Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis: When best friends Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne both get fired, Lloyd convinces Harry to travel to Colorado to search for his dream woman, Mary Swanson. Little does Lloyd know that Mary's in Aspen trying to find her kidnapped husband. Soon the two have gotten mixed up in the crime, and their... When best friends Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne both get fired, Lloyd convinces Harry to travel to Colorado to search for his dream woman, Mary Swanson. Little does Lloyd know that Mary's in Aspen trying to find her kidnapped husband. Soon the two 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 gutbusting comedy. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Karen Duffy, Mike Starr
Screenwriter: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Bennett Yellin
Composer: Todd Rundgren
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Steve Stabler
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Reviews
Dumb and Dumber, which features Carrey and Jeff Daniels as nitwits traveling cross-country, is a frayed string of gags posing as a movie. Carrey, though, does literal-minded doofdom with peerless enthusiasm.
This gleefully lowbrow film is best enjoyed by the young, and by those who can still laugh at the passing of gas.
The wholeheartedness of this descent into crude and rude humor is so good-natured and precise that it's hard not to partake in the guilty pleasures of the exercise.
Gross to the max but very funny, this succeeds through energy, ingenuity and -- against all the odds -- the charm of its dopey leads.
This is a long way from the social comedy of Jerry Lewis. The characters here are ultimately turned into punching bags or punch-line dispensers.
Gone are the days of John Belushi, where rudeness was raised to an art form.
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.
we can see a lot of these laughs coming, and they don’t hold much staying power
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