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I haven't rewatched it since I was a kid but I do remember enjoying it at a young age and it was actually my first exposure to Three Stooges. So at least there's that.
Its not the story that is bad. The biggest problem is that you are not going to be able to emulate or really recapture what it was that makes the Three Stooges shorts so special.. The story itself isn't really massively far off from what the Stooges shorts stories actually were. The Three Stooges is just really one of those things that your never going to be able to capture that again, without the actual actors who were the Stooges. The movie was written like it was by someone who liked them but really didn't know how to capture that magic and spirit.
Me as a kid: I love the Three Stooges. Me as an adult: *Learns the behind the scenes about the Stooges*.....how did none of them die from these stunts? Even Jackass would hesitate at this.
I remember watching this back-to-back with "Stan & Ollie (2018)" Big sad. All that I would need to make this a trifecta is a biopic on the Marx Brothers.
@@motor4X4kombat Yep, good 'ol Buster "Never Fake a Gag" Keaton. All those death-defying stunts you saw in his movies? Yeah, those weren't perspective tricks like Harold -Llyod's- Lloyd's iconic hanging from a clock tower scene. All of them really happened. Buster Keaton was straight up insanity incarnate. Addendum: An 8 minute video on Buster Keaton from the series "Every Frame a Painting". ruclips.net/video/UWEjxkkB8Xs/видео.htmlfeature=shared
This movie did succeed in the most surprising ways: the guys playing the Stooges nailed it harder than most people would have thought possible, and the basic tone of the humor mostly stayed true to the originals. What we got was probably as good as it could possibly have been, all things considered.
The problem is the three stooges were a byproduct of their time. They can't be replicated for today's audiences. I agree this movie was probably as close as you could get to doing anything new with the stooges, but if you ask me, you'd be better off just watching the originals as they're still timeless classics.
@@thewolfofwallstreet627 The movie probably would improve a lot if it was a period piece instead of based on current times. I mean, that would mean no Jersey Shore so that automatically maks it better.
I say big props to the guys playing The Stooges in this film. They were spot on. I liked this film a-lot. The real problem is its just impossible to recreate magic. Even original cast members of other reboots fail. Everything has its moment in time.
One of the Jersey Shore cast members telling Moe that what he's doing is assault and Moe slapping the shit out of that guy then telling him "there's your pepper" is the best joke in the movie.
@@gameplaysolothebladeI think I feel the same way you do about the skits (in that I usually would rather hear the commentator actually, you know, COMMENTATE), but I find myself forgiving the skits in the newer episodes a little more because they don't seem to overstay their welcome as much. Just my observation and opinion, though. I'm curious as to what others think.
I love the stoges, they're like a live-action Looney Tunes. As for the movie, they did the best they could with what they had, and at first, what they had was pretty good. By the second half though, you can tell they were trying to hard to keep it fresh for a modern audience. The fist half is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine, though.
I also grew up loving the Stooges. Nowadays, when it comes to them, what comes to my mind the most is their commitment to the bit. For instance, after a table sawed in half gag, Moe fell on his side and messed himself up REAL bad. The take was still going, so he picked himself up and finished the bit. When the cameras stopped rolling, he passed out. Growing up, it made me think that Vaudeville, at least on the stage-side, was pretty hardcore. Especially when you consider these three were slapping the shit out of each other on a regular basis. Also, their pun game was always unmatched. The Stooges were a full package.
Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe is a brilliant actor. Since 2013 he's been the animated voice of Mickey Mouse, including the Runaway Railway ride at Disney parks. He also portrays an incredible Robin Williams in The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy. He's got controlled range. Sadly, he was only paid $32,000 for the Stooges role.
This movie was filmed in my hometown, so it’s a constant “hey I know that place!” more than anything else. It also has a nostalgic quality for me because my dad has always LOVED The Three Stooges. The black and white shorts were always on in my home on Saturday mornings.
My father introduced me to them in the 90's when I was younger and he was alive as well. Along with the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Little Rascals too. Fun memories.☺️
I used to watch them all the time on UPN back when I was a kid! One of my uncles used to have a box set of some of the shorts on DVD that I watched a lot of too!
Another Good Fact about a Really good Movie that deserves more love for what it tried to give us: The directors, the Farrelly brothers--or rather the two actors playing the directors--reveal at the end of the film how the physical comedy was done. Similarly, in real life, The Three Stooges went on television several times after incidents of children hurting each other while imitating the Stooges eye-poke, head slaps, etc. to reveal how to eye-poke without hurting anyone.
That makes sense. If children threw themselves off of roofs because Superman could do it, then they def believed they could hit each other and walk away from it relatively unscathed.
Another Fun Fact: The orphanage is shown to be founded in 1934, the same year The Three Stooges began their series of shorts for Columbia Pictures, which continued until 1958.
This incarnation of the 3 Stooges may not be great, But hey at least the actors tried their best to live up to the legacy of the original 3 Stooges. And I have no doubt that they would be proud to know that their legacy is still being kept alive today!
I remember my 3rd grade teacher putting this movie on for my entire class and we were all dying watching this film, the three stooges was one hell of a childhood movie for me😄
I think the actors did amazing, they’re all unique in a way. ( with some exceptions) What really hurts the movie is setting. I would’ve honestly preferred if they set it in the 40s or early depression era America. And make three different shorts each spending 30 minutes one where they raise money for an orphanage, the other where they become actors in the other where they plan to murder someone. If they ever make a biopic, mini series or movie about the stooges again, I hope they use these actors because they pull these characters off to a T
Honestly what I’d do is keep the orphanage plot and opening with the little Stooges then have it be when they get out in the world have Teddy be the villain as a Ted Healey parody. Make it that he’s like a TV mogul that inherited the business from his parents and has been running his family business into the ground so starts using Moe, Larry and Curley as stars of a TV show promising them money that he just doesn’t have so he can make millions off of their work. That way you can have the movie be full of classic Stooge style sketches as part of the programme Teddy puts them on, have a cohesive plot, keep the emotional core by having Moe working under the man who took what should have been his life from him and make it based somewhat on the actual experiences The Stooges had to deal with when they were working under Healy
Another Fun Fact: Caroline Kimberly Scott, who plays one of the nuns in the beginning of the movie, is the great-granddaughter of Moe Howard, one of the original The Three Stooges.
Another fact is that I really want to take a bite out of that cake and that little girl with the balloon, as she “looks good enough to eat” just like Wonkatania
Another Fun Fact: Voice actor Billy West -- who had based the voice of Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991) on Stooge Larry Fine -- worked on-set as a dialect coach for Sean Hayes, who was playing Larry.
Chris Diamantopoulos was so keen to play Moe he offered to do the movie for free. Fox did the next best thing and paid him the bare minimum allowed by union rules. He says he ended up losing money, he had to pay for his wife and baby to stay with him in Atlanta while also paying to keep their home in Los Angeles, but that it was the role of a lifetime and that he enjoyed the process.
Before this movie, Chris Diamantopoulos was the only one of the three I hadn't yet heard of before. Nowadays, he's the one of the three I'm excited to see the most in whatever stuff I happen to watch that he turns out to be in (in particular, he was the Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck voice in the recent Ducktales 2017 reboot series). Also, while the movie did nail many staple Stooges gags like construction site hijinks and whatnot, I was always a little disappointed that they didn't find a way to sneak in a short side trip to Niagara Falls, or if they did my memory is bad and I didn't pay attention hard enough.
Fun fact: Voice actor Billy West worked in that movie, but he only helped Sean Hayes out with his performance of Larry Fine and coached him his Larry Fine impersonation voice. Billy West was a huge fan of the Three Stooges ever since he was a kid back in the 1950's when he used to watch them on TV in the mornings. Billy West really nailed that Larry Fine voice and he later used it for his Stimpy voice, but in a cartoony pitch.
Fun fact: the actor for ten-year-old Curly is Robert Capron, best known as the original Rowley Jefferson from the first three _Diary of a Wimpy Kid_ movies, starring opposite Zachary Gordon's Greg Heffley and Devon Bostick's Rodrick Heffley. When he was called back for the movie _Dog Days,_ he had to put on a wig that looked like his original mop of red hair, due to him shaving his head for this movie.
Considering how many live action movies of beloved shows failed, which this channel also covered (Last Airbender, Jem and the Holograms, Yogi Bear, Woody Woodpecker, Masters of the Universe, most of the live action Disney remakes, the Alvin and the Chipmunks series, Dragonball, Casper, Inspector Gadget, The Avengers, Smurfs, the 2 TMNT movies Michael Bay worked with...), the fact this film was sorta decent in humor and capturing the spirit of the source material is a much higher than expected achievement.
My dad and I honestly love this movie, mainly because it WAS a Three Stooges movie instead of some stupid attempt to modernize the stooges. I mean, really think about how so many remakes and such have handled their characters and all. This movie could've done the exact same crap and failed terribly, but they did just one main thing right above all else. They didn't try to make the three stooges modern, but rather just throw them into the modern day. And it worked for the most part. As far as the story goes, it was pretty simple, but could've been handled a LOT worse if you ask me.
I saw the Teddy actor in a black box theater in LA a few years ago. He played a therapist who fell in love with patient, who was struggling with sleeping problems and amputated limbs (the relationship is a lot more wholesome than one would think from an artsy play). He was really really good.
Fun Fact: The producers actually hired Billy West to teach Sean Hayes how to perform as Larry Fine. Also, this movie's plot is also the same for The Three Stooges video game. This, making it a video game adaptation too.
Another Fun Fact: During the "dentist" scene early in the movie, the three boys claim to be "dabbling in the arts" when Mother Superior comes into the room to summon them to lunch. Two of the three are doing things that mirror interests in the real Stooges' lives. Moe is reading, something (according to his brother Jack) he loved to do. Larry is playing the violin, at which the real Larry Fine was quite proficient (initially the violin training was in response to a childhood accident), indeed good enough that his parents seriously considered sending him to Europe to study at a music conservatory.
I’ve been watching the stooges since I was four, and now at 24, I still do. There’s a lot of things very meh about the movie, but it’s heart was in the right place, and I think it did a good job as a modern interpretation of them. Great review as always, Doug- Much love, God Bless from Eastern Iowa!
A Song Fact: The song playing when the infant Stooges are dropped at the orphanage is "Road Runner" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. Richman is one of the street guitarists in There's Something About Mary (1998), also directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly.
2:00, That's a good point. It did try to capture the same same Magic, Energy and Comedy of the classic 3 Stooges Shorts, even with its decent Casting. So I guess not EVERYTHING about the Film was bad.
Another Fun Fact: Jerod Mayo and Troy Brown of the New England Patriots play the two "gang bangers" whose pants are falling down. The Farrelly Brothers often include New England sports stars in their movies.
You notice young Curly was played by Robert Capron? That’s Rowley from the first three Diary Of A Wimpy Kid movies? I know you loved that kid in that one.
Admittingly, this film was my introduction to Chris Diamantopoulos, whom I would later know as Master Eon and the Chompy Mage in Skylanders Academy, and Mickey Mouse in 2013 tv series of the same name.
To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Will Sasso might be thinking about is "The only thing that an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, REAL fast, and, if you're not careful, it's too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth."
What's Will Sasso done lately? I can't name nearly as many ex-MAD TV cast members who went onto bigger and better things compared to how many careers SNL launched. And not just because that show's been on longer.
I will take any reason to tell this story. this is a thing that happened with my dad and one of his brothers when they were kids. now they were trying to sleep and my dad was almost asleep when, surprise surprise, one of his brothers shook him awake. my dads like "wtf, what do you want?" his brother tells him "I cant sleep." my dad just glares at him probably thinking 'I can' but instead he asked "well what do you want me to do about it?" so his brothers says "well, you know The Three Stooges?" dad perks up, likely very interested where this is going, and asks "yeah?" and his brother pulls out this jagged rusty pipe and tells him "I'm gonna go that thing they did, I want you to help me make sure I land right." so dad sits up and tells him "yeah, yeah you look good." and his brother takes the pipe in front of him 1 2 3 BONK his brother was laying with bloodied and likely cracked open head on his pillow our cold. you wanna know what my dads first thought was? it wasn't 'omg he's bleeding!' or 'oh sh*t he knocked himself out!' his first thought was "huh, it worked." so then and only then he yells "maaaaa!!" she yells back "what?! what do you want?!" and my dad laughs yelling "y-you gotta see this!" so she comes up and sees one of her sons is out cold and asks "tf what happened?" and my dad responds "well, remember The Tree Stooges?" and she says and says "oh for f*ck sake" my dad and his brothers went to the hospital so many times for so many different stupid reasons that they knew them by name when they walked in and would ask "what happened this time?" dad said when they told them, they all had a look like they couldn't believe someone was that stupid. wasn't even a facepalm moment, they all just sighed and went on with their jobs.
When the original cast of Penn, Del Toro, and Carrey was announced, I was honestly thinking that it would be a serious biopic, similar to Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly’s ‘Stan and Ollie’.
Another Fun Fact: Robert Capron had to shave most of his head for the role of young Curly. He had to wear a wig in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012).
The actors playing the Stooges were dead-on, and the idea of placing them in the present day was an interesting concept. But this movie proved exactly why the Three Stooges' classic films were always shorts. They couldn't carry a feature-length plot.
The fact that I just randomly watched this for the first time a couple of weeks ago lol I’m stoked to see that this is this week’s review. Also, I hope you feel better soon Doug!!
My first exposure to the Stooges was from the DOS game, which had a fairly similar plot to the movie. The stooges come across an orphanage that's in a state of disrepair and the evil bank manager is threatening to seize the property if the elderly owner doesn't pay the rent within 30 days. So the stooges (I guess out of the goodness of their hearts, it's never explained otherwise) decide to help raise the money to pay for the rent and repairs. You then play a series of minigames, trying to raise as much money as you can - from various odd jobs, finding money on the sidewalk, entering contests, and answering radio trivia questions. All the while avoiding mousetraps on the game select screen and doing slapstick fighting to try and slow the cursor down and keep it from landing on a destination you don't want to end up. In the end, there are four different outcomes: 1. You bring back less than $5000 - the evil bank manager tells the stooges it's not enough and the orphanage is all his now. 2. You bring back more than $5000, but less than $10,000 - the owner thanks the stooges for saving the orphanage, but expresses regret that it can't be repaired. 3. You bring back more than $10,000, but less than $15,000 - the owner happily thanks the stooges for saving the orphanage and expresses joy that it's repaired. 4. You bring back more than $15,000 - same as #3, but in addition, the stooges have enough money left to marry the owner's 3 beautiful daughters. (I only recently learned of that last one myself, having never been able to get more than $12,000.)
I remember really liking this movie back in the day. The actors were perfect for the roles and they put a lot effort into capturing the three stooges charm
When this movie came out, I loved it so much I saw it 5 times in theaters. I saw it with my dad and never saw him laugh so hard especially at the baby scene. It’s not perfect but holds a special place.
Thank you for this review. I’m so sad to hear that you are sick. I hope you get well really soon. I’m not the biggest fan of this movie but I definitely like the first half and have no disrespect for the main actors. They aren’t the original Stooges but that is the least important factor. I’m amazed that you could do a production like this with such strong focus and friendly energy and enthusiasm even when you are sick. Power to you dude! Get well soon! I love the original characters and their stories.
Funny thing is, the best parts of the movie were straight up lifted from actual 3 Stooges shorts. The worst parts of the movie were written in to try to tie all the shorts together into a feature length movie which is ironically why it feels so random and disjointed at times. Also, I love Jim Carrey but I really can't picture him as Curly. If they tried to cast him as Moe I think that would actually work better.
4:21 I never picked up on that Teddy reference before. And I never even picked up on 10:53 that Moe turns Teddy down with the money offer or staying at his place because of feeling resentment after the adoption. I just thought it was because of that excuse he said after with promising the kids he would come up with money on their own. That was good observations.
This movie legitimately damn near killed me. The entire time, I was chuckling and having a good time. Then came the lions scene....I laughed so hard I nearly passed out. Falling forward out of my chair in the theater. Which would have caused me to brain myself on a metal handrail in front of my. I couldn't get a breath in until my friend smacked me in the back. Yeah, I can just see what the headlines would have said. Curly look alike, dies laughing during The Three Stooges movie premier.🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
It's like it the production crew went "oh shit, this is actually good, what do we do now?!" and then one person barged into the room, light behind him, and, with his fist raised, proclaimed: JERSEY SHORE.
I saw this movie on its opening night. It was me, my dad, and 5 other people… and that was the ENTIRE audience in the theatre that night. That probably should’ve been my first warning 😅
A Larry David Fact: Larry David, who plays Sister Mary-Mengele, played "Larry" in several Three Stooges take-offs on his former ABC live-comedy sketch show Fridays (1980).
FUN FACT: Did you know that Moe's actor: Chris Diamantopoulos is the current Mickey Mouse ? And also Darkwing Duck from the 2017 version of DuckTales ?
The Nostalgic cast is kind of like the 3 Stooges template themselves. 😂 With Tamara as Curly, Malcolm as Larry, and of course Doug as Moe. Nyuck- Nyuck!
I have a theory about this movie that since Larry isn’t technically related to Moe and Curly, someone switched him and Shemp at birth. Shemp was always the most cartoonish of the stooges so they might have thought he was too much to take on. If there’s ever a sequel, they gotta integrate Shemp into the plot. Perhaps Joe Besser and Curly Joe DeRita as well.
Another Casting Fact: Johnny Depp, Russell Crowe, and Mel Gibson were considered for the role of Moe Howard. Benicio Del Toro was the first cast as Moe but ultimately dropped out. Johnny Knoxville was cast next but after discussions with the director, he wasn't interested in doing an impression. Hank Azaria was offered the part next but asked for too much money.
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LOVED IT! Always laugh with it🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I remember seeing it in the theater and loving it
I like it. Fun and hilarious movie
I haven't rewatched it since I was a kid but I do remember enjoying it at a young age and it was actually my first exposure to Three Stooges. So at least there's that.
Hilarious as always, Mr. Walker. Hope you’re feeling better after recovering from shingles.
Honestly respect to the actors who tried to do the best with what they had
Soooo true. They did their best
@@chasehedges6775I agree!
Honestly, I kinda enjoyed it. Definitely not the best 3 Stooges material, but far from the worst in my opinion
I mean, I’d love watching them in Stooge shorts. They did well capturing the essence in plenty of different bits
Its not the story that is bad. The biggest problem is that you are not going to be able to emulate or really recapture what it was that makes the Three Stooges shorts so special.. The story itself isn't really massively far off from what the Stooges shorts stories actually were.
The Three Stooges is just really one of those things that your never going to be able to capture that again, without the actual actors who were the Stooges. The movie was written like it was by someone who liked them but really didn't know how to capture that magic and spirit.
To be fair, watching Moe slap the absolute hell out of the Jersey Shore cast is absolutely legendary.
wow somebody remember Little Rosey was a thing 4:43
That whole microwave stuff in that guy's head was actually pretty funny to me to be honest.
@@akilcharles3473that did legitimately creep me out tho. But yeah it was pretty hilarious
I actually liked that part, stupid as it is.
@@stitchlover4381 I mean yeah a little creepy but still hilarious
Me as a kid: I love the Three Stooges.
Me as an adult: *Learns the behind the scenes about the Stooges*.....how did none of them die from these stunts? Even Jackass would hesitate at this.
Back then many actors put their lives on the line for their work.
you think the stooges were crazy? wait until you see Buster Keaton that guy is a daredevil
In the words of Curly, "We're not ordinary people! We're morons!"
I remember watching this back-to-back with "Stan & Ollie (2018)"
Big sad.
All that I would need to make this a trifecta is a biopic on the Marx Brothers.
@@motor4X4kombat
Yep, good 'ol Buster "Never Fake a Gag" Keaton. All those death-defying stunts you saw in his movies? Yeah, those weren't perspective tricks like Harold -Llyod's- Lloyd's iconic hanging from a clock tower scene. All of them really happened. Buster Keaton was straight up insanity incarnate.
Addendum: An 8 minute video on Buster Keaton from the series "Every Frame a Painting".
ruclips.net/video/UWEjxkkB8Xs/видео.htmlfeature=shared
This movie did succeed in the most surprising ways: the guys playing the Stooges nailed it harder than most people would have thought possible, and the basic tone of the humor mostly stayed true to the originals. What we got was probably as good as it could possibly have been, all things considered.
We got a pretty decent movie, really
The problem is the three stooges were a byproduct of their time. They can't be replicated for today's audiences. I agree this movie was probably as close as you could get to doing anything new with the stooges, but if you ask me, you'd be better off just watching the originals as they're still timeless classics.
@@thewolfofwallstreet627Cause the Stooges already did everything.. How can you add anything new to them??
Those three young stooges did a fantastic job too.
@@thewolfofwallstreet627 The movie probably would improve a lot if it was a period piece instead of based on current times. I mean, that would mean no Jersey Shore so that automatically maks it better.
I’ll be honest, for a modern movie version of The Three Stooges, it wasn’t as bad. Plus, the main 3 actors did amazing.
Yeah, it was decent and the three main actors did a good job
Yeah ultimately you could do a whole lot worse.
I genuinely hope these three come back as the modern day stooges
@@Devils_Lair_ComicsI've waited so many years for a sequel. It just isn't to be sadly.
meh the kids version of them did a better jov
I say big props to the guys playing The Stooges in this film. They were spot on. I liked this film a-lot. The real problem is its just impossible to recreate magic. Even original cast members of other reboots fail. Everything has its moment in time.
Invader Zim and futurama recreated it. Futurama even did it twice.
I thought they did a perfect job with the first third.
One of the Jersey Shore cast members telling Moe that what he's doing is assault and Moe slapping the shit out of that guy then telling him "there's your pepper" is the best joke in the movie.
No skits. Just pure commentary. Thank you.
@BrutusPootisI've been yearning for this for almost a decade. I usually skip the skits. They are awful and pointless.
@@talandelana6873 Been doing that ever since he included skits to his reviews for years now, and been skipping his skit based product promotions.
@@gameplaysolothebladeI think I feel the same way you do about the skits (in that I usually would rather hear the commentator actually, you know, COMMENTATE), but I find myself forgiving the skits in the newer episodes a little more because they don't seem to overstay their welcome as much. Just my observation and opinion, though. I'm curious as to what others think.
I love the stoges, they're like a live-action Looney Tunes. As for the movie, they did the best they could with what they had, and at first, what they had was pretty good. By the second half though, you can tell they were trying to hard to keep it fresh for a modern audience. The fist half is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine, though.
Exactly.
It could've been a lot worse.
@@waterbullstudios9195 Exactly. It was decent enough
It's a guilty pleasure of mine, too.
The curse of the "Modern Audience".
If only Sam Raimi had been hired to direct. He's been making homages to them since the Evil Dead.
even in the last evil dead film theres a poster of the stooges in his bedroom
Bruce Campbell is credited as Shemp in Dark Man
@@claymathewselevator8121that’s what Raimi calls his stuntmen, Fake Shemp’s
And somewhere around 15:00 Lizzy Samuels guest cameos in Jersey Shore
He would probably have cast Danny Elfman as one of them. Until he found out how Danny turns into a Portuguese man-of-war in front of a camera.
I also grew up loving the Stooges. Nowadays, when it comes to them, what comes to my mind the most is their commitment to the bit. For instance, after a table sawed in half gag, Moe fell on his side and messed himself up REAL bad. The take was still going, so he picked himself up and finished the bit. When the cameras stopped rolling, he passed out.
Growing up, it made me think that Vaudeville, at least on the stage-side, was pretty hardcore. Especially when you consider these three were slapping the shit out of each other on a regular basis.
Also, their pun game was always unmatched. The Stooges were a full package.
Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe is a brilliant actor. Since 2013 he's been the animated voice of Mickey Mouse, including the Runaway Railway ride at Disney parks. He also portrays an incredible Robin Williams in The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy. He's got controlled range. Sadly, he was only paid $32,000 for the Stooges role.
He experienced how the Stooges got paid for the longest time starting at the exact moment they got famous.
This movie was filmed in my hometown, so it’s a constant “hey I know that place!” more than anything else. It also has a nostalgic quality for me because my dad has always LOVED The Three Stooges. The black and white shorts were always on in my home on Saturday mornings.
My father introduced me to them in the 90's when I was younger and he was alive as well. Along with the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Little Rascals too. Fun memories.☺️
I used to watch them all the time on UPN back when I was a kid! One of my uncles used to have a box set of some of the shorts on DVD that I watched a lot of too!
I'm the same way about Interstellar. That movie is a lot more Canadian than people realize
Honestly, the three main actors were absolutely perfect as Larry, Curley, and Moe! They had the looks, voices, and slapstick down pat!
Another Good Fact about a Really good Movie that deserves more love for what it tried to give us: The directors, the Farrelly brothers--or rather the two actors playing the directors--reveal at the end of the film how the physical comedy was done. Similarly, in real life, The Three Stooges went on television several times after incidents of children hurting each other while imitating the Stooges eye-poke, head slaps, etc. to reveal how to eye-poke without hurting anyone.
That makes sense. If children threw themselves off of roofs because Superman could do it, then they def believed they could hit each other and walk away from it relatively unscathed.
Another Fun Fact: The orphanage is shown to be founded in 1934, the same year The Three Stooges began their series of shorts for Columbia Pictures, which continued until 1958.
I always thought of Doug, Spoony and Linkara as the Three Stooges.
Hell yeah!!
didnt they do that one bit on the bloodrayne review?
The three schmuckleheads
Unfortunately, we don't talk about Spoony anymore.
If those three would’ve reviewed this movie back in 2013-14, it would’ve been hilarious
This incarnation of the 3 Stooges may not be great, But hey at least the actors tried their best to live up to the legacy of the original 3 Stooges. And I have no doubt that they would be proud to know that their legacy is still being kept alive today!
I always love that the thumbnails always includes you even if it replaces the original
I remember my 3rd grade teacher putting this movie on for my entire class and we were all dying watching this film, the three stooges was one hell of a childhood movie for me😄
The kid versions of them were amazing! I wish they kept them in the whole movie
This is definitely one of the guilty pleasure movies for me. Get better soon!
I have it on DVD ♡
I think the actors did amazing, they’re all unique in a way. ( with some exceptions) What really hurts the movie is setting. I would’ve honestly preferred if they set it in the 40s or early depression era America. And make three different shorts each spending 30 minutes one where they raise money for an orphanage, the other where they become actors in the other where they plan to murder someone.
If they ever make a biopic, mini series or movie about the stooges again, I hope they use these actors because they pull these characters off to a T
Honestly what I’d do is keep the orphanage plot and opening with the little Stooges then have it be when they get out in the world have Teddy be the villain as a Ted Healey parody. Make it that he’s like a TV mogul that inherited the business from his parents and has been running his family business into the ground so starts using Moe, Larry and Curley as stars of a TV show promising them money that he just doesn’t have so he can make millions off of their work. That way you can have the movie be full of classic Stooge style sketches as part of the programme Teddy puts them on, have a cohesive plot, keep the emotional core by having Moe working under the man who took what should have been his life from him and make it based somewhat on the actual experiences The Stooges had to deal with when they were working under Healy
It was freaking hilarious seeing Moe beat up the jersey shores .
Damn right it was 😆 Now if it was the Kardashians like Doug mentioned, it would be a laugh riot 😂🤣
Yeah it was good maybe we could see other reality stars get beaten up
@eddieolshefski6467 the Kardashian girls aren't the brightest women! Lol!
But they're really pretty!
I like Khloe, though!
That smoked salmon joke always made me laugh when I was a kid, it was just so random yet so well-executed
Another Fun Fact: Caroline Kimberly Scott, who plays one of the nuns in the beginning of the movie, is the great-granddaughter of Moe Howard, one of the original The Three Stooges.
Another fact is that I really want to take a bite out of that cake and that little girl with the balloon, as she “looks good enough to eat” just like Wonkatania
This movie is underrated and the casting really hit it out of the park.
The three stooges movie is just one of those movies I heavily enjoy because of early 2010s movie nostalgia
Soooo true. The early 2010s were awesome
@@chasehedges6775mhm! :)
Another Fun Fact: Voice actor Billy West -- who had based the voice of Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991) on Stooge Larry Fine -- worked on-set as a dialect coach for Sean Hayes, who was playing Larry.
So that’s why Larry sounds so much like the original!
(Not to diss on Sean Hayes, he did amazing!)
Chris Diamantopoulos was so keen to play Moe he offered to do the movie for free. Fox did the next best thing and paid him the bare minimum allowed by union rules. He says he ended up losing money, he had to pay for his wife and baby to stay with him in Atlanta while also paying to keep their home in Los Angeles, but that it was the role of a lifetime and that he enjoyed the process.
Before this movie, Chris Diamantopoulos was the only one of the three I hadn't yet heard of before. Nowadays, he's the one of the three I'm excited to see the most in whatever stuff I happen to watch that he turns out to be in (in particular, he was the Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck voice in the recent Ducktales 2017 reboot series).
Also, while the movie did nail many staple Stooges gags like construction site hijinks and whatnot, I was always a little disappointed that they didn't find a way to sneak in a short side trip to Niagara Falls, or if they did my memory is bad and I didn't pay attention hard enough.
NIAGARA FALLS
SLOWLY WE TURNED
STEP BY STEP
INCH BY INCH
Fun fact: Voice actor Billy West worked in that movie, but he only helped Sean Hayes out with his performance of Larry Fine and coached him his Larry Fine impersonation voice. Billy West was a huge fan of the Three Stooges ever since he was a kid back in the 1950's when he used to watch them on TV in the mornings. Billy West really nailed that Larry Fine voice and he later used it for his Stimpy voice, but in a cartoony pitch.
Fun fact: the actor for ten-year-old Curly is Robert Capron, best known as the original Rowley Jefferson from the first three _Diary of a Wimpy Kid_ movies, starring opposite Zachary Gordon's Greg Heffley and Devon Bostick's Rodrick Heffley. When he was called back for the movie _Dog Days,_ he had to put on a wig that looked like his original mop of red hair, due to him shaving his head for this movie.
Considering how many live action movies of beloved shows failed, which this channel also covered (Last Airbender, Jem and the Holograms, Yogi Bear, Woody Woodpecker, Masters of the Universe, most of the live action Disney remakes, the Alvin and the Chipmunks series, Dragonball, Casper, Inspector Gadget, The Avengers, Smurfs, the 2 TMNT movies Michael Bay worked with...), the fact this film was sorta decent in humor and capturing the spirit of the source material is a much higher than expected achievement.
My dad and I honestly love this movie, mainly because it WAS a Three Stooges movie instead of some stupid attempt to modernize the stooges.
I mean, really think about how so many remakes and such have handled their characters and all.
This movie could've done the exact same crap and failed terribly, but they did just one main thing right above all else.
They didn't try to make the three stooges modern, but rather just throw them into the modern day. And it worked for the most part.
As far as the story goes, it was pretty simple, but could've been handled a LOT worse if you ask me.
Would you believe me when I say that Moe would later become the voice of Mickey Mouse one year later?
Yes, Chris would become Mickey Mouse. Are later after this
It's nice to see some respect being put to The Three Stooges name
I saw the Teddy actor in a black box theater in LA a few years ago. He played a therapist who fell in love with patient, who was struggling with sleeping problems and amputated limbs (the relationship is a lot more wholesome than one would think from an artsy play). He was really really good.
My absolute favorite review you’ve done in years!
No skits; just old school nostalgia critic..
Please do more of this ..less is always more
Fun Fact: The producers actually hired Billy West to teach Sean Hayes how to perform as Larry Fine. Also, this movie's plot is also the same for The Three Stooges video game. This, making it a video game adaptation too.
Another Fun Fact: During the "dentist" scene early in the movie, the three boys claim to be "dabbling in the arts" when Mother Superior comes into the room to summon them to lunch. Two of the three are doing things that mirror interests in the real Stooges' lives. Moe is reading, something (according to his brother Jack) he loved to do. Larry is playing the violin, at which the real Larry Fine was quite proficient (initially the violin training was in response to a childhood accident), indeed good enough that his parents seriously considered sending him to Europe to study at a music conservatory.
A Cool Fact: The pool scene at the end of the movie was filmed at the Huntcliff Pool and Stables.
AWESOME!
Moe joining Jersey Shore just to make those assholes suffers was a stroke of genius.
I’ve been watching the stooges since I was four, and now at 24, I still do. There’s a lot of things very meh about the movie, but it’s heart was in the right place, and I think it did a good job as a modern interpretation of them.
Great review as always, Doug- Much love, God Bless from Eastern Iowa!
Nostalgia Critic never disappoints in giving us another good review for the week ❤
He sure does
A Song Fact: The song playing when the infant Stooges are dropped at the orphanage is "Road Runner" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. Richman is one of the street guitarists in There's Something About Mary (1998), also directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly.
2:00, That's a good point.
It did try to capture the same same Magic, Energy and Comedy of the classic 3 Stooges Shorts, even with its decent Casting.
So I guess not EVERYTHING about the Film was bad.
Another Fun Fact: Jerod Mayo and Troy Brown of the New England Patriots play the two "gang bangers" whose pants are falling down. The Farrelly Brothers often include New England sports stars in their movies.
You notice young Curly was played by Robert Capron? That’s Rowley from the first three Diary Of A Wimpy Kid movies? I know you loved that kid in that one.
Will Sasso as Curly is too perfect. They even look like brothers.😂
Hell Yeah! I've been suggesting this movie for an long time. So glad that Doug is reviewing it now.
Admittingly, this film was my introduction to Chris Diamantopoulos, whom I would later know as Master Eon and the Chompy Mage in Skylanders Academy, and Mickey Mouse in 2013 tv series of the same name.
Another Fun Fact: Originally set to be an MGM production, this moved over to 20th Century-Fox when MGM went bankrupt.
To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Will Sasso might be thinking about is "The only thing that an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, REAL fast, and, if you're not careful, it's too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth."
What's Will Sasso done lately? I can't name nearly as many ex-MAD TV cast members who went onto bigger and better things compared to how many careers SNL launched. And not just because that show's been on longer.
You can tell everyone wanted to give The Three Stooges the passion it deserve which i am very thankful for
I will take any reason to tell this story.
this is a thing that happened with my dad and one of his brothers when they were kids.
now they were trying to sleep and my dad was almost asleep when, surprise surprise, one of his brothers shook him awake. my dads like "wtf, what do you want?"
his brother tells him "I cant sleep."
my dad just glares at him probably thinking 'I can' but instead he asked "well what do you want me to do about it?"
so his brothers says "well, you know The Three Stooges?"
dad perks up, likely very interested where this is going, and asks "yeah?"
and his brother pulls out this jagged rusty pipe and tells him "I'm gonna go that thing they did, I want you to help me make sure I land right."
so dad sits up and tells him "yeah, yeah you look good."
and his brother takes the pipe in front of him
1
2
3
BONK
his brother was laying with bloodied and likely cracked open head on his pillow our cold.
you wanna know what my dads first thought was? it wasn't 'omg he's bleeding!' or 'oh sh*t he knocked himself out!'
his first thought was "huh, it worked."
so then and only then he yells "maaaaa!!"
she yells back "what?! what do you want?!"
and my dad laughs yelling "y-you gotta see this!"
so she comes up and sees one of her sons is out cold and asks "tf what happened?"
and my dad responds "well, remember The Tree Stooges?"
and she says and says "oh for f*ck sake"
my dad and his brothers went to the hospital so many times for so many different stupid reasons that they knew them by name when they walked in and would ask "what happened this time?"
dad said when they told them, they all had a look like they couldn't believe someone was that stupid. wasn't even a facepalm moment, they all just sighed and went on with their jobs.
When the original cast of Penn, Del Toro, and Carrey was announced, I was honestly thinking that it would be a serious biopic, similar to Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly’s ‘Stan and Ollie’.
So, probably, did Penn, Del Toro, and Carrey.
Anyway, I'd still like to see *that* movie.
Another Fun Fact: Robert Capron had to shave most of his head for the role of young Curly. He had to wear a wig in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012).
I had a feeling he was going to review that eventually. I actually haven’t seen that movie since 2012.
2012 was such a good year for movies and life in general
The actors playing the Stooges were dead-on, and the idea of placing them in the present day was an interesting concept. But this movie proved exactly why the Three Stooges' classic films were always shorts. They couldn't carry a feature-length plot.
Will Sasso is a legend. Mad Tv will always be the funniest sketch comedy show imo and he was a huge part of that.
Talking about what could've been: Mel Brooks was developing a Stooges film with him, Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise as the Stooges
I hope/want Walter to do a Stooge themed month like he did with Batman The Animated Series and The Twilight Zone.
14:55 - Francis and Paiama from Malcolm in the Middle left the ranch because the irl actor of Otto died and needed to switch up the story
The fact that I just randomly watched this for the first time a couple of weeks ago lol I’m stoked to see that this is this week’s review. Also, I hope you feel better soon Doug!!
I thought the guys nailed the entire feel of the Stooges! Sasso in particular was FANTASTIC!
Really no one can replace Curly, Howard and Moe but you can feel that this came from a heart of respect
My first exposure to the Stooges was from the DOS game, which had a fairly similar plot to the movie.
The stooges come across an orphanage that's in a state of disrepair and the evil bank manager is threatening to seize the property if the elderly owner doesn't pay the rent within 30 days. So the stooges (I guess out of the goodness of their hearts, it's never explained otherwise) decide to help raise the money to pay for the rent and repairs. You then play a series of minigames, trying to raise as much money as you can - from various odd jobs, finding money on the sidewalk, entering contests, and answering radio trivia questions. All the while avoiding mousetraps on the game select screen and doing slapstick fighting to try and slow the cursor down and keep it from landing on a destination you don't want to end up.
In the end, there are four different outcomes:
1. You bring back less than $5000 - the evil bank manager tells the stooges it's not enough and the orphanage is all his now.
2. You bring back more than $5000, but less than $10,000 - the owner thanks the stooges for saving the orphanage, but expresses regret that it can't be repaired.
3. You bring back more than $10,000, but less than $15,000 - the owner happily thanks the stooges for saving the orphanage and expresses joy that it's repaired.
4. You bring back more than $15,000 - same as #3, but in addition, the stooges have enough money left to marry the owner's 3 beautiful daughters.
(I only recently learned of that last one myself, having never been able to get more than $12,000.)
I remember really liking this movie back in the day. The actors were perfect for the roles and they put a lot effort into capturing the three stooges charm
When this movie came out, I loved it so much I saw it 5 times in theaters. I saw it with my dad and never saw him laugh so hard especially at the baby scene. It’s not perfect but holds a special place.
I miss Doug, Spoony and Linkara reviewing together as The Three Shmuckheads. Best scene is Moe beating the Jersey Shore.
So that's why the Kool-Aid Man loves pain so much
Thank you for this review. I’m so sad to hear that you are sick. I hope you get well really soon. I’m not the biggest fan of this movie but I definitely like the first half and have no disrespect for the main actors. They aren’t the original Stooges but that is the least important factor. I’m amazed that you could do a production like this with such strong focus and friendly energy and enthusiasm even when you are sick. Power to you dude! Get well soon! I love the original characters and their stories.
Funny thing is, the best parts of the movie were straight up lifted from actual 3 Stooges shorts. The worst parts of the movie were written in to try to tie all the shorts together into a feature length movie which is ironically why it feels so random and disjointed at times.
Also, I love Jim Carrey but I really can't picture him as Curly. If they tried to cast him as Moe I think that would actually work better.
Cheers to you Critic for still posting reviews while sick! We appreciate it!
It's how he makes a living...
He didn't show my favorite joke:
> Jersey Guy: "You can't do that, that's assault!"
> Moe: "And here's your pepper!" *SLAP*
There's something about this film that will always stick with me for how different and amazing it was
4:21 I never picked up on that Teddy reference before. And I never even picked up on 10:53 that Moe turns Teddy down with the money offer or staying at his place because of feeling resentment after the adoption. I just thought it was because of that excuse he said after with promising the kids he would come up with money on their own. That was good observations.
This movie legitimately damn near killed me. The entire time, I was chuckling and having a good time. Then came the lions scene....I laughed so hard I nearly passed out. Falling forward out of my chair in the theater. Which would have caused me to brain myself on a metal handrail in front of my. I couldn't get a breath in until my friend smacked me in the back. Yeah, I can just see what the headlines would have said. Curly look alike, dies laughing during The Three Stooges movie premier.🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
A comedy with Sean penn, Jim Carrey and del toro as the lead roles would literally be the greatest thing ever
I honestly don't know why Will Sasso isn't a bigger name in comedy. He's hilarious AND good at slap stick
It's like it the production crew went "oh shit, this is actually good, what do we do now?!" and then one person barged into the room, light behind him, and, with his fist raised, proclaimed:
JERSEY SHORE.
I saw this movie on its opening night. It was me, my dad, and 5 other people… and that was the ENTIRE audience in the theatre that night. That probably should’ve been my first warning 😅
A Larry David Fact: Larry David, who plays Sister Mary-Mengele, played "Larry" in several Three Stooges take-offs on his former ABC live-comedy sketch show Fridays (1980).
This movie is watchable. The 3 main actors did the best that they could with what they had.
i swear i still quote the "too much iron thin the water" bit to this day. the whole bell repair sequence had me cracking up
This is actually making me wanna watch the movie and show again
Larry: "Look it’s Sandy Claws! Claws!"
Moe: "What did I tell you about puns?"
I remember actually enjoying this movie not an amazing movie but a good movie if you like slapstick
You missed the best joke in the movie.
Ted: “it’s a iPhone”
Larry: sticks his eye in the phones screen “hello, HELLO! It’s not working”
Doug, I hope you feel better. Get better. I love your videos. You rock!
FUN FACT: Did you know that Moe's actor: Chris Diamantopoulos is the current Mickey Mouse ? And also Darkwing Duck from the 2017 version of DuckTales ?
A Interesting Fun Fact: The movie uses the same special sound effects that were used in the original Columbia Pictures The Three Stooges shorts.
The Nostalgic cast is kind of like the 3 Stooges template themselves. 😂 With Tamara as Curly, Malcolm as Larry, and of course Doug as Moe. Nyuck- Nyuck!
How bout the OG 3 stooges critic linkara,doug,spoony
Hope you're feeling better soon but I think it's worth saying that these simpler episodes are still good! Feels old school.
I have a theory about this movie that since Larry isn’t technically related to Moe and Curly, someone switched him and Shemp at birth. Shemp was always the most cartoonish of the stooges so they might have thought he was too much to take on. If there’s ever a sequel, they gotta integrate Shemp into the plot. Perhaps Joe Besser and Curly Joe DeRita as well.
Been watching some history on the Stooges and holy crap, the stories that come from all them are astounding.
Another Casting Fact: Johnny Depp, Russell Crowe, and Mel Gibson were considered for the role of Moe Howard. Benicio Del Toro was the first cast as Moe but ultimately dropped out. Johnny Knoxville was cast next but after discussions with the director, he wasn't interested in doing an impression. Hank Azaria was offered the part next but asked for too much money.
The actor who played Moe was Robin Williams in a tv movie AND now Mickey Mouse’s voice. Clever all around actor.