求阿呆与阿瓜dumb dumber 的英语影评

求阿呆与阿瓜dumb dumber 的英语影评
求阿呆与阿瓜dumb dumber 的英语影评

求阿呆与阿瓜dumb dumber 的英语影评
下次要影评,可以去英文amazon看.
It's Supposed to be Stupid
By Nicolas Mitchell (Los Angeles,CA)
This review is from:Dumb & Dumber (VHS Tape)
If there is a film out there that has created such an rift among viewers as Dumb and Dumber,I'd like to see it.It seems that everyone I know either loves the movie or abhorrs it.It is easy to see why people love the movie.The movie is outrageously funny,and I believe most of the film's critics will concede this.However,without fail,the number one critique of the film by opponents is,"but it's so stupid." This is like saying you don't like Schindler's List because "it's too serious." Of course it's stupid!That's the point!Unfortunately,pounding the keys on the keyboard harder isn't helping to portray my sentiments here.First of all,this is not a movie you can only see once.Sure,one viewing will account for all the "big laughs",Lloyd's airport fiasco,Harry's bathroom adventure and the ski lift accident.If you base your judgement on the big laughs alone,I can see how the movie could seem innane and childish.I suggest every critic of Dumb and Dumber should watch the movie a few more times for the little laughs.There are so many jokes and they are so clever that I find myself appreciating the movie more each time I watch it.For example,in the scene with the state trooper (Harland Williams) the center of comedic attention is clearly the point at which the officer drinks the beer bottle full of urine.This "big laugh" often steals the limelight away from the smaller laughs in the same scene.While handing the bottle over to the trooper,Lloyd accidentally spills some of the urine on Harry,to Harry's obvious displeasure.When the officer realizes what it is he has swallowed,one can faintly hear Lloyd suggest,"Tic Tac sir?" It is subtle moments like these that pervade the movie and make it great every time you watch it.I think part of the problem with the movie is that there are simply too many jokes in the movie.Many of the more subtle,clever jokes get overshadowed by bigger ones,leaving some feeling like the movie is simple toilet humor.This is a grave injustice.Perhaps the most complexing issue concerning the critical reception of Dumb and Dumber is the overwhelming acclaim of the Farelly brother's follow-up film,There's Something About Mary.The two movies are eerily similar.Both involve a road trip starting in Providence.These trips are in search of a woman who is way to good for her respective suitor.In both,the protagonists encounter difficulty and comedic moments along the way.Yet everyone I know loves Mary,while Dumb and Dumber recieves mixed reviews.The only significant difference between the two films is that in Dumb and Dumber,our hero doesn't get the girl.Perhaps this is why reception of the movie is so clearly delineated along gender lines.Women,I can only assume,want Dumb and Dumber to be a romantic comedy,which it is clearly not.Mary can be seen perhaps as fitting this genre because it has the textbook 'boy gets girl' ending (although my mother wanted Brett Favre to get the girl).The fact that Dumber doesn't fall into the obligatory cliche ending is,in my opinion,a large part of it's appeal.Whether you like it or not,you should buy a copy of Dumb and Dumber and watch it fifty times like I have.Then I think you will understand that being stupid is "genius,sheer genius."