Hysterical

Rating: 9/10 (26 July 2009)

Jim Carrey can be an acquired taste. His style of physical, face-pulling humour does not suit every film in which he has applied it.
Dumb And Dumber is not one of those - the humour here is ideally suited to Carrey's style.
The revelation, though, is Jeff Daniels. This may well have been the movie Carrey was building up to since the first Ace Ventura movie and, to that extent, is no great surprise on his CV. For Daniels, however, this movie is completely out of left field, and he is absolutely brilliant.
It is tempting to go on and explain why this is so, but there is a much better solution - go and watch the movie! If you're prepared to spend time with a couple of intensely stupid, but essentially good hearted, men, neither of whom realises how stupid they are, behaving incredibly stupidly (but very very funnily), then you'll get what I mean far better than if I try to explain it.