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Dumb and Dumber
New Line Cinema


8.9

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

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

At its best, Dumb and Dumber is like an Ernest movie with a scatological bent.

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.

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.

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 8.9 (out of 10) based on 55 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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.

Ross W. gave it a10:
very,very funny film that does not get bored no matter how many times you watch it. the critics must have done another film.

Greg L. gave it a10:
My vote for funniest movie of all time. If only one of the many reviewers here can see the genius behind this movie, then maybe its a waste of time to collect opinions from these dummies (reference to the critics, not the many users).

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Dumb and Dumber
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