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Dumb and Dumber
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 67 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Bennett Yellin
Directed by:
Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 16, 1994
DVD: October 2, 2001
Running Time: 101 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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.
Also On Metacritic
FILM: Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Fever Pitch Kingpin Me, Myself & Irene Osmosis Jones Outside Providence Shallow Hal Stuck on You The Heartbreak Kid There's Something About Mary
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database
What The Critics Said
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...
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
At its best, Dumb and Dumber is like an Ernest movie with a scatological bent.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 67 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
[Anonymous] gave it a10:
What a classic. Lives up to its name and then some. Quite satirical when interpreted metaphorically.
James K. gave it a10:
Not for the first metacritic rates a great movie with an absurdly low score... I wonder if meatcritic polled these critics/newspapers for an updated score given the movies longevity and cult status wouldn't the score be nearer 90.
Harry M. gave it a10:
Dumb and Dumber is simply one of the funniest movies of all time.
Egan A.n gave it a10:
If i could rate this movie an 11, i would. Funniest movie of all time, go see it now.
john b gave it a10:
Probably the funniest movie of all time if you haven't seen it go get a bunch of your buddies, a 12 pack, and get ready to laugh your ass off.
darren p gave it a10:
This is probably my favorite comedy of all time. For some reason people who don't like it tend to say things like, "too crude," "its toilet humor" and other architypically pompous criticisms. Personally I have a very silly childish sense of humor 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 you'll 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 doesn't like this film I probably wouldn't 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.
