Dustin: 3 of 5 stars Nick: 3.5 of 5 stars Average: 3.25 of 5 stars (Woozy canary)
Dustin: Dumb and Dumber To rounds out the epic Dumb & Dumber trilogy. Like all great epics, going back to Homer’s Odyssey, the story began in the middle with 1994’s Dumb & Dumber, then took us back to the beginning in 2003 with Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. Now 20 years after the epic saga began, we experience the exciting and emotional conclusion with Dumb and Dumber To.
Nick: The Farrelly’s had nothing to do with the prequel. I don’t think it’s considered part of the canon so let’s call this the second film in the series. One way to prove this is I laughed constantly through the original and the new one while I only laughed once in the prequel and that was because of the gas station clerk played by Brian Posehn.
Dustin: I should mention I only saw the first movie shortly after it came to home video. I remember the famous Sea Bass scene, the boy with the dead parakeet, but not much else. I didn’t see the prequel. I went into this movie knowing what it was, but still pretty fresh.
Dustin: I should mention I only saw the first movie shortly after it came to home video. I remember the famous Sea Bass scene, the boy with the dead parakeet, but not much else. I didn’t see the prequel. I went into this movie knowing what it was, but still pretty fresh.
Having said that, I think this movie basically did a good job fulfilling what was promised in the trailers. As a low-brow comedy about a couple of cartoonish buffoons, it worked on that level.
Nick: I have fond memories of the original, mainly because my mother wouldn’t let me see it (I was 7), but then she also wouldn’t let me rent it (I was 10), but then my awesome ne’er-do-well cousin rented it and let me watch it. It was epic… for what my 10-year-old brain considered epic. Dumb and Dumber To is not only as funny as the original, but it might have a slightly better concept and plot for a wacky comedy. The first film is just Lloyd falls in love with a woman who left her briefcase in his limo and wants to return it to her in the hopes she will return his undying love. This one has the same road trip comedy feel, but has a lot more players with a couple of twists at the end.
Dustin: As I don’t remember the original too well, I’ll say judging from this movie, the characters weren’t always consistent. I thought they showed different levels of stupidity at times, which was distracting. Sometimes they seemed like they had autism, other times they just seemed somewhat goofy. Was that something established in the first one? Did you ever get that feeling?
Nick: I have fond memories of the original, mainly because my mother wouldn’t let me see it (I was 7), but then she also wouldn’t let me rent it (I was 10), but then my awesome ne’er-do-well cousin rented it and let me watch it. It was epic… for what my 10-year-old brain considered epic. Dumb and Dumber To is not only as funny as the original, but it might have a slightly better concept and plot for a wacky comedy. The first film is just Lloyd falls in love with a woman who left her briefcase in his limo and wants to return it to her in the hopes she will return his undying love. This one has the same road trip comedy feel, but has a lot more players with a couple of twists at the end.
Dustin: As I don’t remember the original too well, I’ll say judging from this movie, the characters weren’t always consistent. I thought they showed different levels of stupidity at times, which was distracting. Sometimes they seemed like they had autism, other times they just seemed somewhat goofy. Was that something established in the first one? Did you ever get that feeling?
Nick: In the first one and in this one it seems to me that Jeff Daniels is Dumb while Jim Carrey is Dumber. Whenever Dumb is around Dumber he becomes slightly more dumb by proxy.
Nick: Daniels’s Dumb mostly lacks social cues and can’t function on his own, so it could be a possibly form of autism. While Dumber is just be in erratic idiot who functions as well as a 6-year-old. But to be honest I have never tried to pick it apart that much before. It’s bothersome, but so many more movies have such larger issues than the varying levels of dumb that are displayed by characters who are Dumb and Dumber. Like Mark Wahlberg growing up in Texas with a Boston accent while building robots and understanding alien technology in order to build said alien robots back together.
Dustin: As it occurred to me a couple times these characters probably had some kind of autism-spectrum disorder, I wasn’t always comfortable laughing at them. I’d like it better if they were just slow like Homer Simpson, sort of a cartoonish stupidity.
Nick: I feel they are. I mostly laugh at the stuff they caused and not so much at them. Jim Carrey’s rubbery face always gets me. He could have been portraying a Texan with a Boston accent who somehow understands alien technology enough to build robots with it, and I would still laugh hysterically.
Dustin: Did the first one have the gross-out humor this one had? I know other Farrelly brothers movies have it, but I didn’t feel like it was necessary.
Nick: There was a diarrhea scene in the original that was actually quite funny. This one has a lot of that humor, but while it normally annoys me (especially in their films) for the sheer stupidity it mostly works besides one instance of when the cat had farted out bird feathers when I thought enough happened in that scene to make me laugh. I was laughing pretty hard, but when that happened I ceased laughing out of anger while everyone around continued to bust a gut.
It seemed Lloyd had found his true love in the first one, and yet it didn’t end in that manner. Made me kind of sad.
Dustin: As it occurred to me a couple times these characters probably had some kind of autism-spectrum disorder, I wasn’t always comfortable laughing at them. I’d like it better if they were just slow like Homer Simpson, sort of a cartoonish stupidity.
Nick: I feel they are. I mostly laugh at the stuff they caused and not so much at them. Jim Carrey’s rubbery face always gets me. He could have been portraying a Texan with a Boston accent who somehow understands alien technology enough to build robots with it, and I would still laugh hysterically.
Dustin: Did the first one have the gross-out humor this one had? I know other Farrelly brothers movies have it, but I didn’t feel like it was necessary.
Nick: There was a diarrhea scene in the original that was actually quite funny. This one has a lot of that humor, but while it normally annoys me (especially in their films) for the sheer stupidity it mostly works besides one instance of when the cat had farted out bird feathers when I thought enough happened in that scene to make me laugh. I was laughing pretty hard, but when that happened I ceased laughing out of anger while everyone around continued to bust a gut.
It seemed Lloyd had found his true love in the first one, and yet it didn’t end in that manner. Made me kind of sad.
By the way... What do you think sex is?
Dustin: That’s an interesting question, as it ties into the something said near the end of the film. I usually default to penile penetration of the vagina, but I know experts pretty much say any form of undressed intimacy is sex.
Nick: Experts can be pretty dumb.
Dustin: This thought was going through my head when Kathleen Turner explained what sex is to Harold and Lloyd. We didn’t hear what she said, but what Dumb and Dumber had apparently done with her would probably be considered sex to a lot of people.
While Dumb and Dumber To is a ‘90s-style low-brow comedy made to cash in on nostalgia, it delivered enough laughs to please fans of the original.
Dustin: That’s an interesting question, as it ties into the something said near the end of the film. I usually default to penile penetration of the vagina, but I know experts pretty much say any form of undressed intimacy is sex.
Nick: Experts can be pretty dumb.
Dustin: This thought was going through my head when Kathleen Turner explained what sex is to Harold and Lloyd. We didn’t hear what she said, but what Dumb and Dumber had apparently done with her would probably be considered sex to a lot of people.
While Dumb and Dumber To is a ‘90s-style low-brow comedy made to cash in on nostalgia, it delivered enough laughs to please fans of the original.
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