"Come on, Lloyd. You gotta get over her. Mary Samsonite was just a girl."
What better way to end a great year of film than with 'Dumb and Dumber To'. I love the original, so much so that it currently sits at number 16 on my Top 20 of all time. What could possibly go wrong!?
'Dumb and Dumber To' is an American comedy and serves as the follow-up to the 20 year-old original 'Dumb and Dumber'. 20 years on, Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) has spent his time withering away in a mental institution. He is distraught due to losing the love of his life Mary Swanson (Samsonite). His best buddy old pal Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) has been visiting every week for 2 decades in the hope that he can help his friend get over his lost love. It turns out that the whole thing was just a prank and Lloyd is just having him on. Once the catheter is removed Lloyd is ready to re-join his buddy back at their old apartment. He learns that Harry is suffering from kidney failure and he doesn't have long to live. They decide to go to see Harry's parents, a sure kidney match, to see about getting a kidney. Harry's parents are clearly not a match (I won't spoil the surprise) but while visiting them, Harry picks up his old mail containing a postcard from Fraida Felcher (Kathleen Turner) revealing that Harry has an estranged daughter; the perfect kidney match for Harry. After a visit with Fraida, it turns out that she gave her daughter Fanny Felcher (Rachel Melvin) up for adoption. With Lloyd's help, and a hearse loaned from Fraida, the pair must find Harry's daughter in a bid to save his life. Fanny however is away for the weekend and her adoptive parents have other plans which may just throw a spanner in the works for the idiotic-yet-lovable duo.
As previously stated, the original is one of my favourite films, so it was a massive task for the sequel to live up to it. In short, 'Dumber To' didn't quite do it for me. Don't get me wrong, I was expecting a car crash due to what I had previously heard but it wasn't that bad. I found it had a very shaky start, mostly due to over watching the trailer so it was hard to find these parts funny. Twenty minutes in and I started to feel the Carrey/Daniels magic again. This helped restore my almost broken faith in the franchise. As with the first film, Carrey completely overshadowed a good performance by Daniels, no shock there. It was funny as it was silly, as per the first film, with some genuine laugh-out-loud moments but never quite as clever as the previous instalment. Other good points for the length of the movie, it didn't drag on at all. I found the acting to be rather impressive as Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels have managed to sustain the personalities of the two main characters impeccably. The main problem was the plot. Although zany and ridiculous like the original, I had no interest whatsoever in what was actually happening. The sometimes funny scenes didn't quite meld together with a big pay-off and some were completely pointless thrown in for not very funny effect.
7/10 for 'Dumb and Dumber To'. It's a shame it didn't live up to the original but I'm so pleased it didn't turn out as bad as it could have or as bad as people are saying.
As previously stated, the original is one of my favourite films, so it was a massive task for the sequel to live up to it. In short, 'Dumber To' didn't quite do it for me. Don't get me wrong, I was expecting a car crash due to what I had previously heard but it wasn't that bad. I found it had a very shaky start, mostly due to over watching the trailer so it was hard to find these parts funny. Twenty minutes in and I started to feel the Carrey/Daniels magic again. This helped restore my almost broken faith in the franchise. As with the first film, Carrey completely overshadowed a good performance by Daniels, no shock there. It was funny as it was silly, as per the first film, with some genuine laugh-out-loud moments but never quite as clever as the previous instalment. Other good points for the length of the movie, it didn't drag on at all. I found the acting to be rather impressive as Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels have managed to sustain the personalities of the two main characters impeccably. The main problem was the plot. Although zany and ridiculous like the original, I had no interest whatsoever in what was actually happening. The sometimes funny scenes didn't quite meld together with a big pay-off and some were completely pointless thrown in for not very funny effect.
7/10 for 'Dumb and Dumber To'. It's a shame it didn't live up to the original but I'm so pleased it didn't turn out as bad as it could have or as bad as people are saying.
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