Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Dreadfully Boring

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I saw this movie in the theater when I was a kid. I think I paid a quarter to see it. In doing research for a project on Snow White, I watched it again a couple of times, and the movie is actually a pretty good version of the story. I like the added dimension of the Prince's back story, the Stooges, while not playing their usual characters, are integrated nicely into the story, and even though Carol Heiss can't act or sing, she is a lovely dancer and skater. Patrica Medina is superb as the witch and it's a pretty enjoyable film.While you're at it, watch the Fairie Tale Theater version. Now having seen Elizabeth McGovern in Downton Abbey, she's a fledgling as Snow White, but nice in the role. Vanessa Redgrave is excellent as the queen, Vincent Price perfect as the man in the mirror. One of the elves is in the Bad Santa movies, and it's nice to see him in an earlier performance.

Why are some people so down on this movie? I saw it when I was only 7 or 8 years old and I loved it. I was already a fan of the 3 Stooges and I found this a great change from their usual slapstick. I even thought Joe DeRita was Curly Howard, they looked so much alike. What I don't understand is that often the Stooges were attacked by critics who claimed they were not funny, that all they did was hit each other in the heads. Yet for once they made a movie in which they did less hitting and played up fantasy,romance, and adventure instead. And then the critics complained that they did not do enough! It just goes to show you can't please everyone. All I can say to the people who hate the Stooges, if you don't like them then go watch something filthy on Comedy Central. I say the 3 Stooges rank right up with Laurel and Hardy as classic comedians. God bless them for bringing me so much happiness as a child!

http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vlcsnap1685933in8.jpg the link is a screen shot from the movie. The guy totally looks like the burger king. I think burger king owes this guy and the 3 stooges some money. The 3 stooges look old in this movie, they did it for a paycheck, thats all. I like when the kid hits his head on the rock, great acting, and when he grows up his tights are a little disturbing as well. The acting in the movie is horrible, the stooges are not at their comic best either. It was hard to get through this movie but you have to give a shout out to the burger king, its about a minute into the movie, it made my jaw drop.

It is very important to point out that this really is not a 3 Stooges movie. That's because much of it is really an ice skating movie featuring Olympic champion Carol Heiss (or whatever the spelling is) AND it has the most unfunny of all "stooges"--Joe DeRita. DeRita managed to be even MORE annoying and less talented than the horrible Joe Besser because he tried to be "nice" and "cute"--two things no REAL stooge should ever be! In fact, I am strongly of the opinion that NONE of the feature-length stooge movies featuring DeRita are worth watching. They all are terrible and completely unfunny. Moe and Larry, despite having some talent, are mostly pathetic to watch as they just look very old and very tired. Why didn't they just retire after the death of Curly (or perhaps Shemp)? Only a masochist would willingly watch this film.