Nonureva Really Surprised!

GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

J Besser Unlike the (phony) outrage about the recent all female reboot of "Ghostbusters", this film was embraced by true Three Stooges fans. That goes a long way. The three leads (Hayes,Sasso and Diamntopoulos) are excellent. The writing really captures the humor of the boys. This movie grows with me every time I see it.

Neebing Rainbowriverdash Kuperpsenicnik I'd like to start with that I never REALLY liked slapstick comedy, but that if you overdo it, or under do it, it works (strangely stupid, really). This movie is the example of the former, it does it so obnoxiously that I can't help but snicker or grin every few jokes, I even burst out laughing twice, one when the bell fell on the nun, and when I saw Moe on the jersey shore (makes me chuckle even thinking about it). so you might be wondering why it doesn't have a 7,8 or 9, and to that I say: it sucked. that's not enough? okay, let's start with the acting, the nun that is a man (or maybe I'm wrong) would have been more fun if he/she hadn't been so emotionless, same goes with the stooges, the face acting was great, but I got so tired of the voices straight away, but my biggest problem was....drum roll ...the ending, not because, everything like the girl turning out to be perfect, the guy reuniting with his bro, and them getting the money while having Ted around was solved (that helped too), it was that the STOOGES Didn't LEARN ANYTHING! things changed, but not their selves, their stupid understandings, their trouble making crap, OR ANYTHING!!!! but other than that and a few plot holes, I liked it, just for it's fun moments, good job

Dalbert Pringle *WARNING!* - *Possible Spoilers Ahead!* This film's first fatal mistake - Having The Three Stooges agree to kill someone. I don't care how this murder was justified, the original Three Stooges would never, ever, ever agree to commit an act of homicide. NEVER! There's nothing funny about murder.2nd fatal mistake - Showing The Three Stooges as children. This was pure nonsense and it wasted the first 15 minutes of this movie. And it was not funny.3rd fatal mistake - Filming the story in color and having it set in modern times was a grave error. It would have been so much more effective had the story been given a nostalgic, 1940's look.4th fatal mistake - No pie fights!!! This movie desperately cried out for a few custard-cream pies thrown into some very deserving faces. And, I'm sorry, but, the overlong scene of the pissing babies (though it was funny at first, but was carried on for far too long) didn't compensate for the thrill of seeing someone get a pie right in the kisser.5th fatal mistake - Having to endure a shirtless Peter Farrelly (writer/ director) at the end of the film, flexing and posing in the name of total conceitedness, while at the same time telling the viewer about the hazards of imitating the eye-pokes, face-slaps, etc., etc. that were seen in the film. Like, as though this self-loving poser cared. He just wanted a chance to display (hubba-hubba!) his over-developed pecs to us.6th fatal mistake - Not only did I find that there was no chemistry between the actors who played The Three Stooges, but, Moe didn't command and none of them understood anything about comic-timing (an essentially important element in any slapstick comedy situation).And, finally - 7th fatal mistake (phew!) - In regards to this picture in general - They say that imitation is one of the highest forms of flattery. This, in a sense, is quite true if the imitating is done out of real respect for its subject. And this was not the case here with The Three Stooges.These actors may have been doing their perceived "imitation" of the Stooges, but, it wasn't being done with any reverence or regard for the original Stooges. It was done in a very conceited and disrespectful manner.These actors gave me the clear impression that they thought what they were doing was actually improving on the original Stooges. And that, from my viewpoint, is a fatal mistake which is totally unforgivable.Personally, I think this film should've never been made. The Three Stooges should've just been left alone. And, that's the truth!

ReelCheese By the time this film came out, I had not watched an original Three Stooges short in about 18 years. I did not remember the original Stooges being overly hilarious or ingenious and was not sure a PG-rated update would rewrite my recollections.But THE THREE STOOGES proved to be an amusing-enough ride. And we have the performances of the new Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), the new Larry (Sean Hayes) and the new Curly (Will Sasso) to thank for that. With obvious affection for the original actors, and some obvious voice training, the new trio illustrate the subtle genius of the Stooges' shtick. For some reason, if done just the right way, whacking a guy in the head with a sledgehammer can still be chuckle-inducing in 2013.Directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly borrowed a page from THE BRADY BRUNCH MOVIE by injecting the Stooges into contemporary times. The approach works particularly well here since even the original Stooges never quite grasped the realities of the world of the 1930s, '40s and '50s that they encountered. The Stooges here are charmingly "pure of heart, dim of wit," to quote the new Larry.Just like the original Stooges shorts, THE THREE STOOGES is cohesively imperfect. One scene, involving peeing babies, attempts a gentle form of gross-out humor that feels just plain awkward. The Stooges' famous shtick -- the nose pinching, head bopping, toe crunching and hair yanking -- is at times gut-busting but wears a little thin as the hour-mark of this brief film approaches.If you hated the original Stooges, you will hate this movie. If you sort of liked them, you will sort of like this movie. If you loved them, you will find this to be a touching monument to those pioneers of comedy. Supposedly there will be a sequel, so we probably haven't seen the last of these guys just yet.