Dumb and Dumber
New Line Cinema | Release Date: December 16, 1994 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
6
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
This wacky buddy road film... has a brilliant glow of intelligence behind the stupidness. It's easily the funniest movie of the year. Read full review
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
A flat-out celebration of stupidity, bodily functions and pratfalls. Yet 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. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
There are limits to how much comic irony can be wrung out of the sight of two grown men acting like complete cretins. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Christopher Harris
An atrocious movie. An offensively stupid movie. A movie so witless and so crammed with bathroom humour that you will be deeply thankful for the darkness that envelops you - it lets you hide the fact (disturbing as it is) that you do laugh at the antics of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, in spite of yourself. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Underlying the slapstick, however, is an extravagant parody of American culture--bad taste, bad manners, the gushing sentimentality of Lloyd's daydreams, or the classic westward road trip, complete with diner scenes and archetypal rednecks. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
The plot, of course, is merely an excuse for an endless series of gags, and the percentage of them that score is fairly high. But since the jokes are based over and over on the fact that Lloyd and Harry are really, really dumb, a certain repetitive factor sets in. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
A few of the bad-taste gags are funny, and Carrey's grimaces have a certain inspired delirium, but this is a long way from the social comedy of Jerry Lewis. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Maybe it's indicative of my end-of-the-year brain-fry, but this dopey comedy about two of the dumbest guys in the universe on a road trip to misadventure is a hoot. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The plot is lame, but that doesn't matter, because Dumb and Dumber is essentially pitched at the level of an "Airplane!"-style movie, with rapid-fire sight gags. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen Holden
A movie that knows much better than to try to make sense. It is essentially a strung-together series of gags, most of them thought up by Lloyd, an inveterate practical joker. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
At its best, Dumb and Dumber is like an Ernest movie with a scatological bent. Read full review
30
The New YorkerMichael Sragow
But the screenplay for this deliberately over-the-top (under-the-bottom?) farce—about Carrey's unwitting retrieval of some ransom money and his effort to return it to his dream gal (Lauren Holly) in Aspen—doesn't pass muster as a string of moronic skits (studded with urine and fart jokes) or as a lampoon of buddy movies. Read full review
10
Washington PostDesson Thomson
An uneven collection of bodily function jokes, facial gyrations, sexual jibes and pedestrian slapstick, Dumb and Dumber appears to have been conceived by the leading lugheads themselves. Read full review
10
Washington PostRita Kempley
An abominable, abdominal comedy. Aside from its tastelessness and dawdling pace, the movie’s chief problem is the lackluster chemistry between leading lummoxes Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. Read full review
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