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Give Jim Carrey top grades for balls-out audacity -- even if the movie's execution makes him look like a dunce. Carrey, the self-proclaimed "highest-paid megalomaniacal boy king in the whole of Babylon," could keep earning $20 million a flick by playing variations on Ace Ventura until he ground his career into dead ash. Instead he offers the Dumb and Dumber crowd a walk on the dark side.

No sooner has Carrey's Chip Douglas cable-readied the bachelor apartment of…