Dumb and Dumber
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Dumb and Dumber
Directed by: Peter Farrelly
Written by: John Hughes, but his name was stripped due to a deal he made with the studio
Starring:
Jim Carrey
Jeff Daniels
Lauren Holly
Karen Duffy
Mike Starr
Charles Rocket
Teri Garr
Released: December 6, 1994
Budget: $17M ($31.4M 2021)
Box Office: $247.3M ($456.5M 2021) worldwide
Ratings: IMDb 7.3/10 Rotten Tomatoes 68%
Metacritic 41% Google Users 87%
Although the film did not secure any major American film awards, it was successful at the 1995 MTV Movie Awards. Carrey won for Best Comic Performance, Carrey and Holly (a couple who would later endure a short-lived marriage) won for Best Kiss, and Carrey and Daniels were nominated for Best On-Screen Duo.
Carrey was nominated for a Razzie Award for "Worst New Star," lost to Anna Nicole Smith in Naked Gun 33 1/3
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Dumb and Dumber the fifth greatest comedy film of all time. The film ranks 445th on Empire Magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.
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Plot:
We open with a girl at a bus stop when a limo pulls up and Carrys, Lloyd pulls over and asks for directions. When he asks for directions, she tells him in an Austrian accent, which he confuses with Australian (SOUND 1). We then see that he's the limo driver. As he drives around the city, we meet Harry driving the dog van giving the dogs food, speeding, and tossing the dogs all over the van. Lloyd arrives at a large house, and annoyingly knocks on the door, Mary answers, and Lloyd is struck. He awkwardly chats with Mary in the limo. Harry arrives to deliver the dogs, and they're covered in ketchup and mustard. Mary tries to tip Lloyd, which he turns down, and he VERY awkwardly hugs her. He tries to hold it together. As Mary walks, shes followed by two nefarious looking characters and they discuss picking up the drop. Mary puts a briefcase down, and Lloyd swoops in and grabs it before the two bad guys can. Harry and Lloyd meet at an apartment building, both looking very defeated, and being followed by the two people from the air port. Harry and Lloyd talk about their days (SOUND 2), lloyd calls Harry a loser for losing his job. The two henchmen knock on the door, and they think it's the gas man, so they bail. The bad guys want to send them a message, so he kills their bird. Lloyd goes to the store, to get the essentials, and ends up getting robbed by an old lady in a scooter(SOUND 3). Back at the apartment they're depressed, and the birds head fell off. Lloyd suggest they go to Aspen. They argue, and Lloyd has a heartfelt moment of being sick and tired of not having anyone. Harry agrees to go, causing Lloyd to cry. The trip begins.
S:
-My main issue with this whole movie and the premise is I find it hard to believe there are people ACTUALLY this dumb in the world. I get there are dumb people, but this level of willful ignorance is hard to imagine.
-Why didn't the hench people just kick down the door. To get the briefcase, i would have.
On the road, Lloyd tells Harry he made some extra money by selling some of their stuff, including Petey the headless bird... Which we see the head has been taped back on, as the henchmen walk past. They find a note on the door addressed to the "gas man" which enrages them, and they assume Harry and Lloyd are pros and could've been trailing them for weeks to know he's got gas. Harry and Lloyd are eating at a diner when they give a waitress a hard time. Harry then spills some salt, who Lloyd advises to throw some salt over his shoulder, which hits Sea Bass, (SOUND 4) Who then hocks a loogie on his burger. Lloyd hatches a plan, goes to talk to Sea Bass and offers to buy them drinks. He then approaches the waitress and tells her Sea Bass is offering to pay for their bill. When she checks to confirm this, he waves at her, confirming. They take off, and Sea Bass comes running out pissed off. Lloyd tells Harry how he came up with the idea from a movie...and in the movie, they're caught and their throats are slit. Lloyd then has to pee, and finds relief using beer bottles. He fills up 4 four when they pass a cop, who unlike Tucker, is doing his job, and they're pulled over... Harry tells him its a cardigan, but appreciates it anyway. So they stop. The officer asks if they've been drinking, citing the bottles in the floor. He demands they give him one, and he takes a big swig... causing him to spasm, and tells them to leave. A large house in aspen, Mary and her parents, and Nick, a family friend, are discussing how her husband has been kidnapped, and the dropped briefcase was a money drop for the kidnappers. They advise she act normal, go skiing and go to parties. Lloyd has a fantasy, about him and Mary, a cheeky first meeting, Lloyd telling stories with friends, he defends her honor in a restaurant fight, and they kiss next to a fire, as Mary takes off her top, Lloyd sees the headlights of a truck and breaks his fantasy. They stop at a scummy hourly motel, where they're both in a heart shaped tub, and can hear the neighbors banging it out. Lloyd tells Harry if he has some "knockers" he'd be banging him already. It gets a little weird for Harry. Harry tells Lloyd about an ex, Freda Feltcher...and his heartbreak when she left, and he suspected she was seeing someone else. Which Lloyd acts very guilty. The hench-dude is on the phone, in a phone booth, with Nick, discussing who Harry and Lloyd could be and how he wants his money.
S:
-I remember the first time I saw this when I was younger and didn't know what a boilermaker was. Ha.
-I wonder how many times people have tried this trick since this movie came out. It is pretty genius.
-Peeing into a beer bottle while sitting has to be REALLY hard.
Joe the henchman hatches his own plan, posing like his car died, and is picked up by Harry and Lloyd. He immediately sees how moronic they are with them playing the "it" game across him and making up rules. I imagine this what it was like for Chris growing up, before they invented Tv and radio. Lloyd then makes the most annoying sound in the world(SOUND 5). They start singing the mockingbird song, as Joe is about to pull his gun and shoot them, when they pull over to pick a hispanic family up, they all sing along. They all stop at another diner, when they share a hot candy and have a severe reaction. Joe calls Nick and mentions he's going to put rat poison in their drinks. When he returns, Harry and Lloyd are shown putting the hot candies on Joes burger. He realizes they don't even know Mary, as he takes a bite of the burger. He has a very bad reaction because of his ulcer. He tells them to get his pills,(SOUND 6) Harry gets what turns out to be the rat poison. He realizes what it is, and dies. Movie investigators who are obviously doing a better job than Tucker are investigating. Harry and Lloyd stop to get gas; Harry chats up a woman also getting gas. Lloyd, using the bathroom sees a note on the bathroom wall, "For Manly Love, be here on March 25th at 2:15am" in Tuckers handwriting... Lloyd looks at his watch as it hits 2:15, someone enters. Lloyd tries to hide, but the door is busted open and he screams as Sea Bass is standing there. Harry keeps hitting on the girl, and accidentally sets himself on fire. As Sea Bass advances to sexually assault Lloyd, Harry barges in, knocking Sea Bass out, and puts his foot out in the toilet, saving Lloyd. Back on the road, Harry is making fun of Lloyd, and Lloyd does not like it. As Lloyd drives, he takes a wrong turn and heads back east towards Nebraska. We see Harry sitting in a field, angry that Lloyd has gone the wrong way. They argue and Harry starts walking home. As he walks, Lloyd comes riding up on a tiny motorcycle the same size as Tuckers old one. He tells Harry he traded in the van for it, straight up, and gets 70 miles per gallon, we get Harrys response: (SOUND 7). A musical montage of them. on the bike as they make it to Aspen. They walk around Aspen, and after trying to look up her name, Lloyd can't remember her last name. They argue and fight, as Harry tries to get rid of the briefcase, and throws it, it pops open and they see it's full of cash. They discuss getting reasonable accommodations and paying it all back with IOUs... They're then shown in the presidential suite, which they take, and pull up in a Lamborghini, full of boxes, and all new clothes.
S:
-All the smoking in the movie... Very 90's.
-The whole bathroom/gay meet up thing and Harry making fun of him afterwards... I'm surprised this movie hasn't gotten canceled yet.
-I still to this day will say to myself "woah, jeez... look at the butt on that..."
In the hotel room, Lloyd finds a newspaper article about Mary, and that she'll be at a Gala the next day. Que another music montage a-la Pretty Woman, as they are prepped for the gala. They arrive in a horse drawn carriage in now classic orange and blue tuxes, top hats, canes, and ruffled shirts. As they enter, the lady henchman recognizes them and alerts Nick. They continuously make weird scenes, and Harry goes to introduce himself and try to buildup Lloyd and get Mary interested and prepped (SOUND 8). As they chat, Marys step-mom invites Harry to go skiing with Mary, and he doesn't get a chance to tell her about Lloyd. Harry tells him he's got him a date with her tomorrow, and to celebrate, they open a bottle of champagne; which the cork kills one of the owls. Harry is getting ready to go skiing with Mary, having told Lloyd she said she would meet him in the hotel bar. Harry makes an awkward entrance as Lloyd waits at the bar. Harry on the lift, gets his tongue stuck to some frost... obviously he never watched A Christmas Story. Lloyd is in the bar and a woman sits next to him, complaining about her ex-boyfriend. Harry and Mary make a snow man, and have an intense snow fight. Lloyd finds out where Mary lives, AND that we landed on the moon. Chris, what was that day like? Lloyd sees Harry drops off Mary... spawning one of the best gag gifs/memes of all time. At the hotel, Harry and Lloyd chat, and Lloyd makes Harry a laxative drink. At Marys house, it all hits explosively, (SOUND 9) when Mary tells him the toilet doesn't work. Lloyd shows up and tells her he has her briefcase. They go to the hotel to give her the briefcase back, but Nick and the female henchman are in the lobby.
S:
-How much do you think was in the briefcase to afford the presidential suite, clothes, and the Lambo?
-If you found a briefcase full of money, what would you do with it? Depending on how much was in it?
Lloyd practices what he wants to say to Mary, but he can't get the words out right (SOUND 10)... like Tucker, desperately wants to make love to a school boy...and we support you and your lifestyle. Mary shoots Lloyd down, but he sees a shimmer of hope (SOUND 11). When Nick knocks on the door and pulls a gun. Harry comes through the lobby, and we see the gas station woman, who calls out to him. Nick orders Lloyd to open the briefcase, revealing all the IOUs, and he's enraged. Harry comes in and Nick holds them at gunpoint. Harry and Lloyd argue and decide to end their friendship. Nick shoots Harry, but hes not hurt and he pulls a gun, and shoots at Nick, but doesn't hit him. Just then the FBI breaks in, arresting Nick and the henchwoman. Marys husband Bobby arrives, and they're introduced. He thanks them and cut to Harry and Lloyd walking, saying the police confiscated everything, when the Hawaiian Tropic bus stops saying they're looking for some oil boys, and Harry and Lloyd very helpfully send them to another town to find some guys to help oil them up. They walk down the road playing the it game, as the credits roll.
S:
-I like that nick is using a Walther PPK.
-The whole FBI using Harry, giving him a gun, bullshit. What if he had killed Nick? Is he a murderer? Why would they give him a gun?
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