Oh, you are SO close! But [SPOILER!] he resolves his issues with his wife first, so she gets "I love you." The last words go to the grave of his late deadbeat father who abandoned him in childhood. Care to take a second guess? Hint: It is not "I hate you" or "Screw you, you heartless dead bastard."

I actually thought of Blues Clues too, but I've never seen it. Really, I'm dating myself with the reference.

Y'know, it's just as likely that kids who grew up on the Nutty Professor movies and whatnot have entirely fond memories of him because he's that funny guy who makes all the silly faces in the movies where fat people fart and fall down a lot. And they aren't disappointed in him because they don't expect him to be…

Huh. That was that actor's last role, too. He died before the film was even released. How depressing.

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus @avclub-bae6a614f57536659ef89e3a491d6030:disqus  Keith and I talked about this a bunch; we both feel it either needed to be half an hour shorter (no Culkin, no Damon, no Reno) or an hour longer (to clarify what exactly was the point of those characters). The…

Oof, that would be like an unbearably exhausting double feature.

I really wanted the photo for this piece to be a scene of Dustin Hoffman taking Katharine Ross to the strip joint on their first date, preferably a still from where the stripper is doing the "tassels spinning in two different directions" thing and he's saying "You're missing a great effect here." Alas, there was no…

Did he need my $100 because CRASH tanked in theaters? Is that how he made back production costs?

You know, I actually spent some time mulling over what children's entertainment as straightforward and clear enough to make the metaphor clear. And I thought "Teletubbies" because it's made for such young kids, but that show is so trippy and weird, I'm not sure *I* can follow it. And did Barney even tell stories?

I have the kind of fond memories of LIAR LIAR that I wouldn't want to spoil by ever watching it again, because I think I'm afraid it wouldn't hold up, particularly given how tired I've become of Jim Carrey's rubber-face act in the interim.

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1) That's the worst user name I've ever seen.
2) Oh noes, the ridiculous magical plotline that only exists to vaguely frame a bunch of funny faces and yelling is internally inconsistent.

I requested this one. I was curious. The premise just sounded so insane, I couldn't resist. So it isn't about court-mandated community service, it's about volunteer work.

Do you really need one? Is it unclear in any way how this film will end?

Because their first movie together, NORBIT, made about $100 million over its production costs?

MARGARET. It has flaws (which maybe the director's full-length cut would fix) but it was on the shelf for six years, and much of it is terrific. But yes, it would be a very short inventory.

Oh, and also worth noting: This is from the same screenwriter as "Click" (another film about a magical device that makes a jerk realize what's important in life), "Bruce Almighty," and "Jack And Jill."

Note: The L.A. Times had an article recently on why this film was delayed four years (the studio changing hands, Murphy’s previous two movies underperforming), and why it’s suddenly out now. (It was about to hit a legal deadline where its cost would have to be written off as a loss.) Interesting reading:

I don't have kids either, and I'm unlikely to. But I know enough decent, caring, happy parents that the portrayal of married-couple parents as shrieking psychopaths just struck me as annoyingly over-the-top.

@avclub-173af0430bc192b8a027af7cdba82cd7:disqus 's take is correct, and he argues it well. It isn't that unmarried, not-in-love people couldn't possibly make good parents. It's that the film first creates a ridiculous problem, then solves it in an unbelievable way.