To his credit, Daniels really effortlessly falls back into the role of Harry, the actor effusing giddy stupidity from beneath his blond mop-top wig, but it’s the characterization of Lloyd and Carrey’s performance that throws the duo off kilter. Within context, a cat slaughtering an exotic bird collection is funny, but you over do it when you then cut to a shot of the cat farting CGI feathers.Ībove all, the natural attraction of Dumb and Dumber To is seeing Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey return to two of the best characters in their respective careers, but even that’s a less-than-favorable mixed bag in the end. More often than not, though, it feels sloppy and overdone. The episodic quality to the various points in the adventure often lets the script be more dedicated to the comedy than it is to the thin larger plot, but what that should have allowed was for the Farrellys to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff and make the sequel lean and punchy. What’s really rough about this is the fact that it’s a problem that could seemingly be fixed quite easily. While there are parts in Dumb and Dumber To that will make you laugh so hard that you’ll be left breathless, simply too much time is left dedicated to both bad jokes and funny jokes that are allowed to overstay their welcome and ultimately implode. Of course, only some of these work and some of them don’t – and it’s sadly a less-than-desirable ratio that winds up dooming the movie. Though the structure is a tad too familiar at times – the film working a little too hard to directly remind the audience of the story and plot points they loved back in the ‘90s – the narrative choice is understandable, given that it provides the two protagonists the chance to fall into a wide variety of wacky adventures. Following real time and set 20 years after the first film, the sequel essentially replicates the formula from Dumb and Dumber, sending Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey) on a cross country mission that ensures they will find themselves stuck in all kinds of ridiculous situations along the way.
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