Good movie but grossly overrated

Don't listen to the negative reviews

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

I'd like to start with that I never REALLY liked slapstick comedy, but that if you overdo it, or under do it, it works (strangely stupid, really). This movie is the example of the former, it does it so obnoxiously that I can't help but snicker or grin every few jokes, I even burst out laughing twice, one when the bell fell on the nun, and when I saw Moe on the jersey shore (makes me chuckle even thinking about it). so you might be wondering why it doesn't have a 7,8 or 9, and to that I say: it sucked. that's not enough? okay, let's start with the acting, the nun that is a man (or maybe I'm wrong) would have been more fun if he/she hadn't been so emotionless, same goes with the stooges, the face acting was great, but I got so tired of the voices straight away, but my biggest problem was....drum roll ...the ending, not because, everything like the girl turning out to be perfect, the guy reuniting with his bro, and them getting the money while having Ted around was solved (that helped too), it was that the STOOGES Didn't LEARN ANYTHING! things changed, but not their selves, their stupid understandings, their trouble making crap, OR ANYTHING!!!! but other than that and a few plot holes, I liked it, just for it's fun moments, good job

*WARNING!* - *Possible Spoilers Ahead!* This film's first fatal mistake - Having The Three Stooges agree to kill someone. I don't care how this murder was justified, the original Three Stooges would never, ever, ever agree to commit an act of homicide. NEVER! There's nothing funny about murder.2nd fatal mistake - Showing The Three Stooges as children. This was pure nonsense and it wasted the first 15 minutes of this movie. And it was not funny.3rd fatal mistake - Filming the story in color and having it set in modern times was a grave error. It would have been so much more effective had the story been given a nostalgic, 1940's look.4th fatal mistake - No pie fights!!! This movie desperately cried out for a few custard-cream pies thrown into some very deserving faces. And, I'm sorry, but, the overlong scene of the pissing babies (though it was funny at first, but was carried on for far too long) didn't compensate for the thrill of seeing someone get a pie right in the kisser.5th fatal mistake - Having to endure a shirtless Peter Farrelly (writer/ director) at the end of the film, flexing and posing in the name of total conceitedness, while at the same time telling the viewer about the hazards of imitating the eye-pokes, face-slaps, etc., etc. that were seen in the film. Like, as though this self-loving poser cared. He just wanted a chance to display (hubba-hubba!) his over-developed pecs to us.6th fatal mistake - Not only did I find that there was no chemistry between the actors who played The Three Stooges, but, Moe didn't command and none of them understood anything about comic-timing (an essentially important element in any slapstick comedy situation).And, finally - 7th fatal mistake (phew!) - In regards to this picture in general - They say that imitation is one of the highest forms of flattery. This, in a sense, is quite true if the imitating is done out of real respect for its subject. And this was not the case here with The Three Stooges.These actors may have been doing their perceived "imitation" of the Stooges, but, it wasn't being done with any reverence or regard for the original Stooges. It was done in a very conceited and disrespectful manner.These actors gave me the clear impression that they thought what they were doing was actually improving on the original Stooges. And that, from my viewpoint, is a fatal mistake which is totally unforgivable.Personally, I think this film should've never been made. The Three Stooges should've just been left alone. And, that's the truth!

before I walked into this film, I had never ever watched any of the three stooges shorts. well, I watched one, and it was funny. So, I didn't know what to expect to be honest. will it be good or will it be bad?The Answer? Brilliant!I loved this film so much, I love how the film is all slapstick and heartfelt at the same time. Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulos did a damn good job on playing Larry, Curly & Moe. in all fairness, I'm gonna give this film a 9/10. for all the slapstick and the brilliant portrayal of the stooges.

I f#cking loved the three stooges ever since I was a chubby 11-year-old kid. The slapstick is the kind of humor I've always admired and I still admire today. They were the definitive icons of slapstick. When I heard they were making a movie about them I thought, oh god...no... Because somewhere in my mind I had a feeling that they were gonna botch this one. But when I read it's directed by the guy who did dumb and dumber, surprise surprise! it sucked! there's so many things wrong with this movie and a small few things right. I'll start with the right things: Moe, Larry and Curly. The actors looked and acted exactly like the three stooges; the slapstick is good and gave me some minor chuckles. It kind of felt like I really was watching the old gang I know and love. But with that said here are the wrong things: The rest of the humor outside the slapstick is stupid annoying and had no business being in a stooges movie; The scene at the beginning when Peezer is talking to the sick little girl Murph about someone picking him up from the orphanage, Murph says "Your not the only one who watch his parents drown. Dude, that happens!" And Peezer is like, "I know." Why did Murph say that? Is that supposed to be funny? It's not! That was just downright mean! And we're suppose to sympathize her? Are you kidding me? What a little b!tch; How come the nuns never aged when the three stooges got older?; The kids singing in the very beginning before moe larry and curly arrive was pointless and unfunny; why is the jersey shore in this?; why is the acting wooden apart from moe larry and curly?; Why do they still want us to hope that Murph will survive the sickness after we just heard her say the most @sshole thing to another orphan?; why was there a message clip at that very end about how the tools are proved fake? Are the parents just too f*cking lazy to tell their kids that they were fake themselves?; why was there a baby pissing in the face joke and constantly trying to hammer in it?; Moe on a reality TV show. wait what?; how come when moe larry and curly reunite the producer of jersey shore is surprised that there are three of them when he clearly some them arguing before he gave Moe the opportunity to be on the show? even the crew off camera of jersey shore are as moronic as the cast; where did the horses at the end right before the stupid message come from? There are so many plot holes in this movie that even the Garbage Pail kids movie would analyze and address. Yes. I just said that. This movie is true to the slapstick and characters but doesn't care about what is going outside the slapstick or what you think of it. It's not one of the worst movies I've ever seen but it's still pretty bad. Just stick to the original shorts. This movie is confusing, stupid and just mean-spirited. Please don't do it again boys.