Fresh
'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.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
The Three Stooges
All pain. No brain.
2012 · 1h 32m · PG
Comedy
Directed by
Bobby Farrelly
,
Peter Farrelly
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The Three Stooges
Overview
Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry, Curly and Moe. When they learn that financial problems will soon force the only home they've ever known to close, the trio sets out to raise $830,000 in one month. Out in the world for the very first time, the three innocent bumblers become embroiled in a murder plot and find stardom on a TV reality show.
Director and cast
- Bobby Farrelly Director
- Peter Farrelly Director
- Sean Hayes as Larry
- Will Sasso as Curly
- Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe
- Jane Lynch as Mother Superior
- Sofía Vergara as Lydia
- Jennifer Hudson as Sister Rosemary
- Craig Bierko as Mac
- Stephen Collins as Mr. Harter
- Larry David as Sister Mary-Mengele
- Kirby Heyborne as Teddy
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
51%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The movie is so infantile that it achieves a special kind of purity and gentleness.
David Denby, New Yorker
Rotten
The metafriction between these classic dupes and today's idiots chafes uneasily.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh
The leads acquit themselves in the physical comedy, resurrecting shtick honed on a thousand-and-one vaudeville stages, and recreated in as many playgrounds.
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
Rotten
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.
Eric D. Snider, Film.com
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