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‘Dumb And Dumber To’ Review, Box Office Results: Critics Say Movie is 'Funny' but 'Annoying'
New Line and Universal Pictures' 'Dumb and Dumber To', the sequel to the 1994 film, opened at number one in the box office with $36.1 million, but while the movie itself has been viewed as funny, some found it annoying as well.
The opening numbers for the Farrelly brothers' film, 'Dumb and Dumber To', surpassed the $26.3 million made by 1994 original movie. It is also Jim Carrey's second biggest opening for a comedy film behind the $68 million opening made by his 2003 film 'Bruce Almighty'.
Out of the entire audience, 47 percent were below 25 years of age, which meant that the retro factor, and the idea of a reunion film were probable factors for the movie's pull, according to the Guardian.
However, many of the reviews for the film came in mixed.
"The picture lasts an hour and 50 minutes but it feels like three days. It is annoying and exhausting," Jordan Hoffman wrote in his review of the movie for the Guardian, giving it three out of five stars.
"We were laughing, but by God did we want to get out of there," Hoffman concluded.
Richard Corliss from TIME wrote in his review, entitled "Can't Get Much Dummer Than Dumb and Dumber To" that there were a few good laughs in the film. However, he said, "I just want to laugh, and 'Dumb and Dumber To' rarely coaxed me to that state of obscene bliss."
"This movie breaks not only the canons of etiquette but of how to make people laugh," Corliss wrote, "The usual methods are wit and surprise; the brothers go for aimless, charmless shock."
"Sporadically funny and mostly tedious, this 18-years-too-late sequel nonetheless exhibits a puerile purity of purpose," Andrew Barker, senior Features writer of Variety, said in his review.
Vulture writer David Edelstein claimed in his review that the movie could give people an ulcer, but also said that he respected Carrey and Daniels for their performance.
'Dumb and Dumber To' was co-directed and co-directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. It stars Carrey was Lloyd Christmas, Daniels as Harry Dunne, Laurie Holden as Adele Pinchlow, Carly Craig as Fraida Felcher and more.