MOVIE REVIEW - Dumb And Dumber 2

There were a few words that kept running through my mind during the screening of Dumb And Dumber 2. The one most frequent was - sad.

20 years after the raunchy, but guilty-pleasure ridden original, film makers The Farrelly Brothers re-hired Jim Carey, and Jeff Daniels to be Lloyd and Harry again.  Right off the bat, it's sad the Farrelly Brothers have to rehash an ancient idea, can't leave well enough alone, and have no new ideas. 

Equally sad, is that two humongous multi-millionaires Carey and Daniels agreed to look like morons again, this time at 50+ years old, with the same jokes from 1994. Daniels especially has moved so far beyond this type of thing as an actor, it is miles beneath him to reprise this. Carey is who he is.  So, after making a bunch of good movies since, that too expanded his horizons, he fell back in the septic well too.  All they had to say was - no.  And we are all spared from this.

Really sad is the free fall from grace of the once great, Kathleen Turner.  She is in this, and it almost hurts to see her here.  There is a little known supporting cast that now can cash a nice paycheck, and keep their careers going, as this will be a hit one way or another.  This will do well at the theater, and if not, certainly for home streaming and DVD.

There isn't much to review here. It's the same movie as before.  A ton of poop and pee jokes, always trying to gross us out.  A bunch of silly dialogue that sounds amazingly similar to the original.  Plus, they again go out on the "no group left un-offended" list.  And just for good measure, they have to play the lets gross everyone out as much as possible card with a nursing home scene that designed for big laughs, is simply horrible.  And fell shockingly flat with the theater audience today.

In short, it's all about the cash.  They got away with this once, and that's fine.  This is clearly designed to re-boot this franchise, and introduce Harry and Lloyd to a new generation of fans who simply won't watch a 20 year-old movie.  There's enough 7th grade humor to go around.

Dumb And Dumber 2.  Yeah, there's a few laughs, but the emphasis is on - a few.