Dumb and Dumber To-Teen Movie Review

Lloyd (Jim Carrey) and Harry (Jeff Daniels) are back…and it’s been twenty years.  This time they’re on an road trip to find Penny, a 20-year-old, beautiful woman who happens to be Harry’s daughter. On their journey they meet a lot of people and come across a lot of adventures, while hoping to meet the daughter Harry never knew he had.

Rating: 2 and 1/2 out of 5
Release Date: February 17, 2015
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 15+
Sexual Content: Excessive
Violent/Disturbing Content: Moderate
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
Drug and Alcohol Content: Moderate
Will Kids Like It? Yes

Talking Points:

• The best part of the movie is the clever name…”Dumb and Dumber To.“
• The film is a silly comedy, with disgusting and crude humor.

Sexual Content: Excessive

• Lloyd has an ongoing fantasy about having a sexual encounter with Penny (Harry’s daughter). He imagines himself taking her clothes off, then he wakes up and finds himself licking part of a semi-truck.
• A woman is referred to as a “titanic whore,” she was known to have slept with a lot of boys in her youth.
• Lloyd fondles an elderly woman under the bedcovers.
• A woman seductively sucks on a man’s toes.
• A man grabs a woman’s breasts.
• There are sexual jokes and references made throughout the film regarding  incest, gays, oral sex, menstrual bleeding…

Violent/Disturbing Content: Moderate

• Assassins throw knives into a man’s chest.
• A character is shot in the shoulder.
• A young girl’s tooth is knocked out from being hit with a bedroom door.
• A firecracker blows up inside a car causing a character to become temporarily deaf.
• We see a disgusting wound on a man’s back that had been stitched together.

Crude or Profane Language: Moderate

• The f-word is said once, we hear “sh-t,’ “b–ch,” “a–,” “ba–tard, and “h—,” throughout the film.

Drug and Alcohol Content: Moderate

• Harry’s roommate is a drug dealer who cooks meth.
• We see characters drinking margaritas, beer and wine.
• A woman poisons her husband’s food.

Will Kids Like It? Yes

• I interviewed a few high school freshman boys who thought the film was very funny.
• I interviewed a mom who thought the film was disgusting, though her pre-teens liked it.

Dumb and Dumber To is a PG13 comedy, parents need to be aware of the crude humor woven throughout the film.