A lot can happen in 20 years, but in the case of Dumb and Dumber To, which picks up two decades after Harry and Lloyd famously refused a ride from the Hawaiian Tropic bikini girls at the end of the first film, not much seems to have happened at all. Lloyd has spent the entire intervening period in a nursing home (getting rejected by Mary Sampsonite appears to have put him into a persistent vegetative state), while Harry dutifully comes to visit him everyday, much to the delight of the nursing staff, who find his dedication to his catatonic friend absolutely heart-warming.
But the joke is on Harry: Lloyd isn’t really catatonic. He was just pretending to be as part of an elaborate, two-decade-long gag. Delighted by his friend’s prank, Harry violently yanks out Lloyd’s catheter, and the two return to their apartment, where they discover a postcard that was sent from the early 1990s informing Harry that he is a father. The two then embark on a quest to find Harry’s long-lost daughter.
But Lloyd, it seems, has a secret motive for helping Harry out. Upon seeing a picture of Harry’s daughter as a grown-up, the instantly smitten Lloyd is overwhelmed by a vision of her, caressing his insanely bountiful Austin Powers-like chest hair. (Strangely enough, this is perhaps the least disturbing image in the trailer, which also features an unnecessary lesson in cat anatomy and a scene where Harry and Lloyd are duped into searching for diamonds in the most awkward of places).
Dumb and Dumber To hits theatres November 14.
