Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Encyclopedia
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (commonly known as Dumb and Dumber: When Harry Met Lloyd, Dumb and Dumberer and Dumb and Dumber 2) is a 2003 comedy film
and 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 poorly received by critics; however, it was a mild domestic box office
success considering its budget, taking in just under $40 million.
all his life, finally gets his chance to go to regular school. At the same time, another guy named Lloyd Christmas (Eric Christian Olsen
) - who has been adopted and exchanged several times until he was accepted by Ray (Luis Guzman
), the school janitor
, as shown in the deleted scene
s - becomes overeager, and gets out of school to get into school. Harry bumps into Lloyd on the way, in search for a treasure his mother (Mimi Rogers
) 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 (Elden Henson
), 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 (Eugene Levy
) is searching for a way to get a large amount of money to get a condominium
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 teen named Toby (Josh Braaten
) who broke his leg in a skateboarding accident - and whom Lloyd believes is a 'little crippled boy'; Toby's gorgeous girlfriend, Terri (Teal Redmann
); geeky Lewis (Shia LaBeouf
) - whom Harry and Lloyd believe is a centaur
after seeing him half-dressed in his horse mascot costume; Cindy (Michelle Krusiec
), also known as Ching-Chong, an Asian exchange student who later becomes Turk's girlfriend; and Carl (William Lee Scott
), a badly injured football player obsessed with his sport.
Jessica (Rachel Nichols
), 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 "shit
") 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 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 the guys head home, they are approached by the Felcher Twins (Julia and Chandra Costello
) in a sports car, who offer to take 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 "shit").
in Marietta
and at the Atlanta International School
in Fulton County
.
. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd was nominated for three Golden Raspberry Awards
: Worst Screenplay, Worst Screen Couple (Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson), and Worst Remake or Sequel.
's Ice, Ice Baby, which was actually released in 1990.
There are many others, including two scenes where more recent five-dollar bills are visible, and the convenience store
carrying merchandise which shows label designs that are not of the time.
There are also many times when vehicles newer than 1986 are seen.
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
and prequel
Prequel
A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...
to 1994's hit comedy Dumb and Dumber, and stars Eric Christian Olsen
Eric Christian Olsen
Eric Christian Olsen is an American actor. He currently portrays Detective Marty Deeks on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early life:...
, Derek Richardson, Rachel Nichols
Rachel Nichols (actress)
Rachel Emily Nichols is an American actress and model. Nichols began modeling while attending Columbia University in New York City in the late 1990s...
, Bob Saget
Bob Saget
Robert Lane "Bob" Saget is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host. Although he is best known for his roles as Danny Tanner in Full House, host of America's Funniest Home Videos and Future Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother, Saget is also known outside of television for his blue...
, Luis Guzmán
Luis Guzmán
Luis Guzmán is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, he has played roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen....
, Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, television director, producer, musician, and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies, and television movies. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films, as Noah Levenstein...
and Mimi Rogers
Mimi Rogers
Mimi Rogers is an American movie actress and competitive poker player.-Early life:Rogers was born Miriam Spickler in Coral Gables, Florida, the daughter of Philip C...
. The film was poorly received by critics; however, it was a mild domestic box office
Box office
A box office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through an unblocked hole through a wall or window, or at a wicket....
success considering its budget, taking in just under $40 million.
Plot
Harry Dunne (Derek Richardson), homeschooledHomeschooling
Homeschooling or homeschool is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school...
all his life, finally gets his chance to go to regular school. At the same time, another guy named Lloyd Christmas (Eric Christian Olsen
Eric Christian Olsen
Eric Christian Olsen is an American actor. He currently portrays Detective Marty Deeks on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early life:...
) - who has been adopted and exchanged several times until he was accepted by Ray (Luis Guzman
Luis Guzmán
Luis Guzmán is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, he has played roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen....
), the school janitor
Janitor
A janitor or custodian is a professional who takes care of buildings, such as hospitals and schools. Janitors are responsible primarily for cleaning, and often some maintenance and security...
, as shown in the deleted scene
Deleted scene
In Entertainment, especially the film and television industry, Deleted scenes are parts of a film removed or censored from or replaced by another scene in the final "cut", or version, of a film...
s - becomes overeager, and gets out of school to get into school. Harry bumps into Lloyd on the way, in search for a treasure his mother (Mimi Rogers
Mimi Rogers
Mimi Rogers is an American movie actress and competitive poker player.-Early life:Rogers was born Miriam Spickler in Coral Gables, Florida, the daughter of Philip C...
) 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 (Elden Henson
Elden Henson
Elden Henson is an American actor. He is best known for playing Fulton Reed in the Mighty Ducks trilogy with Emilio Estevez, and playing Lenny Kagan in The Butterfly Effect....
), 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 (Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, television director, producer, musician, and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies, and television movies. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films, as Noah Levenstein...
) is searching for a way to get a large amount of money to get a condominium
Condominium
A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate is individually owned while use of and access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights...
in Waikiki
Waikiki
Waikiki is a neighborhood of Honolulu, in the City and County of Honolulu, on the south shore of the island of Oahu, in Hawaii. Waikiki Beach is the shoreline fronting Waikīkī....
. 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 teen named Toby (Josh Braaten
Josh Braaten
Josh Braaten is an American actor. He grew up in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota and graduated from Blooming Prairie High in 1995...
) who broke his leg in a skateboarding accident - and whom Lloyd believes is a 'little crippled boy'; Toby's gorgeous girlfriend, Terri (Teal Redmann
Teal Redmann
Teal B. Redmann is an American actress.-Life:She moved from Minnesota to Los Angeles at the age of 17...
); geeky Lewis (Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf
Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor who became known among younger audiences for his part in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens and made his film debut in Holes . In 2007, he starred as the leads in Disturbia and Transformers...
) - whom Harry and Lloyd believe is a centaur
Centaur
In Greek mythology, a centaur or hippocentaur is a member of a composite race of creatures, part human and part horse...
after seeing him half-dressed in his horse mascot costume; Cindy (Michelle Krusiec
Michelle Krusiec
Michelle J. Krusiec born October 2, 1974 in Fallon, Nevada, is an American actress of Taiwanese ancestry.Krusiec was recruited to be one of six globe-trotting travel reporters for the Discovery Channel new series called Travelers...
), also known as Ching-Chong, an Asian exchange student who later becomes Turk's girlfriend; and Carl (William Lee Scott
William Lee Scott
William Lee Scott is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of dim-witted high school student Stanley "Bullethead" Kuznocki on the WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show...
), a badly injured football player obsessed with his sport.
Jessica (Rachel Nichols
Rachel Nichols (actress)
Rachel Emily Nichols is an American actress and model. Nichols began modeling while attending Columbia University in New York City in the late 1990s...
), 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 "shit
Fecal Matter
Fecal Matter was a short-lived punk band from Aberdeen, Washington, that formed in late 1985. It was the first band conceived by Kurt Cobain, who would become famous as the frontman and guitarist of the seminal grunge band, Nirvana. The band recorded only one demo tape, Illiteracy Will Prevail,...
") 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
George Washington
George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
as the main attraction, they change it to look like 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 the guys head home, they are approached by the Felcher Twins (Julia and Chandra Costello
Julia and Chandra Costello
Julia Costello and Chandra Costello are American twin actresses and American models. The twin sisters first gained exposure as "The Juggy Twins" on The Man Show, before competing in the 2004 WWE Diva Search, with Julia getting eliminated first, while Chandra was eliminated...
) in a sports car, who offer to take 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 "shit").
Cast
- Derek Richardson as Harry Dunne
- Eric Christian OlsenEric Christian OlsenEric Christian Olsen is an American actor. He currently portrays Detective Marty Deeks on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early life:...
as Lloyd Christmas - Rachel NicholsRachel Nichols (actress)Rachel Emily Nichols is an American actress and model. Nichols began modeling while attending Columbia University in New York City in the late 1990s...
as Jessica - Eugene LevyEugene LevyEugene Levy, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, television director, producer, musician, and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies, and television movies. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films, as Noah Levenstein...
as Principal Collins - Mimi RogersMimi RogersMimi Rogers is an American movie actress and competitive poker player.-Early life:Rogers was born Miriam Spickler in Coral Gables, Florida, the daughter of Philip C...
as Mrs. Dunne - Luis GuzmanLuis GuzmánLuis Guzmán is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, he has played roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen....
as Ray the Janitor - Cheri OteriCheri OteriCheri Oteri is an American comic actress, best known for her roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2000.-Personal life:...
as Ms. Heller - Julia DuffyJulia DuffyJulia Duffy is an American actress from Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in character roles, best known as the spoiled rich girl and Dick Loudon's inn maid, Stephanie Vanderkellen, on the 1980s sitcom, Newhart.-Career:Duffy's early caeer included parts in soap operas such as One Life to Live,...
and Bob SagetBob SagetRobert Lane "Bob" Saget is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television host. Although he is best known for his roles as Danny Tanner in Full House, host of America's Funniest Home Videos and Future Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother, Saget is also known outside of television for his blue...
as Jessica's parents - Elden HensonElden HensonElden Henson is an American actor. He is best known for playing Fulton Reed in the Mighty Ducks trilogy with Emilio Estevez, and playing Lenny Kagan in The Butterfly Effect....
as Turk - Shia LaBeoufShia LaBeoufShia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor who became known among younger audiences for his part in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens and made his film debut in Holes . In 2007, he starred as the leads in Disturbia and Transformers...
as Lewis - William Lee ScottWilliam Lee ScottWilliam Lee Scott is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of dim-witted high school student Stanley "Bullethead" Kuznocki on the WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show...
as Carl - Michelle KrusiecMichelle KrusiecMichelle J. Krusiec born October 2, 1974 in Fallon, Nevada, is an American actress of Taiwanese ancestry.Krusiec was recruited to be one of six globe-trotting travel reporters for the Discovery Channel new series called Travelers...
as Cindy "Ching-Chong" - Josh BraatenJosh BraatenJosh Braaten is an American actor. He grew up in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota and graduated from Blooming Prairie High in 1995...
as Toby - Teal RedmannTeal RedmannTeal B. Redmann is an American actress.-Life:She moved from Minnesota to Los Angeles at the age of 17...
as Terri - Lin ShayeLin ShayeLinda "Lin" Shaye is an American film, theatre and television actress.-Early life:Born in Detroit, Michigan, Shaye is the daughter of Dorothy , a homemaker, and Max Mendle Shaye, a painter and supermarket owner. Her brother is film executive Robert Shaye...
as Margie - Julia and Chandra CostelloJulia and Chandra CostelloJulia Costello and Chandra Costello are American twin actresses and American models. The twin sisters first gained exposure as "The Juggy Twins" on The Man Show, before competing in the 2004 WWE Diva Search, with Julia getting eliminated first, while Chandra was eliminated...
as the Felcher twins - Timothy StackTimothy StackTimothy Stack is an American film and television actor and screenwriter.-Life and career:He was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, the son of Joan and Tom Stack. He graduated from the esteemed Philadelphia-area prep school Germantown Academy in 1973 and graduated from Boston College in 1978...
as Doctor
Production
Much of the film was filmed in the Metro Atlanta area. Many of the school scenes were filmed at Walton High SchoolGeorge Walton Comprehensive High School
George Walton Comprehensive High School, usually referred to simply as "Walton High School," is public high school located in suburban Marietta, Georgia in the United States. It resides in eastern Cobb County and is a charter school in the Cobb County School District. It is a School of Excellence...
in Marietta
Marietta, Georgia
Marietta is a city located in central Cobb County, Georgia, United States, and is its county seat.As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 56,579, making it one of metro Atlanta's largest suburbs...
and at the Atlanta International School
Atlanta International School
Atlanta International School is a private primary and secondary school located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The more common name for Atlanta International School is AIS. AIS is based on the International Baccalaureate Programme...
in Fulton County
Fulton County, Georgia
Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital since 1868 and the principal county of the Atlanta metropolitan area...
.
Critical response
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd was reviewed very negatively by critics, receiving a rating of 10% on Rotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd was nominated for three Golden Raspberry Awards
Golden Raspberry Awards
A Golden Raspberry Award, or Razzie for short, is an award presented in recognition of the worst in movies. Founded by American copywriter and publicist John J.B. Wilson in 1981, the annual Razzie Awards ceremony in Los Angeles precedes the corresponding Academy Awards ceremony by one day...
: Worst Screenplay, Worst Screen Couple (Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson), and Worst Remake or Sequel.
Anachronisms
The film is set in 1986; however, Lloyd is seen on his first day of school dancing to Vanilla IceVanilla Ice
Robert Matthew Van Winkle , best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, extreme athlete and home improvement television personality...
's Ice, Ice Baby, which was actually released in 1990.
There are many others, including two scenes where more recent five-dollar bills are visible, and the convenience store
Convenience store
A convenience store, corner store, corner shop, commonly called a bodega in Spanish-speaking areas of the United States, is a small store or shop in a built up area that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, toiletries, alcoholic and soft drinks, and may also offer money order and...
carrying merchandise which shows label designs that are not of the time.
There are also many times when vehicles newer than 1986 are seen.