Review of Dumb and Dumber To (2014) by Bleed0Range — 14 Nov 2014

I finally saw Dumb & Dumber To today and I, like everyone else it seems, am really disappointed. I think the worst part is that they seem to have forgotten how the characters were originally. They seem pretty mean-spirited compared to the first movie... which removes a lot of what makes them likeable in the first place. It removes some of what was the heart of their friendship before. Sure, Lloyd held out on those extra gloves while Harry was freezing... but it was only because he was dumb. And sure Harry went after Mary when he knew Lloyd wanted her but he didn't intend to originally it just sort of happened.

In the sequel, Lloyd outright wants to bone Harry's daughter and doesn't seem to care about Harry's dire situation at all. He also seems to be a tad bit racist. There was an innocence to their dumb antics in the first one that seemed to show they had bigger hearts and the best of intentions. Lloyd may have wanted to bone Mary Swanson, but he also seemed to really want an actual relationship and mistook those feelings of infatuation and desire for true love. I was surprised by how much I didn't like Lloyd Christmas in this one and how unlike himself he seemed.

Also, the writing wasn't nearly as clever. There is a big payoff in the glove/freezing hand scene in the original where Harry starts to choke Lloyd and he cries out in pain, "Your hands are freezing!" That was really funny and clever in the moment. Moments like those are lacking here.