The New Three Stooges Movie: NOW PLAYING The Video Trailers (Plus Some Original Stooges Classic Moment Videos)
The 2012 Three Stooges
UPDATE: I’m a lifelong Stooges fan so I MUST trumpet the news: the new Three Stooges movie is out. Not only am I a stooges fan, but when I was a reporter on the San Diego Union I covered the Three Stooges getting a belated star on Hollywood Boulevard. I met the late Joe Besser, who was the only Stooge able to show up (the others passed away and Joe DeRita was too ill). I also interviewed Moe’s and Larry’s daughters. So this is being reposted with a slight headline change from two weeks ago. I’ll be on the road — but intend to see it this week.
Double good news for fans of The Three Stooges, the vaudeville comedy team that hit the movies in 1934 and performed in various incarnations until the 1970s.
1. The new Three Stooges movie painstakingly cast and loving crafted by the Farrelly brothers is soon to be released. By most accounts it tries to recreate the look and feel of the originals and is NOT a parody or take off
2. The movie is likely to spark new interest in the huge backlog of original Three Stooges material. My contention is that the Stooges were loved by many generations (mostly by males: it’s a cliche that to many the Stooges were “a man thing”) but despite the best, professional efforts of the Stooge families to keep the franchise alive began to fizzle once Jackass became popular. The reason (according to me) while the Stooges did edgy comedy slapstick, seeing people REALLY get hurt and poked became popular.
Here’s a trailer for the new movie:
And this one notes what I’ve long said about Jackass:
Michael Chikilis (Mackey from The Shield) was a SUPERB Curley in a 2002 TV bio about the team. Here’s a recreation of some of the scenes from Stooges movies with the cast from that movie:
The Stooges were most famous for their pie fights. One of my favorites from 1941′s “In The Sweet Pie And Pie”:
My favorite is from 1948′s “Half Wit’s Holiday: Curley was extremely ill. In fact, he suffered a stroke during the filming so he didn’t appear in my favorite part of this short: the final pie fight. This is the second part of the short with the pie fight (you’ll see the change in Curley).
Here’s part of a colorized short “Pop Goes the Easel” from the 30s — that has a great clay fight at the end:
And here is a CLASSIC and a RARITY: Moe on the Mike Douglas Show…shortly before his death, doing one last glorious pie fight. GO HERE.
You can buy many DVDs of the Three Stooges shorts and feature films on Amazon.
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I remember watching the three stooges on TV on Saturday morning while I was growing up in the 50s. I also remember that the Germans loved them from the time I lived in Munich in the late 60s and early 70s. I was a bit of a joker in my youth and my German friend’s nickname for me was Mo.
When my brothers and I were kids our Mom wouldn’t allow us to watch the three stooges (probably didn’t want us getting ideas about trying to poke each others eyes out, etc)… so I’d go across the street to a friends house and watch them over there.
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You sound like my niece and nephew (5 & 4) who had never seen television because their parents were worried about too much violence including cartoons and especially The 3.
They had to leave them with us for a day and they were glued to the TV set. My kids couldn’t drag them away to play anything else; they were fascinated.
Thus it ever is, the prohibition of the forbidden only makes it more desirable.
Hah! You’re right, making something forbidden is like adding spice.
shaking head….
When i think of the Three Stooges i go back to first grade and during teachers meetings they would load us on the buses and take us to Mulkeys Theater that was painted bright bubble gum pink with purple signs…We would have to sit all afternoon watching The Three Stooges… It was such a painful experience, even though i was in the first grade, there was a knowing this was a prime example of “dumb down education “…..
Have never understood The Three Stooges humor…..those that laugh at the Three Stooges might be evidence of aliens?
Thanks for the info and trailers, Joe. My grandson just loves the Three Stooges. Have to take him to see this one.
@ordinarysparrow:
Welcome back — It has been a while
I can see why the Stooges would be considered a “guy thing”, but one of my and my sister’s favorite movies growing up was “Snow White and the 3 Stooges”, with Carol Heiss (1960 Olymic gold figure skater) as Snow White. We must have watched that a bazillion times. It really doesn’t hold up very well, except for the 3 Stooges themselves, but I definitely still have a place in my heart for the film and the Stooges…