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Avg. Critic Score: 39 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Stack

    This wacky buddy road film... has a brilliant glow of intelligence behind the stupidness. It's easily the funniest movie of the year. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    A flat-out celebration of stupidity, bodily functions and pratfalls. Yet the wholeheartedness of this descent into crude and rude humor is so good-natured and precise that it's hard not to partake in the guilty pleasures of the exercise. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    There are limits to how much comic irony can be wrung out of the sight of two grown men acting like complete cretins. Read full review

  • 60
    TV Guide |

    Underlying the slapstick, however, is an extravagant parody of American culture--bad taste, bad manners, the gushing sentimentality of Lloyd's daydreams, or the classic westward road trip, complete with diner scenes and archetypal rednecks. Read full review

  • 50
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    Maybe it's indicative of my end-of-the-year brain-fry, but this dopey comedy about two of the dumbest guys in the universe on a road trip to misadventure is a hoot. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The plot is lame, but that doesn't matter, because Dumb and Dumber is essentially pitched at the level of an "Airplane!"-style movie, with rapid-fire sight gags. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    A movie that knows much better than to try to make sense. It is essentially a strung-together series of gags, most of them thought up by Lloyd, an inveterate practical joker. Read full review

  • 30
    The New Yorker |

    But the screenplay for this deliberately over-the-top (under-the-bottom?) farce-about Carrey's unwitting retrieval of some ransom money and his effort to return it to his dream gal (Lauren Holly) in Aspen-doesn't pass muster as a string of moronic skits (studded with urine and fart jokes) or as a lampoon of buddy movies. Read full review

  • 10
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    An uneven collection of bodily function jokes, facial gyrations, sexual jibes and pedestrian slapstick, Dumb and Dumber appears to have been conceived by the leading lugheads themselves. Read full review

  • 10
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    An abominable, abdominal comedy. Aside from its tastelessness and dawdling pace, the movie's chief problem is the lackluster chemistry between leading lummoxes Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ The caviar of low-brow, gross-out comedy.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie is unapologetically crass. The Farrelly Brothers deliver nonstop, gut-churning laughs for adults as well as kids; however, parents of preteens should be advised of slapstick violence and moderate sexual content. It's your call, parents, as to whether you want your preteens seeing this. The PG-13 rating -- for comedic violence, explosive bowels, and sexual situations -- is a sound recommendation for your supervision. Teenagers will laugh themselves sore. Adults who believe they're above this sort of thing may find themselves pleasantly mistaken.
  • Families can talk about why the main characters' antics are funny on film but inappropriate in real life.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: A practical joke results in death. Lloyd is in danger of being raped by a man in a toilet stall. Off-camera, a bad guy twists a parakeet's head off (the damage is later repaired with tape).
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Some shooting and slapstick violence. In an elaborate fantasy sequence, Lloyd tears a chef's heart out and deposits it in a doggy bag.
  • sex false3 Sex: A few partially-exposed rears.
  • language false3 Language: Moderate cursing throughout.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue

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