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We haven’t. And that is a crime against film criticism.
And totally redeemed the entire concept of men’s grooming. dumb and dumber mullet
You cannot pull off the Lloyd Christmas. Because the mullet requires a specific kind of stupid. Not the mean kind. Not the dangerous kind. The innocent kind. The kind of stupid that genuinely doesn't know that mullets are funny. We haven’t
That is the magic of the character. Lloyd is immune to shame. And nothing on planet Earth screams "immune to shame" louder than a home-bleached, half-grown-out, rattail-adjacent mullet. 1. The Snowball Fight. Lloyd gets hit in the face with a snowball. Does he wipe it off? No. He lets it freeze to his hair. For the next several scenes, he has a shard of ice glued to his bangs. Most actors would fight for continuity. Jim Carrey, and by extension Lloyd, realized that a mullet is a tool . It’s a shelf. It holds ice. It holds dreams. It holds the sheer audacity to exist. You cannot pull off the Lloyd Christmas
Lloyd Christmas isn't wearing a mullet. The mullet is wearing Lloyd. Most movie hairstyles are an afterthought. Lloyd’s mullet is the plot.
But have we sat down—really sat down—and considered the mullet?
Think about the arc of the film. Lloyd is a limo driver who falls for a woman (Mary Swanson) who leaves a briefcase full of ransom money in his car. A normal person calls the police. Lloyd drives halfway across the country to return it, hoping to get a date.