i’m always on the look out for new things to appreciate ironically. this is ironywatch.

frankie muniz may be best known as malcolm or agent cody banks, but his greatest achievement — a short story he wrote for school — has just been stolen from him by evil producer marty wolf (played by academy award nominated paul giamatti).  uh oh.  you don’t want to mess with this kid, marty!

welcome to the masterpiece that is big fat liar.

i had the pleasure of being forced to watch this on a greyhound bus ride, where they blast the audio over the pa system, so trying to drown out the sound with your own headphones is a futile waste of time.  let me tell you, paul giamatti gets the shit pranked out of him in this film. here are a few ways in which frankie teaches paul not to plagorize:

• he turns his skin blue
• he turns his hair orange
• he superglues his cell phone to his ear
• he sabotages his car
• …which causes marty to crash into a monster truck. just like in real life.

the lesson of the film is: don’t fuck with 14-year-old frankie muniz. frankie, along with an unlikely team-up of misfits wronged by paul giamatti, will destroy your life. i wish i wielded that kind of power, but all i can do is put this movie on ironywatch.