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Dumb & Dumber To is directed by Peter & Bobby Farrelly (Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) and written by Sean Anders & John Morris (Sex Drive, She’s Out of My League), Mike Cerrone (Me, Myself & Irene) and Bennett Yellin (Dumb & Dumber). Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise their roles as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, 20 years after their last road trip, and this time they have to hit the road again to find Harry’s illegitimate daughter for a kidney transplant. (synopsis via First Showing)
Given the way time seems to fly by, twenty years may not like a lot of time but in the grand scheme of things it’s enough time for quite a lot of things to have gone down.
In the case of the two world’s two dumbest men, Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels), it’s more than enough time to have embarked on the world’s longest, most drawn-out (and yes pointless; though neither friend is savvy enough to realise this) gag, and to have missed quite a lot of mail including the fact that Harry is now a dad.
Naturally, of course, both Lloyd and Harry set about making up for the lost years of fatherhood with all the emotional sensitivity, maturity and social decorum we have to expect from them.
Which is to say, pretty much none at all!
Judging by the trailer, which bears all the delightfully poor taste of its predecessor, including a scene where Lloyd wincingly gets to know a little old lady rather too well, the Farrelly Brothers comic DNA of is very much intact, auguring well for the sort of laughs and hilarious cringing that we all enjoyed way back in the day.
Some have argued that Dumb and Dumber To is simply coasting on a wave of nostalgia for a time when the Farrelly Brothers were at their comedic peak, and Carrey was a movie star ascendant, but the trailer suggests that the humour is as fresh and thigh-slappingly funny as ever, proof that this is no lazy rose-coloured nod to bygone years but very much a current comedic force to be reckoned with.
We’ll find out if it’s funny enough for our pets to laugh their heads off to when Lloyd and Harry driven their ’84 Shaggin’ Wagon back into cinemas on 14 November 2014 in USA and 1 January 2015 in Australia.