This is How Movies Should Be Made

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Nice effects though.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This comedy seems to be perfect for our dumbed down society

The Three Stooges (2012): Dir: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly / Cast: Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes, Will Sasso, Sofia Vergara, Jane Lynch: Based on the classic slapstick films featuring three distinct individuals whose methods evolve around clumsiness, pratfalls, and total absence of mind. Three babies are dropped off at an orphanage run by nuns but they grow to adulthood there because any attempts to have them adopted are met with chaos. When the orphanage is threatened to be closed down, the three carefree guys who are known as Moe, Larry and Curly set out on the road in hopes of raising the money needed. They receive an offer from a woman who wants her husband knocked off but they soon recognize her husband as someone who grew up at the orphanage. Peter and Bobby Farrelly deserve credit for creating what may be the best crack at a Stooges film that can be had. This does not rank with their best work, which includes There's Something About Mary and Kingpin, mainly due to simplistic plotting, formula storytelling and an ending that hams up the sentimentalism. What does work is three pitch perfect performances by Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe, Sean Hayes as Larry, and Will Sasso as Curly. They embody the mannerisms and physical gestures with extreme hilarity. Supporting roles are standard cardboard including Sofia Vergara as the villain out to get her hands on her husband's cash. Jane Lynch plays Mother Superior but unfortunately the role is not as superior as her talent deserves. While not very demanding, this film delivers a respectful tribute to the classic trio. Score: 6 ½ / 10

I'd like to start with that I never REALLY liked slapstick comedy, but that if you overdo it, or under do it, it works (strangely stupid, really). This movie is the example of the former, it does it so obnoxiously that I can't help but snicker or grin every few jokes, I even burst out laughing twice, one when the bell fell on the nun, and when I saw Moe on the jersey shore (makes me chuckle even thinking about it). so you might be wondering why it doesn't have a 7,8 or 9, and to that I say: it sucked. that's not enough? okay, let's start with the acting, the nun that is a man (or maybe I'm wrong) would have been more fun if he/she hadn't been so emotionless, same goes with the stooges, the face acting was great, but I got so tired of the voices straight away, but my biggest problem was....drum roll ...the ending, not because, everything like the girl turning out to be perfect, the guy reuniting with his bro, and them getting the money while having Ted around was solved (that helped too), it was that the STOOGES Didn't LEARN ANYTHING! things changed, but not their selves, their stupid understandings, their trouble making crap, OR ANYTHING!!!! but other than that and a few plot holes, I liked it, just for it's fun moments, good job

By the time this film came out, I had not watched an original Three Stooges short in about 18 years. I did not remember the original Stooges being overly hilarious or ingenious and was not sure a PG-rated update would rewrite my recollections.But THE THREE STOOGES proved to be an amusing-enough ride. And we have the performances of the new Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), the new Larry (Sean Hayes) and the new Curly (Will Sasso) to thank for that. With obvious affection for the original actors, and some obvious voice training, the new trio illustrate the subtle genius of the Stooges' shtick. For some reason, if done just the right way, whacking a guy in the head with a sledgehammer can still be chuckle-inducing in 2013.Directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly borrowed a page from THE BRADY BRUNCH MOVIE by injecting the Stooges into contemporary times. The approach works particularly well here since even the original Stooges never quite grasped the realities of the world of the 1930s, '40s and '50s that they encountered. The Stooges here are charmingly "pure of heart, dim of wit," to quote the new Larry.Just like the original Stooges shorts, THE THREE STOOGES is cohesively imperfect. One scene, involving peeing babies, attempts a gentle form of gross-out humor that feels just plain awkward. The Stooges' famous shtick -- the nose pinching, head bopping, toe crunching and hair yanking -- is at times gut-busting but wears a little thin as the hour-mark of this brief film approaches.If you hated the original Stooges, you will hate this movie. If you sort of liked them, you will sort of like this movie. If you loved them, you will find this to be a touching monument to those pioneers of comedy. Supposedly there will be a sequel, so we probably haven't seen the last of these guys just yet.