Dumb and Dumber Too (2014)
Certified: 15
Duration: 109 minutes
Directed by: Bobby and Peter Farrelly
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Laurie Holden, Kathleen Turner, Brady Bluhm, Steve Tom, Rachel Melvin, Rob Riggle, Paul Blackthorne, Dalton Gray, Swizz Beatz
KRS Releasing Ltd

Dumb and Dumber Too sees the return of Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels), two best friends who are a tad on the lower end of the IQ scale.

Harry needs a kidney, and he visits his parents to see if they can donate one of theirs to him. Here he makes a number of discoveries, foremost of which are the fact that he is adopted and more shocking is the news revealed by a 22-year-old postcard: Harry has a child.

Thus together with his friend Lloyd, he goes to visit Fraida Felcher (Kathleen Turner), his former girlfriend who is the mother of the baby in question. The girl, however, has been given up for adoption. Fraida tells them that she had tried to contact her daughter Penny and sent her a letter, but the letter had been returned to her unread.

Lloyd and Harry proceed to Maryland to find Penny (Rachel Melvin), but they are arrive too late. Dr Pinchelow (Steve Tom), Penny’s adoptive father, and Adele (Laurie Holden), Penny’s stepmother, tell them that Penny has gone to an important conference in El Paso.

While Lloyd and Harry travel to El Paso in order to find Penny and see if she can donate the badly-needed kidney, Adele plans to get rid of Dr Pinchelow with the help of handyman Travis (Rob Riggle).

The 1994 Dumb and Dumber movie was both a commercial and a cult hit for Carrey, Daniels and the Farrelly Brothers. 2003’s prequel did not leave the same effect, but this sequel, which sees the actors resume their roles 20 years later, seems to have served to divide critics again and reconnect well with the audience, as $125 million and counting in box office takings seems to confirm.

Dumb and Dumber Too gives both Carrey and Daniels the chance to go into the inane and over-the-top funny mode as dumb idiots. Gags are thrown around like bullets from a machine-gun , literally riddling their audience to expressions of amazement or laughter.

This is the kind of comedy the Farrelly Brothers had been well known for – Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary (1998) and Me, Myself and Irene (2000).

This feature moves in the same vein of choreographed craziness as the first film, with the only difference being that this time around the fans know the template. While the film has an over-the-top, gross-out stream lining element to it, it is also imbued with a sense of lovable goofball screwball comedy feel very much reminiscent of the Marx Brothers vein of inspired madness.