Dumb and Dumber To (2014) review

Dumb and Dumber To promotional poster

Dumb and Dumber to is a sequel to the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber, directed by the Farrelly Brothers and starring Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas and Jeff Daniels as Harry Dunne, 20 years after the events of the original film Lloyd is put in an insane asylum after being completely frozen and shocked when he couldn't (spoiler alert for the first film) get with Mary Swanson but later it turns out to be a 20 year gag which he played on Harry who visited him everyday. When they go back to their old apartment, Billy (Brady Bluhm) now has a collection of birds and Harry has a new roommate who makes crystal meth named Ice Pick (Bill Murray). But Harry needs a kidney transplant surgery but has no donor since his parents adopted him and don't want to donate their own kidney. Later he finds a postcard from Fraida Felcher (Kathleen Turner) telling him that she's pregnant. So he makes a plan to get his daughter's kidney. But when they go to Freida's funeral house they find out her daughter was adopted by a rich professor named Dr. Pinchelow (Steve Tom). They go on a roadtrip to find Harry's daughter Penny (Rachel Melvin) and that kidney!

Laurie Holden as Adele and Rob Riggle as Travis in Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

I don't want to go further into the plot because there are so many well placed jokes in there that I might ruin it. I saw this movie in a jam packed theatre in KLCC and man, laughing out loud with about a hundred people is the best thing in the universe. I went into this movie thinking it couldn't outdo the original in no shape or form but would still be a great movie. But man was I wrong. It had the same amount of laughs added with new jokes and this time there was a serious emotional plot which made the movie less dumb. I also like how Harry and Lloyd evolve and do actually get smarter than the original, showing truly that 20 years has passed. Anyway the only complaints I can have is that there wasn't enough of Rob Riggle and this could have been an opportunity for the king of comedy himself Jim Carrey to pass the torch to one of the funniest comedy guys out there but alas. Anyway this was an awesome movie and made me laugh all the way through. 10/10