Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Dumb And Dumberer film poster
Directed by Troy Miller
Produced by Oren Koules,
Brad Krevoy,
Steven Stabler,
Troy Miller
Written by Troy Miller
Robert Brenner
Based on the Characters Created By: Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly
Bennett Yellin
Starring Derek Richardson,
Eric Christian Olsen,
Eugene Levy
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) Flag of the United States June 13, 2003
Running time 85 min.
Language English
Budget ~ US$19,000,000
Preceded by Dumb and Dumber
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd is a comedy film that is the prequel to 1994's hit comedy Dumb and Dumber. It stars Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson, Rachel Nichols, Bob Saget, Luis Guzmán, Eugene Levy and Mimi Rogers. The film was a critical flop, but it took in just under $40 million at the worldwide box office - over double the film's budget[1].

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[edit] Overview

Dumb And Dumberer is a teen comedy that looks at the time when the two main characters, Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, first met in high school in 1986. The film is laden with numerous innuendos, crude humor and songs from the period's mainstream, but mostly those from more recent times.[citation needed]

[edit] Plot

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

Lloyd introduces Harry to his 'friend', Turk, the school bully whose main function in life appears to be making Lloyd's life hell (despite the latter enjoying it). After putting Lloyd in a dustbin, he hoists the two friends up a flagpole.

Meanwhile, corrupt Principal Collins is searching for a way to get a large amount of money to get a condo in Waikiki. Seeing two guys getting hoisted on a flagpole makes him establish a 'special needs' class to swindle $100,000 from the local community. Obviously, Lloyd and Harry are more than thrilled to help, and thus find themselves signing up people who are 'different' for the class. These include a reluctant Turk, a popular kid named Toby who broke his leg in a skateboarding accident (and whom Lloyd believes is a 'little crippled boy'), geeky Lewis (whom Harry and Lloyd believe is a centaur after seeing him half-dressed in his horse mascot costume), Ching-Chong (an Asian exchange student who later becomes Turk's girlfriend), Carl (a badly injured football player obsessed with his sport), and Toby's girlfriend Terri.

Jessica, a headstrong student, is suspicious of Collins' sudden contribution. She asks Harry for information. Harry, who thinks that she is flirting with him, turns to Lloyd for courtship tips. A repulsive disaster involving Jessica's bathroom and a melted chocolate bar scares her father (who freaks out, thinking that it's fecal matter) and directs her attention to Lloyd. Soon the two friends get into a fight over Jessica, without her knowing it.

Inevitably, the two make amends when Lloyd and Harry realise that they were nothing without each other. (That, and the fact that Lloyd stole a stuffed polar bear from a field-trip 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 change it to look like Principal Collins (as a pirate) with repeated recordings of his damning evidence. Collins is arrested before he can get away, and Lloyd and Harry are 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.

As Harry and Lloyd head off to enjoy the rest of the day, two girls in a sports car come up to them and offer to bring them to a huge party. The two friends turn them down, and Harry gets covered in mud and dirties Jessica's father's car (who again thinks it's fecal matter).

[edit] Production

The film was reportedly panned by the original duo from Dumb & Dumber, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. While a Farrelly brothers creation, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone started production on the film, but later abandoned it.[citation needed]

Much of the film was filmed in the Metro Atlanta area. Many of the school scenes were filmed at Walton High School in Marietta and at the Atlanta International School in Fulton County.[citation needed]

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[edit] Songs in movie

[edit] Critical Reaction

Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd is generally regarded a rating of 10% on the website Rotten Tomatoes. Movie reviewer Wesley Morris, of the Boston Globe journal, 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 (than watching Dumb And Dumberer).'[citation needed]

James Berardinelli from Reelviews gave the film No Stars out of four, saying that 'Dumb and Dumberer' is "the most unbearable sequel of all time" and "Usually, Hollywood waits until August to empty its cinematic septic tank into multiplexes. This year, the flood has started early. And no movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film."[citation needed]

[edit] Trivia

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  • Lin Shaye is the only actor from the original Dumb and Dumber to appear in the sequel, albeit in a different role.
  • In a scene based in 1986, there is a new $5 bill which didn't circulate for use until the 2000's.[citation needed]
  • In a scene based in 1986, there is music playing by Vanilla Ice, the track Ice Ice Baby is played, this song wasn't released until 1990.
  • The ending where Harry and Lloyd turn down the offer of the two girls to go to a party is similar to the ending of the original Dumb and Dumber where Harry and Lloyd turn down a chance to be oil boys for Hawaiian Tropic bikini models. They are the Felcher sisters (one of whom is Freda). In Dumb & Dumber, Freda Felcher was the girl that Lloyd slept with when she was dating Harry.
  • Neither Jim Carrey nor Jeff Daniels, the stars of the original Dumb and Dumber were involved with this film. Carrey and Daniels themselves even said they hoped Dumb and Dumberer would fail at the box office, which it didn't, despite failing critically.

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