12 Worst Movie Spin-Offs Ever Made

Continuing a franchise without the original stars is rarely a good idea, and why the creative minds behind Dumb and Dumberer thought that they could simply cast two actors who slightly resembled younger versions of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in the lead roles and think they could get away with it is anybody's guess.

As you'll read more than once later on in this article, spinoffs to Jim Carrey movies that don't feature the rubber-faced star himself haven't got the best track record, and while gross-out comedy is hardly a high watermark for cinema, When Harry Met Lloyd is something that should never even have made it past the idea stage in the first place.

While it runs at a mercifully-brief 85 minutes, there's barely a laugh to be found, and it feels quite tragic watching the two leads do woeful impersonations of their predecessors without even the slightest hint of their goofy charisma or comic timing.

Without the two stars that made the first movie such a success, a spinoff that followed them during their high school years seemed entirely pointless and an obvious attempt to cash in on Dumb and Dumber's continued popularity during a period where cinemas where full of crude, lowbrow comedy projects cut from a very similar cloth.