While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.
Even hardcore Stooges fans will need to be in an indulgent mood to withstand the tedium of this Farrelly homage.
I loved it.
The gut-busting laughs the Farrelly brothers used to routinely serve up with the gloriously silly likes of Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary are sadly absent.
The engaging performances in the Farrelly brothers's revival of the Thirties comedy vaudeville act The Three Stooges, spare the film’s blushes.
Dim-witted and lame.
It's unapolgetically silly and certainly heartfelt – no one phones it in – and, while it incorporates modern trappings such as reality TV, it shows that what made the Stooges work all those years ago, though hardly in vogue, still works today.
The mooted Stooges - Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, Benicio del Toro - dodged a bullet judging by this muddle of creaky slapstick and laugh-free plotting.
t's completely bonkers and the stunts are definitely not to be tried at home, kids, but I have to admit laughing at the sheer insanity of it all, particularly when Larry "Curb Your Enthusiasm" David turned up as a grouchy nun. It's that kind of caper.
A film that is most definitely an acquired taste.
A lot of the time, the storytelling is crude and witless. You have to given a certain credit to the three leads for their sheer physical commitment.
Surprisingly entertaining.
Expertly impersonated by Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso. Their limited skills, however, are not suited to a feature-length picture.
The film works as a simple, heartfelt tribute to the Stooges, with enough nose-tweaking and head-slapping for it to double as a family-friendly live-action cartoon.
General release. Check local listings for show times.