Is Dumb and Dumber Actually Smart or Just Dumb? - Nostalgia Critic 

I used to have this movie on VHS

Review Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd.

"Dumb & Dumber" funny & silly but when will critic & Company return to the studio ? whenever the maintenance give us a dumber question!

Love it. Can you please review Escape from Tomorrow, The Mystic Isles, Destination Imagination, Operation: Zero, and Rugrats Go Wild?

I loved this movie when it came out, and I was 15. I've come to not find it nearly as funny now when I'm 45, especially when I saw the trailer for Dumb And Dumber 2 and wasn't finding myself laughing at those clips. And the one clip I found hilarious was the dream sequence where the waiter had his stones used as a training bag.

A trifecta

Yes! No other big actor’s career took off as fast as Carrey’s did, not even Tom Cruise’s career took off that fast

😂 yet pedro pascal seems to be in everything

@@taco1010 so was Jennifer Lawrence, but neither her nor Pedro come anywhere close to what Jim did that year

@@Emanthebald yes! That’s why people should acknowledge that Jim Carrey is one of the biggest icons of all time. He’s one of the most talented entertainers in cinema history and it makes me mad that alot of people don’t see that

@ffejgib I think he didn't like it from what I remember from an interview with Jeff Daniels which I think is actually funnier.

@@josh72456 Clint seemed to like it for me

@@josh72456 No Clint Eastwood randomly went up to Jeff Daniels and told him that the toilet scene happened to him in real life. While they were at some fundraiser golf tournament thing. Started laughing, and just walked away. Then some years later when Eastwood cast him in a movie he was directing he told Daniels he offered him the part because 'If you can do 2 Days in the Valley and you can do Dumb & Dumber, you can do this.' I love the idea that despite Eastwood on the outside for the past 30 years looks like he's a grumpy old grandpa who has seen it all. Lived during a much tougher era and doesn't seem like the kind of guy who in a million years would watch a movie called Dumb and Dumber and. Not only can appreciate it, but understood exactly why Daniels did Dumb and Dumber to begin with. Daniels wanted to avoid getting type cast and more importantly he wanted to have a career as an actor rather than having to do the work of being a movie star. To use his word it was his way to become a "hired-gun" genre be damned so long as the script is good. And he didn't mention him by name but from an young age he wanted to avoid ending up in a situation like Liam Neeson who after Taken which was great. Got boxed in and had to do more and more action movies each one worse than the next. And in a lot of cases those type of actors having to go under the knife to not look your age and be on all kinds of "medication" to keep on doing it.

Was the toilet broken too?

@PetProjects2011 According to Jeff Daniels when Clint Eastwood approached him about the scene yes.

What d'ya suppose he did with the 50K?

@@AlexHarrison-zv4jj Don't even think about it.

@@GrenSilverKougaOfficial It was the first thing that came to mind.

@@AlexHarrison-zv4jj And I knew EXACTLY where it could go.

Honestly? I don't know what career at the time that agent was looking at to NOT say "sigh, fine, go ahead". Lost a Lead Actor nomination for Purple Rose of Cairo to fellow box office dud Runaway Train, not been in anything even artistically relevant since Radio Days. Even if it would be embarrassing, this dumb thing was going to be noticeable.

*jobs not $$$

Yas! My favorite bit!

Wouldn't put it past Carrey to do it just as a comedic bit🤣

​@@schoolzone821 me too!

Came here to say the same thing!

Sounds legit.

@@schoolzone821 True, he could be just trolling everyone

@@shoshoni_rezdog I forgot that line was in the movie as I hadn’t seen it in so long so I legit laughed out loud when I heard it again in this review 😂

Kick his ass Sea Bass!!!

That sounds almost identical to that one scene in Haggard. You know the one.

That was great

Critic’s Baby Shark joke was honestly pretty good. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s funny because it’s true.

It's even better because he added to it

Same here.

Yup. Too many of us gettin old here. 😅

​@@chasehedges6775 me too!

​@@AshParth560 I'm 32.

@@kdusel1991 34, atm. though i'd feel older everyday i wake up in the morning.

Yeah, I love how they never paid off that setup. Not even sure what that qualifies as. I don't think it's an anti-joke.

@@gonzotown9438 "aborted punchline"

I know right? I was about to notify OP about this ^^

It was dumb but it really wasn’t, if that makes sense. That was generally the idea, but it’s full of genius moments that’s why it’s unique among other movies “of it’s kind.”

No that was just for the Mask cartoon.

That's pretty interesting actually! I didn't know that!

⁠@@Zacman1123the reason why the Dumb and Dumber animated show didn’t last was because it sucked. I tried watching an episode of it and it wasn’t good

Now he's buried in the garden behind the Paper Street Soap Co.

Oh yes, I remember that movie. It seems really icky that they'd actually have an adult woman and preteen boy lock lips in what's SUPPOSED to be a children's film. 1994 was a different time.

Bad Touch!!! 😂😂😂

​@@trinaqthat was very disturbing.

I remember that review Critic did!

🤮 and 😂

"Harry! You're alive! And you're a terrible shot!"

@ShogunTurnip "what if he shot him in the face. What if he shot me in the face!"

That bit after they stiff the guys for their meal and when he explains about where he got it from (Reference "Something Wild" which Jeff Daniels starred in) and happily mentions how it didn't end well for them always cracks me up. "So what happen? They tricked some poor sucker into picking up their check?" "No, in the movie, they catch up to them a half mile down the road and slit his throat! It was a good one!"

@@HardlyWorkin-kh5uh “That’s a risk we were willing to take.”

I like it a lot!

@@kdusel1991me too

It’s one of the best 90s comedies ever made

@@chasehedges6775you got that right

@@sarahmcmann5253 👍

I like those small moments too. Pullover. No it's a cardigan, but thanks for noticing. Right out of the blue she sends me a John Deere letter.

I died when Harry countered Mary's gentle snowball throw with a snowball thrown with full force to the face from a meter away. It's just so incredibly absurd that I can't help but love it.

​@@Patralgan The fart scene is god tier comedy as well. It's just perfect execution all around!

Well, this party died.

​@@logantrimble006😂😂😂

@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 my favorite is when Mental eats his burger with the atomic chili pepper and Lloyd jumps out of his chair laughing hysterically while pointing at Mental.

That's what I've always said. There is a special type of nuance to writing intentionally stupid and make it funny.

@@Nicky2414 One of the best dumb characters in my country was played by a very intelligent man. THere was also a director or actor that said something similiar.

Yep we called it Bullshiter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@p.l.537 we called it a bullshit 😂😂😂

That works even better, because it's the kind of industry joke that everyone in that industry has heard before.

Thank God they kept him too! I love Jeff Daniels in his more dramatic roles, but he legit makes the comedy hit so much harder!

@@kdusel1991the reason why Carrey fought for Daniels to remain in the role was because he didn’t want to work with another comedian, Carrey knew that another comedian would just try to compete with him and he didn’t want that, he wanted to work as a team with his costar so the only way to do that would be to have an actor be his costar, not another comedian

It definitely works better to have one character with a more grounded personality and one who's more out there, even if they're both still stupid. They play off each other better and it creates necessary conflict between them. Having two characters with Lloyd's personality would've been insanely grating lmao

the chemistry of Dumb and Dumber is that Lloyd is dumber than harry yet harry lets Lloyd make most of the choices since he is too dumb to question Lloyds choices. Which leads to question who is the more fool the fool or the fool who follows him...

@@MrChickennugget360 perfect way to put it

@@ArizonanSummer we've just wrote the sequel

​@@Tykingthe1make it a Christmas movie!

How did I never notice that?😂

@@logantrimble006 it’s perfect because it’s a joke that is never once highlighted in the movie itself, it’s just waiting in the background for you to notice it.

​@@ArizonanSummerit's so good!

I've never seen the DVD, but that sounds very familiar. I wonder if it was shown in a TV airing.

​@@PetProjects2011 yeah I remember it being in a UK airing as well as the extended DVD version I mentioned

Another fun fact: he thought the toilet scene was gonna end him. He told the Farrelly bros right before they shot it that this is either the beginning of his career or the end of it

Same!

IT LOOKS JUST LIKE VEGAS

​@SgtTankDempsey WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE VEGAS

​@@SgtTankDempseyWHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE VEGAS? 😂😂😂

He will at some point. Doug said he plans to do all the Disney Renaissance films eventually.

But why tease a cliffhanger like that and not follow up with it soon enough? It’s been a while since such a genuine effort from him.

Really? Very interesting. Another fun fact: this movie was originally written by John Hughes, but he sold the script to the Farrelly bros and asked that his name not be credited

So the Farrellys did it again with Brett Farve in Something About Mary?

Films from the 90s are AWESOME

​@@chasehedges6775 agreed! I was born in 1991 and we got so much good stuff back then!

Me either

The directly reference it in the Director's cut (in the "Mary Christmas. This is Mary Christmas. Kinda catchy, heh?" deleted scene). Kinda glad they removed it, the joke was already super obvious without spelling it out for the audience.

damn, Im old

​@@gryphonofmight that movie blew my mind as a kid.

@@kdusel1991 same

RIP Norm

​@@gryphonofmightRIP. 😭😭

That one's awful

@@DanArnets1492That’s why it’s perfect for NC

@@alsybroth agreed. It's terrible, needs to be destroyed by the critic.

​@@alsybrothwould also help accentuate why this one is held at much higher ground. What things were different ( besides actors lol) or same that were in one movie but not the other that succeeded or failed. Only have seen a bit of Harry met Loyd back on cable TV, so I still need to watch the movie fully myself. The 2nd movie I felt they just went to far on the dumb spectrum by the end which is what causes the movie to be bad.

I still refer to dollars as "doll hairs" to this day

It was very obviously not improvised...

I knew he sounded familiar!

It's so beautifully executed!

Technically the first sequel was a prequel and it sucked.

A Screeching high vocal siren like sound

Not even that long. They were only married like 10 months approximately

But they still get along which is good. Another fun fact; Lauren Holly auditioned for the role of Melissa in Ace Ventura Pet Detective but lost that role to Courteney Cox.

@@Buzzbar94 no, She didn’t audition. She turned down the role I believe

We've got no food. We've got no jobs. Our pets heads are FALLING OFF!!!

Same.. love both those scenes... & seem to also know every line.. 😂

They always do.

Me too

I predicted it would be this, Ace Ventura, or The Mask.

​@@louisduarte8763 he did a review of the mask already! I'd love to see him do both Ace Ventura movies myself!

So was the sequel to dumb and dumber

​@@HardlyWorkin-kh5uh I kinda agree. But the most pointless was that awful prequel that they did.

@@HardlyWorkin-kh5uh Seriously Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd was a better movie than the Dumb and Dumber sequel...ya it's that bad.

@MrFoolD I kind of agree with that I was thinking about that not too long ago. Dumb and dumber too is so bad the prequel is structurally a better film

​@HardlyWorkin-kh5uh reviews said that it has its moments. And that is why I never saw it.