| 28th | Top comedy films of the 2000s: 2003 |
| Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd | |
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 Dumb And Dumberer film poster |
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| Directed by | Troy Miller |
| Produced by | Troy Miller Brad Krevoy Oren Koules Steven Stabler Charles B. Wessler Associate Producer: Tally Barr Co-Producer: Carl Mazzocone Executive Producer: Toby Emmerich Cale Boyter Robert Brener Bennett Yellin |
| Written by | Troy Miller Robert Brener Story: Robert Brener Characters: Peter Farrelly Bobby Farrelly Bennett Yellin |
| Starring | Derek Richardson Eric Christian Olsen Eugene Levy |
| Music by | Eban Schletter |
| Cinematography | Anthony B. Richmond |
| Editing by | Lawrence Jordan |
| Studio | New Line Cinema Burg/Koules Productions Dakota Pictures Avery Pix |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | June 13, 2003 |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Budget | ~ US$19,000,000 |
| Gross revenue | $39,267,515 (worldwide) [1] |
| Preceded by | Dumb and Dumber |
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (commonly known as Dumb and Dumber: When Harry Met Lloyd and Dumb and Dumber 2) is a 2003 comedy film that is the prequel to 1994's hit comedy Dumb and Dumber, and stars Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson, Rachel Nichols, Bob Saget, Luis Guzmán, Eugene Levy and Mimi Rogers. The film was a critical flop; however it was a mild box office success considering its budget, taking in just under $40 million at the worldwide box office.[1]
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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 gorgeous 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 realize 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 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).
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.
Dumb And Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd was reviewed very negatively by critics, receiving a rating of 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. Movie reviewer Wesley Morris, of the Boston Globe journal, stated that, "You're better off at home, alphabetizing your old comic books, talking to your parents, or watching paint dry (than watching Dumb and Dumberer)."[2]
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."[3]
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