Intelligence Galore!

Rating: 8/10 (4 March 2016)

Dumb and Dumber (1994): Dir: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly / Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Charles Rocket, Mike Starr: Farrelly Brothers debut comedy suggesting the reality of coincidence. Jim Carrey plays limo driver Lloyd Christmas who picks up Mary Swanson and is instantly infatuated. She leaves her briefcase in an airport terminal where he nabs it before two villains do. He and his friend Harry Dunne take it to Aspen where she claimed to be going. Not a bad start for directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly who detail this road comedy with many hilarious moments including Jim Carrey going martial arts against an enraged cook, or Lauren Holly receiving a snowball to the face that was much bigger than her head, or Jeff Daniels making an urgent call to the washroom after drinking coffee spiked with laxative. Great comic performances by Carrey as the love struck Lloyd, and Jeff Daniels as the dog loving Dunne. Lauren Holly is a wonderful romantic foil whom isn't the typical damsel. Unfortunately the villains are typical and cardboard but Charles Rocket does his best as the menacing leader. Some humour is adult nature including one involving a parakeet, or a urine joke involving a roadside cop. Another bad moment involves someone being shot at the unintentional sudden urge of another person. Otherwise this mindless comedy stresses friendship and other questionable antics. Score: 8 Â½ / 10