The Three Stooges (2012)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 140
Fresh: 72 | Rotten: 68
While nowhere near as painful as it could have been, The Three Stooges fails to add fresh laughs to the Stooges' inestimable cinematic legacy.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 14
While nowhere near as painful as it could have been, The Three Stooges fails to add fresh laughs to the Stooges' inestimable cinematic legacy.
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Left on a nun's doorstep, Larry, Curly and Moe grow up finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking and woo-woo-wooing their way to uncharted levels of knuckleheaded misadventure. Out to save their childhood home, only The Three Stooges could become embroiled in an oddball murder plot...while also stumbling into starring in a phenomenally successful TV reality show. -- (C) 20th Century Fox
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Cast
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Sean Hayes
Larry Fine -
Will Sasso
Curly Howard -
Chris Diamantopoulos
Moe Howard -
Jane Lynch
Mother Superior -
Sofía Vergara
Lydia -
Jennifer Hudson
Sister Rosemary -
Craig Bierko
Mac -
Stephen Collins
Mr. Harter -
Larry David
Sister Mary-Mengele -
Kirby Heyborne
Teddy -
Carly Craig
Mrs. Harter -
Kate Upton
Sister Bernice -
Marianne Leone
Sister Ricarda -
Brian Doyle-Murray
Monsignor Ratliffe -
Mike 'The Situation' Sorr...
The Situation -
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Jenni "J-Woww" Farley
J-Wowww -
Ronnie Magro
Ronnie -
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Avalon Robbins
Murph -
Max Charles
Peezer -
Jake Peck
Young Teddy -
Patty Ross
Head Nurse -
Lee Armstrong
Officer Armstrong -
Emy Coligado
Ling -
Ray Collins
Carbunkle -
Isaiah Mustafa
Moe's Hip Executive -
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Michael D'Allessio
Moe's Audition Staff -
Donna D'Allessio
Moe's Audition Staff -
Bob Kocsis
Child #1 -
Apple Kocsis
Child #2 -
Jackie Flynn
Golf Superintendent Dav... -
Sandra Dorsey
Heavyset Woman -
Vince Canlas
Japanese Chef -
Ric Reitz
Jon Hamm -
Caryl West
Maid -
Sayed Badreya
Orderly -
Johnny Seal
Production Security Gua... -
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Michael L. Kuhn
Tour Guide -
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Lucy Thomas
Orphan Brady -
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Skyler Gisondo
Young Moe -
Lance Chantiles-Wertz
Young Larry -
Robert Capron
Young Curly -
Danny Smith
French Chef -
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Caitlin Colford
Nun -
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Mariann Neary
Nun -
Jesse Farrelly
Gang Banger -
Patricia French
Laundry Worker -
Roy Jenkins
Officer Mycroft -
Barry Guy
Staple in Hat Guy -
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William F. Scannell
Handsome Security Guard -
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Lin Shaye
Nurse Crotchet -
Steve Tyler
Camera Man -
Myron Parker Jr.
Orphan -
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Dwight Howard
Himself -
Dallas Hobbs
Basketball Player -
Carter Hayden
Baby Moe -
Cooper Callihan
Baby Curly -
Kieran Vine
Baby Larry -
Antonio Sabato Jr.
Handsome Guy #1 -
Justin Lopez
Handsome Guy #2
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'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.
The movie is so infantile that it achieves a special kind of purity and gentleness.
As with the shorts, our enjoyment was never about the scenarios, just the weird Zen of furious hand-to-Stooge combat.
The leads acquit themselves in the physical comedy, resurrecting shtick honed on a thousand-and-one vaudeville stages, and recreated in as many playgrounds.
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.
If this is a tribute, it's a crass and clumsy one.
Short, silly and charmingly harmless, it's likely only the Stooges aficionados will find a whole lot to love.
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.
The Farrelly brothers return to the vacuously silly style of Dumb and Dumber for this gently idiotic comedy
It's absurd, it's mindless, it's infantine but it's also bizarrely charming.
Resembles a scenario knocked up one afternoon for the Marx brothers and rejected the following day.
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.
About as funny as a poke in the eye.
Slapstick, slapstick and even more slapstick. Think of it as a Junior Jackass.
This could have been a truly awful summation of the work of such minor legends but it works surprisingly well.
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.
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
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.
A film that is most definitely an acquired taste.
It shows that what made the Stooges work all those years ago, though hardly in vogue, still works today.
The quicker it's forgotten, the better.
Quaint but exuberantly crafted.
Chase scenes and physical comedy exchanges allow the action to romp along at a fair lick.
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.
The Three Stooges is far more enjoyable than it perhaps ought to be.
If you don't like it, you can go 'nyuck' yourself.
Audience Reviews for The Three Stooges
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- J-Wowww: Hey that's assault!
- Moe Howard: Yeah well here's the pepper!
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- Sister Mary-Mengele: Shut up! This isn't 'The Sound of Music'!
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- Sister Mary-Mengele: I save 15% on my car insurance.
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- Moe Howard: What is that gadget?
- Teddy: This is an iPhone.
- Curly Howard: An iPhone? [brings the iPhone to his eye] Hello? Hello? [gives it back] There's nobody there.
- Teddy: Works better on your ear.
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- Larry Fine: Hey, quiet down you two, you're disturing my coffee break!
- Curly Howard: Oh boy! Donuts! Where's mine?
- Moe Howard: They're small! Why don't you have two?
- Curly Howard: Oh, okay!
- Moe Howard: [sticks the donuts into Curly's ears]
- Curly Howard: AH! HATATATATATATATAT! Oh, now look what ya did, Moe! Ya got donuts stuck in my ears!
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- Moe Howard: Curly, go get the chainsaw.
- Curly Howard: Why can't Larry do it?
- Moe Howard: 'Cause he's got a headache.
- Larry Fine: No I don't!
- Moe Howard: [hits Larry on the head with a hammer] How 'bout now?!
- Larry Fine: Yeah, it's comin' on.
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