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{{about|the film|the animated series based on the film|Dumb and Dumber (TV series)}}
{{Infobox film
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| image = dumbanddumber.jpg
| image_size = 198px
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| caption = Theatrical release poster, parodying '']''
| director = ]<br>] {{small|(uncredited)}}
| producer = ]<br>]<br>Steve Stabler<br>]
| writer = Peter Farrelly<br>Bennett Yellin<br>Bobby Farrelly<br>] {{small|(uncredited)}}
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| music = ]
| cinematography = ]
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| studio = Motion Picture Corporation of America
| distributor = ]
| released = {{Film date|1994|12|16}}
| runtime = 107 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $17 million<ref> '']''. Retrieved April 4, 2013.</ref>
| gross = $247 million<ref name="mojo title|dumbanddumber">{{mojo title|dumbanddumber}}</ref>
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'''''Dumb and Dumber''''' is a 1994 American ] ] ] starring ] and ].

It was written by the ] and Bennett Yellin, and is the Farrelly Brothers ]. The film tells the story of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two good-natured but dimwitted friends from ] who set out on a cross-country trip to ] to return a briefcase full of money to its owner, only to be pursued by a group of criminals who are after the briefcase.

The film was released on December 16, 1994. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, it was a commercial success and developed a ] in the years since its release.<ref name="mojo title|dumbanddumber"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Top 10 Cult Comedies|url=http://listentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/03/top-10-cult-comedies.html|accessdate=16 May 2013}}</ref> The success of ''Dumb and Dumber'' launched the career of the Farrelly brothers and solidified Carrey's.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jim Carrey Biography|url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/jim-carrey.html|publisher=Bio|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref> The film also spawned an ], a ], and a ].

==Plot==
Lloyd Christmas (]) and Harry Dunne (]) are best friends and roommates living in ] who struggle at every aspect of life. Lloyd, a limousine driver, ] with Mary Swanson (]), a woman he is driving to the airport. She intentionally leaves a briefcase in the terminal; Lloyd, unaware that it contains ransom money for her kidnapped husband, Bobby, retrieves it and tries to return it to her, but her ]-bound plane has already departed, leading to Lloyd running through and falling out of the jetway.

Fired from his job, Lloyd returns to his apartment and learns that Harry has also been fired as a dog groomer after delivering dogs late to a show. Bobby's kidnappers, Joe "Mental" Mentalino (]) and J.P. Shay (]), follow Lloyd home from the airport in pursuit of the briefcase. Mistaking the crooks for debt collectors, the duo flee the apartment and return later to find that Mental and Shay have decapitated Harry's parakeet. Upset about their situation, Lloyd suggests they head to Aspen to find Mary and return the briefcase, hoping she can "plug them into the social pipeline." At first Harry opposes the idea, but eventually agrees and the duo leave the next day. Mental and Shay learn about their plans and follow them.

Mental and Shay catch up to the duo at a motel that night. Posing as a hitchhiker, Mental is picked up by Harry and Lloyd the next day, while Shay secretly follows them. During a lunch stop, the duo accidentally kill Mental with rat poison pills (which he planned to use on them) after they mistake it for his medication. Nearing ], Lloyd takes a wrong turn and ends up driving all night in the wrong direction causing the van to run out of gas. Upon waking up and realizing Lloyd's mishap, Harry gives up on the journey and decides to walk home, but Lloyd persuades him to continue after trading the van for a moped.

The two arrive in Aspen but are unable to locate Mary. After a short scuffle that night, the briefcase breaks open and they discover the money, and "borrow" it for a hotel suite, clothes and a ]. They learn that Mary and her family are hosting a gala and prepare to attend. At the gala, Harry, attempting to lure Mary over to Lloyd, reluctantly agrees to go skiing with her the next day and lies to Lloyd that he got him a date. The next day, Lloyd finds out Harry lied to him after waiting all day for Mary at a bar.

After incapacitating Harry with ] and having Harry ] on a broken toilet, Lloyd arrives at Mary's house and informs her he has her briefcase. He takes her to the hotel and shows her the briefcase and confesses his love, but is rejected, after explaining that she is already married. Nicholas Andre, a confidant of the Swansons and the mastermind behind Bobby's kidnapping, arrives with Shay and, upon learning most of the ransom money has been spent by Harry and Lloyd and replaced with IOUs, takes Lloyd and Mary hostage, as well as Harry when he returns. Before Nicholas can kill them, an ] team raids the suite and arrests him and Shay. After the incident, Mary and Bobby are reunited, much to Lloyd's jealousy.

The next day, Harry and Lloyd begin walking home. All of the items they bought were confiscated and their moped has broken down. The two unknowingly decline the chance to be oil boys for a group of bikini girls, after which Harry ironically tells Lloyd that they will get their "break" one day. Harry and Lloyd then play a friendly game of tag as they continue to walk back home.

==Cast==
{{div col begin}}
* ] as Lloyd Christmas; a chip-toothed, deranged slacker who has been fired from several jobs; his latest being a limo driver.
* ] as Harry Dunne; Lloyd's best friend and roommate. Though still being a dim-witted loser, Harry is slightly more intelligent than Lloyd.
* ] as Mary Swanson, a wealthy heiress whose husband, Bobby, has been kidnapped and whom Lloyd falls in love with, unaware that she is already married.
* ] as J.P. Shay, Mental's female accomplice.
* ] as Joe "Mental" Mentalino, a criminal who works as a henchman for Nicholas Andre. He suffers from a ] and regularly takes a medication for it.
* ] as Nicholas Andre; a greedy, wealthy resident of ] and the mastermind behind Bobby's kidnapping.
* ] as Beth Jordan (credited as "Athletic Beauty"), an FBI agent masquerading as a talkative young woman who is moving to ] to get away from her boyfriend.
* ] as Helen Swanson, Mary's stepmother.
* ] as Sea Bass, a ] who gets into frequent confrontations with Harry and Lloyd on their way to Aspen.
* ] as Barnard
* Brad Lockerman as Bobby Swanson, Mary's husband
* ] as Mrs. Neugeboren
* Hank Brandt as Karl Swanson, Mary's father
* ] as Pennsylvania state trooper
* ] as Billy, a blind and wheelchair-bound young boy, who Lloyd sold him some of his and Harry's belongings, including Harry's decapitated parrot.
* ] as Bartender
* Lisa Stothard as Austrian bus stop beauty
* ] as Elderly woman
* ] as Anxious Man at Phone
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==Production==
], based on the box-office success of '']'' (1994), received a salary of $7 million for this film.<ref name=Cameron-Wilson146>{{Cite book|last1=Cameron-Wilson|first1=James|last2=Speed|first2=F. Maurice|title=Film Review 1994-5|year=1994|publisher=Virgin Books|location=Great Britain|isbn=0-86369-842-5|page=146|postscript=<!-- Bot inserted parameter. Either remove it; or change its value to "." for the cite to end in a ".", as necessary. -->{{inconsistent citations}}}}</ref>

] and ] both turned down the role of Lloyd.<ref name="Trivia">{{cite web |title=Trivia for Dumb and Dumber |publisher=IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109686/trivia |accessdate=2010-11-11}}</ref>

Jim Carrey's chipped tooth is genuine, resulting from an accident in his boyhood, but he had since had it capped. He had simply had the crown temporarily removed from that tooth to portray Lloyd.

===Location===
Scenes taking place in Aspen were filmed in ] and ]. ] in ] was transformed into the "Danbury Hotel" for the filming of the movie. The "Danbury Hotel" bar scene and staircase shot were the shots filmed there. The scenes filmed in the snow were shot at ], Colorado.<ref>, Adventure-Journal 10 Mountains Misrepresented in Movies</ref>

Some of the external street scenes were filmed in ].{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}

The airport scene was also filmed at Salt Lake City International Airport.

Some scenes from the beginning of the film were also shot on location in the ] metropolitan area, including shots of the skyline, ], and scenes from the beginning of their road trip were shot in locations in ].{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}

==Soundtrack==
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''Dumb and Dumber: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' is the original soundtrack to the film, and was released by ] on November 22, 1994.<ref>Playlist as listed on the Compact Disc&nbsp;— retrieved on 8/12/13</ref>

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===Omissions===
The song "]" by ] was not on the soundtrack, although it was played quite prominently in the montage of Lloyd fantasizing about Mary, nor was "]" by ], though it was featured prominently in the make-over montage.

Also missing are "]" by ] (who also wrote the original soundtrack), "Rollin' Down the Hill" by ], "]" by the Crash Test Dummies, "]" by ], "]" by ], and "Make Love Now" by Patrick Wilson. "2 Ft. 0 Butt Crack" by ] was also omitted from the soundtrack and was erroneously credited to the band Circle the Wagon in the film's credits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShANAX0JzBU&feature=youtu.be&t=6m42s|title=Bruce Greenwood Interviewed on The Hour|work=YouTube|accessdate=5 October 2014}}</ref>

The song "]" by ] was featured in the television edit of the film.

==Reception==
===Critical response===
''Dumb and Dumber'' received mixed reviews from film critics. The film currently garners an overall 64% "fresh" approval rating on the Review aggregation website ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dumb_and_dumber/ |title=Dumb and Dumber |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |date= |accessdate=2011-08-27}}</ref> with the site's consensus "A relentlessly stupid comedy elevated by its main actors: Jim Carrey goes bonkers and Jeff Daniels carries himself admirably in an against-type performance." On ], which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, it has a score of 39 based on reviews from 13 critics, which indicates generally unfavorable reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/dumb-dumber/critic-reviews |title=Critic Reviews for Dumb & Dumber at Metacritic |publisher=Metacritic.com |date= |accessdate=2011-08-27}}</ref>

While ] gave the film only two of four stars (despite praise for Carrey's performance, dubbing him a "true original", and the dead parakeet joke),<ref>{{cite news| url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19941216/REVIEWS/412160301/1023 | work=] | title=Dumb And Dumber}}</ref> other reviews were positive. Stephen Holden of '']'' called Carrey "the new ],"<ref>{{cite news| url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9C04E0D81438F935A25751C1A962958260&oref=slogin | work=] | first=Stephen | last=Holden | title=FILM REVIEW; Traveling on Half a Tank | date=December 16, 1994}} {{Dead link|date=August 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref> and Peter Stack of the '']'' called it "riotous", "rib-splitting", and gave the film praise for being both a crude and slapstick comedy and a "smart comedy" at the same time.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1995/06/23/DD47140.DTL | work=] | title=FILM REVIEW -- 'Dumb and Dumber' a Smart Comedy With Lowbrow Laughs | date=June 23, 1995}}</ref> Carrey was nominated for a ] for "Worst New Star".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000558/1995 |title=Razzie Awards (1995)}}</ref>

The film has since acquired the status of a ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://listentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/03/top-10-cult-comedies.html|title=Top 10 Cult Comedies|author=Joe Cranney|publisher=|accessdate=5 October 2014}}</ref>

===Awards===
{{Anchor|Awards|Accolades}}
Although the film did not secure any major American film awards, it was successful at the ]. 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.

In 2000, readers of '']'' magazine voted ''Dumb and Dumber'' the fifth greatest comedy film of all time.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}
The film ranks 445th on '']''{{'}}s 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empireonline.com/500/11.asp |title=Empire Features |publisher=Empireonline.com |date= |accessdate=2011-08-27}}</ref>

===Box office===
The film was successful at the box office. The film opened at No. 1 in its opening weekend earning $16.4 million.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://deadline.com/2014/11/dumb-and-dumber-to-box-office-jim-carrey-jeff-daniels-1201283555/ | title = Can ‘Dumb And Dumber To’ Outwit Holdovers?: Box Office Preview | author = Scott Bowles | publisher = Deadline.com | date = November 13, 2014 | accessdate = November 14, 2014}}</ref> It went on to gross $127,175,374 in the United States, and $247,275,374 worldwide, and topping the holiday season film gross.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6D6153BF930A35752C0A963958260 | work=The New York Times | title='Dumb and Dumber' Tops Holiday Film Grosses | first=Bernard | last=Weinraub | date=January 3, 1995 | accessdate=May 1, 2010}}</ref>

==Legacy==
{{Anchor|Sequels}}
===Animated series===
{{main|Dumb and Dumber (TV series)}}
]
In 1995, a ]-produced animated series aired on ], as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup; ] provided the voice of Lloyd, while ] voiced Harry. In the cartoon, Harry and Lloyd have reacquired their van, now named "Otto". The cartoon also features a new character, Kitty, a female pet purple beaver who appears to be smarter than both men. The animated series was written by Bennett Yellin, co-writer of the film. The show was short-lived and was shelved after one season.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}

===Prequel===
{{main|Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd}}
In 2003, a ] was theatrically released, entitled ''Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd''. The film featured a cast and crew different from the previous film, and the Farrelly brothers had no involvement in the film's production. It was heavily panned by critics, receiving a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and was only a minor box office success, grossing approximately $39.2 million worldwide against a $19 million budget, as opposed to the original film's far greater $247 million worldwide gross against a $17 million budget.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dumb_and_dumberer_when_harry_met_lloyd/|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=25 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd|url=http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=dumbanddumberer.htm|publisher=Box Office Mojo|accessdate=25 October 2013}}</ref>

===Sequel===
{{main|Dumb and Dumber To}}
In October 2011, the Farrelly brothers confirmed that they would make a ] to ''Dumb and Dumber''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming, Jr.|first=Mike|title=Peter And Bobby Farrelly Plan More ‘Dumb And Dumber’ For Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels|url=http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/peter-and-bobby-farrelly-plan-more-dumb-and-dumber-for-jim-carrey-and-jeff-daniels/|publisher=Deadline|accessdate=7 November 2013}}</ref> The sequel, titled ''Dumb and Dumber To'', was shot in the fall of 2013. Carrey and Daniels have returned to lead the film, and Bobby and Peter Farrelly returned to direct along with original screenwriter Bennett Yellin, and actors reprising their roles from the first film include ], who played Billy in (Apartment) 4C, and ], who played Sea Bass. ''Dumb and Dumber To'' was released on November 14, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title='Dumb And Dumber To' Release Date Set For Nov. 14, 2014|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/dumb-and-dumber-to-release-date_n_4301763.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592|publisher=Huffington Post|accessdate=19 November 2013|first=Ryan|last=Kristobak|date=19 November 2013}}</ref>

Unlike the original film, ''Dumb and Dumber To'' was not released by ] but rather by ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Fleming, Jr.|first=Mike|title=TOLDJA! ‘Dumb And Dumber To’ Proves No-Brainer For Universal; Studio Locks Deal For Farrellys, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels Pic|url=http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/toldja-dumb-and-dumber-to-proves-no-brainer-for-universal-studio-locks-deal-for-farrellys-jim-carrey-jeff-daniels/|publisher=Deadline|accessdate=13 January 2014}}</ref> Despite Warner having no involvement in the film, its ] division, which produced the first film and the prequel, was still given studio credit from Universal.<ref>{{cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Matt |url=http://collider.com/dumb-and-dumber-2-poster/ |title=
New Poster for DUMB AND DUMBER TO; First Trailer Premieres Tonight |publisher=Collider.com |accessdate=2014-06-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/dumb-and-dumber-to-poster2.jpg |title=Dumb and Dumber To Poster |publisher=Collider.com |accessdate=2014-06-17}}</ref>

==See also==
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==References==
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==External links==
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This is a stupid movie