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Dumb and Dumber (1994)

Rate: 6
Viewed: 5/04, 5/25

5/25: I hate anything by the Farrelly brothers.

They produce gross principal characters and situations and have people around them thinking of them as normal. Enter Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber. Their IQ is supposed to be low, but I know they are being stupid on purpose. Worse, they're creepy and sex deviants.

Not many moments have made me laugh, but it's not a boring movie overall, having a good flow. I didn't appreciate the dead parakeet joke. Anyway, Jim Carrey fits the genre well. The chipped tooth of his is for real; he originally had a fight with a classmate when he was young. It's been capped since then. The bill scam his character pulled off was actually done by Jeff Daniels in Something Wild.

Hard to believe is Jeff Daniels going ahead with the film when I know he's a much more serious actor than that. At the time, his career was falling apart, and he needed something different. Prior to that, Nicolas Cage was first approached for the role, and he asked for more money before being turned down. Not to worry, he went on to do Leaving Las Vegas, resulting in an Oscar win.

All in all, Dumb and Dumber is an okay comedy picture.

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