One of the funniest films of the 1990s

Rating: 7/10 (7 April 2006)

Well it may not be Fellini, but it certainly takes an iron stomach not laugh at arguably, The Farrelly brothers most rib-tickling movie to date. Jim Carrey does his stuff like only he knows how, but it is Dumb, rather than Dumber, who takes the biggest plaudits. Jeff Daniels makes mince meat out of some of the scripts best lines ("She fed me some crap about not listening to her, I dunno, I wasn't really paying attention"). There are wonderful site gags (checkout Lloyd's plunge onto the airport floor) and magnificently delivered lines. Some of the material doesn't leave much in the way of subtlety (one moment involving a toilet and a laxative), but as crude humour goes, it's hard to fault. And unlike so many comedies before it, D & D manages to stay true to its material until the very end, eschewing soppy feel goods for dumb, and then some. I haven't laughed this much since I saw The Quest For The Holy Grail, and I do not say that lightly.