The 20-years-later sequel to the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels comedy proves that sometimes you can go back again, especially if you haven’t learned anything.
Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey) are still terrorizing Billy in 4C (Brady Bluhm) 20 years later in Dumb and Dumber To.
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The whippit-high bliss of the Farrelly brothers' directorial debut Dumb & Dumber comes from just how much it delivers on its title — it's one gleefully idiotic joke after another, no moral to be delivered, no age of which to come. It doesn't matter if a gag falls flat, because dozens of others will follow, all intended to do nothing more than make you snort soda out your nose. It is a symphony in the key of stupid.
In the 20 years since Dumb & Dumber's release, the Farrellys made some great films (like There's Something About Mary) and, more recently, a bunch of indifferent ones (like Hall Pass). Jeff Daniels brilliantly played a middle-aged disappointment (The Squid and the Whale) and became an Aaron Sorkin fantasy figure (The Newsroom). Jim Carrey cemented his place as a comedy superstar.
But Dumb & Dumber To, which hits theaters this weekend, proves that in two decades, Lloyd Christmas (Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Daniels) haven't done a thing. (Well, technically there was that terrible 2003 prequel, but let's never speak of that again.)
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