By all rights, the dismal sequels to Bruce Almighty
and Dumb and Dumber should have driven a sharp stake into the heart of any future franchise plans. There was the Steve Carell starring Evan Almighty
, which turned it's attention to a minor supporting character from the first film, and actually made a few bucks, something north of $170M. It still wasn't a good movie, which is why people talked it down to roughly 1/4 of what Bruce made. And then there was Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
, a prequel that was about as funny as an anal cyst. So why would anyone ever want to revisit either of these movies?For whatever reason it sounds like Jim Carrey may want to, telling Comingsoon.net...
Carrey: “We’re talking about maybe returning to some old characters that everyone has been asking about,” “There’s ‘Bruce Almighty’ and we’re talking about maybe another ‘Dumb and Dumber’.
Carrey made these comments while doing press for the abysmal looking Mr. Popper's Penguins, so maybe he was still suffering from the rubbing alcohol he'd been ingesting to dull the pain. "Everyone" is asking about Bruce Almighty and Dumb and Dumber? He must mean that homeless guy camped out by the Starbucks who hasn't seen a movie since 2003. You mean to tell me nobody's asking about an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind sequel? They want Dumb and Dumber 3? Well, I guess that's better than The Majestic 2.
While it seems far fetched anyone cares about this, the idea of a proper sequel to Dumb and Dumber has been mentioned very recently by co-creator Bobby Farrelly...
Farrelly: “[Dumb and Dumber] has run a bunch of times on TV in the states, and kids will come up and they’ll be able to quote lines from that – lines that I’ve long forgotten. If we could get those two guys back together, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels that might be a worthwhile sequel – and that ball is in motion. We’re starting to think about what those two dimwits would be doing twenty-years later in life, and hopefully we’ll be able to come up with something worthy of a sequel.”
So maybe there's something to this afterall? I hope not. Carrey seems to be floundering right now. He hasn't had a legit hit since 2008's Yes Man
, and there doesn't appear to be anything on the horizon. I'd like to see his career continue down the path of stuff like I Love You Phillip Morris
, not falling back on tired retreads of old hits.
