Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
When something isn't funny, it isn't
funny. "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd" isn't
funny. Making the title really, really long isn't
going to help. Casting Eugene Levy, Cheri Oteri, Bob
Saget, Julia Duffy, Luis Guzman, Dana Gould, Brian
Posehn and Mimi Rogers isn't going to help. Casting
a young female hottie like Rachael Nichols isn't going
to help. Having Mimi Rogers make out with a 15 year
old girl isn't going to help. Having teenage boys
dance in their underwear isn't going to help...
Okay, wait a minute, let's not get
crazy here.
Seriously, if it is at all possible
to be serious about a piece of dung like "Dumb and
Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd," then, seriously,
this film is an atrocity. Writer/Director Troy Miller
should be taken out back and have the shit beat out
of him. New Line Cinema should issue a public apology.
Theater Managers should stand at the exits and hand
out cash refunds. What a horrible, horrible film.
Is it as horrible as "Kung Pow"
or Benigni's "Pinocchio" or "Hudson Hawk" or Fassbiner's
"Querelle?" Again, let's not get crazy here. "Dumb
and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd" is as horrid as
"Out Cold." Nothing worse. If you're 12 years old,
you might enjoy the stupid fart, piss, cum, and incessant
shit jokes. (I bet Troy Miller is a subscriber to
Scat- cats.com). This film is in love with crap. It
emulates it so much that it actually strives to be
crap. I cannot imagine a more horrible film coming
out this year. I'd rather sit through the "1812 Overture"
being played by The All Accordion and Fingernails-on-the-Chalkboard
All-Naked-Crackwhore-with- Runny-Pussies Band than
watch this film again. That's how bad it is.
The two nerdy (supposedly) teenage
boys in the leads here nail Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels
perfectly, but that's obvious from the trailer for
the film. They are given nothing - and I mean NOTHING
- funny to do. These poor cuties, made up to be too
nerdy to be cute, sit and twiddle their thumbs and
try their cute little hearts out and nothing happens.
Nothing. It's sad. Even when the one who is playing
the Jim Carrey part dances in his boxer/briefs you
just feel sorry for him. Poor cutie.
The film is also very offensive
to Asians, the mentally challenged and gays. I could
almost forgive the gay joke here ("Dude, girls are
for fags") if the film didn't repeat the same line
THREE FUCKING TIMES. It's not even funny when Harry
and Lloyd have a "romantic music montage" to "Making
Love Out of Nothing at All" by Air Supply. But the
real, serious problem with the film's derogatory humor
is its treatment of Asians. It tries to redeem this
by making the Asian girl in the film (called Ching
Chong, for Chrissakes) actually smart and American.
IT ISN'T FUNNY. ITS EXPECTED AND TYPICAL AND ABOUT
AS LAME AND AS STUPID AS A ROMANTIC MUSIC MONTAGE
BETWEEN TWO MALE FRIENDS SET TO AIR SUPPLY'S "MAKING
LOVE OUT OF NOTHING AT ALL."
"Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met
Lloyd" is a GIGANTIC waste of 82 minutes of your life.
If there is such a thing as karma, anyone who had
anything to do with this film will be getting what's
coming to them very soon. They better hope they don't
meet in gay guys, Asian Americans or mentally challenged
people in any dark alleys any time soon. I personally
will ching chong the fuck out of them!
Notes:
Also with music by Survivor, Sum
41 and a whole lot of other crappy bands I can't remember.
Filmed in Georgia.
At times the film was known as simply
Dumb and Dumberer, as well as Dumb and Dumber: The
Early Years, Dumb and Dumber: The Prequel and Dumb
and Dumber 2.
At one time it was rumored that
Ben Curtis from the "Dude, we're getting a Dell" computer
commercials was going to play the Daniels role.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone of "South
Park" fame took 1.5 million dollars to write this
prequel and then gave the money back instead of working
on the script.
Rated PG-13. In the outtakes reel,
which has a couple of funny moments, Saget asks if
he should say "shit" or "poo" leading one to believe
that language was a consideration from the beginning
in order to get the PG-13 rating. The number of times
characters say "I'm coming" in this film as a double
entendre is immense and annoying.
Viewed in Austin in June 2003.
