Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Critic Reviews

Fitfully amusing prequel.Read the full review

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 the full review

Falls wildly short of its inspirations. Read the full review

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

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 the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

Wasted comedy ringers Eugene Levy and Cheri Oteri co-star.Read the full review

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 the full review