DVD Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
A passable comedy for delinquent kids and unambitious teens with time to kill, Dumb and Dumberer does for prequels what Jerry Springer did for daytime television. With only faint connection to the 1994 hit starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, this ill-conceived prequel follows the Carrey/Daniels characters, Lloyd and Harry, as they bungle their way through high school. The principal and his demented lunch lady (Eugene Levy and SNL alumnus Cheri Oteri) have hatched a scheme to embezzle funds intended for students with "special needs," and Harry & Lloyd unwittingly recruit a few "intellectually challenged" classmates to fuel the plot. Veteran TV director Troy Miller prefers to keep the humor low and lowerer: Scatological jokes, puerile double-entendres, and juvenile sight gags ensure that Dumb and Dumberer lives up to its title. As Lloyd and Harry, respectively, Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson deliver a few laughs, but they're stuck in a movie with special needs of its own. --Jeff Shannon |
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| Gotta Give It Credit. |  |
I began watching "Dumb & Dumberer" thinking oh no,here is a stupid wannabe comedy that's not funny.I was wrong.Now this film will never match up to the first it is funny in its own right,period.Eric Christian Olsen as Lloyd Christmas (previously played by Jim Carrey) and Derek Richardson as Harry Dunne (originally played by Jeff Daniels) isn't as bad as people are saying it is.Some jokes will fail to please people unless their ten years old,however there are scenes that are utterly hilarious.Including a scene with Bob Saget.Before seeing this film,I had no respect for Mr.Saget,but after seeing this scene it is hard not to laugh at Americas Funniest Home Videos.Anyway the film follows Harry & Lloyd when they first meet and they reveal the mysterious reason for Lloyds chipped tooth.Now besides the way they discuss stuff after Harry throws Lloyds tooth,Harrys imaginary friend Captain Rob just doesn't pan out.
There are things that aren't funny in this movie but turn out to be and some stuff turns out to be just well dumb.I believe the point of the screenwriters script was to make a dumb movie with some faint comedy,the movie however funny doesn't pan out to match the original but it is definently worth renting.
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| Luckily I saw the original first... |
*Exasperated sigh.*The first time I'd watched this movie I had only seen 25 minutes worth, since I came in on it late. But I kept going back to see it because I'd never seen the whole thing completely, and was at the time excited about it because of how much I'd loved the original. And I must say that I was very disappointed by it all. For one the actor they picked to play Lloyd I think did an "OK" job, they did a rather great fixing him up to look like Jim Carrey, and that was perhaps the most impressing thing in the movie. On the other hand the Harry did an awful job. I mean not only did he not remind me of Jeff Daniels Harry at all, he annoyed me to no end. The plot is probably the most pathetic thing about it all, I mean the original movie FOCUSED on Harry and Lloyd, and all this prequel did was go back and forth from Harry and Lloyd, to the classmates, to the Principal and Lunch Lady. And I just couldn't help, but wondering why it was necessary to have all these characters, and why exactly the plot needed them. I thought most of that was a complete waste. Which in turn made the plot meaningless. Sad to say, I cannot give this film just one star because I actually liked Eric Christian Olsen's performance, and I ADORE Cheri Oteri no matter what. Therefore I give it two stars, because there ARE some funny scenes in the beginning, but if you're the kind of person who's going into it expecting the perfect remake, laugh out loud funny from beginning to end, and something you'll want to watch over and over, you WILL be disappointed.
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| About as bad as a movie can get |
I'm posting this review not because I want to add another 1 to the rating of Dumb and Dumberer, but rather because I actually had to pay a couple of bucks to rent the movie (don't ask me why, I just had to see why everyone hated it). If you seen this movie, the good news is that you probably would have a hard time seeing worse. The first Dumb and Dumber was a pretty funny movie, and they didn't have to be so offensive in the process. Jim Carey and Jeff Daniels were able to make the characters work mainly because they had a plot and a knack for taking something and making it humorous. There was enough substance to actually make a scene have a comic effect. It looks like they should have left well enough alone, and forgot the prequel. I don't know what they were possibly thinking making this film; it failed in every single respect as a comedy. This movie is insulting, shallow, tasteless and unfunny all at the same time. It really lacked much of a plot also, as the idea of the principal choosing these guys to try to form a class is absurd. The movies really had no direction and no hope. The actors who play Lloyd and Harry look pretty much the same as Jeff Daniels and Jim Carey, but the dialogue is amateurish and petty. There is absolutely nothing funny about this movie, and, like me, you may turn the movie off after 30 minutes or so. I don't say this often about movies, but this one should come with a refund.
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