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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Starring: Eric Christian Olsen,…

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Starring: Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson and Eugene Levy

Directed by: Troy Miller

New Line Cinema

When the movie ended, four teenage girls sitting behind me said, in unison, “That movie was cute.”

Cute? A cute movie is something like “Finding Nemo” or “Rugrats Go Wild,” not “Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd.”

No, this movie was not cute at all. And it wasn’t funny either. Mind you, I overheard these same girls, who thought this movie was good and cute, using the word “like” a billion times in a five-minute conversation.

The premise of “Dumb and Dumberer” is that before Harry Dunne and Lloyd Christmas went through their dumb hijinx in the original movie, starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, there was high school, where Harry and Lloyd met.

In this prequel, Harry (Derek Richardson) and Lloyd (Eric Christian Olsen) meet on their way to the first day of class. Harry has been home-schooled all his life (he is supposed to be 18) and has no friends, with the exception of an imaginary pirate that he calls Captain Rob.

Lloyd, on the other hand, lives in the basement of the school with his father, Ray (Luis Guzman) the high school janitor. Even though Lloyd lives in the school, we see him leaving the school to go catch a bus to come to the school – I hope I didn’t lose you there, it’s dumb I know.

On his way to catch the bus, Lloyd literally runs into Harry, chipping his tooth and putting a knot in Harry’s forehead. The two become instant friends.

Principal Collins (Eugene Levy) and Ms. Heller, the cafeteria lady, played by Cheri Oteri, plan to steal money from the school by forming a Special Needs Class, then move to Hawaii together. All they need is to find some special needs students. Who better than our two moronic protagonists?

The script for this movie was terrible. Simple sight gags were used to try to get laughs and, basically, this was a movie that shouldn’t have been made. Olsen and Richardson had the look of the characters, but there is no way anyone can duplicate what Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels did in the original. This is clear when Harry and Lloyd are eating dinner at Harry’s house and Lloyd says the classic line, “I like it a lot.” Olsen tried his best, but “You can’t triple stamp a double stamp.”

The only reason this movie got a full star was Bob Saget. Only in the movie for about five minutes, Saget said the word “shit” 13 times.

If you’re someone like the four who sat behind me at the theater, or have the maturity of a 5-year-old, then you may enjoy this movie. If you aren’t, you may want to save your hard-earned cash and go see something else.