Even the ten-year-olds didn't laugh

I'm sorry if you saw this movie. In fact, I apologize to my younger brother, who I convinced to accompany me. I apologize on behalf of Kerasotes for bringing this dumbfest to town. I apologize to the two ten-year-old boys and their fathers -- the only others at the showing I went to.\nNine years after Harry and Lloyd touched our lives for the first time (which I remember being pretty funny, though I was 12) we are given a glimpse into when they first met, as high school outcasts in the '80s. Harry (Derek Richardson) leaves home school for public institution for the first time and straight through the door runs into Lloyd (Eric Christian Olsen), chipping Lloyd's tooth. Lloyd, somehow a Mexican janitor's son (Woohoo, racist jokes!! Check out the foreign exchange student named "Ching Chong"), lives at the school and takes Harry under his wing for a series of "Dumb and Dumber" throwback adventures. \nThe duo recruits other outcasts to join the newly formed Special Needs class, which is actually a plot by the Principal (Eugene Levy) and his mistress, the Lunch Lady (Cheri Oteri), to embezzle money from the state. By some high-jinxed series of actions driven by high school, reporter-wannabe sleuth, Jessica (Rachel Nichols), the Special Needs class exposes the fraud and everyone ends up happy. \nInconsistencies litter the movie. Every joke seems to be some play off its predecessor. Harry falls in love with a woman, has a shit scene in the bathroom (melted chocolate smeared all over…), they have oddball automobiles (a floor waxer and shopping cart), Lloyd has a fantasy sequence, etc. Then there's flashbacks to events that should have happened earlier in the movie but aren't shown. Even the soundtrack is littered with inconsistencies -- everything from Vanilla Ice to today's punk pop slop (remember the movie is set in the '80s) is strewn about carelessly. Harry and Lloyd aren't just stupid, they have the personalities of six-year-olds and are at least partly mentally handicapped. In 1994, you could believe there were stupid people out there like Harry and Lloyd. Now, you're just waiting for the act to let up. \nOh yeah,beware of a cameo by Bob Saget.