Dumb and Dumber To (DVD REVIEW)
Dumb
and Dumber To
DVD Review by Kam Williams
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels Reprise Their Roles as Mentally-Challenged
Buddies
It took the Farrelly Brothers, Peter
and Bobby, two decades to bring back co-stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels for a
follow-up to Dumb and Dumber, their hit comedy that netted nearly a quarter of
a billion dollars at the box office in 1994. Far be it from this critic to
suggest that the long-anticipated sequel was worth the wait, though I suspect
it won’t disappoint fans nostalgic for more of the same from the bottom-feeding
franchise.
Dumb and Dumber To again coalesces
around the terminally-inane antics of Lloyd Christmas (Carrey) and Harry Dunne
(Daniels), gullible dimwits with a penchant for both playing and being the butt
of practical jokes. As the film unfolds, we learn that, for the last 20 years,
Lloyd has been committed to Baldy
View Mental
Hospital, where he’s undergone shock treatments
and a partial lobotomy.
Faithful Harry, meanwhile, has been a
daily visitor, regularly changing the bag of urine waste attached to his pal’s
private parts. Today, however, the wheelchair-bound patient giggles “Gotcha!”
to reveal that his protracted stay in the asylum has all been a gag staged
purely for his buddy’s benefit. After admiring the elaborate ruse, Harry rips
the catheter out of Lloyd’s penis roughly, with the help of a couple of
obliging groundskeepers. Ouch!
The reunited roommates immediately make
their way home to their apartment where they proceed to pull a mean-spirited
prank on their apprehensive, blind next-door neighbor (Brady Bluhm) by feeding
Pop Rocks to his pet birds. (Don’t try that at home, kids!) Harry subsequently exposes the anus of their
cat to explain why he refers to it as Butthole, another joke that merely falls
flat. Equally unfunny is the introduction of a drug dealer (Bill Murray), whose
crystal meth Harry mistakes for candy.
Such lowbrow fare serves as prologue
and proves to be par for the course for the peripatetic adventure about to
ensue. Yes, the farfetched road trip does revolve around the rudiments of a
plot, though that’s ostensibly of less concern to the filmmakers than seizing
on the flimsiest of excuses to gross out their audience at every opportunity.
To summarize the story in 25 words or
less, Harry has his own medical issue and is in urgent need of a kidney donor.
Fortunately, he has a long-lost daughter he’s never met (Rachel Melvin) who
just might be a genetic match.
With
that, our brain-damaged protagonists are off on a cross-country trek in search
of Penny that provides them ample opportunities to indulge in disgusting
displays of depravity and vulgarity.
Fair (1 star)
Rated
PG-13 for crude humor, profanity, sexuality, partial nudity and drug references
Running
time: 109 minutes
Distributor:
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack Extras: Alternate Opening;
deleted and extended scenes; gag reel; That’s Awesome!: The Story of
Dumb and Dumber To; and What’s So Smart about Dumb and Dumber To?
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