“I like it a lot.“

Alright, alright, so… I’m flipping the script already. Look, I’m prone to do this, but it’s better to iron out these creases sooner rather than later, right? Instead of running a daily post (for posterity, the first four posts on this site made in July 2026 were titled The Razorwire Reviews Daily Bulletin #1, #2, etc.) I’m going to somewhat adopt the form in which I organise my YouTube channel’s videos. For any video that isn’t a part of its own dedicated series/project, I simply archive it by year and episode number. I’ll eschew the yearly system for this site though, and simply number most pieces numerically, so this will be Razorwire Reviews #5, easy enough? This way I can keep posting regularly but not feel tied to a daily schedule, especially as I have other things going on in my life at the moment. Really, this was the worst possible time to attempt such an ambitious pursuit, but again, this is me all over…

So what are we talking about today? Well. I was thinking about the film Dumb and Dumber To (2014) and how I often forget it even happened. People who didn’t grow up in the 90s will never fully grasp the phenomenon that was Jim Carrey in his heyday. In February of 1994, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective was released. In July: The Mask. Before the year closed out, in December, a little film called Dumb and Dumber premiered. That’s what the kool kids today would call a “generational run.” When you consider how beloved each of those three films are, and how much of a vehicle they were for Jim Carrey’s manic zaniness, it’s hard to imagine a comparable break out year. I’m sure there are many examples, but that one, in a calendar year, feels incredibly rare to me.

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