Dumb and Dumber
Wednesday, 9 Feb 2005 1:05
Movie Review
Rubbery handsome, with a chipped front tooth, fashion-disaster bangs, and the eager dimples of a depraved gopher, Jim Carrey turns his face and body into a special effect – a human morph machine – in DUMB and DUMBER (New Line, PG-13). He’s playing a geek called Lloyd Christmas who thinks he’s hot stuff, and though we’ve seen this character before (Steve Martin practically invented it), Carrey, zigzagging between twinkly-eyed infomercial-pitchman bravado and sheer manic idiocy, does the postmodern smart-dumb clod with a new kind of whiplash abandon.
