Why It's Going To Suck: How Can It Live Up To The Hype? The original Dumb and Dumber probably isn't a "great" movie - but there's undeniably something about it. Something that can't really be explained. Something that makes it feel like a comedy classic to beat down all comedy classics. And the reason that the movie was able to become the stuff of legend amounts to the fact that there were no built-in expectations. The filmmakers just made it. They did it and that was it. So whereas Dumb and Dumb was given the room to breathe and therefore grow into the uber-cult movie that is is regarded as today, Dumb and Dumber To has the near impossible task of trying to match up to something that is funny for precisely not that reason. And so comedy sequels rarely work, regardless of who's involved (sorry Jim Carrey; sorry Jeff Daniels). And let's face it: the trailer didn't really instil us with much hope.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
