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Dumb and Dumber To is remarkably true to the original – down to the cheap sets and half-assed plot. It takes a while to get rolling, but once Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey) hit the road for another absurd caper, it’s wall-to-wall buffoonery. The twin numbskulls bumble their way from Rhode Island to El Paso (named for the bean dip!) to try and find Harry’s long-lost daughter. You see, Harry needs a kidney transplant or he’s gonna die. (I told you this was hilarious!) The daughter was put up for adoption by Harry’s ex-flame (a very brusque Kathleen Turner) and raised by a science genius who is up for an award at the “Ken Conference” (clearly modeled on the TED Conference but, as you may or may not know, Ks are funny.) Our heroes have to get there, and also save the day from baddies giving chase to steal “a billion-dollar idea” from the stepfather inventor. And if I spend any more time detailing this ridiculous plot then, truly, the joke’s on me.

Harry and Lloyd charge into each social encounter like bulls in a china shop. Keeping matters fresh is the wide spectrum of their styles of idiocy. Sometimes one is clearly dumber than the other. Sometimes they are angry put-down artists. Then they swiftly pivot into full-blown morons, drinking embalming fluid believing it to be a slushie. Daniels gets most of his laughs from being loud and clumsy, but Jim Carrey is still a rubber-faced marvel. The Farrelly Brothers realize that they’ve got gold on their hands and are extremely generous to him. One sequence is just a collection of Carrey mugging in close-up until his off-screen scene partner (foil Rob Riggle) ultimately interjects and asks: “What are you doing?” No answer proper answer is given, and the film just picks up where it left off.

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