Os Debilóides

The Movie "Dumb and Dumber" was the coolest, but something about turning movies into cartoons just doesn't seem right (with Free Willy being a slight acception). When the D&D cartoon was announced, I figured "What the Hey? Let's just see it once"

WHAT WAS I THINKING??!!

This cartoon series was terrible. Mainly, it's because the gross jokes that made the movie cool are gone. I admit that I liked Matt Frewer on "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids", but he's no JIM CARREY!! The guy from Coach plays Harry, but he's always picked dumb characters to play, and this was the bottom of his barrel.

I have no complaint about turning movies into cartoons, but don't trash it up!!

Cartoon series as adaptations of great movie hits had reached their peak in the 90s. Jim Carrey adaptations were very popular, such as the cartoons for The Mask or the Ace Ventura film series. Both cartoons managed to introduce the theme of the original to a reinterpretation tailored to children and, if they did so at all, understood themselves only as a very loose continuation of the "main franchise". The latter also applies to the cartoon for Dumb and Dumber, but without the independently developed quality. More like the style of Ace Ventura, or the other way around, because the Ventura cartoon came later, but much weaker in execution. The drawings are very wacky, but the color scheme is too pale, the jokes don't come across well and the madness of the original seemed too difficult to wrap up. All in all, the series would be a little treasure to watch in today's times, just because the most new stuff is trash, but compared to other 90s series it is significantly weaker. You can take a look when you have time or just want to see more of the (poorly synchronized) characters, but nothing more.

As a fan of the original Dumb and Dumber movie, I was hoping I would find this at least slightly amusing, however I don't believe I laughed at all while watching this show. This came out at a time when there was also an Ace Ventura, and The Mask animated series. So there was a glut of Jim Carey themed TV shows on at the time, so they were just churning out these kinds of shows just to capitalize on the hype.

The animation was pretty bad, Lloyd and Harry were dawn so comically distorted that it looks pretty grotesque rather than charming.

The plots are formulaic, and low-brow even for a children's show. They seem to follow the same basic theme: Throwing Lloyd and Harry into an odd job and see how they can screw it up. Now I know you must be thinking right now: "The show is for kids, what do you expect?", well I have higher expectations than this. Take a show like The Real Ghostbusters for example. That was an animated show based off a movie that didn't (at first, but the quality declined) pander to cheap jokes and formulaic plots. They actually were well written and made the show stand out as a separate entity from it's movie counterpart. This is the standard that I have for all animated shows based off popular movies.

I would be remiss if I failed to mention Lloyd's fantasy sequences. In the film they work because of the bold, adult humor contained within, that gave us a glimpse insides Lloyd's juvenile mind. In the animated series they don't serve any purpose other than to make him look like a Walter Mitty type figure.

In conclusion, don't waste your money on the DVD's. And if you're interested in animated shows based on movies, than check out The Real Ghostbusters instead.