Python Hyena Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003): Dir: Troy Miller / Cast: Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson, Eugene Levy, Cheri Oteri, Bob Saget: Title is a satire jab at When Harry Met Sally. That film regarded a chance encounter about time and relationships but this idiotic prequel to Dumb and Dumber gives endless vulgarity about stupidity. Lame setup regards Harry and Lloyd taught at home before being sent to high school. The principal plans to extort money and needs a fake special education class to pull it off. Embarrassing climax at a parade with director Troy Miller showing no skill. He previously directed Jack Frost and his talent hasn't improved here. Example of this regards the kidnapped girl who suddenly appears in the conclusion, or the chocolate smeared about the washroom that is mistaken for crap. Can they not smell the difference? This can be credited as a moment in Bob Saget's career that he will likely regret. Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson attempt to fill shoes too big for them. The idea of a narrating regarding their upbringing and first encounter might have worked in hands that didn't belong to Miller. Eugene Levy and Cheri Oteri are wasted as a principal and secretary out to scam their way through life. This film proved to be dumber when you have people who confuse chocolate for sh*t. This film is a perfect example of the latter. Score: 1 / 10

WakenPayne After seeing both the original and the third Dumb and Dumber film, I've decided to look back at the prequel. All I do have to say though is that at times it does get pretty stupid even for Dumb and Dumberer and it just doesn't work.Okay, the plot is that Harry and Lloyd meet up for the first time in High School and The Principal there wants to exploit a lot of money going into the school by building a special needs class and run away with the lunch lady, now teacher of the class (Which wouldn't it be investigated whether she has had any experience in teaching in order to get the money?) So who are they going to get?... Harry and Lloyd, who have to pick the rest of the class under the impression that Special means... Well, special. While this is going on the love interest tries to expose the principal for what's going on, but it's up to Harry and Lloyd to unintentionally find it out.Here's my big problem with the movie. These kids are meant to be 16 years old, or thereabouts. Let me ask a question - How many stupid ideas did you have at that age? How many times did you do something stupid? Part of what made the first and third one funny is that these people can't read and yet they're somehow functioning in society, and with teenagers they do not have the responsibilities that adults do, so having idiot teenagers being the one and only shtick doesn't work.Here's another problem, it's borderline offensive. when recruiting for the special needs class there's one scene where Harry and Lloyd try and sign up a foreign exchange student. How? by saying "Ching-Chong" over and over. That and they try and make out that although the person giving the special needs grant has a lot of money, he doesn't function as anything above a child when an FBI agent tries to pursue the principal. Okay, I saw what went on in a couple of special needs classes during High School and even in there, while there was some huge childishness that went on, it wasn't anything like they're saying here - and you're telling me that someone operating on the same level as someone who's 6 can be millionaires or something?... HA-HA! I wish.Well, the humour itself is not funny either on any level. There's a point in the movie where Harry sits on a radiator while talking with the love interest and melts the chocolate bar he was going to give her. Then when going to the bathroom after burning his ass he accidentally messes up the bathroom by accidentally getting the chocolate on everything... which makes me question whether a Hershey's bar has that much chocolate in it. And the father, who's a clean freak decides to walk in on it after they leave... What happens? He screams "There's sh!t everywhere! There's sh!t all over the walls" and goes on and on. What's that? It's not funny? Well the writers thought it was being that the father also says the same thing at the ending when Harry gets run over by him while drenched in mud. I must be missing something but How is that funny? Are you telling me it was so good to have it done twice? I don't think so because on both times I didn't laugh once, that really sums up the humour of this movie, whether I take the age of the characters into consideration or not.I'll be fair in saying that in some ways the people they got to do the younger versions of these characters do okay jobs and while I trivialized the humour by talking about one joke, there was about one laugh in the movie and some of the set-ups are actually quite good. The problem is that it had little idea if at all of what made the original Dumb and Dumber work. Dumb and Dumber To fares better but I would say just place it down as a thankfully forgotten piece of history.

anchoreddown Considering this is a prequel to one of the most popular cult classics of the 90s, something like this is going to get back-lashed.First off, to all the critics, please stop calling this film a piece of crap. It may look like crap, but seriously people, I think Dumb And Dumberer is a great idea.Didn't see this in the theater, but saw the trailer plenty of times to get me interested in the idea. The trailer alone was really funny, and reminded me that every once in a long while, there has to be a movie that has to be this ridiculous to laugh at. With that said, I honestly think that the sequel coming out later this year will hopefully resonate well with the fans.Slap yourself a few times over, then sit down and see what you think of this movie when you put it in next, or when it shows up on TV.The female lead will be at the Seattle Comic-Con this year, (2014) and will hopefully meet her.It may not live up to the original, but they used plenty of original material to give you an idea of how dumb Harry and Lloyd really are.(Loved the idea of Harry's invisible captain friend! Seeing the car hit that wooden wagon was pretty priceless!!)

random_avenger The prequel to the 1994 comedy hit Dumb & Dumber is set in 1986 when Harry Dunne and Lloyd Christmas (Derek Richardson and Eric Christian Olsen) were in high school. Due to their tremendously stupid behaviour they are put in a special education class that the school's principal Collins (Eugene Levy) has created in order to embezzle the money meant for advancing the special students' rights. The shady actions of the principal are being investigated by a smart but good-looking student named Jessica (Rachel Nichols), who also evokes feelings in both Harry and Lloyd.As Dumb and Dumberer is a prequel, it's only natural that neither Jim Carrey nor Jeff Daniels of the original movie reprises their roles. Instead, Richardson and Olsen try to emulate the original actors' styles, but since they haven't got the natural aura of comedy like Carrey and Daniels do, the result is just painfully unfunny. Both protagonists, especially Harry, are essentially retards whose constant yelling and bantering is nothing but irritating. Olsen's attempts of capturing Carrey's trademark facial expressions are probably the best thing about the performances, but that is a very, very faint praise. One can only wonder how a talented supporting actor like Luis Guzmán ended up in a movie like this.As opposed to the road trip theme of Dumb & Dumber, the jokes in the prequel are largely based on tired high school stereotypes, so it must have been difficult to come up with anything we haven't already seen many times, if the writers ever even tried to achieve anything that ambitious. Plenty of sex jokes and toilet humour are also present, and while one gross-out scene actually is funny, the premise of the joke is essentially recycled from the first movie, raising even more questions about the point of this movie's existence. In addition, the film comes across as mocking and mean-spirited towards real-life special education students. As not even the blooper reel over the end credits is funny, Dumb and Dumberer seriously cannot be recommended to anyone but the most undemanding of comedy fans, if even them. The rest of us should just avoid it altogether.