{"id":213,"date":"2012-04-16T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2020-12-06T21:32:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T02:32:14","slug":"213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogger DW Atkinson reviews The Three Stooges movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DW Atkinson, one of the moving forces behind <a title=\"Cinesation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cinephiles.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cinesation<\/a>, is perhaps the biggest Stooge fan I know. Even his license plate and email have variations of NYUK (the Curly laugh) on them.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: I&#8217;m not the biggest Stooge fan ever. I don&#8217;t find them hilariously funny, as some do, but I respect them. When I see what they were able to do with the 35-cent budget allocated to them by Columbia, and I compare it to what many of the other Columbia comedians were able to accomplish with the same money, the Stooges blow them out of the water every time. I figured that Mr. Atkinson was the most qualified to review this modern-day version of classic comedy.<\/p>\n<p>DW&#8217;s review starts below the trailer for the new film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s1R4b04mxOs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Three Stooges: Those who saw the film this weekend &#8212; a 58% male crowd &#8212; didn&#8217;t love it, assigning it an average grade of B-, according to market research firm CinemaScore. Even if word-of-mouth on the movie doesn&#8217;t end up being fantastic, 20th Century Fox didn&#8217;t spend much to produce the film: $37 million.<\/p>\n<p>The word film was used but it was digital for me. B- is generous. What I could do 37 million? Don&#8217;t get me started.<\/p>\n<p>I just watched the new Three Stooges movie.<br \/>\nI could tell it was partially made as an homage to Howard, Fine &amp; Howard.<br \/>\nBut too many times it was it was an Oh-man moment for me. Not in a good way either.<br \/>\nAnd as usual, most of the good parts were in the trailer spoiling too many scenes.<\/p>\n<p>The movie just didn&#8217;t work for me. It couldn&#8217;t decide what it wanted to be or how to get there.<br \/>\nIt was funny in parts, made me smile and laugh.<br \/>\nBut when it&#8217;s over, the &#8220;what the hell was that&#8221; question smacked me upside the head faster than Moe with a shovel.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a fan of the Farrelly&#8217;s work with the exception of Shallow Hal.<br \/>\nIn fact, after paying to see Dumb &amp; Dumber back in the day, I vowed to never pay to see another Farrelly movie.<br \/>\nI still think it&#8217;s a dumb movie and I was dumber paying to see it. I could have edited it down to 30 minutes.<br \/>\nAnyways, like most Farrelly flicks, body fluids\/functions have a spotlight and the Stooges are not immune.<br \/>\nThe nursery scene went a little long but it was funny at first. The Curly gas scene worked because unlike<br \/>\nsome other gags, it wasn&#8217;t over worked.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand the reasoning for the assorted famous supporting cast members and I don&#8217;t care enough to look it up. Larry David? Really?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe a real Stooge fan will like the new Three Stooges Movie,<br \/>\nbut having said that, they won&#8217;t hate it either.<br \/>\nIt could have been worse. Remember the Laurel &amp; Hardy movie back in 1999?<\/p>\n<p>How would I rate the film?<br \/>\nWould I go see it again? NO<br \/>\nWould I buy it on DVD next month? NO<br \/>\nI give it three Nyuk&#8217;s = a grade of C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DW Atkinson, one of the moving forces behind Cinesation, is perhaps the biggest Stooge fan I know. Even his license plate and email have variations of NYUK (the Curly laugh) on them. Full disclosure: I&#8217;m not the biggest Stooge fan ever. I don&#8217;t find them hilariously funny, as some do, but I respect them. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/?p=213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guest Blogger DW Atkinson reviews The Three Stooges movie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"powered_cache_disable_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,4],"tags":[86,41,85],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-views-and-reviews","tag-cinesation","tag-review","tag-the-three-stooges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drfilm.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}