Everybody's a critic - 'Dumb and Dumberer'

0 stars (out of four)

I've got an idea for a movie! Why don't we do a sequel, but instead of continuing into the future let's go back to the past and show how it started? Lucas did it with "Star Wars," why not with "Dumb and Dumber." We can call it "Dumb and Dumberer."

What a bad idea! This Jim Carrey-less sequel is one of the 10 worst movies I've ever seen. "Dumb and Dumberer" is the story of how Harry met Lloyd during high school. Both students are asked by their deceiving high school principal to gather students for a special class so he can get some grant money to buy a condo in Hawaii.

This movie is 82 minutes of pure torture. Take my advice, if you need to see some good slapstick comedy, go rent some old "Three Stooges" shorts. It will certainly be funnier.

- Steve Marchbanks, insurance sales

Two stars (out of four)

If you never sang along to "Mock! Yeeaah! Ing! Yeeaah!" or were offended by the dead bird sold to a blind kid, "Dumb and Dumberer" only gets worse. But if you know the entire spiel in a game of tag, hear me out.

So the problem is no Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, right? But you don't miss them when watching these freshmen, Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson. The problems with this movie stem from the absence of the original writing team, the Farrelly Brothers. (Remember "Pull over!" "No, it's a cardigan, but thanks for noticing?") Without them, this concept is predictable, immature, and, well ... dumb.

But really, what's important? Did I laugh? Yes. Did I laugh more than the first? No. But watch the magic marker watch and playing rock, paper, scissors. For a second, you hear the echoes of "Mock! Yeeaah!" - Matthew Heisserer, college student

Half a star (out of four)

Things I would rather do than go see "Dumb and Dumberer" a second time: Have a digital rectal exam; get a root canal; watch paint dry.

This movie is a prequel to the 1994 original "Dumb and Dumber" that featured the comedic genius of Jim Carrey and his sidekick Jeff Daniels. That movie had some funny moments, this one does not.

It is a movie with little or no direction or plot, lame attempts at comedy (unless you like flatulence and fecal matter) and lots of sexual innuendo.

There are endless games of you're-it with no tag backs and a frozen slushy scene where the director actually has to take the audience into the brain of our characters to show us what a brain freeze might look like. This is infantile humor at it's best.

I came out of the movie numb and numbererrrrrr!

- Rick Prost, produce grocer