Here’s the final trailer for Fox’s Farrelly brothers comedy homage The Three Stooges, which opens April 13. First thought: The Foley guys on this shoot deserve a vacation.
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THAT was your first thought? Mine was “Whoever greenlit this needs to be shot then thrown into a volcano”
I seriously do not understand why Jim Carrey, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro dropped out of this masterpiece.
I’m sure this will join the list with JOHN CARTER this year …. as one of the biggest bombs.
maybe,lets wait and see
Yes.
Oh, shut up all of you. This is the kind of movie we need at the moment it gets released. No way this isn’t a hit. (and I’m not being sarcastic)
The Right Coast,
You must be buying News Corp stock to capitalize on the massive revenue this film will generate (and I am being sarcastic).
It is hard to even imagine what the other 90 plus minutes of this film can be.
Should be direct to video. Save the marketing dollars…it won’t help.
UGH!
Are they going to CG Moe’s fingers so they don’t clearly poke foreheads instead of the eyes? Much better comedy stunt work was done in 1934.
You have eagle eyes. I had to go back and watch the video again to see his lack of eye-poke placement. Well done, Kilgary.
This is a train wreck that no one will want to see. What a mess! Everybody who was behind this piece of crap should be hit in the face with a shovel by Moe.
Another slow burning, thought provoking dark comedy from the Farrelly Brahz.
Being released on Friday the 13th. Seems appropriate.
April 1st would have been more appropriate.
I have nothing but love for Sean Hayes, but this, along with Snooki’s baby, lends a lot of credence to the 2012 End of the World argument.
OK, I’ll be brave enough to say that I couldn’t stop myself from giggling throughout.
It just might work. I mean, what else do you want from the Stooges?
Agreed. It *could* work. Who knows? I mean, it’s The Three Stooges; it’s essentially critic proof. I do wonder, though, if Atlanta is going to fill in for parts of Rhode Island, or if the movie is actually set in Atlanta (the Dumb and Dumberer movie did a really poor job of masking the fact that it was shot in Atlanta and not Rhode Island, where typically the Farrelly Brothers movies are set).
I was really hoping this was going to do a “Three Amigos” take on the Stooges, but I guess people would rather watch pure buffoonery?
What part of “The Three Stooges” did you not understand?
Well one can hope that when adapting a serial with zero story that the filmmakers might do something creative with the material as opposed to just extending the format from short to long form. Perhaps a bio-pic, perhaps a story about how they became the stooges, perhaps the stooges lost their studio deal and had to use their “abilities” to save a small Mexican town. Anything other than 90mins of pie in the face, eye poking would have been considered an effort. This doesn’t really qualify as a film.
Kids flick fellas. Dodgeball made a hundy mill with balls to the face. I’m saying sleeper hit…
At three years old, my kids were watching old Three Stooges shorts and laughing their butts off (all the slapstick parts, of course). So, it could work with the under 12 crowd.
Five thoughts:
1. This is going to make a fortune;
2. Drunken frat boy audiences will do the same thing at this film that they do at Three Stooges midnight shows near college campuses: throw up on the row in front of them;
3. I have no interest in seeing it because I never could stand The Three Stooges anyway;
4. The people who made the trailer should be given directing/producing contracts since this 1:43 moves better than half the features I’ve seen in the last two years; and
5. Disregard 1 and 3 because I’m over 40.
No. 3: Then why bother commenting on this trailer? Sorry for my ignorance, but is Santayana a woman’s name? If so, then that’s why you don’t get the Stooges. If not, well…
Hey Moe…
Can I state the obvious…this movie is a COMEDY, you nitwit. When I think of “comedy”, the last people I think of are Sean Penn & Benicio Del Toro. Come on…you blind hater.
This movie can ONLY be done by physical commedians (like Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulos) and done with the approval and respect of the family members of Moe Howard, Curly Howard and Larry Fine. How about this…ALL of the family members were on-set and approved everything about this film…including the amazing actors who did EVERYTHING to commit to portraying the “characters” of The Three Stooges as realistically as possible for 2012.
You knuckleheads who are determined to see everything & everyone in this movie fail are lacking in grey matter to realize that actors like Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro would have NEVER made this funny…because they are NOT funny. Funny doesn’t just come from words…it comes from inside the comedic actors who exude comedy like a musical instrument.
You all hold such reverence to The Three Stooges characters…but guess what, they were JUST characters. This is NOT a silly & boring biopic about Larry Fine, Moe Howard & Curly Howard and the troubled lives they led off-screen. This is taking the live-action cartoon characters that Larry Fine, Moe Howard and Curly Howard created and portrayed and bringing them back to life for 2012 on the big screen. Frankly, I know for a fact that EVERYONE involved in this movie realized the purpose and contributions that The Three Stooges characters brought to the world of entertainment…and that they became fans of these characters as “kids” because they looked and acted like cartoon characters. This movie is doing just that – introducing these live-action cartoon characters to kids in 2012.
As an adult, you can’t possibly sit there an spew hatred for the intent of this movie which is clearly for kids and families. The intent of the comedy stylings of Larry Fine, Moe Howard and Curly Howard in the 30s, 40s & beyond was to simply “entertain” people – adults & kids. You’ve been carrying around this “sacred” reverence of The Three Stooges that impacted you AS A KID. Of course, it seemed more impactful & meaningful. Everything is impactful when you’re 6 or 7 years old.
I know this movie is going to do well. The film is tapping into the family audience and it’s PERFECT. To take your route and do a serious “bio-pic” or even an attempted “comedy” with the actors who were circling this project, would have been as disastrous as you are claiming this one to be. How about this? Perhaps the reason why those other actors pulled out of doing the movie is because they, themselves, knew they had to do more than just dress-up like The Three Stooges – they actually had to try and be funny. Perhaps they avoided the movie because they knew they couldn’t handle the physical mayhem that comes inherently with portraying these characters; or perhaps they didn’t want to endure the grueling shoot of 12 hour days getting the crap beat out of them; or perhaps they realized, I’m not “right” for this part because I don’t understand comedy.
Come April 15th, when all is said and done and the movie comes out, I can’t wait to come back on here and type the words – “I told you so.”
I don’t see parents taking their kids to this movie. The risk that little junior will emulate one of the stunts is just too high. Most of the stuff we over-40s watched as kids aren’t allowed to be shown on kids TV anymore, for just that reason.
No, nowadays, kids are only allowed to watch movies with enormous explosions, deadly martial arts action, dismembered limbs flying around, guts spilling out, complex torture sessions, gunfights, knife fights, and so on and so on.
Well, because THOSE aren’t realistic.
Thats why kids are such little pansys today. They grow up protected from everything and when they get out into the real world, they aren’t prepared for reality. Take them and let them have a good laugh and be a parent and explain it to them when it’s over. I’m going with my brother and his 6 year old son. No problem.
You’ll be waiting a long time.
Well written.
I am one of the Farrelly Brothers’ biggest haters, but I have to admit that, considering the subject matter and the style of comedy that it’s based on, this movie looks dumb funny.
I groaned when I heard about the casting of Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro because, as competent as they are, they would never be able to pull off the slapstick – and very physical – antics of the Three Stooges. They would just make fools of themselves and the movie itself.
I’m not totally enamored with this cast, but they do seem to capture the flavor of The Three Stooges’ style of comedy.
Having seen it, you are absolutely right. This a funny film and although I was never a stooges fan I laughed aloud the whole time and wasn’t that the point? This is a great movie for parents with their kids, they will all equally enjoy it. Thank-you for your comments which are smart and open minded. I challenge you to watch it and not laugh the rest of you!
This movie is not for me… But my nephews are going to LOVE IT!
If you truly were a Stooge fan, you’d know that the hitting, slapping and poking were only a small part of each film, and they actually toned it down as they got older. This movie looks like nothing BUT hitting, slapping and poking–which gets real tired real fast.
Remember, it’s an 85 minute movie, so there’s going to be some storyline, just like in the original Stooges shorts. They probably just pulled every slapstick part out and threw it into this trailer. Have some faith. Kids will love it.
Amen! Just laugh and enjoy and remember how funny they were when we were kids. Everyone is so negative and miserable, stop and laugh and leave it at that.
I wish the trailer played up the hijinx a bit more.
There are two types of people who hate The Three Stooges: women and gay men. I am a long time Stooges fan and my only fear is that this film makes a mockery of the Stooge legacy. From what I have seen of the trailers I am fairly optimistic that the movie will supply some laughs.
The rest of you Stooge haters can go watch Glee.
You don’t know what your talking about. I’m gay and as a kid loved the stooges. But this is a hot mess. The originals were funny. And for your own info you don’t have to be a straight idiot to like them
This film is two generations too late.
Are we going to bring back the humor of old mens magazines next?
Charlie Chaplin is timeless because there’s humanity at its core. Stooges were just goofballs and goofballdom is about pushing limits and those limits have long since been pushed into the stratosphere. Farrelly’s should know this since they were once known for doing just that.
it’s the STOOGES! what did you expect? Sean Penn? Benecio? you gotta be kidding me.
sorry i cant be negative like i’m s’posed to be… that was a good trailer. you can argue the need for it… (i dont see one personally) but… if you are going to do the three stooges… that was freaking it.
those guys really do a great job.
the movie should just be all that for 90 minutes. if it’s dull in between all those hits tho… not so sure…
On paper this looked like a REALLY bad mistake – taking a film series from the 1930′s! and trying to update it for 2012? No way this should work! The 2 trailers seem to completely reverse that thought. If you like the 3 stooges before than this looks to be a bulls-eye. If you hated them before than this will not change your mind at all.
For what it is – it looks great.
I have to agree with these later comments. As a Stooges fan, I am not sure what else to expect. Everything in these trailers, minus Snooki, is what the original show was about. I hope they don’t make it preachy and stick to the formula. These three actors fit the parts perfectly. Hopefully it does well, but again, what was anyone really expecting from this flick?
1. Not as funny as the actual three stooges
2. Dismally poor stunt work
3. Nobody outside the US has ever heard of them
4. Nobody in the US under forty has ever heard of them
#4 is simply not true every person under 40 that I know knows who they are and loves them
Im 23 and have heard of The Three Stooges. That being said, I’ve never watched them. But you are naive to think no one under 40 has heard of them. Id say the majority of us know at least what they were about.
Bullcrap. My 16 year old twins love the Stooges. And they discovered them on their own. YouTube can sometimes be a good thing.
I have to admit the trailer wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I didn’t laugh, or chuckle, but made it through the whole minute and a half.
However, the primary reason the 3 stooges were so successful and ‘funny’ was because the world had never seen physical comedy like that before. There were originals. And trying to duplicate an original work never succeeds.
Having said that, I’m sure the Fox marketing team will coax a few people into theatres to pay $14 to see this. But not much more than a few…
This would be considered amazing art and look back into old comedy, if it was in black and white and silent.