Dumb & Dumber
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Metascore
39 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 13 Critics What's this?

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8.7 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 120 Ratings

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  • Starring: Jeff Daniels, Jim Carrey, Lauren Holly
  • Summary: 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.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    100
    This wacky buddy road film... has a brilliant glow of intelligence behind the stupidness. It's easily the funniest movie of the year.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    70
    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.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    60
    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.
  4. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    38
    At its best, Dumb and Dumber is like an Ernest movie with a scatological bent.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 55 out of 59
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 59
  3. Negative: 3 out of 59
  1. njkk
    10
    Comedy Gold, there are so many humorous scenes in this movie if you do not laugh then you should see a doctor. The movie is a classic and it is worth your time seeing. Without Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey this movie would have been a flop big time.… Expand
  2. eTurkey
    8
    Usually, I don't pay too much attention to what the critics have to say, but in this instance they are unquestionably wrong, wrong and did I mention... wrong! 'Dumb & Dumber' is a fine movie, but more importantly it is one of the funniest flicks I've personally ever had the pleasure of watching in my entire life. It is simply the KING of the buddy comedy genre, even almost eighteen years after it was originally released in movie theatres. Directed by the Farrelly brothers who excel at comedy and starring Jim Carrey, it's no wonder why this movie is great.… Expand
  3. tropicAces
    6
    Even if you "like" this movie you have to admit its stupid. Beyond stupid, it's borderline atrocious. But it's impossible to hate on Carrey and anything that featured his 90's talent.… Expand
  4. ReiT.
    0
    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.… Expand

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