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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Overwhelming dislike
Based on 28 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Robert Brenner
Troy Miller
Directed by: Troy Miller
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 13, 2003
DVD: November 11, 2003
Running Time: 85 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, and for language
Starring Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson, Luis Guzmán, Eugene Levy, Rachel Nichols, and Mimi Rogers
A prequel to the 1994 Farrelly Bros. comedy hit "Dumb and Dumber."
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FILM: Dumb and Dumber
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What The Critics Said
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
In all it's a pleasant surprise if not a great comedy.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Megan Lehmann
A harmless celebration of idiocy that is the cinematic equivalent of an overeager, block-headed puppy chasing its tail.
Read Full Review >Premiere Laine Ewen
Lacks the heart that might otherwise have breathed life into the pointless shtick.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Exactly as you may expect, this thing is good for a few cheap little laughs and no more.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
In "There's Something About Mary," the gross gags were hilarious. Here, they're just vile.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's so sloppy that the flashback montage includes clips from scenes that were cut from the film!
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Wasted comedy ringers Eugene Levy and Cheri Oteri co-star.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
So excruciatingly awful, the word "dumb" could sue for slander.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
To call it sophomoric would libel even the most pathetic, pimply underclassman.
Read Full Review >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 ones funeral.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
No movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Mind-numbing, soul-testing, character-defiling experience that offers not one nanosecond of comic relief.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.3 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Gerrick C. gave it a1:
It's documented sequels are usually not as good as the first, and in the case of this movie, it could not be more obvious. In a followup to an already flop movie the sequel makes the first look smart. An abomination to movie sequels.
Justin C. gave it an8:
I liked it, but I'm a sucker for dumb humor.
Boneho C. gave it a0:
So bad! I was trying to figure out who find most of the jokes funny. It's too inappropriate for children, too immature for adults. I saw it in my early teen years, and the whole time I was thinking, where's Jim Carry and Jeff Daniels. Then the credits came on and I realized what an awesome move those guys made in avoiding this.
Joe M. gave it a0:
This movie was so unbelievably bad that it nearly destroyed the whole world and everything on it. After I watched it, I lay in a bombshelter for 8 days eating tin food.
Justin C. gave it an8:
The thing about this movie is that its stupid...but in a good way. The only flaw is that they don't even have a little appreance by Jim Carrey or Jeff Daniels.
Pat H gave it a6:
The only thing about this movie was the lackluster plot. Other than that, this movie was a stupid movie with many good laughs. Not like other comedies.
Justin C. gave it an8:
This movie is stupid....but very very funny.
