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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, to name a few.

Plot

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 1986. The film is laden with numerous innuendos, crude humor and songs from the period's mainstream, but mostly those from recently. Many regarded the film's plot as "predictable."

Harry, a guy home-schooled all his life, finally gets his chance to go to regular school. At the same time, another guy named Lloyd (who has been adopted and exchanged several times until he was accepted by Ray the janitor, as shown in the deleted scenes), become overeager and gets out of school to get to 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.

Meanwhile, corrupt Principal Collins is finding a way to get a large amount of money to take a vacation. 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 were more than thrilled to help, and thus found themselves signing people who are 'different', to the class.

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 disgusting disaster involving Jessica's bathroom and a melted chocolate bar scared her dad and directed her attention to Lloyd. Soon the two friends get into a fight over Jessica, without her knowing it.

Inevitably, the two made amends when Lloyd and Harry realised that they were nothing without the other (That, and that Lloyd stole a stuffed polar bear from a fieldtrip 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 changed it to look like Principal Collins (as a pirate) with repeated recordings of his damning evidence. Collins was arrested before he got away and Lloyd and Harry were 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.

Main Cast

Supporting Cast

Songs in movie

Critical Reaction

"Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd" is generally regarded as one of the worst films ever made; it notched a rating of 10% at Rotten Tomatoes. Movie reviewer Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe 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 watching 'Dumb And Dumberer'."

Neither Jim Carrey nor Jeff Daniels, the stars of the original Dumb & Dumber, were involved in this film. Many regarded the film's plot as "predictable." Jim Carrey even said that he hoped that "Dumb and Dumberer" would fail at the box-office.

See also

External links

2003 films | Buddy films | Comedy films | Teen films

 

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