Mr Black
Haven't seen this movie for a couple of years. Watched Dumb and Dumber the other day then followed with Dumb and Dumber To,, so figured I'd finish the trilogy. Well,, if you like Dumb and Dumber,, you make like this movie, but it is sort of dumbed down, so to speak. Had some funny stuff, but kind of juvenile in terms of comedy. Although the other two aren't exactly sophisticated comedy. There was was funny stuff. The girl called Ching Chong and Lloyd trying to speak Chinese to her. Bob Saget was funny as Jessica's father. Small role but pretty funny. Also, Mimi Rogers should have been given an award for hottest mom or something. She really looked good in this. Other than that, it's back on the shelf. Maybe in a few years I will have forgotten what it's like and bring it out again.
kevcoop7
To be honest, I have completely forgotten about this movie, in two ways, I forgot what it was about, and that it even exists.Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry met Lloyd is a sad excuse to cash in on the very highly successful and well liked Dumb and Dumber. I applaud Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey for not appearing or even involving themselves with this movie in the slightest sense. This is one movie I liked the first time I saw it, and then when I watched it again, it was so stupid, and I have never watched it again, in effect, I have only watched this movie exactly twice, and that is far too many. heck, even one viewing is far too many viewing.
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!!)
solidgameboy12-1
It is very strange that when I read the user reviews of this site, so few actually talk about why the movie is so bad. Well, I'd like to take a moment to say why I didn't, and in better detail than most, hopefully, enjoy the movie.Dumb and Dumberer is a prequel, which if the word "sequel" is of any indication, means it is a continuation from the first. Well, "Prequel" implies it as a "beginning of" story, sort of what happened in the childhoods of Harry and Lloyd, who were originally played by Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey, respectively.The characters in the story are Harry and Lloyd, two simple minded teenagers, who lack any real charm or clever idiocy that was played so well in the original. The idea in this movie is that the principal, played by the legendary Eugene Levy (Jim's Dad in American Pie and most of its sequels) is trying to find a get rich quick scheme, so he develops a special needs class to make the money, but he needs students.If that part of the plot doesn't offend you, don't worry, the rest will.Harry and Lloyd go on a search to find kids who are just like them, (although its so insulting to think special needs kids can't tell an Asian girl from a mentally handicapped child) and needless to say, a class is formed.Jessica, a very smart teenage girl (which only implies the entire school isn't smart enough to recognize this plot) sees the ruse, and uses our heroes to dig up the dirt on the principal.To be honest, if the movie didn't have the "Dumb and Dumber" moniker or even a mentioning of Harry and Lloyd, this movie probably would have faded into obscurity, nary, even been made, and if it did, it might have been a cult classic if it had been better written and not as relying on the first movie's jokes.The movie has some references to the original picture, but the problem is that references aren't usually funny. So when this movie references the laxative from the original as a large truck carrying said product, it doesn't make it funny, you are just implying that you watched the movie enough to notice it.The problem with this movie is just lazy writing. The creators probably thought watching enough of the original was a good idea to create a sequel, but what it does is insult anyone who tries really hard to write good comedy with insulting retreads from classic movies.Harry and Lloyd aren't some kind of smart, they are all kinds of moron. In the original, it is implied they aren't smart, but in reality, it's that their ideas of intelligence is slightly askew from most people, but it was mostly honest mistakes. Lloyd hearing the country Austria and playing it off as Australia is believable, and more than likely a mistake a person has made before, as opposed to say, talking about who Benjamin Franklin is (Where Lloyd explains that Ben Franklin was the "Pilgrim who invented Penicillin and defeated Godzilla").Critics and most writers will tell you that was is usually funny isn't funny, it's what you play off as serious that's funny. The characters aren't serious people doing funny things, they are played off as funny people doing funny things, and that doesn't always equal funny.The actors seem rather detached from the project, as if they all simultaneously had a large bill to pay, so they played their appropriate roles just to pay it off to do better movies. It was strange that from the years 2003 and 2005, people thought that making sequels to previous Jim Carrey movies was to be cinematic gold, was actually just copper painted up and advertised as gold.It is always going to be argued that sequels are never better than their original counterparts, and that's understandable, only so many movies have that bragging right. That doesn't mean if you have an idea for a sequel and you feel strongly in making a sequel that you have to do it poorly in every means possible: in writing, in acting, in character development, music, staffing, ETC. It should be room to improve. A sequel, in particular, a prequel should challenge the audience to see how the characters became who they are when we remember them, not putting them in a less than original story.This concludes my review, I give it a 2/10.
