The Three Stooges Movie - Nostalgia Critic 

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To be fair, watching Moe slap the absolute hell out of the Jersey Shore cast is absolutely legendary.

Honestly respect to the actors who tried to do the best with what they had

This movie did succeed in the most surprising ways: the guys playing the Stooges nailed it harder than most people would have thought possible, and the basic tone of the humor mostly stayed true to the originals. What we got was probably as good as it could possibly have been, all things considered.

I say big props to the guys playing The Stooges in this film. They were spot on. I liked this film a-lot. The real problem is its just impossible to recreate magic. Even original cast members of other reboots fail. Everything has its moment in time.

I’ll be honest, for a modern movie version of The Three Stooges, it wasn’t as bad. Plus, the main 3 actors did amazing.

Me as a kid: I love the Three Stooges. Me as an adult: *Learns the behind the scenes about the Stooges*.....how did none of them die from these stunts? Even Jackass would hesitate at this.

One of the Jersey Shore cast members telling Moe that what he's doing is assault and Moe slapping the shit out of that guy then telling him "there's your pepper" is the best joke in the movie.

If only Sam Raimi had been hired to direct. He's been making homages to them since the Evil Dead.

I love the stoges, they're like a live-action Looney Tunes. As for the movie, they did the best they could with what they had, and at first, what they had was pretty good. By the second half though, you can tell they were trying to hard to keep it fresh for a modern audience. The fist half is definitely a guilty pleasure of mine, though.

No skits. Just pure commentary. Thank you.

I also grew up loving the Stooges. Nowadays, when it comes to them, what comes to my mind the most is their commitment to the bit. For instance, after a table sawed in half gag, Moe fell on his side and messed himself up REAL bad. The take was still going, so he picked himself up and finished the bit. When the cameras stopped rolling, he passed out. Growing up, it made me think that Vaudeville, at least on the stage-side, was pretty hardcore. Especially when you consider these three were slapping the shit out of each other on a regular basis. Also, their pun game was always unmatched. The Stooges were a full package.

Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe is a brilliant actor. Since 2013 he's been the animated voice of Mickey Mouse, including the Runaway Railway ride at Disney parks. He also portrays an incredible Robin Williams in The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy. He's got controlled range. Sadly, he was only paid $32,000 for the Stooges role.

This movie was filmed in my hometown, so it’s a constant “hey I know that place!” more than anything else. It also has a nostalgic quality for me because my dad has always LOVED The Three Stooges. The black and white shorts were always on in my home on Saturday mornings.

I always thought of Doug, Spoony and Linkara as the Three Stooges.

Honestly, the three main actors were absolutely perfect as Larry, Curley, and Moe! They had the looks, voices, and slapstick down pat!

Another Good Fact about a Really good Movie that deserves more love for what it tried to give us: The directors, the Farrelly brothers--or rather the two actors playing the directors--reveal at the end of the film how the physical comedy was done. Similarly, in real life, The Three Stooges went on television several times after incidents of children hurting each other while imitating the Stooges eye-poke, head slaps, etc. to reveal how to eye-poke without hurting anyone.

It was freaking hilarious seeing Moe beat up the jersey shores .

This incarnation of the 3 Stooges may not be great, But hey at least the actors tried their best to live up to the legacy of the original 3 Stooges. And I have no doubt that they would be proud to know that their legacy is still being kept alive today!

Another Fun Fact: The orphanage is shown to be founded in 1934, the same year The Three Stooges began their series of shorts for Columbia Pictures, which continued until 1958.

Another Fun Fact: Voice actor Billy West -- who had based the voice of Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991) on Stooge Larry Fine -- worked on-set as a dialect coach for Sean Hayes, who was playing Larry.

Another Fun Fact: Caroline Kimberly Scott, who plays one of the nuns in the beginning of the movie, is the great-granddaughter of Moe Howard, one of the original The Three Stooges.

Considering how many live action movies of beloved shows failed, which this channel also covered (Last Airbender, Jem and the Holograms, Yogi Bear, Woody Woodpecker, Masters of the Universe, most of the live action Disney remakes, the Alvin and the Chipmunks series, Dragonball, Casper, Inspector Gadget, The Avengers, Smurfs, the 2 TMNT movies Michael Bay worked with...), the fact this film was sorta decent in humor and capturing the spirit of the source material is a much higher than expected achievement.

My dad and I honestly love this movie, mainly because it WAS a Three Stooges movie instead of some stupid attempt to modernize the stooges. I mean, really think about how so many remakes and such have handled their characters and all. This movie could've done the exact same crap and failed terribly, but they did just one main thing right above all else. They didn't try to make the three stooges modern, but rather just throw them into the modern day. And it worked for the most part. As far as the story goes, it was pretty simple, but could've been handled a LOT worse if you ask me.

That smoked salmon joke always made me laugh when I was a kid, it was just so random yet so well-executed

I always love that the thumbnails always includes you even if it replaces the original

This is definitely one of the guilty pleasure movies for me. Get better soon!

Actually, before Del Toro, Penn and Carrey, it was supposed to be Phil Hartman as Moe, Jon Lovitz as Larry and Chris Farley as Curly.

I remember my 3rd grade teacher putting this movie on for my entire class and we were all dying watching this film, the three stooges was one hell of a childhood movie for me😄

Chris Diamantopoulos was so keen to play Moe he offered to do the movie for free. Fox did the next best thing and paid him the bare minimum allowed by union rules. He says he ended up losing money, he had to pay for his wife and baby to stay with him in Atlanta while also paying to keep their home in Los Angeles, but that it was the role of a lifetime and that he enjoyed the process.

Before this movie, Chris Diamantopoulos was the only one of the three I hadn't yet heard of before. Nowadays, he's the one of the three I'm excited to see the most in whatever stuff I happen to watch that he turns out to be in (in particular, he was the Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck voice in the recent Ducktales 2017 reboot series). Also, while the movie did nail many staple Stooges gags like construction site hijinks and whatnot, I was always a little disappointed that they didn't find a way to sneak in a short side trip to Niagara Falls, or if they did my memory is bad and I didn't pay attention hard enough.

Fun fact: the actor for ten-year-old Curly is Robert Capron, best known as the original Rowley Jefferson from the first three _Diary of a Wimpy Kid_ movies, starring opposite Zachary Gordon's Greg Heffley and Devon Bostick's Rodrick Heffley. When he was called back for the movie _Dog Days,_ he had to put on a wig that looked like his original mop of red hair, due to him shaving his head for this movie.

This movie is underrated and the casting really hit it out of the park.

The three stooges movie is just one of those movies I heavily enjoy because of early 2010s movie nostalgia

A Cool Fact: The pool scene at the end of the movie was filmed at the Huntcliff Pool and Stables.

Another Fun Fact: Jerod Mayo and Troy Brown of the New England Patriots play the two "gang bangers" whose pants are falling down. The Farrelly Brothers often include New England sports stars in their movies.

So that's why the Kool-Aid Man loves pain so much

The kid versions of them were amazing! I wish they kept them in the whole movie

Another Fun Fact: During the "dentist" scene early in the movie, the three boys claim to be "dabbling in the arts" when Mother Superior comes into the room to summon them to lunch. Two of the three are doing things that mirror interests in the real Stooges' lives. Moe is reading, something (according to his brother Jack) he loved to do. Larry is playing the violin, at which the real Larry Fine was quite proficient (initially the violin training was in response to a childhood accident), indeed good enough that his parents seriously considered sending him to Europe to study at a music conservatory.

Fun fact: Voice actor Billy West worked in that movie, but he only helped Sean Hayes out with his performance of Larry Fine and coached him his Larry Fine impersonation voice. Billy West was a huge fan of the Three Stooges ever since he was a kid back in the 1950's when he used to watch them on TV in the mornings. Billy West really nailed that Larry Fine voice and he later used it for his Stimpy voice, but in a cartoony pitch.

I think the actors did amazing, they’re all unique in a way. ( with some exceptions) What really hurts the movie is setting. I would’ve honestly preferred if they set it in the 40s or early depression era America. And make three different shorts each spending 30 minutes one where they raise money for an orphanage, the other where they become actors in the other where they plan to murder someone. If they ever make a biopic, mini series or movie about the stooges again, I hope they use these actors because they pull these characters off to a T

Moe joining Jersey Shore just to make those assholes suffers was a stroke of genius.

Will Sasso as Curly is too perfect. They even look like brothers.😂

Would you believe me when I say that Moe would later become the voice of Mickey Mouse one year later?

Admittingly, this film was my introduction to Chris Diamantopoulos, whom I would later know as Master Eon and the Chompy Mage in Skylanders Academy, and Mickey Mouse in 2013 tv series of the same name.

It's nice to see some respect being put to The Three Stooges name

When the original cast of Penn, Del Toro, and Carrey was announced, I was honestly thinking that it would be a serious biopic, similar to Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly’s ‘Stan and Ollie’.

This movie legitimately damn near killed me. The entire time, I was chuckling and having a good time. Then came the lions scene....I laughed so hard I nearly passed out. Falling forward out of my chair in the theater. Which would have caused me to brain myself on a metal handrail in front of my. I couldn't get a breath in until my friend smacked me in the back. Yeah, I can just see what the headlines would have said. Curly look alike, dies laughing during The Three Stooges movie premier.🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

I saw the Teddy actor in a black box theater in LA a few years ago. He played a therapist who fell in love with patient, who was struggling with sleeping problems and amputated limbs (the relationship is a lot more wholesome than one would think from an artsy play). He was really really good.

My absolute favorite review you’ve done in years! No skits; just old school nostalgia critic.. Please do more of this ..less is always more

Honestly i just want a entire movie of Moe slapping the whole Jersey Shore cast

Another Fun Fact: Robert Capron had to shave most of his head for the role of young Curly. He had to wear a wig in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012).

Fun Fact: The producers actually hired Billy West to teach Sean Hayes how to perform as Larry Fine. Also, this movie's plot is also the same for The Three Stooges video game. This, making it a video game adaptation too.

Will Sasso is a legend. Mad Tv will always be the funniest sketch comedy show imo and he was a huge part of that.

I honestly don't know why Will Sasso isn't a bigger name in comedy. He's hilarious AND good at slap stick

A Song Fact: The song playing when the infant Stooges are dropped at the orphanage is "Road Runner" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. Richman is one of the street guitarists in There's Something About Mary (1998), also directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly.

He didn't show my favorite joke: > Jersey Guy: "You can't do that, that's assault!" > Moe: "And here's your pepper!" *SLAP*

I miss Doug, Spoony and Linkara reviewing together as The Three Shmuckheads. Best scene is Moe beating the Jersey Shore.

2:00, That's a good point. It did try to capture the same same Magic, Energy and Comedy of the classic 3 Stooges Shorts, even with its decent Casting. So I guess not EVERYTHING about the Film was bad.

I have a theory about this movie that since Larry isn’t technically related to Moe and Curly, someone switched him and Shemp at birth. Shemp was always the most cartoonish of the stooges so they might have thought he was too much to take on. If there’s ever a sequel, they gotta integrate Shemp into the plot. Perhaps Joe Besser and Curly Joe DeRita as well.

I remember really liking this movie back in the day. The actors were perfect for the roles and they put a lot effort into capturing the three stooges charm

If the lifeguard nun does't have her own movie, I need one.

A Height Fact: The actors in this film are much taller than the actual stooges. The real Moe and Larry were both 5'4" and the real Curly was 5'5". Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso are 5'9", 5'11" and 6'3" respectively.

Larry: "Look it’s Sandy Claws! Claws!" Moe: "What did I tell you about puns?"

Talking about what could've been: Mel Brooks was developing a Stooges film with him, Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise as the Stooges

I hope/want Walter to do a Stooge themed month like he did with Batman The Animated Series and The Twilight Zone.

I’ve been watching the stooges since I was four, and now at 24, I still do. There’s a lot of things very meh about the movie, but it’s heart was in the right place, and I think it did a good job as a modern interpretation of them. Great review as always, Doug- Much love, God Bless from Eastern Iowa!

I will take any reason to tell this story. this is a thing that happened with my dad and one of his brothers when they were kids. now they were trying to sleep and my dad was almost asleep when, surprise surprise, one of his brothers shook him awake. my dads like "wtf, what do you want?" his brother tells him "I cant sleep." my dad just glares at him probably thinking 'I can' but instead he asked "well what do you want me to do about it?" so his brothers says "well, you know The Three Stooges?" dad perks up, likely very interested where this is going, and asks "yeah?" and his brother pulls out this jagged rusty pipe and tells him "I'm gonna go that thing they did, I want you to help me make sure I land right." so dad sits up and tells him "yeah, yeah you look good." and his brother takes the pipe in front of him 1 2 3 BONK his brother was laying with bloodied and likely cracked open head on his pillow our cold. you wanna know what my dads first thought was? it wasn't 'omg he's bleeding!' or 'oh sh*t he knocked himself out!' his first thought was "huh, it worked." so then and only then he yells "maaaaa!!" she yells back "what?! what do you want?!" and my dad laughs yelling "y-you gotta see this!" so she comes up and sees one of her sons is out cold and asks "tf what happened?" and my dad responds "well, remember The Tree Stooges?" and she says and says "oh for f*ck sake" my dad and his brothers went to the hospital so many times for so many different stupid reasons that they knew them by name when they walked in and would ask "what happened this time?" dad said when they told them, they all had a look like they couldn't believe someone was that stupid. wasn't even a facepalm moment, they all just sighed and went on with their jobs.

To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Will Sasso might be thinking about is "The only thing that an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, REAL fast, and, if you're not careful, it's too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth."

Really no one can replace Curly, Howard and Moe but you can feel that this came from a heart of respect

This movie is watchable. The 3 main actors did the best that they could with what they had.

Me and my grandpa would wake up every morning to catch the Stooges Slapgappy Hour on Spike. I grew up laughing with him everytime before we shifted to Price is Right. So when this came out, of course he was happy to get out of the house to see a movie, when i saw it i was...iffy, but he was still having a blast which helped feel good for myself. He didnt know the modern references, so it was just, new characters for him. Ill still watch the classics more, but this movie still left me with a good time cuz of him.

You missed the best joke in the movie. Ted: “it’s a iPhone” Larry: sticks his eye in the phones screen “hello, HELLO! It’s not working”

You can tell everyone wanted to give The Three Stooges the passion it deserve which i am very thankful for

The actor who played Moe was Robin Williams in a tv movie AND now Mickey Mouse’s voice. Clever all around actor.

It's like it the production crew went "oh shit, this is actually good, what do we do now?!" and then one person barged into the room, light behind him, and, with his fist raised, proclaimed: JERSEY SHORE.

ok, the "will you want it in a bottle or a mug?" "a mug, please" *SLAP!* got me wheezing pretty hard!

I thought the guys nailed the entire feel of the Stooges! Sasso in particular was FANTASTIC!

Thank you for this review. I’m so sad to hear that you are sick. I hope you get well really soon. I’m not the biggest fan of this movie but I definitely like the first half and have no disrespect for the main actors. They aren’t the original Stooges but that is the least important factor. I’m amazed that you could do a production like this with such strong focus and friendly energy and enthusiasm even when you are sick. Power to you dude! Get well soon! I love the original characters and their stories.

Another Fun Fact: Originally set to be an MGM production, this moved over to 20th Century-Fox when MGM went bankrupt.

A comedy with Sean penn, Jim Carrey and del toro as the lead roles would literally be the greatest thing ever

Fun Fact: Jim Carrey was originally cast as Curly, but didn't want to wear a fat suit, and decided he was too old to gain the necessary weight without risking his health.

I had a feeling he was going to review that eventually. I actually haven’t seen that movie since 2012.

i swear i still quote the "too much iron thin the water" bit to this day. the whole bell repair sequence had me cracking up

The Nostalgic cast is kind of like the 3 Stooges template themselves. 😂 With Tamara as Curly, Malcolm as Larry, and of course Doug as Moe. Nyuck- Nyuck!

Nostalgia Critic never disappoints in giving us another good review for the week ❤

Hell Yeah! I've been suggesting this movie for an long time. So glad that Doug is reviewing it now.

You should know why I probably never was a Three Stooges fan. The movie I’ve never seen was supposed to be associated with Sony Pictures, but it was instead produced by 20th Century Studios. It’s like the Tom & Jerry of all slapstick comedies. God, I wish it was on Hulu.

14:55 - Francis and Paiama from Malcolm in the Middle left the ranch because the irl actor of Otto died and needed to switch up the story

You notice young Curly was played by Robert Capron? That’s Rowley from the first three Diary Of A Wimpy Kid movies? I know you loved that kid in that one.

A Interesting Fun Fact: The movie uses the same special sound effects that were used in the original Columbia Pictures The Three Stooges shorts.

A Larry David Fact: Larry David, who plays Sister Mary-Mengele, played "Larry" in several Three Stooges take-offs on his former ABC live-comedy sketch show Fridays (1980).

The comedic timing of Doug's sponsored ads is always surprisingly hilarious. XD

There's something about this film that will always stick with me for how different and amazing it was

Another Fun Fact: The movie is split into three episodes, which have an introduction much like the Columbia Stooges shorts--a picture of each Stooge along with the name of the episode and with the same opening theme song.

Somewhere in a warehouse there’s animatronic lion testicles gathering dust. 13:02

Moe having that microwave on the guy from the Jersey Shore was my dad's favorite part of the movie😂

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It's weird that a movie that came out recently enough to get an RLM review is now old enough to be nostalgic.

FUN FACT: Did you know that Moe's actor: Chris Diamantopoulos is the current Mickey Mouse ? And also Darkwing Duck from the 2017 version of DuckTales ?