The Three Stooges

Movie: The Three Stooges

Genre: slapstick comedy

Synopsis: We get to see how the Larry (Sean Hayes), Curly (Will Sasso) and Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos got their start – as infants in an orphanage run by Mother Superior (Jane Lynch) and her nuns – including Sister Rosemary (Jennifer Hudson) and Sister Mary-Mengele (Larry David).  Now adults – but still at the orphanage – the stooges set out to earn enough money to save the orphanage from foreclosure.

My two cents: If you are a Three Stooges fan, you would like this.  I questioned casting Sean Hayes as Larry – but he was actually pretty good.  Larry David as a nun was certainly interesting.  The gem, though, was Will Sasso as Curly.  There were times when I could have been watching the original Curly.  He captured his moves, his mannerisms, his sounds, … he nailed everything.  That said, I found that watching men whack each other with hammers and take a chainsaw to someone’s forehead just was not quite as funny to watch as when I was ten.

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