The first movie “Dumb And Dumber” starring Jim Carrey (“The Mask”) wasn’t a good movie but it wasn’t bad. However, this prequel is an insult to the original’s memory as it somehow manages to destroy every good thing about the franchise.

“Dumb And Dumberer” is a prequel and as you can guess, this film’s full title follows Harry (Derek Richardson “Hostel”) as he meets his new best buddy (or only buddy) Lloyd (Eric Christen Olsen). The two are at school together in their late teens during the 80s. They find out that their headmaster (Eugene Levy “A Mighty Wind”) is stealing money from the school or at least some of the other kids do, just Harry and Lloyd can’t contemplate that. Through various dumb antics they uncover, well I don’t think they’d say they had uncovered anything and they probably don’t know what it even means but they do uncover the headmaster’s sneaky plot.

Derek Richardson is bland and a little bit scary as Harry. He’s nowhere near as funny as the original version and that’s saying a lot because I didn’t think the character was originally that funny anyway. Eric Christen Olsen looks a little bit like Jim Carrey and sounds like him but has none of his wit. Eugene Levy seems to have sunken to a new low but I must say he is the best thing about this movie by far.

Being neither funny nor interesting, “Dumb And Dumberer” is an atrocious prequel that is so disappointing. The humour is foul and unfunny, the acting is poor, the script is poor, the premise is weak and just about everything is done to the absolute lowest of standards. Jim Carrey himself has said this movie is incredibly bad stating that “They rob your grave before your dead” and I’m inclined to agree with him as I witnessed the horror that is “Dumb And Dumberer”.