MYST #6: Dumb and Dumber

I will be honest, I have not seen a notable film in a good while. I saw Hunger Games: Mocking Jay: Part 1, and, that kind of sucked. Other people have also written about it, so why waste time on a review when the movie in itself was a waste of time. So I return to a time where my film-watching habits were more consistent. I have never written about a film I hated, and thus, Dumb and Dumber is on the table. The sequel had just come out at the time, and I had not seen the original, which was conveniently on Netflix.

Let me start out saying that if I was in the fifth grade when viewing this movie (I will not even call it a film), I would have possibly found it the slightest bit funny. Maybe not, I hope fifth-grade me was not a complete imbecile. But, I digress from what I can sum up in one word: garbage. Dumb humor is dumb humor and Dumb and Dumber even does that poorly. I never laughed throughout the entire movie, it was mostly just cringing at how stupid and misappropriated these guys are for any sort of place in society. There was even a part that stooped to childish poop humor, where Jeff Bridges has severe diarrhea and, apparently, that's funny. This movie is that diarrhea. The script is fairly conventional in structure (still stupid) and even tries to develop an emotional attachment to our idiot friends, but the movie achieved the farthest thing from success in that aspect. I also hated Jim Carrey's haircut. I did not, however, hate Jim Carrey. I think he plays the same character in all of his comedic roles (very physical, almost a lunatic), but he does it well like in Liar, Liar and in Bruce Almighty. The film was also very long for a comedy, at almost 2 hours. I was indeed bored near the end. I refuse to say anything else because the movie does not merit more of my time.

In short, Dumb and Dumber is dumb. Do not watch it because of an opinion your friend made when they were in the second grade, because odds are if they watched it again they would see the error of their ways. Do not watch it. Maybe buy the DVD and defecate on it and send the picture to the writers, I would endorse that. I do not understand how anyone today can enjoy this film.

2/10