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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.
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.
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.
A movie that fully lives up to its name, right down to an opening credit sequence rife with intentional misspellings and grammatical errors.
An execrable catalogue of doody jokes, Dumb and Dumber is an abominable, abdominal comedy.
An uneven collection of bodily function jokes, facial gyrations, sexual jibes and pedestrian slapstick.
The caviar of low-brow, gross-out comedy.
The Farrellys' knack for stupid, Three Stooges-esque comedy writ larger by an infusion of heart excels with the complementary screen teaming of manic Jim Carrey and consummate screen actor Jeff Daniels. [Blu-ray]
You come away from the film smiling and thinking it wasn't the complete waste of time you figured on. (Blu-ray Edition)
...it tickles the funny bone often enough to merit serious consideration among lowbrow comedies.
[Featrues] a plethora of memorable scenes.
This gleefully lowbrow film is best enjoyed by the young, and by those who can still laugh at the passing of gas.
Gross to the max but very funny, this succeeds through energy, ingenuity and -- against all the odds -- the charm of its dopey leads.
Well titled and, for its purpose, a total success.
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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