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A brilliant film that helped define a genre

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The corrupt congressman João Ernesto Praxedes (Leandro Hassum) is the favorite in the dispute of the presidency of Brazil. His assessor Marcelinho (Victor Leal) is preparing him for the debate on the second round of the election and he is summoned to a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry in the Congress. When his grandmother is near death, João visits her and she curses him to be honest and always tell the truth. Now João has a big trouble since he needs to dispute the presidential election and respond the inquiry of the commission telling only the truth. "O Candidato Honesto" is a funny comedy based on the Brazilian sad reality about politicians. Foreigners may believe that it is only a joke with politicians, but indeed this comedy depicts the behavior of most of Brazilian politicians. The character João Ernesto Praxedes is based on characteristics at least three Brazilian presidents. The plot uses the storyline of Jim Carrey's "Liar Liar" and the final speech of Al Pacino to John Cusack in "City Hall" in the corrupt Brazilian environment of politics. Leandro Hassum is a great comedian and has great performance. Unfortunately the conclusion is corny and moralist. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Candidato Honesto" ("The Honest Candidate")

It had everything to be a tremendous movie of humor. More descended into the perverse way of national films. Much, much, much word. Black humor without grace jokes and low level of scenes that referred to the old and decaying former national cinema. A great shame this kind of unnecessary appeal. I asked my time with this movie.When you think that we are evolving is a film of this and kill everything that fought until the moment. But what anyway. Do not we have the evolution of gift.A failed attempt and misplaced to imitate the movie "Liar Liar" nothing more, nothing less than the Jean Carle. A disgrace to our so suffered daily. Total loss of time. Strongly discouraged.

Well, I saw the trailer from this movie and, just out of curiosity, decided to check on a Youtube copy that leaked from a local cinema.I'll give you guys a little skinny about the plot and I'm pretty sure you'll recognize something in it quite immediately, so here goes: a federal senator is trying to elect himself as president; he's arrogant, obnoxious, and above all, he's a liar, like most politicians in Brazil; then, one day some force of the universe casts a spell on him preventing him from lying and his life starts crumbling.YEP!! You guessed it! It's "Liar, Liar", one of the most famous Jim Carrey films!And I fool you not, the plot is the exact same here, the absolute exact same! He'll lie a lot in the beginning, a spell is cast on him, he starts to tell the truth no matter what, he starts having trouble with his family, his public image gets disfigured, etc, etc; in the end, he realizes that... like Carrey said on the original film, "the truth shall set you free", and so he made a speech in the last campaign debate that causes commotion on everybody and changes himself. The end.I'm sorry, guys, but apart from the final speech from João Ernesto in the film, "O Candidato Honesto" isn't even nearly as good as the original Jim Carrey film. No memorable characters, no memorable situations, convoluted plot, in the end, we have another generic Brazilian comedy that will cause some commotion on people in general, and even maybe influence the results from the election, but it was nothing special and it'll surely gets dated in some years.