At one point he inhales a hot dog like a baby bird slurping a worm. Jim Carrey slides right into character as if no time has passed, his frightening physicality on full display. Needless to say, Lloyd and Harry undermine their devious plan with a toxic brew of farts, fireworks, and obliviousness. Pinchelow (Steve Tom), is a world-renowned scientist whose wife Adele (Laurie Holden) has a plan to knock him off. Pants’ All Nude Cabaret (“No high sticking”).Īlong for the ride to El Paso is Travis (Rob Riggle), a suspiciously hands-on handyman in Penny’s wealthy household. The Farrellys have great affection for dingy off-ramp America, and on the Rhode Island–Maryland–El Paso jaunt we are treated to The Blue Crab Motel (with crustacean headboards), Three Finger Eddie’s Fireworks (self-explanatory), and the hockey-themed Mr. But the Farrelly’s sacred space is the road trip, and once the two idiots fire up their hearse’s engine the movie finds its slapstick sweet spot. There’s also a regrettable “funny Chinese accent” sequence that would have been offensive even in the original. The opening scenes play awkwardly and off tempo, as if Daniels and Carrey were pausing for laughter in between each line. Lloyd and Harry plan to track her down, earn her love, and take her kidney.

Their tortured search for a donor leads them to funeral director Fraida Felcher (Kathleen Turner, having a good time) and the revelation that Harry has a grown daughter, Penny (Rachel Melvin), who has gone to give a speech at a tech conference in El Paso. Lloyd only stops the ruse when Harry confesses that one of his kidneys is failing and needs a transplant. Their insular codependence is neatly portrayed in Dumb and Dumber To’s opener, which explains their 20-year absence as the result of a decades-long prank: Lloyd has pretended to be comatose at Baldy View Psychiatric Hospital, where Harry loyally visits every week and artfully changes his diaper. Lloyd and Harry’s entire existence is based on investigating their various odors and emissions, and expecting everyone else to be as fascinated as they are. The Farrelly Brothers’ central characters are invariably obsessed with the freakishness of their own bodies-whether it’s Woody Harrelson’s hook-hand in Kingpin (96) or the conjoined twins of Stuck on You (03). The only thing they never forget is their affection for each other, lending their infantile bond a sweetness that is central to Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s bodily-fluid-rich oeuvre. Though their faces have become riven with wrinkles and folds of fat since their debut in 1994, age has granted them not wisdom but instead short-term memory loss, allowing them a kind of radical freedom to forgive each other’s formidable flaws. Twenty years off has not dimmed the dimwittedness of Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels), the morons of Dumb and Dumber and now its sequel.

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