Dumb and Dumber To

It's really funny to see how far Jeff Daniels has come since making Dumb and Dumber 20 years ago. And it's equally just as funny to see how Jim Carrey is basically doing the same stuff that he did 20 years ago once he failed at his attempt to become the new Tom Hanks and cross over into serious Oscar winning roles. Honestly, after watching Daniels spit out Aaron Sorkin dialogue with machine gun like precision in The Newsroom and then one hour later seeing him portray one of the dumbest people to ever grace this Earth, it's amazing to me that he's never won an Oscar. It's like watching Denise Richards play the role of rocket scientist Dr. Christmas Jones but actually being good at it! But really it didn't matter to me whether or not she was good in The World Is Not Enough or TWINE as we call it, because it was all worth it to hear James Bond say at the end while having sex with her "I thought Christmas only came once a year." It's nearly impossible for that one to ever be topped.

Usually when it takes 20 years to make a sequel to a comedy, you get something that's historically awful like Anchorman 2. It's either just recycled jokes that fall completely flat or they go so far to the left that you wonder if they ever woke up from their drug induced writing session that inspired the sequel in the first place. But thankfully the Farrelly brothers actually put forth a decent effort in making a quality sequel in Dumb and Dumber To.

The plot is just like the first movie in that it's not very complicated; after realizing that his friend Lloyd has been fooling him for 20 years by pretending to be in a catatonic state, the two set off on a mission to find Harry's long lost daughter. Harry needs to find her so that he can find a compatible kidney donor to save his life and Lloyd wants to find her because he instantly falls in love with her after seeing her photo.

Now to Lloyd's credit she is unbelievably hot and she's just as dumb as they are, so it feels like a perfect fit. So the two take off across the country to reach her and they get into the normal antics you would expect from this type of a movie. There are fart jokes, pranks that go a little too far, and of course the obligatory gross out scene that usually accompanies a Farrelly movie. I haven't laughed so hard that I've cried while watching a movie in quite some time but that actually happened twice in Dumber To.

The humor is so unbelievably stupid that you can't help but laugh out loud. The movie nerd in me was yelling and wanted me to be every bit of the snob I've become but I couldn't help myself, this movie was funny. Now the humor isn't intellectual by any means and it's not as funny as the first but I have to admit that I was entertained.

I rate this movie as FRESH!