Vacation with Beavis & Butt-Head

Rating: Null/10 (25 July 2003)

Dumb and Dumber is just that, a stupid movie without purpose. Dr. Strangelove mixes a message with its parodizing view of the world. The Breakfast Club combines an adolescent fantasy world of detention with the stereotypical self-discovery element. Monty Python has an edge due to the typical Python wit, that's all I can say about it.
Dumb & Dumber is no more than an enhanced, live-action Beavis & Butt-Head cartoon. All the same pitfalls and baloney circumstances you'd expect from them are here. Also, the movie goes too long for its own good and winds up being what I call a 'watch checker', wherein you are checking your watch every 45 seconds while thinking "Is this EVER going to end?" As much as I enjoy Jim Carrey in Liar Liar and The Mask, his work here is too annoying to be fun (he couldn't POSSIBLY intend on being this annoying). Jeff Daniels gets my sympathies for getting cast into this movie, I guess there was nothing he could do other than live off the profits from SPEED.
Overall, save yourself some time and just rent episodes of Beavis & Butt-Head or National Lampoon's Vacation for the same effect in your brain. The movie tries too hard to be funny and stupid and, as the saying goes: "The harder you try, the dumber you look." The ending was the only high point because it solidified how self-centered and incompetent our 'heroes' are. 1.5 out of 5 stars.