The Three Stooges (2012)

All Critics (141) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (68) | DVD (1)

'The Three Stooges' is exactly the film it wants to be. Was it worth ten years of anyone's life? Probably not. Is it worth 88 minutes of yours? Absolutely.

August 21, 2012 Full Review

Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Top Critic

The movie is so infantile that it achieves a special kind of purity and gentleness.

April 23, 2012 Full Review | Comments (4)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

As with the shorts, our enjoyment was never about the scenarios, just the weird Zen of furious hand-to-Stooge combat.

April 17, 2012 Full Review

Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out New York

Top Critic

The leads acquit themselves in the physical comedy, resurrecting shtick honed on a thousand-and-one vaudeville stages, and recreated in as many playgrounds.

April 16, 2012 Full Review

Nick Pinkerton

Village Voice

Top Critic

Any reasonable objections to the Farrellys' Three Stooges will not be on the grounds that it desecrates a revered comedy franchise, but on the grounds that it's not very funny.

April 13, 2012 Full Review | Comments (17)

Eric D. Snider

Film.com

Top Critic

If this is a tribute, it's a crass and clumsy one.

April 13, 2012 Full Review | Comments (9)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

Short, silly and charmingly harmless, it's likely only the Stooges aficionados will find a whole lot to love.

March 4, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

Stooges will resonate strongly or not at all, depending on the viewer. But a Jersey Shore experience is about where the film falls short of honorable intentions.

October 2, 2012 Full Review

Kofi Outlaw

ScreenRant

The Farrelly brothers return to the vacuously silly style of Dumb and Dumber for this gently idiotic comedy

September 4, 2012 Full Review

Rich Cline

Contactmusic.com

It's absurd, it's mindless, it's infantine but it's also bizarrely charming.

September 4, 2012 Full Review

Erick Weber

NECN

Resembles a scenario knocked up one afternoon for the Marx brothers and rejected the following day.

August 26, 2012 Full Review

Philip French

Observer [UK]

The architects behind There's Something About Mary and Kingpin make merry with the poking and thumping, but are ultimately far too fond of their comic heroes to make them or us truly squirm.

August 24, 2012 Full Review

Tara Brady

Irish Times

About as funny as a poke in the eye.

August 24, 2012 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

Slapstick, slapstick and even more slapstick. Think of it as a Junior Jackass.

August 24, 2012 Full Review

Graham Young

Birmingham Mail

This could have been a truly awful summation of the work of such minor legends but it works surprisingly well.

August 24, 2012 Full Review

Derek Malcolm

This is London

We need to be fixing global warming. And yet people who are probably pretty smart and consider themselves creative thinkers are spending their time on this.

August 24, 2012 Full Review | Comments (7)

MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

For filmmakers who are good at finding pathos in the most unlikely places, this film is more like a return to the vacuous idiocy of Dumb and Dumber

August 24, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

They're just as hopelessly violent, bad-tempered and stupid at the end as they were at the beginning. These days, that's refreshingly anarchic.

August 23, 2012 Full Review

Christopher Tookey

Daily Mail [UK]

A film that is most definitely an acquired taste.

August 23, 2012 Full Review

Allan Hunter

Daily Express

It shows that what made the Stooges work all those years ago, though hardly in vogue, still works today.

August 23, 2012 Full Review

Phelim O'Neill

Guardian [UK]

The quicker it's forgotten, the better.

August 23, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Andrew Schenker

Little White Lies

Quaint but exuberantly crafted.

August 23, 2012 Full Review

Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

Chase scenes and physical comedy exchanges allow the action to romp along at a fair lick.

August 23, 2012 Full Review

James Lachno

Daily Telegraph

Better suited to a short-film than a feature length adventure (itself split into three separate episodes), the characters annoy far more than they ever manage to amuse.

August 23, 2012 Full Review

Steve Neish

HeyUGuys

The Three Stooges is far more enjoyable than it perhaps ought to be.

August 23, 2012 Full Review

Karen Krizanovich

Radio Times

If you don't like it, you can go 'nyuck' yourself.

August 22, 2012 Full Review

William Bibbiani

CraveOnline

• 1. J-Wowww: Hey that's assault!
  2. Moe Howard: Yeah well here's the pepper!
  – Submitted by Brandon S (26 days ago)
• 1. Sister Mary-Mengele: Shut up! This isn't 'The Sound of Music'!
  – Submitted by Matthew R (4 months ago)
• 1. Sister Mary-Mengele: I save 15% on my car insurance.
  – Submitted by Matthew R (4 months ago)
• 1. Moe Howard: What is that gadget?
  2. Teddy: This is an iPhone.
  3. Curly Howard: An iPhone? [brings the iPhone to his eye] Hello? Hello? [gives it back] There's nobody there.
  4. Teddy: Works better on your ear.
  – Submitted by David R (7 months ago)
• 1. Larry Fine: Hey, quiet down you two, you're disturing my coffee break!
  2. Curly Howard: Oh boy! Donuts! Where's mine?
  3. Moe Howard: They're small! Why don't you have two?
  4. Curly Howard: Oh, okay!
  5. Moe Howard: [sticks the donuts into Curly's ears]
  6. Curly Howard: AH! HATATATATATATATAT! Oh, now look what ya did, Moe! Ya got donuts stuck in my ears!
  – Submitted by Cameron D (9 months ago)
• 1. Moe Howard: Curly, go get the chainsaw.
  2. Curly Howard: Why can't Larry do it?
  3. Moe Howard: 'Cause he's got a headache.
  4. Larry Fine: No I don't!
  5. Moe Howard: [hits Larry on the head with a hammer] How 'bout now?!
  6. Larry Fine: Yeah, it's comin' on.
  – Submitted by Cameron D (9 months ago)

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