So....the Three Stooges movie.....

Okay so I was forcibly dragged to the theater and chained to my chair to see this train wreck of a film. (be assured that after it was over they found themselves bound in chains)

As a Three Stooges fan and historian I can say these nice things about the movie:

1. They definitely researched the Stooges stunts and routines
2. They definitely practiced the routines.
3. The Farley Brothers at the end had a short but necessary segment on how the props used were made of rubber, (the hammers, etc) and they demonstrated some of the hits both with and without sound effects and they also showed how the eyepoke is supposed to be done and gave a warning about never poking someone in the eyes. Nice safety lecture and they also covered themselves from inevitable complaints of people hurting others with the eyepoke.

4. The found actors that could imitate the Stooges individually but they just didn't synergize that well with each other.

5. The revived pretty much all the old sound FX for the slaps and pokes and hits and pratfalls.

6. Many things they did were updated/modernized Stooge jokes and stunts plus some new stuff.


Problems:

1. Stooge humor back in the day was both slapstick, sitcom and also humor reflecting the times. Crass humor however has no place in the Three Stooges, something the Farley brothers should remember.

2. Moe was perhaps the best imitated Stooge of the three, though they also did a nice job with casting Larry. Curly was also well imitated but then again he can be the easiest of the three to imitate. Please note this is nothing against Curly, he was just the most visible and popular of the Three Stooges and imitating him was something that could be easily done compared to Moe and Larry.

3. The three actors seemed to give it their all, but to me they just didn't have the synergy that the originals had, whether it was Moe Larry and Curly, Moe Larry and Shemp, or Moe Larry and Curly Joe DeRita. (We do not speak of Joe Besser). To me at best they came off as pale imitations or reflections of the originals.

4. The originals generally played off their characters as naive, a bit dumb or slow on the uptake, but good hearted people. These imitations played the stooges as kind hearted morons that felt like they belonged in the next Dumb and Dumber movie.

The plot: okay its a Three Stooges adventure movie, so you know the plot isn't going to win any awards. Basically they grow up in the orphanage since no one would dare adopt them. They learn the place needs $830,000 or it will be closed down and they decide to go forth into the modern world to get the money somehow.

Some of the joke routines that were decent

Moe: "We'll forge ahead!"
Larry: "We'll forge rivers!"
Curly: "We'll forge checks!"

Curly: "Foster! That's Australian for beer!"
Moe: "Would you take it in a glass or in a mug?"
Curly: "I'll take it in the mug!"
Moe slaps Curly

Many classic Stooge stunts, jokes, schticks, etc. were replicated and imitated in this turkey of a movie (pay attention to hotel signs and business signs for a few grins) and while some may make you smile or chuckle briefly, in the end this movie basically should be considered "Nil, Nul and Void. Three Hams that lay their own eggs."

Don't see this in the theaters, don't even other netflixing or redboxing it. Don't even bother trying to download it. It's just not worth seeing.

You are far better off watching the classic skits, including the ones with Joe Besser, then go watch the movies they made with Curly Joe DeRita.

In fact, I might actually consider watching Highlander 2, Highlander 5 and Star Trek 5 to cleanse my memories of this movie.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I certainly wouldn't consider this the best movie ever made and it's certainly arguable that it's not even a good attempt at a Three Stooges movie. But just as a straight-forward movie in and of itself it was far, far better and less annoying than the likes of a Highlander 2. I think you should be much more careful with the idle insinuation that -any- random movie is as bad as something like that abomination.

Let's put it this way: I don't "hate" that I actually spent the time to go see this new Stooges movie. I went into it not expecting too much and that's pretty much what I got out of it. It was mildly amusing in a few places and had a fairly simplistic story/plot that it presented well enough from beginning to end. I'd give it about a 6/10 - by comparison I'd give Highlander 2 about a 1/10.

Eh, I think I probably could have lived a long life if this particular movie had never been made. It was not something that I -needed- to see before I died. Having said that I still don't think it was an absolutely horrible movie in and of itself.

They might try for a sequel to it at some point but I'm not sure that's certain - from what I understand this movie is not a financial bomb but it's not like it made huge profits either. If anything this'll probably just make it easier for the Farrelly Brothers to make -another- non-Stooges movie.

I took my dad to see it last weekend. He loves the Stooges, so he was super-excited. I spent my childhood rolling my eyes at his Stooges episodes, so I wasn't especially looking forward to it.

He thought it was okay. Said, "It was about what I expected of a Three Stooges movie." I thought it was terrible, but he liked it, so that was the point.

I watched it and enjoyed it. As did my daughter.

I only had a couple of complaints and that was the few scenes I thought that had the Stooges come off more dumb than they should have.

I'm not saying they're suppossed to be geniuses mind you.

I thought they captured the Stooges quite well.

We took our kids to see it over the weekend. My 5 year old was rolling the isle.....and my wife and I noticed that he was the only one laughing.. Still there was some funny stuff in there, since I wasn't expecting much. I was rather disappointed in Will Sasso, who was Curly. I watched him on Mad TV years ago, and that guy seems like he could imitate anyone. He recently channeled Hulk Hogan on WWE's Monday Night RAW. Anyway, Curly is who used to make the old films and he could have stolen the show if only he'd channeled some of the real Curly.

I find it slightly amusing that a documentary about Chimpanzee's did better than the Stooges movie for its opening weekend.

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

reminds me I need to check out Think Like A Man, huge Kevin Hart fan

Yes but baby chimpanzees are soooo CUTE. Also which film would you take your young children to, the one with slapstick violence or CUTE baby monkey.

I also consider myself a rather big fan of the Stooges, and recently saw the new film. Again, about "what I expected", though I think I liked it a bit better than most of you. The plot struck me as a bit of an overblown version one might have seen in their short films back in the day. The additional cast members seemed to be pretty note-perfect (i.e. "the heel", "the dame", "the rich guy", etc.), and I was fairly impressed to see that the three main actors captured their "Stoogeisms" as well as they did. The slapstick routines were damn-near perfect timing, and Will Sasso's 'Larry' was fairly amazing.

Yes, I also have to add, as someone who watches "that one show", watching 'Dyna-Moe' slap those kids around was pretty fantastic.

I think it's at least worth a rental if you were ever a Stooge fan, but I hope to GAWD that there's not a sequel in the works. This was...this was PLENTY IMHO.

I don't think time have changed.

The where just never funny the first time round...

I really live under a rock. Didn't even know they had a movie. I never watch TV though >_>;.