Movie Reviews: "The Three Stooges"

[JamesG]

Movie Reviews: The Three Stooges


It’s likely that moviegoers’ reaction to The Three Stooges will depend a lot on how they regarded the original shorts that the Stooges turned out with assembly-line rapidity more than a half century ago.





Rafer Guzmán says in Newsday that the new film, “is a virtual clone job.”

Guzmán praises “the inspired impersonations of the lead trio” and regards the movie as “one of the Farrellys’ better films and a movie in which excess — the hallmark of everyone involved — is decidedly a virtue.”





Manohla Dargis in the New York Times writes:

“It’s a perfect fit for the Farrellys, who have made a career out of idiocy.”





Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News observes that making a movie set in today’s world with actors who are the spitting image of the original Stooges is:

“a concept that shouldn’t work at all. But — who’da thunk it? — it’s better than a hammer to the head.”





Claudia Puig in USA Today pronounces the end result:

“a movie with some big laughs, plenty of heart and terrible coifs.”







Then there are those critics who probably never enjoyed the earlier shorts.


Roger Ebert grumbles:

“I didn’t laugh much. I don’t think the Stooges are funny, although perhaps I might once have. Some of the sight gags were clever, but meh.”





Stephen Cole in the Toronto Globe and Mail remarks:

“The Stooges were probably meant to be seen on television, Saturday morning, while consuming fast food and colored juices.”





Lou Lumenick in the New York Post comments:

“It’s all sloppily sentimental and utterly pointless.”





Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune is the only critic who comes right out with the admission:

“To really dig the Farrellys’ tribute to the Stooges, you have to be more of a fan of the old stuff than I am.”

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[MrCleveland]

That film Has Positive Reviews?

I thought many would put it down! What Next...a film called "The Marx Bros."?

[Schmoopie]

That's funny because on the front page of The Seattle Times, they gave it a half star!

[Tubehead]

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