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| Released: |
1995 |
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COMEDY
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US |
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| Length: |
106 |
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| A flat-out celebration of stupidity, bodily functions and pratfalls... ideal fare for those who want to laugh themselves sick. |
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| (Variety) |
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| The film itself is a joke about how pop movies have affected us: we're all junk-culture leftovers now, lurking from fantasy to dejection, and back again. |
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| (Ray Sawhill, Modern Review) |
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| Makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire running time... In order to enjoy the pair's company, adult viewers must regress to those thrilling days of yesteryear when bodily dysfunction represented the height of hilarity. But Carrey (ably abetted here by the woofly Daniels) is both symbol and satirist of our apparently irresistible dumbing down. Astonished attention must be paid. |
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| (Richard Schickel, Time) |
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| What accounts for this amazing nineties phenomenon of put-on stupidity? Idiocy has become the educated person's chosen form of relaxation. A wild guess: Despite a healthy economy, many of us are ruled by job anxiety, the sense that skills laboriously acquired and vigorously defended may soon appear outmoded. The pressure to keep up can be intolerable. Who wants to be smart all the time? Stupidity can be a release. Not only are the two men of Dumb and Dumber in no way a threat, they may represent a form of wished-for freedom - Jim Carrey as the ultimate liberated id, seeking not erotic bliss but the greater, wilder bliss of being completely out of it. |
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| (David Denby, New York) |
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, Harry ........... Jeff Daniels 