thing for him to do.It is unclear if Carrey’s unnatural fathering instincts were meant to help portray Fletcher Reede’s ‘shady’ nature or if Carrey just really stinks as a semi-dramatic actor.Although he is very talented with physical comedy, his serious acting leaves much to be desired. Maybe this is why I didn’t walk away from this movie with the same enthusiasm that I did when I saw ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.’