Dumb and Dumber is back with laughter

Nothing, unless you are so dumb you end up throwing the ticket away because you thought the digits had to appear in the same order they were called out in the draw.

If you thought only Jim Carrey could be so stupid, you are wrong; there is another fool with whom he competes for the dumbest of the dumb.

The unintelligent Carrey is back as Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber Too, with his equally intelligent friend, Harry Dunne, portrayed by Jeff Daniels.

The two will have you feeling as intelligent as Einstein as you walk out the cinema and begging to know whether a bright spark has cashed in on their squandered millions.

If you are a Dumb and Dumber fan, then you will enjoy the latest movie – if not, you will likely hate the crude and sometimes vulgar jokes.

However, you cannot help but admire Lloyd and Harry’s brilliant acting and shenanigans.

The comedy kicks off 20 years from its prequel and presents its two main characters with a challenge they have not faced before – the responsibility of being fathers, or so they think.

The movie, directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, begins on a sombre note with a scene of Lloyd at the Baldy View Mental Hospital, which has been his abode for 20 years.

Despite his unresponsiveness, his long-time friend Harry has visited him weekly – changing his nappies and offering him some respite from his condition.

The film starts as Harry visits his longtime friend in the mental home’s garden, where he tells Lloyd he will no longer be making his frequent visits.

The immobile Lloyd takes badly to this news and cannot help but mutter a sound, wait a while and leap from his wheelchair in laughter, saying: ”gotcha”.

Harry is stunned and surprised, yet amused when Lloyd tells him that he has been the victim of 20-year long prank.

For 20 years Lloyd has been faking his condition, not stopping sooner because it would not have been as funny breaking the silence before 20 years.

This scene sets the tone for a movie jam-packed with further farcical and comic scenes.

Almost immediately, Harry breaks the news that he is in need of a kidney transplant.

This news sets the two on a quest to find a donor, but not just anyone.

On a trip to Harry’s childhood home, his adopted Asian parents give him post which has been piling up since 1991.

The purpose of the visit was to ask his parents for a kidney, which he finds out will not be possible, as he was adopted.

In his post, he finds a letter sent 22 years earlier by his old girlfriend Fraida Felcher, informing him that she is pregnant.

Harry immediately concludes he is the father, and that he has a 22-year-old daughter, Penny Pichlow, played by Rachel Melvin, who would be able to donate one of her kidneys.

Penny was adopted by a famous scientist and his wife.

Harry and Lloyd embark on a trip to find Penny.

After making it to her home and meeting her adoptive father and wife, they discover they have just missed her, as she has already left to address a science colloquium on behalf of her ailing father, to present the audience with her father’s scientific breakthrough.

Naturally, the sexually inexperienced and awkward Lloyd dreams of getting off with his friend’s beautiful daughter, long before and after he meets her.

He and his friend finally locate the daughter, who is also not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Confusion sets in when Lloyd believes Penny is actually his child.

The pair end the movie reunited, but as dumb as ever.

Dumb and Dumber Too is a must see if you want to break away from the seriousness of the world.

You will find yourself reciting the movie’s funny moments (which are a large chunk of the movie) to your friends.

The movie is currently showing at the Northmead Square.

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