The Invention Of Lying

This movie starts out with an interesting premise. What would the world be like if nobody could lie. In fact the word "lie" doesn't even exist and everyone tells the absolute truth all the time. People would say such things as "Yes that does make your ass look big" and "Your baby is hideous". The movies would consist of only documentaries as make-believe can't happen with lying. There would be no secrets at all, whatsoever. Take that scenario and then throw in Ricky Gervais and when he discovers Lying for the first time and you have a great comedy in the making. As you can imagine a man who can lie in a world where everyone tells the truth and believes whatever you tell them has great potential.. I liked how Gervais played the character..he takes advantage of his capability.. BUT.. he does draw the line.. on certain things he wont do. One thing that bothered me was that the movie proposed that faith in God was in essence a lie made in order to make people feel better about death. As a Christian of course I don't buy this.. the evidence of God is too great to ignore. If you ignore this one thing though.. the movie was fun and entertaining. There was ALOT of cameos by big name stars as well that suprised me. This speaks to Ricky Gervais popularity lately. People like Tina Fey, Rob Lowe, Edward Norton, and Jason Bateman.