The Three Stooges

While I do enjoy physical humour, I found this one fell short. It almost had too much story. The beginning was far too slow for me. I was hoping for more scenes that showed those patented "exquisite-timing" scenes with their assorted bangs and clangs. There were only a few of these. In this film those intricately choreographed scenes were comedic and true to the original crew, but as mentioned were few and far between. As for the actors portraying the Stooges they were fine but I thought Curly was a bit too burly. (Sorry for that.) On my way home from the theater I was telling my son that the movies in my day always had a four things without fail: Some previews of upcoming movies, followed by a cartoon (usually Woody Woodpecker) and then a ten-minute Three stooges film followed by the main film. Given the price of movies these days, maybe we should return to that. As for this flick you might wait for the video unless you are a true stooges' fan.