Sometimes, for whatever reasons, a movie comes along so dumbed down that it bares no resemblance to any kind of reality. Such is the case for "Liar, Liar, Vampire," in which a bunch of stupid high school girls (and I do mean low intelligence, lack of common sense, self-centered, short-sighted and vapid vixens - all enamored of the "Twilight" book and film series) purport themselves as a bunch of necrophiliac wannabes when they mistake new-kid-in-town Davis Pell ("pelvis?") for a vampire. Smarter-than-others neighbor girl Vi - a malcontent and potential anarchist - decides to help Davis feed into the student body mass insanity by giving him vampire lessons to continue duping their shallow classmates and (somehow) disrupt the current social order by Davis becoming popular. Stereotypical dumb-as-bricks football jocks (cliches all around) retaliate by hiring a clearly pretentious nincompoop vampire hunter to kill Davis. As Davis' ruse becomes known, he turns from school celebrity to pariah, with the lead vapid girl developing a cyber bullying campaign against him to boost her own Internet popularity. A side character named Ashton suddenly develops a bit of a brain (for no reason other than needs of the plot) to support Davis in bringing down the school's queen bee via a public humiliation. (Supposedly, public humiliations are what kids do and respect.)
With the statement that teenagers don't KNOW themselves in order to BE themselves, the film presents a lead character operating at the whims of other, with no functioning moral or ethical compass of his own - wearing an embarrassingly ugly and far undersized sweater at his mom's insistence, following the student body's hunger for a vampire in their midst, blindly becoming a willing tool of a neighbor for social disorder (who remains untouched by the consequences), then following directives from a known enemy classmate to bring about a public humiliation.
For a film whose best aim seems to be in simply presenting something to mesmerize toddlers, the only lesson to be gleaned from all this is that teenagers (or fans of the Twilight series) are stupid, grossly stupid, stupid to the core, only capable of a collective mentality and, yes again, stupid. (As a possible only other lesson would be that having a fantasy life can give you mad martial art skills, as demonstrated by the lead character's nearly schizophrenic imaginary ninja battles, which by the film's end appear to grant him fully developed martial art skills.)
Cast doesn't look bad but would like to judge their abilities on working from a script that has SOME meat on its bones.
With the statement that teenagers don't KNOW themselves in order to BE themselves, the film presents a lead character operating at the whims of other, with no functioning moral or ethical compass of his own - wearing an embarrassingly ugly and far undersized sweater at his mom's insistence, following the student body's hunger for a vampire in their midst, blindly becoming a willing tool of a neighbor for social disorder (who remains untouched by the consequences), then following directives from a known enemy classmate to bring about a public humiliation.
For a film whose best aim seems to be in simply presenting something to mesmerize toddlers, the only lesson to be gleaned from all this is that teenagers (or fans of the Twilight series) are stupid, grossly stupid, stupid to the core, only capable of a collective mentality and, yes again, stupid. (As a possible only other lesson would be that having a fantasy life can give you mad martial art skills, as demonstrated by the lead character's nearly schizophrenic imaginary ninja battles, which by the film's end appear to grant him fully developed martial art skills.)
Cast doesn't look bad but would like to judge their abilities on working from a script that has SOME meat on its bones.