Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

Twenty years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

Directors:

Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Writers:

Sean Anders, John Morris

Stars:

Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle

1 win & 6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jim Carrey	...	Lloyd
Jeff Daniels	...	Harry
Rob Riggle	...	Travis / Captain Lippincott
Laurie Holden	...	Adele
Rachel Melvin	...	Penny
Steve Tom	...	Dr. Pinchelow
Don Lake	...	Dr. Meldmann
Patricia French	...	Ms. Sourpuss
Elizabeth Cooper	...	Mrs. Julie James
Kathleen Turner	...	Fraida
Bill Murray	...	Ice Pick
Tembi Locke	...	Dr. Walcott
Paul Blackthorne	...	Emergency Room Doctor
Brady Bluhm	...	Billy
Eddie Shin	...	Gordy

Storyline

It's been 20 years and Harry Dunn has found something out - he has a daughter! Lloyd Christmas, his equally dim-witted friend, takes one look at a picture of her, develops a crush, and insists the two track her down. What ensues when Harry finally agrees is a bizarre encounter with an old lady and more hilarity because of their sheer stupidity.

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Plot Keywords:

sequel | adoption | road trip | stupidity | box office hit | 

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Taglines:

The average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what he could do with 1%.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, partial nudity, language and some drug references

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Cantonese

Release Date:

14 November 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dumb and Dumber 2

Filming Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$38,053,000 (USA) (14 November 2014)

Gross:

$86,208,010 (USA) (13 February 2015)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures, Red Granite Pictures, New Line Cinema

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This marks the first film since Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) where Jim Carrey reprises his character from a previous film.

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Goofs

When Harry is judging the young inventor competition, the screen which is used for presentations is obviously far too small for the majority of the audience to see.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Asylum Nurse No. 1: There he is again.
Asylum Nurse #2: Almost two decades and he still comes.
Asylum Nurse No. 1: So sad.

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Crazy Credits

SPOILER: After the end credits, Harry and Lloyd are riding in the Zamboni, complaining that they got the wrong milkshakes (when in fact, they are drinking each others' milkshakes). They toss them backwards for the shakes to hit the truck of their old nemesis Sea Bass. He follows them as a text comes up for a faux fourth installment, "Dumb and Dumber For", coming in the summer of 2034, followed by a camouflaged Captain Lippencott walking out of the text.

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Connections

References Breaking Bad (2008)

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Soundtracks

Too Much of a Good Thing
Written by Bret Reilly
Performed by The Sons
Courtesy of RCA Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

User Reviews

Stupid Isn't Always Funny

As a big fan of Dumb and Dumber, I went into Dumb and Dumber To trying not to let wistfulness paint the sequel too positively. Those worries quickly dissipated, as To is a forced and aggressively unfunny gross-out comedy. It's the absolute worst kind of sequel: the kind that repeats old jokes to try and get a cheap cheer of nostalgia. All the while, laziness and overt offensiveness abound, with jokes never reaching higher than the lowest of low hanging fruit. It disappoints completely, like a desperate old rock singer trying to hit the same notes he used to, but consistently falling flat. While the first was a brilliantly inspired bit of comedic stupidity, Dumb and Dumber To is just plain stupid. We find our puerile protagonists older but none-the wiser, still getting in over their heads yet unwittingly finding their way through it. Plot is not the movie's aim, and it doesn't need to be. What it does need to be, however, is funny. Unfortunately the jokes are understandably irreverent, yet also socially inept and rarely successful. Worst of all is that Daniels' Harry and Carrey's Lloyd have completely lost the chemistry that once bound them. They've become purely sad parodies of their former selves. Maybe I'm taking this too seriously. I mean, the Farrelly's have proved to be nothing more than perpetual 10-year-olds, and they manage one or two moments of contrived laughter. But one or two laughs in a 100-minute movie just isn't enough. Clearly the filmmakers think the audience is as dumb as their leads. We're not.