Do You Realize What YOU'VE DONE!?!

That is the opening salvo to the final scene of the landmark CLASSIC comedy from 1994. "Dumb and Dumber!"  For those not in the know, the two leads Harry Dunn (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carey)  are skulking away from the disappointing outcome of a cross country adventure when they are stopped by a bus load of scantily clad Hawaiian Tropic Girls, looking for two "towel boys" to travel with them and lube them up before competitions.  If you haven't seen it, check it out today!  Dumb and Dumber is the milestone that all other "Stupid Funny" films aspire to ascend too.  But none, have come close (Me, Myself and Irene (Ironically ANOTHER Farley Brothers film featuring Jim Carey)  comes a close second).  Whereas most films attempt these lofty goals through an over reaching gross out, or cringe worthy embarrassing situations causing the viewer to uncomfortably try and squirm away from the screen, or grotesquely sinister sexual slapstick (think Scary Movie 1 thru...whatever)  the Farley Brothers are geniuses when it comes to knowing just when to slap you with a tire iron , Flush the toilet or hand you a bottle of Urine!  But at no time do they overwhelm your senses with an overabundance of any.  Of course we will forgive them the excesses in "The Three Stooges" as, well....look at the source material!  No, the sheer bliss of complete ineptness on the part of the two leads and all the hilarity their two well meaning but void heads conjure up is a joy to behold as they extort a multitude of gut wrenching guffaws! 
So why am I writing about an 20 year old comedy?
Because they are coming BACK!!!

YES! Once again Harry and Lloyd, above in full splendor (oddly...in exactly the same clothes) Bowl cut, wild hair and chip tooth all in play, are once again hitting the road in search of Harry's long lost off spring (apparently Harry is in need of a kidney).  A sequel had been talked about shortly after the original release, but as Jim Carey had entered the elite Hollywood A-List, and the Farley Brothers themselves have been continuously busy (hey, don't count out Jeff, he's been keeping his face out there, just check out the latest Emmy's!) so the project just went by the wayside.  In 2003 New Line released "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd" without any input from any key player from the original.  It was met with a resounding "THUD!"  A complete bone of a flick, best just forgotten about.  I know I did!  Couldn't even finish it!  They lost me at the "Slurpee Scene". 
But I digress.
Well, perhaps now, with a gentle push from the Farley's who obviously never let the project completely go, and Jim Carey's A-List club card a few years expired, they've dusted off their baby blue and orange cream tuxedos and look to be at it again as filming started in Atlanta yesterday!  And lest you think they may have mellowed with age, promises have been made!  As Mr Carey is surely out to attempt to reclaim his crown as comedic genius, be assured, there will be lines crossed!  It has already been assertions made that there will be a profound display of skat humor to rival that of the originals laxative induced explosion!  And to all aficionados, Frieda Feltcher is professed to be finally unveiled in the guise of Kathleen Turner!  For those wondering who I am talking about, once again, go rent the flick and pay close attention to the tender "Hot Tub Confession" of Harry to Lloyd in the Honeymoon Hotel. 
And remember..
"Beware, the "Gas-Man!"

NOW!!  MOVIE REVIEW!!!
First off  "Gallow Walkers"!
One of the few final films starring Wesley Snipes prior to going away for three years on a trumped up tax evasion scandal.  Completed in 2006, then shelved, it finally saw the light of day this year.  After viewing this weekend I was left with only one question: "Why didn't they just leave it shelved?"  Capitalizing on Wesley's release, as well as the success of "Django: Unchained", that other, GOOD film about an African American gunslinger out for revenge. 
I tried real hard to enjoy this film,  I kinda thought, in reverence to a good action star, and actor I owed him that much.  But far to many times during the film I had to fight the compulsion to shut it off and just read the new collected works of H.P. Lovecraft I'd bought (unrelated but noteworthy!) I've never been a big fan of Spaghetti Westerns, the long drawn out "duals" shot in a multitude of over the shoulder and between the leg cam shots.  For what appeared to be a seven page script, the story and prerequisite, mid film  flashback sequences could have been filmed at a walking pace and the flick STILL would have ended before I put a dent in my bucket of popcorn!  The "evil undead" were less then fear inducing, trifling on the edge of comedic.  At times there outward appearance, while supposedly only the tortured souls of men killed at the hands of Wesley's protagonist, via a family curse "doomed to rise from the dead", they looked like demons of some kind, sporting tentacle heads and what have you.
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The ending of course was cliche, good guy beats and beheads bad guy (yea, can't kill the undead less you take off the head) culminating with a type casted tough guy quip "But I don't know how to be dead? Nobody taught you how to live"
Well, apparently the film makers definitely knew how to do "Dead"!

NEXT!
"EPIC"
Rented this flick for Logan's birthday and was not disappointed.  A fun, spirited animated film dedicated to the concept of the precarious balance of nature:  growth vs rot.  Without having to resort to highhanded, preachy tactics, the cast and grew told an engaging and exciting story of a woodlands populated with a variety of sprites, and fairy's and otherworldly creatures where the battle to maintain balance between the "Green" and the effects of decay is brought into tumultuous turmoil with the assassination of Queen Tara (voiced by Beyoncé).  She alone holds the power to replenish the forest and her death leaves it all vulnerable to the onslaught of decay in the guise of the evil master of the Boggans, Mandrake (voiced by the BRILLIANT Christoph Waltz).  It's not a hard leap to recognize the correlation between this story and our own human tragedy of the self inflicted damage to our own eco-systems!   Much more subtly infused into the collective conscience of today's youth, then say the blatant and ineffectual story of the Lorax, with all due reverence to Dr. Suess's original.  Definitely a must see, and doubly so with Steven Tyler on the cast!