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100
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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.
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67
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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.
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63
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
An atrocious movie. An offensively stupid movie. A movie so witless and so crammed with bathroom humour that you will be deeply thankful for the darkness that envelops you - it lets you hide the fact (disturbing as it is) that you do laugh at the antics of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, in spite of yourself.
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60
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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.
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50
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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.
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50
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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.
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40
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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.
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38
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
At its best, Dumb and Dumber is like an Ernest movie with a scatological bent.
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10
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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.
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10
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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.
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