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Dumb and Dumber
New Line Cinema

Dumb and Dumber reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 39 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.9 out of 10
based on 13 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13

Starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr, Charles Rocket, Karen Duffy, Cam Neely, and Teri Garr

Two stupid guys, Lloyd (Carrey) and Harry (Daniels) decide to drive across country from Providence, Rhode Island to Aspen, Colorado to return a briefcase left in the airport by Mary Swanson (Holly), the object of Lloyd's affection.


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Bennett Yellin
 
DIRECTED BY: Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
 
RELEASE DATE: DVD: October 2, 2001 
Video: September 4, 2001 
Theatrical: December 16, 1994 
RUNNING TIME: 101 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

Winner, Best Comedic Performance (Carrey), 1995 MTV Movie Awards

What The Critics Said

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100
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
This wacky buddy road film... has a brilliant glow of intelligence behind the stupidness. It's easily the funniest movie of the year.
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70
Variety Staff (Not Credited)
A flat-out celebration of stupidity, bodily functions and pratfalls. Yet 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.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
There are limits to how much comic irony can be wrung out of the sight of two grown men acting like complete cretins.
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Christopher Harris
An atrocious movie. An offensively stupid movie. A movie so witless and so crammed with bathroom humour that you will be deeply thankful for the darkness that envelops you - it lets you hide the fact (disturbing as it is) that you do laugh at the antics of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, in spite of yourself.
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60
TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
Underlying the slapstick, however, is an extravagant parody of American culture--bad taste, bad manners, the gushing sentimentality of Lloyd's daydreams, or the classic westward road trip, complete with diner scenes and archetypal rednecks.
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50
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A few of the bad-taste gags are funny, and Carrey's grimaces have a certain inspired delirium, but this is a long way from the social comedy of Jerry Lewis.
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50
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Maybe it's indicative of my end-of-the-year brain-fry, but this dopey comedy about two of the dumbest guys in the universe on a road trip to misadventure is a hoot.
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50
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The plot is lame, but that doesn't matter, because Dumb and Dumber is essentially pitched at the level of an "Airplane!"-style movie, with rapid-fire sight gags.
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40
The New York Times Stephen Holden
A movie that knows much better than to try to make sense. It is essentially a strung-together series of gags, most of them thought up by Lloyd, an inveterate practical joker.
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38
ReelViews James Berardinelli
At its best, Dumb and Dumber is like an Ernest movie with a scatological bent.
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30
The New Yorker Michael Sragow
But the screenplay for this deliberately over-the-top (under-the-bottom?) farce—about Carrey's unwitting retrieval of some ransom money and his effort to return it to his dream gal (Lauren Holly) in Aspen—doesn't pass muster as a string of moronic skits (studded with urine and fart jokes) or as a lampoon of buddy movies.
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10
Washington Post Rita Kempley
An abominable, abdominal comedy. Aside from its tastelessness and dawdling pace, the movie’s chief problem is the lackluster chemistry between leading lummoxes Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
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10
Washington Post Desson Thomson
An uneven collection of bodily function jokes, facial gyrations, sexual jibes and pedestrian slapstick, Dumb and Dumber appears to have been conceived by the leading lugheads themselves.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.9 (out of 10) based on 60 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

darren p gave it a10:
This is probably my favourite comedy of all time. For some reason people who dont like it tend to say things like, "too crude," "its toilet humour" and other architypically pompous criticisms. Personally I have a very silly childish sense of humour and I love it. It helps me see the funny side to everything in life even the most absurd of bad luck. And that's why I love this film, it perfectly reflects the futile struggle of growing up as a young male in this society, wanting all those things youll probably just never get, and generally being down on your luck most of the time. But you know you'll look back at the crazy things that happen and having a good friend in the same position makes it all OK. I used to watch this with my best friend when we first started hanging out in our own flats and houses I have probably seen it about 30 times. I would go so far as to say that if someone doesnt like this film I probably wouldnt have anything in common with them and therefore would probably not want to hang around with them.

Kurt H gave it a9:
'Dumb and Dumber' is a classic. The funniest movie of the 90's. With a close second being 'There's Something about Mary' Do not listen to the critics on this movie.

Scott R. gave it a10:
What a classic - Yes, when 99% of everyone I know my age (I'm 24) think this is one of the top five comedies of all time it means it's a classic. Even though I only know 3 other people (yes, I have a sibling), it's still embarrassing and discrediting for the critics to have given it such a low rating. This was the first and last movie review I'll read on this site.

Ryan M. gave it a10:
Best (and funniest) movie ever made. Perfection from beginning to end.

Ted K gave it a10:
Probably the funniest movie ever made. I feel bad for anyone that can't enjoy comedy like this. It's filled with classic moments that never get old. It's hard to pick a favorite scene but I guess mine would be Lloyd's fantasy in the Chinese restaurant.

Rei T. gave it a0:
What a waste of money and film. The movie is lam, is bad, bad taste, jokes that are not funny. It will be a classic of the bad, it will dissapear from the movie rentals IF get there.

Dry Bones gave it a10:
An absolute classic comedy that's probably too much to handle for critics who would rather be watching Dodgeball or Starsky & Hutch. Carey and Daniels form one of the greatest comedy duos of the generation, no questions asked. Great supporting cast, cameos, and soundtrack all work to compliment a hilarious script and perfect deliveries by the film's stars.

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