A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

This was one of the worse movies I've ever seen. I can't think right now of a movie that was worse. I did not laugh once during this movie. It's a cheap insult to the movie going public. You saw the first Dumb and Dumber, and that was funny. I was laughing so hard during the bathroom scene that I was worried I would hurt myself. So after having seen the first one, you gotta go see the sequel, and the movie executives know this. They knew that just the title alone would fill a lot of seats, and they made absolutely no effort to make a decent movie.Throughout the movie I sat there. The lady I was with wanted to walk out. I paid $7 for myself and another $7 for her, and I'll be doggoned if I wasn't going to get at least one laugh out of it. I sat through the whole movie hoping that I would get at least a chuckle. After the first few minutes I knew I wasn't going to get a laugh worth $14, but I at least wanted something for that kind of bread. I didn't get it. I never laughed once. When I came out, not only was I disappointed but my lady friend was angry with me. I don't know what they could have done to make this movie worse.

The story of when Harry Dunne met Lloyd Christmas and they must help foil a scam as the headteacher of their school has set up a plan with their lunch lady to step up a special needs class so they can get a cheque and flee of to a better life. Harry, Lloyd and some other classmates are thrown into the mix of those who are classed as "special-needed".This film starred: Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson & Eugene Levy.DUMB AND DUMBERER:WHEN HARRY MET LLOYD was released in 2003. This is a disappointing movie although both of the main characters could almost pas as Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. However there were only a couple of laughs in this film so I don't really recommend it but this probably deserves higher than a 3.4 or whatever it has on this site.***/***** Could be worse.

Atrocity aptly epitomizes "Jack Frost" director Troy Miller's "Dumb and Dumber" prequel "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd" with Eric Christian Olsen cast as Lloyd Christmas and Derek Richardson as Harry Dunne. This lackluster comic melodrama provides us with the back story about how Lloyd and Harry met in 1986 and became lifelong pals. Indeed, we learn that the two collide with each other on the sidewalk on their way to school, and Lloyd's tooth broke and stuck into Harry's forehead. They wind up in a 'special needs' class at their high school that a crooked principal, Principal Collins (Eugene Levy of "American Pie, and his squeeze cafeteria supervisor Ms. Heller (Cheri Oteri of "Liar Liar"), plan to rip off the school so they can relocate to a tropical climate. Of course, the misfits win, but tyro scribe Robert Brenner and Miller don't pull off anything as imaginative as the Farrelly brother did. The most grotesque scene has poor Harry at his girlfriend's house with feces all over himself and Jessica's father Bob Saget of "America's Funniest Home Videos" howling in agony. The funniest scene is the opener when Harry is born and we see life from his perspective looking out of his mom's womb. Naturally, Harry wants nothing to do with life and refuses to accommodate the pediatrician. The biggest future star who is cast as one of the misfits that gravitate toward Lloyd and Harry is none other than "Transformers'" star Shia LaBeouf. Happily, Eric Christian Olsen, who does resemble what a young Lloyd might look like, went on to better things in the CBS-TV "NCIS Los Angeles." Writer & director Miller puts our harebrained heroes through their paces, but we don't feel for them like we felt for their grown-up counterparts. "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd" didn't make enough bucks at the box office and the "Dumb and Dumber" franchise would languish another eleven years before the Farrelly brothers revived it. Only completists will want to waste their time on this nonsense. Several bigger names are lost in the mishmash, among them Luis Guzman was Lloyd's janitor father. For the record, the Felcher twins show up at the end.