Fresh
The plot, of course, is merely an excuse for an endless series of gags, and the percentage of them that score is fairly high.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Dumb and Dumber
For Harry and Lloyd, every day is a no-brainer.
1994 · 1h 47m · PG-13
Comedy
Directed by
Peter Farrelly
,
Bobby Farrelly
Overview
Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.
Director and cast
- Peter Farrelly Director
- Bobby Farrelly Director
- Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas
- Jeff Daniels as Harry Dune
- Lauren Holly as Mary Swanson
- Teri Garr as Helen Swanson
- Charles Rocket as Nicholas Andre
- Karen Duffy as J.P. Shay
- Mike Starr as Joe Mentaliano
- Felton Perry as Detective Dale
- Hank Brandt as Karl Swanson
- Brad Lockerman Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
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.
Tom Charity, Time Out
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