The Invention of Lying

I saw The Invention of Lying last week. It was a movie that I was looking forward to seeing because I thought it looked really funny.

The movie is about a world where everyone speaks the truth, it is vertually impossible to lie. Until one day Mark is fired from his job, is $500 short on his rent, and is about to be kicked out. He goes to the bank and tells the teller that he would like $800 (the amount of his rent) and the teller believes him and thinks there is something wrong with the system because there is only $300 in his bank account. It is in that moment that he realized he can lie. He is the only one with the ability to do so. He finally finds the girl of his dreams, Anna, who becomes a great friend but she doesn't want to date him because of his awful genetics. She doesn't want her children to be "fat and snub nosed".

He uses his ability to lie to his advantage. He finds fame and fortune with his lies from his lecture film company. He also wins "Man of the year" for telling his mother there is life after death. Mark finds love with Anna at the end of the movie and they have one fat snub nosed boy who inherited the ability to lie like his father, and Anna is also pregnant with another child.

I found the movie to be awful! I thought it was so hard to watch and was dragged out. A few parts of the movie was funny but the overall plot of the movie did not catch my interest. I had high hopes for this movie because Jennifer Garner is one of my favorite actresses. If you saw the movie what did you think??