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(Dumb, gross, but occasionally funny)

Joyce wouldn't be seen within 100 miles of a Farrelly Brothers movie, so I'm on my own on this one.

Fully acknowledging that the northern Rhode Island brothers are icons, and they have placed at least a dozen Rhode Island references within the hour and 50-minute movie, I still flinch at some of their profane humor.

The movie opens with a beautiful shot of Providence, looking downtown from the Roger Williams statue. There's even a couple of references to Cranston, a quick shot of the Big Blue Bug, a Rocky Point post card and a reference to the Block Island Ferry. And then there's a shot of Haven Brothers diner, but it's not really Haven Brothers.

It has been 20 years since the original, so there is a whole new audience for this stuff and a whole new set of lowbrow, tasteless, garish, feebleminded, perverse humor. Some of it is funny. Most of it aims low. All of it will offend somebody.

Lloyd (Jim Carey) has spent the last 20 years in an institution, where he is visited weekly by his pal Harry (Jeff Daniels). It turns out that Lloyd has been faking it all this time for his biggest "gotcha,” a tribute to how far Bobby and Peter will go for a laugh. They go pretty far with a scene showing Harry pulling out Lloyd's catheter, an excruciating joke for those of us who have been there.

They go too far in a scene in a nursing home where Lloyd is looking for an old ladies "jewels.” There's actually a story to this, interspersed with flashbacks of their younger days and it even has a twist.

They go off on a road trip (driving a zamboni part of the way) to find a long lost daughter who has a kidney one of them wants. Rachel Melvin plays the daughter who proves to be dumber than both of them put together.

If you haven't had enough, sit through the endless credits for a funny epilogue.

Rated PG-13 (I can't believe it isn't an R!), with sexual and bathroom humor and crude, sick humor.

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