Any movie that hits a nun over the head with a giant bell is ok in my book.
As an unofficial honorary Stooge...
This actually looks pretty good to me. While I greatly respect the classics and no one will replace Curly in my heart (especially Schemp and Curly-Joe)... the routines were pretty dead-on.. the humor translated well to a modern audience and the actors SOUNDED so much like the originals (especially Larry) that it actually spooked me out a little bit.
I might not see it in the theater but it's definitely worth a look see when it comes out for On-Demand.
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The stooges seemed to be pretty dead on.
I think the scenes showing Larry, seemed to really nail it.
The downside I see, is while yes The Three Stooges were slapstick comedy, it looks like they're going the route of Starky and Hutch or the new 21 Jump Street, where they don't make the remake in the same tone, and tend to just make fun of the premise and everything about the original.
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Strictly speaking the original Stooges incarnation was Moe, Larry and Shemp when they worked for Ted Healy in Vaudeville. Shemp got sick of Healy (for good reason) and left to pursue a successful solo career. Curly replaced him in the Vaudeville act and eventually all three of them left Healy for good and signed to Columbia. Shemp returned after Curly's stroke while filming Half Wit's Holiday and the deal was once Curly got his health back Shemp would leave again, but that didn't happen. |
Originally Posted by Steelclaw
As an unofficial honorary Stooge...
This actually looks pretty good to me. While I greatly respect the classics and no one will replace Curly in my heart (especially Schemp and Curly-Joe)... the routines were pretty dead-on.. the humor translated well to a modern audience and the actors SOUNDED so much like the originals (especially Larry) that it actually spooked me out a little bit. I might not see it in the theater but it's definitely worth a look see when it comes out for On-Demand. |
The all time WORST replacement was Joe Besser, who came in after Shemp died. 16 shorts, about 8 were remakes of classic Curly and Shemp skits, the remakes all pretty much were bad, and of the non remakes maybe 4 were good.
Curly-Joe DeRita worked with them after Besser left due to his sick wife. He was on tour with the Stooges and did the movies with them, and was the closest they got to a Curly copy and even revived a couple of Curly routines like the Maharaja routine and the pop goes the weasel song driving him crazy. Still not Curly of course but very close.
This movie though, I dunno. All the classics had themes that were of the times, such as the depression, the return of prosperity, of course the parodying of the Ratzi's...in fact the Stooges were the first to start that and Moe is the first to suit up as a parody of a certain dictator (You Nazty Spy), beating Charlie Chaplin by a few months, in the 50's shorts some of them dealt with UFO and space travel and aliens. So what would be a good MODERN stooge plot? Having them do to today's terrorists what they did to the Ratzi's back in the day?
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Originally Posted by BrandX
The stooges seemed to be pretty dead on.
I think the scenes showing Larry, seemed to really nail it. The downside I see, is while yes The Three Stooges were slapstick comedy, it looks like they're going the route of Starky and Hutch or the new 21 Jump Street, where they don't make the remake in the same tone, and tend to just make fun of the premise and everything about the original. |
Of course the real trick is getting the 3 copies to synergize as well as the originals. Moe, Larry, Curly, and Moe Shemp Larry all sync'd up well to each other. Moe Larry and Joe Besser.....not quite.
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Originally Posted by BrandX
The downside I see, is while yes The Three Stooges were slapstick comedy, it looks like they're going the route of Starky and Hutch or the new 21 Jump Street, where they don't make the remake in the same tone, and tend to just make fun of the premise and everything about the original.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
This movie though, I dunno. All the classics had themes that were of the times, such as the depression, the return of prosperity, of course the parodying of the Ratzi's...in fact the Stooges were the first to start that and Moe is the first to suit up as a parody of a certain dictator (You Nazty Spy), beating Charlie Chaplin by a few months, in the 50's shorts some of them dealt with UFO and space travel and aliens.
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Knuckleheads, all of ya.
Sean Hayes is uncanny in mannerisms if not build. But frankly some gags in the trailer would never have made even the laziest of the Stooges' reels: and after the Hanna Barbera cartoons, the assorted other replacements and revivals, they should be left to rest peacefully.
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Ah but one must remember that the cartoon episodes of the stooges were geared for the kids, not general audiences like the classic shorts were. Though the skits the stooges made to bookend the cartoons weren't bad. They can be found on DVD at Netflix, minus the cartoons which is good.|
Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
Knuckleheads, all of ya.
Sean Hayes is uncanny in mannerisms if not build. But frankly some gags in the trailer would never have made even the laziest of the Stooges' reels: and after the Hanna Barbera cartoons, the assorted other replacements and revivals, they should be left to rest peacefully. |
Also the fact that they brought back the eyepoke...well like I said previously, that is going to come back and haunt them. The Stooges retired it after Have Rocket Will Travel since kids were seeing their movies now as well as the classics on reruns on TV.
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Exactly. The fundamental appeal of the Stooges wasn't that they were stupid and violent but that they were incompetent at whatever they attempted to do, whether plumbing (the quintessential "A-Plumbing We Will Go") or space travel (even the later Three Stooges in Orbit has the classic line "Push buttons! Push buttons!"). Seen from a skewed perspective, they're working-class heroes, trying to do a job as best they can, even if the results are mayhem, shambles, and eye-pokes. (Contrast this to the Marx Brothers, who were also always on the make, but as schemers, not workers.) It's likely that this movie will miss out on the opportunity of updating this aspect of the Stooges for a contemporary audience facing an economy that's the worst since the one in which they achieved their mainstream populaity.
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Now what they SHOULD have done (aside from leaving the Stooges alone), would be to go through all the Columbia shorts and with the magic of CGI and computer technology taken footage and dialogue from the shorts to form up a new contemporary movie. I'd rather see a 3D animated Stooge movie using the voices from the old skits then a live action one with pretenders to the throne.
Frankly I'd rather watch the Mel Gibson produced movie about the Stooges, despite some inaccuracies especially some omissions about the Healy years, it was a fun watch.
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While there's a perverse case to be made for MacGruber as an underrated writer-star project, Howard the Duck remains a touchstone of missing the point in an adaptation of a nostalgia-rich creative property - one which was lost on the producers of the movie adaptation-remakes of Bewitched, The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, The Smurfs, Fat Albert, The Dukes of Hazard, and Land of the Lost. This Stooges movie may well be the next on that list.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Agreed. This movie is going to tank and tank hard. It will probably do as well as the Macgruber movie did (budget 10 million, box office 9 million), or about as well as Howard the Duck.
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Worst movie ever made? Probably not even close, especially after seeing Jack n Jill and witnessing how far Adam Sandler has fallen.
If anything, poking Snookie in the eyes is worth the price of admission...
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Seen from a skewed perspective, they're working-class heroes, trying to do a job as best they can, even if the results are mayhem, shambles, and eye-pokes. (Contrast this to the Marx Brothers, who were also always on the make, but as schemers, not workers.)
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Although that's a lopsided fight. The Marx brothers would wipe the floor with everybody except Curly.
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Even if the movie is horrible, this trailer is great!
Love the reactions in the background of the lobster scene. And I liked the Kid Stooges.
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I have to admit I giggled at some parts...
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Originally Posted by Casual_Player
Voices, look, mannerisms, slapstick- all DEAD ON!
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Originally Posted by Unknown_User
Hopefully they didn't show all the comedy scenes in the movie on this trailer.
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Originally Posted by Mr_Squid
In all seriousness though, looks dumb but fun, exactly what classic stooges was too.
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Howard the Duck remains a touchstone of missing the point in an adaptation of a nostalgia-rich creative property - one which was lost on the producers of the movie adaptation-remakes of Bewitched, The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, The Smurfs, Fat Albert, The Dukes of Hazard, and Land of the Lost.
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I'd still like to see someone do a 'Mazing Man movie.
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Flintstones with John Goodman as Fred I liked, now the sequel/prequel Viva Rock Vegas....well that should be filed under the "we shall not speak of" category.
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
While there's a perverse case to be made for MacGruber as an underrated writer-star project, Howard the Duck remains a touchstone of missing the point in an adaptation of a nostalgia-rich creative property - one which was lost on the producers of the movie adaptation-remakes of Bewitched, The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, The Smurfs, Fat Albert, The Dukes of Hazard, and Land of the Lost. This Stooges movie may well be the next on that list.
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Wow, this looks repugnant. I usually like my comedy films to be, you know, funny, but all this trailer did was make me feel a bit like throwing up.
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I highly doubt it will come to fruition. My best counter argument I can come up with is professional wrestling, which regularly makes use of eye pokes.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Also the fact that they brought back the eyepoke...well like I said previously, that is going to come back and haunt them. The Stooges retired it after Have Rocket Will Travel since kids were seeing their movies now as well as the classics on reruns on TV.
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There are still people of any age, especially kids, that like to imitate what they see on things like Wrestling or the Stooges and do not realize the dangers of doing so.
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Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
I highly doubt it will come to fruition. My best counter argument I can come up with is professional wrestling, which regularly makes use of eye pokes.
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Edit: I didn't even realize they were "moe"-dichlorians XD