Entertaining but over-hyped

Rating: 4/10 (18 June 2017)

Dumb and Dumber has been highly praised and loved throughout since its release in 1994. Having over twenty years later, the long awaited sequel was delivered. This film has been considered by many to be hilarious, and one of the funnies "silly" comedies of all time. Nothing much about the film is as funny as advertised, more so a bunch of silly and cringe gags and jokes which we are intended to laugh at. What works for the film is the characters and the chemistry of both Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. We understand their characters are dumb and the situations they are put into are silly, they do carry the film but as a whole the jokes aren't funny. Dumb and Dumber is more so entertaining than it is funny, and many jokes try a little hard to be funny, which isn't great. Most of the jokes come from toilet humor and obvious predictable events, filling with a simple and predictable plot.