DVD Review "THE INVENTION OF LYING" Score B+ 87%

This one is comedy gold in the lines of a quality sitcom. The premise is great: in a world where there are no lies and everyone tells only the truth, the movies are nothing but retelling of Historical happenings there is no "make-believe", one man discovers in his brain the ability to "Say something that wasn't". He proceeds to use this power to re-create his world the way he wants it, with the special point of trying to win over the girl of his dreams (who he won't tell an ultimate lie to her, just inconsequential ones). In a funny side comment on religions and how they were "made up" to comfort his mother as she dies He comes up with his lies about "A man in the Sky", Good things vs Bad things you do, mansions and all your friends and family in a 'heaven' after you die... and writes these rules down on Pizza Hut boxes for the world to accept. In the end though this movie just becomes a romantic comedy, but the humor of the truth telling and the lies Gervais tells is funny enough to rise above a typical rom-com. Check it out.