The Three Stooges has been pushed with some quite terrible trailers.
Inside that bag would be three babies.
One has a bowl cut.
One has a frizzy balding Afro.
The other is bald.
Yeah, theyre perfect for reality television.
Physically, the actors do a great job at impersonating the Stooges.
Chris Diamantopoulos is quite possibly the best Moe they could have dug up.
A lot of it is the soup bowl wig, but more of it is his body language.
He nails Moes mannerisms, his verbal delivery, and even his facial expressions.
Its really quite brilliant, all things considered.
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Ditto Will Sasso, who takes on Curly.
Aside from the Stooges, the side characters are also pretty well done.
The stand out is, of course, Larry David.
He plays the main thorn in the Stooges side in the first short, Sister Mary-Mengele.
However, the movie isnt mean.
The Three Stooges were always kind, perhaps not to one another, but certainly to other people.
The overall plot reminds me a lot ofThe Blues Brothers(whose slapstick elements always reminded me of… Its a thin plot, but its plot enough.
The true intelligent decision by the Farrellys was to break the movie up into three parts.
The short thing is mostly psychological, but it works.
The Three Stooges, for the most part, feels right.
The Stooges antics are universal.
US Correspondent Ron Hogan was glad to see that The Three Stooges was basically a Three Stooges mini-marathon.
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Rating:
3 out of 5
