Not clever. Not funny. Not entertaining. I was staring at my watch waiting for it to end. Nothing redeeming about it. The theater was empty, a clear sign.

Dumb and Dumber is the best. Everyone I know who has seen this movie said it was OK, enjoyable, or hated it. And I get them but this movie has something that most movies in the stupid comedy genre don't have. Jim Carry to this day is my favorite actor and this is the first movie I saw that he was in. I don't watch it a lot so that the jokes don't get old and they never do. Will always be my all time favorite.

The movie wasn't funny. It made me angry. So, why such polarized reviews? I think it's a statement about the state of affairs in the US.The US has always been full of bone-deep anti-intellectuals. Anyone with an education is suspect. We've got a joke of a President because a certain segment were fed up with people with educations telling them to be more respectful of everyone and get over out-dated behaviors. But this goes further. This movie is the cinematic equivalent of the kind of societal failure that whips out of a parking lot in front of you, forcing you to brake heavily to avoid an accident, then drives painfully slow. That's the kind of person that finds this movie funny. The kind of person that will never achieve anything...except they can keep you from getting something done!So, what's wrong with a movie for people like that? Well, like the aforementioned crowd that worships the orange one, it's cruel! It's not just that aggressive anti-intellectualism is cool, so is being rude and cruel. "What's wrong with pulling the wings off flies, you pointy headed intellectual!" Yeah. It's on that level.Does that whole phenomenon anger you as well? Well, that's the one useful thing about this movie. Those people like to lie about their feelings and keep their ugliness behind closed doors with their buddies. This movie is a good way to ferret them out. And you can see the denial/projection in the reviews. "Something wrong with you". Just what I said. So, when reviews say, "If you don't find this funny, there's something wrong with you", it's just like all the other things that 1/3 minority is angry about. Someone not being like them. Someone knowing something that they never will. Someone acting like humans aren't naturally cruel and insensitive.Isn't that hilarious?!? And if you think there can't be enough people like that to account for the positive reviews, just look at the reviews for any of Tarantino's travesties of cinema. Mindless tribalism and video game ethics rampant.

This movie to me is the exact opposite of what the title and the plot suggest. It is hysterically funny, but it's not so much the jokes that make you laugh, but the wicked and wildly optimistic humor they are rooted in. We see two guys acting totally stupid all of the time. Why doesn't it become boring after five minutes? Because all this dumbness is not shown to generate cheap laughs. The jokes point to something deeper, something more substantial and important for our lives. The final scene, which left me gasping for breath, makes it totally clear: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Which may be translated into our daily lives as: relax, and trust yourself to find your individual path to happiness - so what, if you look dumb to your fellow men! I love this movie.