Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

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Dumb & Dumberer

Dumb And Dumberer film poster
Directed by Troy Miller
Produced by Oren Koules,
Brad Krevoy,
Steven Stabler,
Troy Miller
Written by Peter Farrelly,
Bennett Yellin,
Bobby Farrelly,
Troy Miller
Starring Derek Richardson,
Eric Christian Olsen,
Eugene Levy
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) June 13, 2003
Running time 85 min.
Language English
Budget ~ US$19,000,000
IMDb profile

Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd is a comedy film that is the prequel to 1994's hit comedy Dumb & Dumber. It stars Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson, Rachel Nichols, Bob Saget, Luis Guzman, Eugene Levy and Mimi Rogers. The film was a box office disaster, taking in just over $13 million at the US box office.

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Dumb And Dumberer is a teen comedy that looks at the time when the two eponymous guys named Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne first met, in high school, in 1986. The film is laden with numerous innuendos, crude humor and songs from the period's mainstream, but mostly those from more recent times. Many audiences regarded the film's plot as 'predictable.'

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Harry Dunne, a guy home-schooled all his life, finally gets his chance to go to regular school. At the same time, another guy named Lloyd Christmas (who has been adopted and exchanged several times until he was accepted by Ray the school janitor, as shown in the deleted scenes) becomes over-eager, and gets out of school to get into school. Harry bumps into Lloyd on the way, in search for a treasure his mom asked him to find, and as if it were destiny, the two instantly became the best of friends.

Lloyd introduces Harry to his 'friend', Turk, the school bully who's main function in life appears to be making Lloyd's life Hell (despite the latter enjoying it). After putting Lloyd in a dustbin, he hoists the two friends on a flagpole.

Meanwhile, corrupt Principal Collins is finding a way to get a large amount of money to get a condo in Waikiki. Seeing the two guys getting hoisted on a flagpole made him establish a 'special needs' class to swindle $100,000 from the local community. Obviously, Lloyd and Harry are more than thrilled to help, and thus find themselves signing people who are 'different' to the class. These include a reluctant Turk, a popular kid named Toby, who broke his leg in a skateboarding accident (and whom Lloyd believes is a 'little crippled boy'), geeky Lewis, (Whom Harry and Lloyd believe is a centaur after seeing him half-dressed in his horse mascot costume), Ching-Chong, an Asian exchange student, who later becomes Turk's girlfriend, Carl, a badly injured football player obsessed with his sport and Toby's gorgeous girlfriend Terri.

Jessica, a headstrong student, is suspicious of Collins' sudden contribution. She asks Harry for information. Harry, thinking that she is flirting with him, turns to Lloyd for courtship tips. A repulsive disaster involving Jessica's bathroom and a melted chocolate bar scares her father and directs her attention to Lloyd. Soon the two friends get into a fight over Jessica, without her knowing it.

Inevitably, the two make amends when Lloyd and Harry realise that they were nothing without each other. (That, and the fact that Lloyd stole a stuffed polar bear from a field-trip they had, plus the Principal's 'evil scheme' evidence he stashed in his office, thinking it was Harry's supposed treasure).

It so happens that the Special Needs class was asked to build a float for President's Day at that time. Instead of building a float with George Washington as the main attraction, they change it to look like Principal Collins (as a pirate) with repeated recordings of his damning evidence. Collins is arrested before he can get away, and Lloyd and Harry are regarded as heroes.

However, like the first film, the duo's advances to Jessica were in vain, since it turned out that she had a boyfriend. As the couple rode off, Lloyd and Harry vowed never to fight and risk their friendship over a woman, again. That vow was repeatedly broken.

As Harry and Lloyd head off to enjoy the rest of the day, two girls in a sports car come up to them and offer to bring them to a huge party. The two friends turn them down, and Harry gets covered in mud and dirties Jessica's father's car.

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Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd is generally regarded as one of the worst films ever made; it notched a rating of 10% on the website Rotten Tomatoes. Movie reviewer Wesley Morris, of the Boston Globe journal, summed the movie up like this: 'Believe me, you're better off at home, alphabetizing your old comic books, talking to your parents, or watching paint dry (than watching Dumb And Dumberer).'

James Berardinelli from Reelviews gave the film No Stars out of four, saying that 'Dumb and Dumberer' is "the most unbearable sequel of all time" and "Usually, Hollywood waits until August to empty its cinematic septic tank into multiplexes. This year, the flood has started early. And no movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film."

Neither Jim Carrey nor Jeff Daniels, the stars of the original Dumb & Dumber, were involved in this film. Carrey even said that he hoped Dumb And Dumberer would fail at the box-office, which it did.[citation needed]

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