A joyous and life-affirming film about friendship, full of hilarious scenes of people falling off ladders, hitting each other with hammers, and getting in a water-gun fight with pissing babies. I will always respect the Farrellys for struggling for over a decade to make this. They loved the Stooges so much that they felt determined to make the only Stooge movie ever in which Curly and Larry extensively talk to each other.

The idea of meticulously recreating the shtick of three Depression-era comedians in the year 2012 is ridiculous, and I think that’s part of the joke. The Farrellys commit heroically to their mad vision, and miraculously create a world in which snooty butlers and buffoonish police officers from circa…

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the original Three Stooges so I was hardly keen on watching a 90-minute tribute act gurn their way through a terribly outdated routine whilst the fact the Farrelly brothers haven’t made a decent film in years was also a concern.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…

That's some dedicated Three Stooging, fellas. What made everyone curious about this project originally was the bold choice to cast Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and Jim Carrey and honestly even if they hadn't pulled it off all that well (clearly Carrey would have, he was born for this, but the other two...), it would be a more jaw-dropping novelty jewel of an experiment and I wouldn't have waited 9 years to finally see it.

Plans changed though and the parts got re-cast. These three actors who ended up in it may not be big movie star draws, but Chris "this guy fucks" Diamantopoulos, Will Sasso, and Sean Hayes have got these light-footed impeccably-rehearsed mini slapstick symphonies down cold. Sasso's…

If anything positive came out of that marathon of The Crow movie series a few weeks back, it was inspiring me to dive back into independent comic books. It's been great to finally read stuff I had always heard about but never got to until this year. I just this weekend took the plunge and finally bought some Love & Rockets, maybe the most acclaimed series in the entire medium. It somehow has managed to live up to the hype. It kinda feels like discovering albums by The Beatles as a teenager. Just fantastic, important stuff.

And what does it inspire me to do? Watch this dumb comedy that attempts to remake old short films of people hitting each other that…

20th Century Fox... wait, that's not the right studio. It is? 20th Century Fox invites you to see a three-act structure style interpretation of The Three Stooges.

More Orphan Than Not: In 1977, three comic geniuses were delivered to an orphanage... or whatever they used to call it. Ten years later, Moe fails to get adopted. 25 years later, the orphanage is getting shut down. It is now up to the Three Stooges... to save... the orphanage? They're on a mission from the script. Why are all three segments way too long?

The Bananas Split: Sofia Vergara wants a hitman. But because they have other things to do, Larry, Curly, and Moe are the only candidates. But Sofia's husband is…

You can tell the guys who made this really loves the original Three Stooges. There's little touches throughout that really show that; from the episodic format to the often damn near spot-on impressions. Will Sasso in particular really embodies Curly to a freakish extent.

The slapstick sequences are great, capturing everything that is great about the Three Stooges. I also gotta give credit to the scriptwriters for managing to inject a surprising amount of plot and heart in a property that has little of both.

But, there are drawbacks. Every now and again, especially in the first act and a half, that really takes away from the successful formula. Generally, this is when it goes for the modern style crudeness…