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Dumb and Dumber

Certificate 12

running time 1hr 50 mins

Director Peter Farrelly

Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura, The Mask) and Jeff Daniels (Speed, Arachnophobia) star as the two half-wits who now appear to be essential in creating a Hollywood blockbuster. The plot is predictably based around Carrey (Lloyd) and Daniels (Harry) unwittingly foiling a kidnapping.

The pair lose their jobs as limousine driver and dog groomer and decide to return the briefcase of Carrey's last customer, Mary (played by Lauren Holly), who is a dream woman to Lloyd.

Unbeknown to the Pet crazed losers, the case was deliberately left by Mary for the kidnappers as it contains the ransom money that will free her husband!

Consequently Lloyd and Harry travel from Los Angeles to Mary's home in Aspen by fur coated van, whilst being pursued by the kidnappers. What follows is a comic road-movie where the kidnappers keep their distance as they fear that Lloyd and Harry are FBI agents.

On their arrival in Aspen the pennyless duo discover that the briefcase is full of money and rapidly spend it all; much to the annoyance of the kidnappers who eventually catch up with them.

The gags can be seen from a mile off but many justify the ticket price. It's worth seeing for the scenes involving the abuse of various types of bird and associated bizarre facial expressions from Carrey.

It's plain to see that Carrey is merely playing the same role as his previous two films - and as sequels to these are in the making we will clearly be seeing a lot more of him in the future. Dumb and Dumber is fun now - but it won't be too long before Carrey's style is so over used and over exposed that it will soon become dated. See Dumb and Dumber now before this happens. (DJW)