It really is unfortunate that the prequel to Dumb and Dumber, Dumb and Dumberer was taken by the time they got around to making the sequel. For one, Dumb and Dumber To isn’t an especially funny play on words. Also, Dumb and Dumberer is a title that  actually fits this sequel far better. This movie is way dumber than ever and the greatest new movie by the Farrelly Brothers since their phenom 20 years ago.

Now, after a double-decade gap, Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne reprise their stoogery in “Dumb and Dumber To.” The result is simply stupid. This embarrassing revival plays as if the script were written in Comic Sans. When it revisits the first film’s famously ribald sense of humor (with jokes involving aged co-star Kathleen Turner as a former bed-hopper, young co-star Rachel Melvin as her crackbrained daughter, and even a bawdy dog) it feels like everyone’s hormonal clock is unbalanced.

The story begins in Rhode Island, with Harry marking his 20th anniversary of visiting bearded, silent, inert Lloyd in his infirmary’s outdoor park. Ever helpful, he changes the paralyzed patient’s colostomy sack while holding the full one in his mouth. The film’s finest moment comes when Lloyd reveals his long-running lethargy was a gag. Harry, delighted, tries to get his pal out of the hospital fast by yanking out his catheter, which won’t slip free even when he asks a couple of lawn workers to help.

DUMB AND DUMBER TO lives up to its name quite easily. With a few admittedly hilarious gags, the movie has entertainment value, but the majority of the humor is either entirely irreverent or crass. Also, the plot starts off slow, but becomes convoluted and very unstructured. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels don’t miss a beat as the idiots they portray, but they also don’t bring anything new to the table. The movie had potential for a morally uplifting or some other kind of positive conclusion, but it fails to deliver anything remotely meaningful or even nostalgic.