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Summary: Stooge fans
Review: A perfect collectors addition for anyone who appreciates the Three Stooges. Fine digital detail and sound enhance the activity. An improved format. Most video format will not give you such clarity. Very good representation of Curly episodes. Lets see more DVD with Shemp!
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Summary: Great DVD, only one weak short.
Review: A-PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940) is my favorite Curly short. It's got hilarious scenes and tons of fun. Curly's maze of pipes is great, even though Shemp does it better in VAGABOND LOAFERS (1949). A+WOMAN HATERS (1934) is the only short on the tape that is bad. Spoken in rhyme. This is the first short, and one of the worst. D- PUNCH DRUNKS (1934) is okay. There's some funny scenes. At least it's better than WOMAN HATERS (1934). C- MEN IN BLACK (1934) is great. This was the only short to even be nominated for an Academy Award. There are great gags. "Did you ever see and apple with the skin on the INSIDE?" This deserves to be nominated for an award. It should've won. A- THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (1934) is funny, co-starring Lucille Ball. The Stooges and Lucy. Who wants more? A- This also includes MICRO-PHONIES, one of Curly's best.
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Summary: GREAT COLLECTION OF CURLY SHORTS
Review: Any Curly short pre-1944 or so is great but the best are these early shorts where the boys are still young enough to pull off some great violence and sight gags.
"The Woman haters" is their first Columbia short and Curly is actually referred to as jackie. The episode is done 100% in rhyme or song which turns a lout of people off but I think is fabulous. The Boys become Members of the Woman Hater's Club but Larry secretly marries a girl and the boys go wild on a train. Then ending with the boys singing togehter and smacking in rhyme is classic.
"Three Little Pigskins" the boys are mistaken for 3 football heroes by gangsters and then have to actually play a game to disastrous results. Co-stars a young Lucille Ball.
"Punch Drunks" is the first in what would be a long running theme in Stooges plots...Curly going nuts when he hears, sees, or smells something. In this case he goes nuts when he hears "pop goes the WEasel". Moe makes a boxer out of him and takes him to the title. A Classic!
"Men In Black" Parody of "Men in White" a popular drama of the day. This short was nominated, but did not win, an Academy award. The boys are three dimwit doctor who go on a rampage in a hospital. Contains some of the greatest lines and sight gags of any Stooges short. "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!"
"A Plumbing We Will Go" The stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion. They wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place. To escape the wrath of the homeowners the stooges escape through a magicians trap door.
"Micro-phonies" A later Curly short. Curly is mistaken for "Senorita Cucaracha" a singer who Curly mimicked. The boys show up in their disguises to "sing" at a Mrs. Bixby's party but run into trouble when Moe smashes the record Curly Lip-syncs to over Curly's head. The real singer tries to help by singing from behind a curtain while Curly mimics, but she is discovered and the stooges exit to a hail of phonograph records.
All in all one of the best Curly Collections
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Summary: Not a bad start, but...
Review: Columbia has given Stooges fans many reasons to be happy with this DVD release, but there is also room for improvement. For one thing, the quality of film elements used, while good, does not seem to be on the same level used for earlier VHS releases. Columbia struck new 35mm prints to make masters for many of their earlier VHS releases, but they do not appear to have used these superior elements for this new DVD (perhaps this is an old,recycled Laser Disc master...made before the newer elements were available? )At any rate, the picture quality is still very good throughout. It's just not as good as it possibly could be. Also, if Columbia is planning to release more Stooges DVD's, I wish they would release some of their other vintage comedy shorts as well. Charley Chase, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Andy Clyde and other comedians all made shorts for Columbia during the Stooges' heyday, and it's a shame they are rarely, if ever, seen anymore. Perhaps a "Three Stooges & Friends" series of DVD's would help some of these films see the light of day again.
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Summary: 2002 NFR Selection
Review: Congratulations to Moe, Larry, and Curly! Punch Drunks, on this disc, has just been added to the National Film Registry.
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Summary: 2002 NFR Selection
Review: Congratulations to Moe, Larry, and Curly! Punch Drunks, on this disc, has just been added to the National Film Registry.
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Summary: WOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOOWOO!
Review: Curly is GREAT! Good old NYUK NYUK action! Filled with thrills and chills!You gotta see the crazy,kooky Docs in Men in Black.
Punch Drunks will have you on the edge of your seat! Curly is a
great tough guy in that one! It'll scare you out of your wits when Curly comes WOO-WOO-WOOING toward you after he's punched out everyone in the ring! I thought the rhyming in Woman Haters was kinda funny, especially when Curly says: "You gave us the works before;you can't do it no more!" What funny bad grammar!
you must see Curly Classics! If you don't see it you'll be a VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE!NYUKNYUKNYUKNYUK...
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Summary: Curly: The Best
Review: Curly is the greatest of the changing third stooge there was...end of story. Nothing beats Curly. He is the ace-high, same-suited straight of comedy. That's why you should buy this collection of stooge shorts.
This was the Stooges younger years, them still being able to walk and construct sentences, so you'll see more physical comedy and prat falls. Curly, being the king of physical humor of any kind, will never disapoint. Larry and Moe were also much younger and noticeably alive. If you watch Larry, the silent stooge, throughout an entire episode, you'll see funny looks and reactions to every situation...I've tried it, and it's true...
Moe is filled with anger, as everyone ever knows, and is constantly seeking revenge for anyone who accidently uses his suspenders to hit him with a pick (A Plumbing We Will Go). I haven't begun to break the ice about the greatness of these stooges, just trust me.
A good buy...please show this to your kids, and never let them watch any current kids shows, because they all suck.
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Summary: Why I prefer watching The 3 Stooges by myself
Review: Don'cha just hate that-friend-of-a-friend and/or girlfriend-of-a-friend who's so annoying and insufferable, it'd make even the staunchest pacifist go postal? You know the scene- you're invited over to a friends' house for a video movie marathon (in this instance a '3 Stooges' marathon), and there he/she is- much to your chagrin. It's bad enough you have to even share the same zip code with this yutz, let alone the same air- and that's not the worst of it! At every opportunity, he/she makes snide remarks and what he/she thinks are witty zingers about every scene of the movie! Oh, he/she thinks he's/she's so cute, doesn't he/she? Hey, zip it, willya?! If I wanted a pseudo-comedic running commentary, I'd go home and watch 'Mystery Science Theater' flicks, 'kay? Now you're probably asking yourself, "where is this all leading to, and how is it relevant to the item you're reviewing?" Well, here's the skinny. I had to share this showcase of some of the best physical comedy & slapstick silliness ever caught on film with two people. One was a good friend, the other a social outcast who thought he was way too cool for the room. It was one of the most hellish experiences I've ever had the misfortune of enduring. He gives me a sour look whenever I laugh like a mental patient at one of the Stooges' more hilarious moments on this video (such as Moe hitting Larry, and Larry trying to hit Moe, but Moe ducks & Larry smacks Curly instead). That look is telling me he felt the scene wasn't even remotely amusing, and I'm an idiot for laughing at it. After all, HE'S the only one who knows what's funny. Hey, buddy, "The Three Stooges" are part of a little genre called comedy, okay? I'll laugh at them screwing up a plumbing job ('A Plumbing We Will Go') and Curly hitting hard to the tune 'Pop Goes The Weasel' in the ring ('Punch Drunks') all I want! But when I hear the smarmy little troll say "Oh yeah, like THAT can happen!" for the umpteenth time when he sees something that couldn't even remotely occur in real life (like our beloved trio's silly lip-synch to an opera recording in "Micro-Phonies"), it becomes my cue to leave before my homicidal tendencies come to the forefront! And don't even get me started on how he felt about the picture quality. Hey, what did you expect from sixty- to seventy-year-old prints? THX surround sound & picture remastering? And now, the moral: If you're a big-time 'Stooges' fan- or a fan of any kind of celluloid entertainment- who's got a bud who hangs with the aforementioned friend-of-a-friend, you'll receive a much higher degree of amusement watching this wonderful collection of classic slapstick by yourself. Believe you me, you'll spare yourself a lot of prison time! 'Late!
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Summary: A Truly Great Collection of Shorts
Review: For any aspiring Three Stooges fan, this is the place to begin your collection. It contains many of the Stooges' best films, as well as their first ever movie ("Woman Haters"), which was actually done entirely in rhyme.
"A Plumbing We Will Go" is an absolute masterpiece, packed with great gags (Dudley Dickerson's Kitchen Scene, Curly's Plumbing Fiasco). "Men in Black" (a play on the Spencer Tracy film "Men in White") is the only Stooge film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award, and features the classic line "Dr. Howard! Dr. Fine! Dr. Howard!" "Micro-Phonies" is the last Stooge short in which Curly delivered a really great performance. "Punch-Drunks" is the only film where the Stooges' recieved a writing credit (and it includes a great gag involving "Pop Goes the Weasle"). And "Three Little Pigskins" has Lucille Ball. The set is rounded off by the previously mentioned "Woman Haters."
The DVD may look a bit scratchy and dark, but this is the best shape these films have been in for years. Compared to all previous video and TV releases, they look spotless. Other than some brief liner notes, there are no extras. However, Stooge fans should find listening to these movies in Portugese a good enough bonus.
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