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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackThis wacky buddy road film... has a brilliant glow of intelligence behind the stupidness. It's easily the funniest movie of the year.
- 70VarietyVarietyA 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.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThere are limits to how much comic irony can be wrung out of the sight of two grown men acting like complete cretins.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)The Globe and Mail (Toronto)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.
- 60TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineUnderlying 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.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumA 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.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMaybe 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.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenA 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.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliAt its best, Dumb and Dumber is like an Ernest movie with a scatological bent.
- 10Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonAn 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.