Dumb & Dumber

If ever a movie lived down to its title, it's "Dumb & Dumber." But this film might just as well have been called "Crude & Cruder."

If you have seen the commercials, you know that Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are teamed as a pair of low-IQ nitwits whose antics are childish and silly in the extreme. Here's a tip — the film's best moments are in those commercials.

But what the ads don't show you is that Carrey and Daniels' antics are also incredibly vulgar.

Please forgive me for getting too specific in the following paragraph — my intention is not to make you ill, but to inform you of just how disgusting it gets.

This is a movie that expects its big laughs to come from diarrhea, frozen snot, flatulence and urine . . . lots of urine. There's urine in the background, as a wino faces a wall; there's urine in beer bottles, imbibed by a foolish highway patrolman; there's urine during a motorbike ride, just because they don't want to stop for a few moments . . . well, you get the idea. But the film's worst moment — and there are many in the "worst" competition here — comes when Carrey pours a laxative in Daniels' drink and a few moments later, Daniels drops his pants in a bathroom, sits on a commode and makes noise for what seems like forever.

This virtually laughless movie makes rude junior high school pranks seem positively sophisticated.

The paper-thin storyline has Carrey as a Rhode Island limo driver who takes passenger Lauren Holly (TV's "Picket Fences," "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story") to the airport, where she is to catch a plane for Aspen. When he notices that she has left her briefcase in the terminal, Carrey grabs it and races after her, unaware that it's filled with money she has left as ransom for a kidnapping.

When he can't find her, Carrey and best buddy Daniels hop into Daniels' car — which is fitted to look like a huge sheepdog — and head for Aspen to return the briefcase. Meanwhile, the thugs who were supposed to pick up the money are in hot pursuit.