Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.
Given American cinema's current obsession with innocence and ignorance, at least this never romanticises its protagonists. They are genuinely, irredeemably, 100 per cent no-hopers.
– Tom Charity,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
This is a long way from the social comedy of Jerry Lewis. The characters here are ultimately turned into punching bags or punch-line dispensers.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
28 Apr 2008
fresh:
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.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
28 Apr 2008
fresh:
Dumb and Dumber, which features Carrey and Jeff Daniels as nitwits traveling cross-country, is a frayed string of gags posing as a movie. Carrey, though, does literal-minded doofdom with peerless enthusiasm.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Apr 2008
fresh:
The plot, of course, is merely an excuse for an endless series of gags, and the percentage of them that score is fairly high.