To be honest, I have completely forgotten about this movie, in two ways, I forgot what it was about, and that it even exists.Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry met Lloyd is a sad excuse to cash in on the very highly successful and well liked Dumb and Dumber. I applaud Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey for not appearing or even involving themselves with this movie in the slightest sense. This is one movie I liked the first time I saw it, and then when I watched it again, it was so stupid, and I have never watched it again, in effect, I have only watched this movie exactly twice, and that is far too many. heck, even one viewing is far too many viewing.

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003): Dir: Troy Miller / Cast: Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson, Eugene Levy, Cheri Oteri, Bob Saget: Title is a satire jab at When Harry Met Sally. That film regarded a chance encounter about time and relationships but this idiotic prequel to Dumb and Dumber gives endless vulgarity about stupidity. Lame setup regards Harry and Lloyd taught at home before being sent to high school. The principal plans to extort money and needs a fake special education class to pull it off. Embarrassing climax at a parade with director Troy Miller showing no skill. He previously directed Jack Frost and his talent hasn't improved here. Example of this regards the kidnapped girl who suddenly appears in the conclusion, or the chocolate smeared about the washroom that is mistaken for crap. Can they not smell the difference? This can be credited as a moment in Bob Saget's career that he will likely regret. Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson attempt to fill shoes too big for them. The idea of a narrating regarding their upbringing and first encounter might have worked in hands that didn't belong to Miller. Eugene Levy and Cheri Oteri are wasted as a principal and secretary out to scam their way through life. This film proved to be dumber when you have people who confuse chocolate for sh*t. This film is a perfect example of the latter. Score: 1 / 10

After seeing both the original and the third Dumb and Dumber film, I've decided to look back at the prequel. All I do have to say though is that at times it does get pretty stupid even for Dumb and Dumberer and it just doesn't work.Okay, the plot is that Harry and Lloyd meet up for the first time in High School and The Principal there wants to exploit a lot of money going into the school by building a special needs class and run away with the lunch lady, now teacher of the class (Which wouldn't it be investigated whether she has had any experience in teaching in order to get the money?) So who are they going to get?... Harry and Lloyd, who have to pick the rest of the class under the impression that Special means... Well, special. While this is going on the love interest tries to expose the principal for what's going on, but it's up to Harry and Lloyd to unintentionally find it out.Here's my big problem with the movie. These kids are meant to be 16 years old, or thereabouts. Let me ask a question - How many stupid ideas did you have at that age? How many times did you do something stupid? Part of what made the first and third one funny is that these people can't read and yet they're somehow functioning in society, and with teenagers they do not have the responsibilities that adults do, so having idiot teenagers being the one and only shtick doesn't work.Here's another problem, it's borderline offensive. when recruiting for the special needs class there's one scene where Harry and Lloyd try and sign up a foreign exchange student. How? by saying "Ching-Chong" over and over. That and they try and make out that although the person giving the special needs grant has a lot of money, he doesn't function as anything above a child when an FBI agent tries to pursue the principal. Okay, I saw what went on in a couple of special needs classes during High School and even in there, while there was some huge childishness that went on, it wasn't anything like they're saying here - and you're telling me that someone operating on the same level as someone who's 6 can be millionaires or something?... HA-HA! I wish.Well, the humour itself is not funny either on any level. There's a point in the movie where Harry sits on a radiator while talking with the love interest and melts the chocolate bar he was going to give her. Then when going to the bathroom after burning his ass he accidentally messes up the bathroom by accidentally getting the chocolate on everything... which makes me question whether a Hershey's bar has that much chocolate in it. And the father, who's a clean freak decides to walk in on it after they leave... What happens? He screams "There's sh!t everywhere! There's sh!t all over the walls" and goes on and on. What's that? It's not funny? Well the writers thought it was being that the father also says the same thing at the ending when Harry gets run over by him while drenched in mud. I must be missing something but How is that funny? Are you telling me it was so good to have it done twice? I don't think so because on both times I didn't laugh once, that really sums up the humour of this movie, whether I take the age of the characters into consideration or not.I'll be fair in saying that in some ways the people they got to do the younger versions of these characters do okay jobs and while I trivialized the humour by talking about one joke, there was about one laugh in the movie and some of the set-ups are actually quite good. The problem is that it had little idea if at all of what made the original Dumb and Dumber work. Dumb and Dumber To fares better but I would say just place it down as a thankfully forgotten piece of history.

And now we know how it all began. In 1986, Harry has been home-schooled by his widowed mother and doesn't have a clue about how the outside world works. Lloyd lives at the school he attends because his father Ray (at least I think that's his father, because Harry doesn't appear Hispanic) is the janitor. But Lloyd doesn't get that he doesn't have to catch the bus: he's already AT school.If not for that one little detail Harry and Lloyd might never have met. The two immediately become friends and Lloyd explains to Harry what he needs to know about attending a real school. They don't really comprehend that the minute they arrive at school, Turk and the other cool kids are actually bullying them.And then there is Jessica, the cute girl in the tight sweater and the really short skirt. She's really nice but the guys misinterpret her behavior, as she has a boyfriend and really wants something from them.Principal Collins and lunch lady Ms. Heller are having a secret affair, financed by the money they embezzle from the school. And they will really have a chance to clean up: Mr. Moffitt, a successful man who was once a "special needs" student (hey, Forrest Gump did it) will give $100,000 to any school which develops its own special needs program.Amazingly, except for Harry and Lloyd, this school has no actual special needs students. Every school has them and it should be no problem. But Ms. Heller will teach the class and Harry and Lloyd will recruit the students. They're not too bright and don't quite understand that some of these kids are not "special", such as the football team's mascot who is not really part horse. However, the "special" kids will get out of doing real work, so they quickly agree to be part of the scam. Among the special kids are Carl, Toby, Lewis, and of course Turk. A Chinese exchange student our heroes call Ching Chong must be special too because she has trouble with English.Jessica is suspicious and goes in search of answers about the alleged special needs class. Meanwhile, photos are taken in a fake classroom actually used for computer classes. But the class actually meets in a shed used by Ray. Their big project will be a parade float.Jessica and Harry become friends, and he meets her parents in what turns out to be a hilarious disaster, with Lloyd failing miserably as a Cyrano de Bergerac, while Harry forgets about the chocolate bar in his back pocket and later sits on the hot radiator in Jessica's room. If you love bathroom humor, what comes next is a classic moment. And if that's not enough, Harry has another unfortunate incident with Jessica's father involving mud.There's another great gag involving frozen drinks, "it", and complete ignorance of exactly how gasoline works. Also an exciting car chase.So will Jessica find out the truth? Will the villains in this adventure get what's coming to them?No, this doesn't live up to the classic original "Dumb and Dumber", but if you don't set your expectations too high ... it's still not that great. Well, there are plenty of good moments.Derek Richardson and Eric Christian Olsen both do a reasonably good job. So do Eugene Levy and Cheri Oteri. No one's winning awards here but you have to laugh at these people.Rachel Nichols is pleasant and intelligent, and good-looking in the style of Gwyneth Paltrow.Bob Saget is perfectly normal as Jessica's father until ... you know. And then he really shines.Dana Gould has a great scene as the former special needs student.Other enjoyable performances come from Brian Posehn, the store clerk, and Michelle Krusiec as Ching Chong.If you're looking for quality, you're not going to find it here. If you enjoy juvenile humor about losers in high school, this just may be for you.I know I liked it.