Originally I was opposed to this idea, but after seeing the trailers, I changed. I just got back from the movie a few minutes. It was freakin' hilarious! I loved it. Let me just say this, if every remake/reboot/whatever would honor their source material in the same way this movie did, I don't think I'd hate remakes so much.
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Really? The previews and commercials made me face-palm so hard I was actually face-palming the inside of the back of my head.
Well it's like this, if you liked the originals, you'll find this to be more of the same. Which includes a lot of silly, stupid, goofy slapstick and gags. The actors REALLY took the time to get their parts down. Sean Hayes Larry was a little off to me, I can't quite put my finger on it, it wasn't that he was bad. Just didn't seem quite right.
If you don't like the originals, then yeah there's nothing to see here, move along. But if you're a Stooges fan, don't be afraid to see this movie. I'm not saying every single joke works, I'm just saying overall, it was a wonderful tribute to the originals.
ETA: And this comes from a guy who pretty much despises remakes.
If you don't like the originals, then yeah there's nothing to see here, move along. But if you're a Stooges fan, don't be afraid to see this movie. I'm not saying every single joke works, I'm just saying overall, it was a wonderful tribute to the originals.
ETA: And this comes from a guy who pretty much despises remakes.
gh4chiefs said:
I talked about seeing the movie with a co-worker who had sort of the same problem. She had only seen the trailers, but couldn't get over the fact that she recognized Sean Hayes, as if he hadn't buried himself quite enough in Larry. She attributes it to her being a big "Will & Grace" fan.
Trekker4747 said:
No need for guerilla face-palmage. As I said before, this time the creators were smart enough to save the best stuff for the film. The trailers don't do it justice, which is good or bad, depending on your point of view.
I will say he got the voice spot on. If you closed your eyes and just listened to him speak, he sounded a lot like Larry. And in his defense, Larry is kind of a hard character to do. He doesn't really have the outrageous personaility of Moe and Curly to play with, he's probably most remembered for the hair.
Also, maybe it wasn't so much his acting as it was the script. I think maybe the issue was they made him a little more prominent here than in an original Stooge short, thus the feeling that he was off a little.
Even with that observation, I still have to give kudos to ALL the actors, as overall they did a superb job of being true the originals. Sure I can quibble about Larry's portrayal a little bit, but it was not enough to ruin my enjoyment of the film.
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Don't worry, it's just a news story, SFW. I commend their casting skills - they got three guys who really do look like the Stooges!
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^^ Slap of a lawsuit." Nyuk nyuk.
I'm a pretty big Stooges fan and I frown upon re-makes, re-imaginings, re-boots and other re-tarded re-treads, to say the least, but when I saw the previews for this I did not wince. So I'm cautiously optimistic. But I'm still waiting for Pay-Per-View.
I'm a pretty big Stooges fan and I frown upon re-makes, re-imaginings, re-boots and other re-tarded re-treads, to say the least, but when I saw the previews for this I did not wince. So I'm cautiously optimistic. But I'm still waiting for Pay-Per-View.
I think the problem here for me was that even the original 3 Stooges movies weren't really very good.
They work perfectly as shorts, but as a feature length not so well.
Maybe splitting it up into 2 or 3 shorts would have worked better?
Reminds of of doing movie versions of Bewitched, Land of the Lost, etc..was anybody really just dying to see something like that happen?
I'll be honest here and say I'm pretty down on remakes. But I'll admit in some cases they can be done well. But it seems like there should be some sort of hunger for them to happen. The Stooges are a case where I think many of their big fans (like me) didn't really want this, or care.
I will say that kids will probably enjoy it, and it's not awful. It's just not very good either. Nobody really needed this.
They work perfectly as shorts, but as a feature length not so well.
Maybe splitting it up into 2 or 3 shorts would have worked better?
Reminds of of doing movie versions of Bewitched, Land of the Lost, etc..was anybody really just dying to see something like that happen?
I'll be honest here and say I'm pretty down on remakes. But I'll admit in some cases they can be done well. But it seems like there should be some sort of hunger for them to happen. The Stooges are a case where I think many of their big fans (like me) didn't really want this, or care.
I will say that kids will probably enjoy it, and it's not awful. It's just not very good either. Nobody really needed this.
Okay, but, if you start your review with a slam of the original efforts, I don't see what the new movie could have possibly done to ever satisfy you.
The acts of this film were broken up into shorts, because the directors feel the exact same way.
Um...see above.
At least some people were, namely the people who created the remakes. You can't assume nobody wants to see any kind of remake done. There will be people who do and people who don't for each concept. The only way to count the "wants" is to see how succesful the remake is.
I'm a big fan, and it's because I saw some of the old in the new that I enjoyed it.
But the decent box office says more than a few people wanted it.
Not a fair comparison IMHO. The original feature length movies were made in the 60's, WELL past the Stooge's prime and long after Jerome Howard had passed on. We never got the original trio in a feature length movie, so who knows whether it could have worked or not.
This movie was a remake of the work of the original trio in their prime.
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Never know in today's topsy-turvy world, I could see the corporate guy's getting the upper hand. Funny thing is I think the only way this dilutes the brand or whatever is *because* of this lawsuit, it probably wouldn't have made much impact at all if it had just been ignored..
How on earth do you consider what I said to be a slam? I said that I did not think the original stooges movies were very good. Is that a slam? I never said that the original movies or the new movie sucked or were garbage or anything close to that. It's just opinion. If you and others love the movie, more power to you. I didn't like it, that's all.
On the shorts part, just to be more clear I do see how they tried to frame it as shorts but it's still a movie that is linked together, that's what I did not think worked well. I think that self contained shorts would have worked better, that's all. It plays to the characters strengths.
I don't pay attention to box office stuff, but if the movie is doing well then good for them. Again, this film does not offend me, anger me or anything along those lines. I mean it's a freakin' 3 Stooges movie.. Personally I think it was a bad idea and kind of pointless. Mainly because I always prefer new ideas to remakes. I understand that not everyone agrees on that, and that's a whole other topic. But if you liked it awesome.
^^ I agree that the movies were never as good as the shorts, and that the Stooges work better in the shorter format. I was glad to hear that the producers designed the story to accommodate that.
^ I think by the time Moe, Larry & Curly Joe did the movies, they had done everything 100 times over and it was old & tired, as were they.
Plus, they weren't actually good actors, just good at their routines, so you're right, trying to fill up an entire movie didn't play out well.
Plus, they weren't actually good actors, just good at their routines, so you're right, trying to fill up an entire movie didn't play out well.
Well again, that's apples to oranges. The 60's movie Three Stooges were a shadow of their former selves, and really were a different animal by that time. The slapstick had been toned down dramatically, and let's face it, Joe DeRita is a poor substitute for Jerome Howard.
Even though he came first, Shemp Howard was a poor substitute for Jerome Howard.
But still light years better than Joe Besser, who was much funnier in his solo work from what I've heard.
But still light years better than Joe Besser, who was much funnier in his solo work from what I've heard.
Indeed. And even the later shorts with Curly are somewhat painful to watch, you can really see how his failing health was affecting his onscreen presence.
One has to wonder, had Shemp not left to do stuff on his own, and thus the world never got to see Curly, if the Stooges would have become the icons they are today.
That comment just triggered a memory, both Shemp and Besser appeared together in an Abbott and Costello movie called Africa Screams.
Just a useless piece of trivia floating around in my head.
That comment just triggered a memory, both Shemp and Besser appeared together in an Abbott and Costello movie called Africa Screams.
Just a useless piece of trivia floating around in my head.
And they may have been funnier there than in any of the Stooges shorts (especially Joe).
They may have been less constrained by the non-Stooges material.
I have a couple Shemp solo shorts, plus Arabian Nights. He was pretty good in those.
He had a small part in Bank Dick too.
^^ I've got a DVD with a Shemp solo short on it; well, not exactly solo, since he has his own little band of stooges.
I turned on TCM yesterday and there was an old Jimmy Durante movie on-- the Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) had a brief cameo. The movie was Meet The Baron.
I turned on TCM yesterday and there was an old Jimmy Durante movie on-- the Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) had a brief cameo. The movie was Meet The Baron.