Considering the first film came out over twenty years ago, you would think that Dumb and Dumber To would have something new-ish to bring to the table. You would be wrong.
For our main protagonists, Lloyd (Jim Carrey) and Harry (Jeff Daniels), nothing much has changed in twenty years. They are still the same immature, adolescent goofballs that they have always been. Even though Lloyd spends two decades in assisted living faking a comatose state, once the two are reunited, it is like nothing has changed. With the same dingy apartment, the same blind, bird-obsessed neighborhood boy, and the complete lack of any and all cognitive thinking, Lloyd and Harry are basically in the same place that they were at the beginning of the first film.
Perhaps not shockingly then, Dumber To follows mostly the same beats to get the boys out on the road to find someone wherein all sorts of hijinks will occur. In this case, it is Harry who is driven to go cross-country from Maryland to Texas to find the missing daughter he never knew he had in order to get a kidney. Lloyd of course comes along for the ride as well as Travis (Rob Riggle) at the behest of the family to make sure everything goes smoothly. Suffice to say, the two manage to get themselves intertwined within another family feud fueled by lust and greed as they cross the country in a hearse, a zamboni, and even the Mutt Cutts truck for a bit.
In the preceding twenty years since the first film came out, I would have thought a better story could have been developed rather than a rehash of the first. There still remains good chemistry between Carrey and Daniels but here they come off less as simply imbeciles and more like two-thirds of The Three Stooges which may have ruined the Farrelly Brothers, but that's just conjecture. Sure, there are some changes, notably Kathleen Turner playing the previously alluded to Fraida Felcher as Harry's baby-momma but by and large, it is just a rehash of the first film, only with less funny, and tired, jokes.
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