I must be honest, this was not a film I was looking forward to. I hated the original Three Stooges so I was hardly keen on watching a 90-minute tribute act gurn their way through a terribly outdated routine whilst the fact the Farrelly brothers haven’t made a decent film in years was also a concern. Well even with rock bottom expectations the film still failed to deliver any sort of comedy. The plot follows Moe, Larry and Curly as they try and raise enough money to save their beloved orphanage from closure.

The film is excruciatingly unfunny with a series of drawn out and inept slapstick routines that quickly outstay their welcome. Perhaps part of the problem is that…

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I found the three stooges (the originals) to be very funny when I was a child (under age 10). It just seemed like goofy nonsense and slapstick humor and that was all I wanted at age 8 and 9....now I'm 39.

I didn't really like this but I have to give credit where credit is due. These three actors do an exceptional job recreating and imitating the humor from the original Stooges films. The sound design for the fights is perfect as are the voice impressions. This film is a love letter to a comedy style…

62/100

Expectations were low, as I never really went for the originals as a kid, but maybe I'd be more impressed today. An uncanny replication, if I can trust my memory, and where I once saw merely lowbrow antics I now revel in...well, yeah, lowbrow antics, but performed with expert vaudeville timing the likes of which is virtually never seen nowadays. Its biggest problem, predictably, is that it's just too long—the division of the feature-length narrative into three "shorts" ain't foolin' anybody, and this style of comedy trades so much in repetition that sustaining it for 90 minutes is near-impossible. Didn't help that the third act takes a detour into a reality show I've never seen, either. But all three…

Part of the pleasure here is in watching an anachronistic style of physical comedy be transplanted into the present-day. In doing so, the Farrelly Brothers display a clever use of visual syntax that branches together a tradition of vaudeville-to-screen shtick with our modern media of reality television and studio comedies. The language of the gags often defaults to the medium shot most accommodating to the performer's slapstick but it also leave room for the inventive use of the matter-of-fact assertiveness of a master shot or the abstracted proportions of a close-up (watch out for each time someone's eyes bulge out). The incorporation of a modern reality television series like Jersey Shore and the subsequent disruption that occurs when it's introduced…