The Three Stooges

I wanted to see this movie because I've always liked the Three Stooges.  I had also heard that Jim Carrey was considered for one of the parts.  He, however, was noticeably absent.  I wondered if the realists in today's world had also limited the kind of outrageous slapstick humor that the Stooges "patented."  I was pleased that the Farrelly brothers apparently decided to pick up where the old Stooges programs left off and continued the humor for which they were "famous."

The Lindo Theater was about half full but most of the watchers were having a very good time.  We couldn't remember the last time that we heard this much uproarious belly laughs.  The movie was funny.  There was basically no plot.  OK.  OK.  There was a plot The stooges were left at the doorstep of the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage and grew up not being adopted--perhaps because of their stupid pranks. A prospective couple decides to adopt Moe but bring him back when he insists that Larry and Curly also be adopted.  Instead, the couple adopts Teddy.  Twenty five years pass and the Stooges are still in the orphanage and now have to come up with $830,000 to save the orphanage.  They get involved in a plot where a lady (Sofia Vergara) is trying to kill her husband and the Stooges agree to help her out because her husband has a terminal disease.  See...I told you there was no plot.

The movie also stars Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso as Moe, Larry and Curly.  Who?  The cast of Jersey Shore are also there and their involvement is pretty funny.

OK.  What did I think of the movie?  My last name has 14 letters.  I wouldn't give it a 14 but it was certainly better than a 7.  I found myself laughing.  It won't win any Emmys for anything but it will make you laugh.  At the end the producers even saw fit to explain that when the Stooges use hammers and sledge hammers and similar inappropriate items to beat each other over the head, it's all a matter of sound effects and pretend tools.  I guess I always knew that.  I hope so.  My brothers and I pretended we were doing 3 Stooges stuff but I don't recall really hitting my brother with a hammer.  I'm glad for that.

So, if you have underage children that don't understand outrageous slapstick humor, don't take them.  If you understand it, you might want to go.  You could end up with some major belly laughs.