Dumb Money
Dumb Money
A regular guy sinks his life savings into the stock of videogame store GameStop and starts posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up and a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich, until the billionaires fight back.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
It’s a fascinating story in it’s own right, and the film is an adequate recounting of the events, elevated by the ensemble cast. Dane Dehaan as a retail store manager might be my favorite casting, but the entire ensemble makes this instantly watchable. The drama unfolds with scarce little tension or fanfare in the ups and downs. Maybe that comes from my want to actually see the billionaires sh🤩ting their pants instead of just Seth Rogen casually stating that he lost a billion dollars two consecutive days. And even though we’ve seen explanations of “shorts” before in other films like The Big Short, I really think this film could have used a better explanations of shorts, short squeezes, pump and dumps, etc. Still, these kinds of financial scandals will always captivate me and Dumb Money is no exception.
I was planning on going solo, but when I told my kids what I was going to see, they all wanted to tag along. So while the profane language and WAP playing on repeat keep me from recommending this for kids, per set, to my surprise, my kids all really enjoyed it and were equally captivated by the story.