Dumb and Dumber Blu-ray

Dumb and Dumber

 (1994)

Adventure | Comedy | Romance



Lloyd and Harry: One’s dumb, the other’s dumber. You pick which is which. Jim Carrey (Lloyd) and Jeff Daniels (Harry) deliver a delirious no-brainer as they hit the road to return a misplaced briefcase to its owner (Lauren Holly). The fellas don’t know the case is crammed with ransom money. Maybe that’s why smash-mouth lowlifes are trailing them, you think? Best to leave the thinking aside as the boys and the filmmaking brothers Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary) invent something really dumb…and really, really funny.

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Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Teri Garr, Karen Duffy
Director: Peter Farrelly

Dumb and Dumber Blu-ray, Video Quality

 


Dumb and Dumber bumbles onto the Bluray format in a rather unspectacular 1080p/VC-1 encode, framed in a 1:85:1 video window. The source appears to have very minor issues of speckles and pops, but nothing extremely detracting from the overall presentation. Black levels are strong and stable, giving us a nice deep inky look, but some minor crush in the shadow detail as well. Colors are a bit muted and drab looking, although skin tones appear accurate overall. There is excellent detail in close up shots, but wide shots appear to have detail that is dialed down a bit, flattening out the depth of images considerably. Contrast appears a bit hot, and I did notice some halo's along highly contrasted edges. Overall this presentation is average and far from the best I have seen on the Bluray format

Dumb and Dumber Blu-ray, Audio Quality

 


I really appreciate the use of lossless audio on every release, as it gives the clearest window of what is on the master. In saying that, it cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, as the mix itself is really the star, and not the audio codec. Dumb and Dumber features a 5.1 English Dolby TrueHD track that while providing the clearest picture of the mix, the mix is basically too conservative to make any difference between lossless or lossy in this case. This is a front loaded mix with nominal activity in the surrounds, which only have atmospheric effects, and a light folding of the music from the fronts directed towards them. The front soundstage is flat and uninvolving, and the mix is only as wide as my speakers, and never beyond them, or extending towards the front wall of my viewing room. Dialog is clear and always intelligible, and it is basically the center piece of the entire mix. There is no LFE, and all of the bass in the mix is basically relegated to the front left/right mains. The difference between the lossless and lossy tracks is confined to mostly a cleaner dialog in the lossless, and that is about it. The sound quality is on par with the video, which makes for a balanced, but average overall film presentation.

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