SONS OF WAYNE'S WORLD

AFTER MISSING THE BOAT ON THE HUMOR THAT SPAWNED A HUGE HIT, COPYCAT PRODUCERS ARE NOW RELEASING A DELUGE OF DUMBNESS

Whole lot of stupidity going on at the movies these days, which is not altogether unusual. What's different is that dumbness is so often a film's subject, not merely the prime cause of its being made. Forrest Gump is poised to win a bunch of Oscars for sweetly celebrating an imbecile, and Jim Carrey stands on the brink of superstardom for satirizing a certain type of idiocy-the kind that actually thinks it's smart-in Dumb and Dumber. A couple of weeks ago, Billy Madison, the story of a rich moron forced to repeat all the grades (1 through 12) he had flunked,...

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