You'd have to be stupid not to realise that Dumb � Dumber's original best-buds Harry and Lloyd this time round aren't played by dopey Jeff Daniels or crackpot Jim Carrey, but you'd honestly have to be stupider to believe the widespread crap press this sequel (that is really a prequel) has unfairly received.
A metaphorical prequel for the fact that this is set around the time that Harry and Lloyd first meet by literally bumping into one another, we bear witness to the dimwits' wayward adolescence and dimness through their charmed high-school years.
I can't honestly remember (and I certainly couldn't pronounce) the name of the guy who takes over from Jim Carrey as Lloyd, but you can't deny that he and Carrey really are dead ringers and act-alikes. Carrey, for all his cynics, is one of the most versatile actors ever to make fun of Hollywood fatigue� but this unknown actor has seemingly studied all of Carrey's quirkiest traits and is hopefully destined for more comedies of a similarly hilarious nature.
So 'Dumb and Dumber' was as crude as untreated oil indecently leaking on a naturist beach, and this second movie is in bit-parts yet sick and sicker� one scene in which Harry kinda messes up the bathroom of a girl he's trying to impress is utterly priceless in the piss-&-shit-yourself laughing stakes; you've never seen anything so brown, believe me!�
You could never expect 'Dumb and Dumberer' to match up to the original without Carrey, who was far too busy to even consider shooting this given his 'Bruce Almighty' showcase. Despite the lack of star stature though (even if 'American Pie'-man Eugene Levy does attend), this still has some cult classic humour� and Harry and Lloyd as characters (regardless of who plays them) remain way funnier than Wayne and Garth or Jay and Silent Bob as the best of brainless friends. 5/5 (STEVE RUDD)