Given American cinema's current obsession with innocence and ignorance, at least this never romanticises its protagonists. They are genuinely, irredeemably, 100 per cent no-hopers.
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:28
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Lowbrow buffoonery hit commercial highs with 1994's DUMB AND DUMBER. When best friends and aspiring pet groomers Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey, in a star-making role) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels)... Lowbrow buffoonery hit commercial highs with 1994's DUMB AND DUMBER. When best friends and aspiring pet groomers Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey, in a star-making role) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) get fired, Lloyd convinces Harry to travel to Colorado to search for his dream woman--Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly). Little does Lloyd know that Mary's in Aspen trying to locate her kidnapped husband. Soon the dimwitted pair have gotten mixed up in the crime, and their wacky exploits are leading the FBI straight to the crooks. The Farrelly Brothers are at the peak of their twisted craft with this gut-busting comedy. But between such gross-out gags as Hary's Exlax overdose and Lloyd's deliriously over-the-top dream sequence, it's really the chemistry between Carrey and Daniels--and the charming naiveté of these two dunces--that lend the film a disarming sweetness. [More]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Karen Duffy
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Karen Duffy, Mike Starr, Charles Rocket, Teri Garr, Lin Shaye
Director: Peter Farrelly
Director: Peter Farrelly
Screenwriter: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Bennett Yellin
Composer: Todd Rundgren
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Steve Stabler
Reviews for Dumb and Dumber
Gross to the max but very funny, this succeeds through energy, ingenuity and -- against all the odds -- the charm of its dopey leads.
we can see a lot of these laughs coming, and they don’t hold much staying power
An uneven collection of bodily function jokes, facial gyrations, sexual jibes and pedestrian slapstick.
An execrable catalogue of doody jokes, Dumb and Dumber is an abominable, abdominal comedy.
Gone are the days of John Belushi, where rudeness was raised to an art form.
Farrelly, quite simply put, does not appear to have the slightest clue about comic timing.
This gleefully lowbrow film is best enjoyed by the young, and by those who can still laugh at the passing of gas.
This virtually laughless movie makes rude junior high school pranks seem positively sophisticated.
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