There's a strong case to be made for comparing "Dumb Money" to "The Big Short." Both films are very similar, both thematically and tonally. Both deal with relatively recent cases in the financial world in which a group of outsiders bet against "Wall Street". However, "Dumb Money" clearly draws the short straw in the comparison. "The Big Short" did a much better job of explaining the context to non-experts. You should ideally know all of the technical terms before watching "Dumb Money."

But the movie is by no means bad. The pace of the story is good, and the cast is impressive. However, it might have been better to cut a few of the characters and instead focus on a smaller number of them. As it is now, you don't really get to know much about anyone. Paul Dano comes closest to having something to do, but even with him, more screen time would certainly have helped.

The film's overall presentation is adequate at best. It certainly wasn't a bad idea to incorporate a lot of TV and social media snippets into the movie. After all, it perfectly captures the main theme of the story. On a technical level, however, it's anything but exciting. And I also found the choice of music too aggressive at times, without much being memorable. The latter also applies to the movie as a whole. Unlike "The Big Short", I probably won't watch "Dumb Money" more than once because, unfortunately, the movie isn't more than just okay.