The original Dumb and Dumber is a bona fide comedy classic. The sequel is not.
Dumb and Dumber To brings the jokes thick and fast, stuffing as many as possible into every sentence. Unfortunately, they mostly suck.
As a fan of the original, there is some nostalgic joy to be had in seeing Harry, Lloyd and a few of the other old characters back on screen. But comedy has changed since 1994, as have Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, and a lot of this sequel is more painful than funny.
Set 20 years after the original, Dumb and Dumber To follows Lloyd and Harry on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption. Along the way they get caught up in all sorts of trouble, including a murder plot, all through their stupidity.
The comedy is more adult and dark than the original, with the results generally not funny enough to warrant the shift. There's a crystal meth gag, a severed genitals gag and a sexual scene with an elderly lady that is pretty distasteful.
But it's not all bad and some jokes do work. Some of the funniest bits were an Asian man saying "wrong time", a cat farting, a lady being named Fanny Felcher, the film's title (it gets me every time), a phone's ringtone, someone being pushed over and a line about mowing the lawns.
As far as Farrelly brothers movies go, this is more on the level of something like Hall Pass rather than There's Something About Mary.
It's a fairly crappy sequel, for sure, but not so bad it tarnishes the original, and not without the odd laugh.
Two stars.
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Dumb and Dumber To
:: Director: Peter and Bobby Farrelly
:: Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Kathleen Turner, Laurie Holden, Paul Blackthorne, Rob Riggle
:: Rating: M - Violence, offensive language, drug references & sexual references
:: Running Time: 110
:: Release Date: January 8, 2015
source: newshub archive
