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Summary: Three Stooges DVD 12-Pack
Review: Although the quality varies from each 2-reeler and the mistake of not putting everything in order, this Columbia box set is the only way to begin a credible collection of our favorite Stooges (with Curly, naturally). You get the 12 released Columbia discs; Curly Classics, All The World's A Stooge, Spook Louder, Nutty But Nice, Merry Mavericks, Dizzy Doctors, Healthy Wealthy And Dumb, Three Smart Saps, Cops And Robbers, G.I.Stooge, and the shorts Stop Look and Laugh and The Outlaws is Coming which each also contain a "Curly Classic". This Entire box set gives you 44 of the 97 Curly's and to update it you will need to buy "Three Stooges in History" which is overpriced and "Stooges At Work" which comes out 1-13-04. You need to accept the Shemp episodes as they are inserted on various discs.
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Summary: Stooges 12 pack
Review: Great buy just got this pack and cant stop watching it. You wont be dissapointed.
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Summary: A great way to start.
Review: Had this box set came out sooner, I would have bought it rather than buy them all individually. But as my title says, it's a great way to start your 3 Stooges collection. Relive all the classic Stooge moments with Moe Howard, Larry Fine (my favorite) and the amazing Shemp Howard...you also get a bunch of shorts with Curly Howard, too (just pay attention to Larry during the Curly shorts, believe me, it's better that way). My only problem with the entire set is the butchered version of "Three Little Beers" with a scene cut out (golfers discover that their golf balls are missing, Moe hits Curly on the head and from under his coat falls dozens of the missing golf balls...CUT! WHY COLUMBIA? WHY?!). Other than that, it's a great set...what are you waiting for? ORDER IT NOW, PORKUPINE!
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Summary: Of all the things to transcend the ages...The Stooges???
Review: I had a $50 gift certificate for amazon and decided to parlay my good fortune with another $48 and take the plunge into the best anthology availble of the lovable, sadistic clowns.
The set is a package of 12 dvds in keep cases. There is no written material other than the short descriptions which attempt to provide some historical perspective.
The quality of the pictures and sound are what I consider very good for material that is nearly 70 years old. The disks do contain subtitles, which I appreciate for late night viewing.
I have three boys aged 5 to 12. The two older boys, the middle one in particular (10) do enjoy the shorts. The funniest thing about all the Stooges shorts are the hilarious sound effects. Even my wife, who really can't understand the attraction we men have in Larry Moe and Curley, will find herself cracking up to the unexpected "Bonk!"
I try to explain to my boys that in the olden days, this was what we got to see before the main feature at our local movie house or, in my case, on rainy days in the Portland School District when it was too rainy to play outside for recess.
So, in order to give them a feel for times gone by, whenever we have "movie night" at our house (usually Friday or Saturday), before we crank up the home theater system with the latest technological marvel from Lucas or Peter Grant, we take a step back in time where the only miracles one saw was a man getting hit in the face with a monkey wrench and shaking it off like a mosquito bite.
Is it PC? No. Does it provide good role models? No. Is it the best 48 bucks I ever spent on a dvd set? By all means yes. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't hesitate even if I didn't have the gift certificate. Good value, great laughs! Parents, don't let your children grow up without knowing Larry, Moe, Curley, Shemp and Curley Joe. The comedy is ageless and there isn't anybody since who has come close to touching the funnybone of young and old alike. God bless you Stooges!
PS The box and some advertisments cite "600 Minutes of Laughs!" I don't know who is doing the adding at the graphics department, but each dvd averages 90 to 100 minutes making a grand total of more like 1200 minutes, or a good 20 hours of mayhem!
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Summary: Buy the Set and SAVE $$$
Review: I have been buying these DVDs individually (...) as they were released. If you are a Stooge fan, you must have these discs and packaged this way you save a ton of cash. I don't regret buying these for more money because I have been enjoying them all along. I can't wait for Columbia to get off their collective dead asses and get the rest of the shorts on DVD!! Wish they thought this out better, but I will take what I can get. Like I said, buy this set, start your collection and save money! Let the laughter begin!
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Summary: Buy the Set and SAVE $$$
Review: I have been buying these DVDs individually (...) as they were released. If you are a Stooge fan, you must have these discs and packaged this way you save a ton of cash. I don't regret buying these for more money because I have been enjoying them all along. I can't wait for Columbia to get off their collective dead asses and get the rest of the shorts on DVD!! Wish they thought this out better, but I will take what I can get. Like I said, buy this set, start your collection and save money! Let the laughter begin!
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Summary: outstanding!
Review: I love the stooges! I never get tired of watching moe pry curly`s nose with a crowbar,or put larry`s head in a steam press,or pull curly across the room by the ear with a pair of scissors! I love these guys! brilliant!
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Summary: Worth Every Cent, but Maybe a Guy Thing
Review: If you are interested in getting entertained. If you want to innoculate your children to the vagaries of the consumer society, if you want to make the Old Man laugh, Granpa cry or your wife weep, then buy this set. With several exceptions there is a lot to recommend here: some of the ones from the 30s and all of the classics from the early 40s with the original Stooges. There is even a hilarious 1965 full-length western spoof with Curly Joe as the third stooge, starring also Adam West (Batman) in what can only be regarded as the best of the worst 1960 gauche. My favourite is the stooges building their own aiplane, and the one where they are in Britain on loan to the RAF, in trying to hide from their irate boss, they hide in a bomb that (you guessed it) gets dropped into Nazi Germany where they meet Marshal Boring and General Bommel. A good propoganda piece as well. I bought it for my three year old daughter and she absolutely loves them. I actually now use it as part of my discipline programme -- no eat dinner, no Three Stooges --- man does it work great.
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Summary: TONS OF FUN
Review: IT IS ABOUT TIME, I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIME. I HOPE AMAZON DOESN'T KNOW HOW FUNNY THESE DVD'S ARE. IF THEY DID THEY WOULD PROBABLY JACK UP THE PRICE...THESE DVD'S ARE WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOPTASTIC
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Summary: TONS OF FUN
Review: IT IS ABOUT TIME, I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIME. I HOPE AMAZON DOESN'T KNOW HOW FUNNY THESE DVD'S ARE. IF THEY DID THEY WOULD PROBABLY JACK UP THE PRICE...THESE DVD'S ARE WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOPTASTIC
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