Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

In all it's a pleasant surprise if not a great comedy.

Film Threat Kevin Carr

Sure, Dumb and Dumberer is dumb, dumber and dumberer than the original, but if you like that kind of banal, rustic and sophomoric humor (and I have to admit, I kinda do), it might be worth a buck or two at a discount theater.

New York Post Megan Lehmann

A harmless celebration of idiocy that is the cinematic equivalent of an overeager, block-headed puppy chasing its tail.

Variety Joe Leydon

Fitfully amusing prequel.

Premiere Laine Ewen

Lacks the heart that might otherwise have breathed life into the pointless shtick.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

The movie's really about the impressions of the original performances by newcomers Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson. Olsen does an uncanny Carrey, and Richardson vaguely resembles Daniels.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Without any of the patented Farrelly insight into the insecure, horndoggy teen in every man, and without a grown-up setting in which Harry and Lloyd can transgress like dum-dum geniuses,Dumb and Dumberer is dumberest.

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

Exactly as you may expect, this thing is good for a few cheap little laughs and no more.

Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

Falls wildly short of its inspirations.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Long, lumbering and endlessly unfunny.

USA Today Claudia Puig

In "There's Something About Mary," the gross gags were hilarious. Here, they're just vile.

Portland Oregonian Christy Lemire

Has all the gross-out humor but none of the goofy sweetness. It also has neither of the Farrellys, which is agonizingly evident throughout.

Baltimore Sun Roger Moore

The only bits worth watching are the scenes where Olsen is in full Carrey mode and Richardson is doing his best Jeff Daniels. The spot-on impersonations take the mind off the plot, the poo-poo gags, the clunky chase scene and the ripped-off finale.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

To call this effort misguided would be kind. The job this "prequel" does on the original Dumb and Dumber is the movie equivalent of surgery that removes all the vital organs and then gives the patient a prosthetic third arm. What's needed isn't there, and what's here we don't need.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

It's so sloppy that the flashback montage includes clips from scenes that were cut from the film!

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The jokes? "Chicks are for fags," says Lloyd. The film is subtitled When Harry Met Lloyd. Believe me, you don't want to be there.

TV Guide Angel Cohn

The film's only mildly appealing character is the "Big A" store clerk (Brian Posehn) who refuses to be amused by Lloyd and Harry's moronic antics; sadly, even he eventually succumbs to the film's relentless and overarching stupidity.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Wasted comedy ringers Eugene Levy and Cheri Oteri co-star.

The New York Times Dave Kehr

While "Dumb and Dumber" possessed a bracing, genuine vulgarity, this new film is more often merely disgusting as it piles up jokes involving various bodily discharges and the unpleasant things that can be done with them.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The best thing I can say about this limp prequel to the Farrelly brothers' Dumb & Dumber is that it obliged me to check out the original, which I'd been studiously avoiding for years. If you haven't seen it, it's pretty funny, and mercifully light on the scatology and cheap sentiment of later Farrelly efforts.

LA Weekly John Patterson

Levy, Luis Guzman, Cheri Oteri -- utterly wasted. At 82 minutes it feels longer than “Lawrence of Arabia” -- and a lot less funny.

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

So excruciatingly awful, the word "dumb" could sue for slander.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Yes, I've seen Dumb and Dumberer, so you don't have to. As good deeds go, this is about as significant as getting a cat out of a tree, but believe me, you're better off at home, alphabetizing your old comic books, talking to your parents, or watching paint dry.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

I wouldn't want you to consider even renting this thing. It would only encourage another prequel, this time featuring two dumb toddlers who keep walking into doors and become great pals. Call it "Duh and Duh."

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

To call it sophomoric would libel even the most pathetic, pimply underclassman.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Even with its scant running time, this nightmarish travesty barrels along with all the whipcord speed and nimble comedic grace of a loved one’s funeral.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

No movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Mind-numbing, soul-testing, character-defiling experience that offers not one nanosecond of comic relief.