We're just chipping away further at the comedies from my youth that I probably can't rate objectively! Up next is the iconic gross-out feature by Academy Award-winning director Peter Farrelly (see? they don't matter).
Poking fun at the Farrelly Brothers' spotty resume aside, Dumb and Dumber is actually a brilliant comedy. There's a healthy mix of gross-out and slapstick humor in there to entertain the slackjawed idiots of the mid-90s, but the real humor is the juxtaposition of the regular people who are forced to work alongside such morons. The funniest scenes are the deadpan reactions of those involved in the plot's central crime mystery to Harry and Lloyd's collective idiocy--making for genuine wit that its creators somehow couldn't realize is what made it great to begin with.
Carrey and Daniels carry a lot of the material far beyond what it deserves. The 'just when I thought you couldn't mess up any worse..... you totally redeem yourself' bit is a good example. ---
Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter? Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.
