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Category: DVD (30
December, 2003) Publisher: Columbia
Tri-Star ASIN: B00017X306 Sales Rank: 1457
Customer Reviews
Average Customer
Review: Based on 8
reviews.
Worth Every
Cent, but Maybe a Guy Thing 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.
Buy the Set
and SAVE $$$ 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!
Pure
Hilarity These chaps are quite the pranksters and their antics are
very funny! I remember laughing at them in my youth and the laughs
continue to this day. Moe, the fellow with the black hair, is sort of the
boss of the three. He very often hits the other two (Larry [whose hair
resembles a mop] and Curly [the one with the shaved head]; sometimes Shemp
[who looks like Moe] and sometimes Curly Joe [looks like Curly] instead of
Curly). I particularly like when Moe wraps a wrench around Curly's nose
and pulls. It's very funny, but it's odd that in the next episode, Curly
and Moe are getting along fairly well. I don't think I could continue
being friends with someone who would pull on my nose with a wrench. I can
forigve and forget, but a man has to have his limits.
Anyway, in these featurettes the three fellows move about from job to
job. At some point Curly will accidentally injure Moe, then Larry will,
then Moe starts hurting the two of them on purpose. When one of them is
hit, a funny sound usually ensues to add to the jocularity. It's all
pretty far-fetched I grant you, but you won't care when you're laughing.
Enjoy! ... Read more
I think there
great If you like the Three Stooges you'll like these the picture
quality is not bad seeing that the films are from the 40s i'm a big
stooges fan so i get every stooges dvd i don't have and can't wait for
more to come out i just wish they would have put out better sets because
the better they are the more i want them.
NOT LAUGHING
OVER THE TRANSFER QUALITY Columbia Tristar continues to neglect
their wealth of classic catalogue titles by giving us movies that we
really want to see in transfers that range from disappointing to absolute
rip-offs. Over the course of their tenure at Columbia, "The Three Stooges"
made some 200 short subjects that rank among the funniest one reelers ever
made. It's no wonder these guys are a cultural icon - they're incredibly
funny. But you won't be laughing when you see the quality of some of
the transfers represented on these discs. Here's the long and short of it
- in the mid 1990's somebody at Columbia decided it was time to honor the
stooges with a laserdisc box set. So technicians at the studio went to
their library and digitally remastered 32 short subjects and marketed them
as a box set. However, in the intervening years, DVD replaced
laserdisc and, with sales of classics slumping over at Columbia, the new
regime decided that they would rather just slap any old quality of
transfer onto a disc, rather than take the time to repair and remaster
these classic shorts. But, they still had the original 32 remastered
laserdisc transfers at their disposal. So what Columbia did was to spread
these 32 shorts throughout their recently released DVD series and shove in
three or four truly awful transfers in between on each disc, hoping the
consumer wouldn't notice, wouldn't care or wouldn't complain about the
varying degrees of quality. Well - I'M COMPLAINING!!! While certain
shorts exhibit a relatively good gray scale and contrast levels, others
are riddled with excessive film grain and digital compression artifacts
including aliasing, shimmering and edge enhancement problems and extremely
poor audio tracks that are either rendered at listening levels way below
what is considered normal or are incredibly strident and scratchy. In
keeping with the penny pinching - though in no way is the studio's
spend-thrift attitude reflected in the price you'll be paying, there are
NO EXTRAS! I've reviewed only this box set herein, but I've had a chance
to view all of the currently available stooge material and I have to tell
you that this review could easily apply to any of the DVD's currently on
the market. BOTTOM LINE: NO WAY! NO HOW! NOT EVEN A NYUK, NYUK!
Three great
DVD's in one. This set includes three of the best Three Stooges
DVD's, SPOOK LOUDER, CURLY CLASSICS, and ALL THE WORLD'S A STOOGE. The
best shorts include MUMMY'S DUMMIES, HOKUS POKUS, SHIVERING SHERLOCKS,
FRIGHT NIGHT, THREE DUMB CLUCKS, THREE LITTLE PIRATES, UNCIVIL WARBIRDS,
VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY, A PLUMBING WE WILL GO, MEN IN BLACK, THREE
LITTLE PIGSKINS, and MICRO PHONIES. This is a great buy if you want to
save a little money. ... Read more
Category: DVD (02
March, 2004) Publisher: Columbia Tristar
Hom ASIN: B00018D3QY Sales Rank: 5835
Description
Description Now they’ve done it - The Three Stooges are back and in
trouble with the law! This hilarious compilation includes Pop Goes the
Easel, Idiots Deluxe, The Three Trouble Doers, In the Sweet Pie & Pie,
and Yes, We Have-No Bonanza.
The Three
Stooges And The Law DVD Review- After releasing the magnificent
'Stooges At Work' DVD, Columbia gives us Stooge fans 5 more Stooge shorts
to enjoy. This collection contains 5 shorts that fit the 'Law' theme very
well. "The Three Troubledoers" is the only weak short in this collection.
The other 4 are as hilarious as can be.
Picture Quality- All shorts are 35mm prints and they look good, except
there are quite a bit of dirt at times. "Pop Goes The Easel" looks very
nice, especially since it's the oldest short in this collection.
Sound Quality- All the shorts sound very good, except for "Yes, We Have
No Bonanza". The sound on that short is somewhat distorted and could be
bothersome at times.
Final Comments- This collection contains some
very good shorts. However, Columbia didn't do such a good job as their
previous release, 'Stooges At Work', in terms of picture and sound
quality. They did a descent job, however. No special features are on this
collection except for a Spanish audio track and English subtitles.
Columbia gives us the 'Play All' feature which is another plus. Overall,
very nice collection, but still could've used better effort by Columbia.
Idiots
DeLuxe! Here we see the Stooges in jail for suspicion of murder.
Three beautiful women meet them and propose marriage. The Stooges are
about to be executed but are freed after the real murderer(s) confessed.
Moe is court,being tried for mayhem. Curly with Larry alongside him in the
audience,shouts to the judge,"You mean murder!" Moe is acquitted and
continues with the behavior that brought him into the courtroom. The
Stooges even find a bonanza which is stolen money(the crooks buried it
underground). The Stooges become artists and later go to war with wet
clay! Also a beautiful girl named Nell promises to marry Curly,a newly
appointed sheriff,if he saved her father's life and bring Blackie,an armed
villain,to justice. In POP GOES THE EASEL,the artist film,the real-life
daughters of Moe Howard and Larry Fine,then small children,appear in the
scene where they play hopscotch and they both chuckle when their dads and
Curly play. A must for all Three Stooges fans.
Great
Classics, But Worn Out "Themes" These are among the best Curly-era
shorts that the Stooges made and the prints look pretty good, but it's
very apparent that Columbia has run out of ideas for DVD "themes" and have
begun to repeat themselves ("Cops & Robbers" comes to mind). I feel
the same as many fans that it would've been a lot easier if Columbia had
simply released all 190 shorts in chronological order from the beginning
instead of doing "themed" releases.
At long last, Columbia has finally listened to the many complaints from
Stooge fans about not being able to watch the shorts straight through and
have remedied the problem on this DVD as well as the previous "Stooges At
Work" DVD. Thank goodness they've also done away with the annoying loadup
intros that plagued some of the earlier releases, especially the pinball
and slot machine sequences. You had no choice but to sit through it
because you couldn't get past them.
Columbia also needs to include more shorts on the DVD's; they started
out with 6 or more in the beginning, but they've now cut it down to 5
each. Maybe someday Columbia will get it's act together...one can only
hope! ... Read more
Category: DVD (13
January, 2004) Publisher: Columbia Tristar
Hom ASIN: B0000VCZLQ Sales Rank: 4064
Features:
Color
Closed-captioned
Customer Reviews
Average Customer
Review: Based on 8
reviews.
The Three
Stooges At Work DVD Review- While only 5 shorts on this collection,
they are the best ones, especially "Booby Dupes". All of them fit the
'work' theme perfectly and they are hilarious. No weak shorts are in this
colection, which is a plus.
Picture Quality- The picture is at it's best. All shorts are very good
looking and are all perfect 35mm prints. I've never seen the stooges look
this good. Aside from minor dusts and scratches here and there, the
quality is picture perfect.
Sound Quality- The sound is very clear and very good. Every face slap
and head bonk is very clear. "Three Missing Links" has a little bit of a
tinny sound to it, but the sound is still clear.
Final Comments- Every stooge fans deserves a copy of this DVD because
of it's amazing quality and excellent shorts. Columbia finally provides a
'Play All' button so you can watch all the shorts without touching your
remote. No special features are contained in this collection, except for
English Subtitles. Overall, this is a magnificent collection to have.
The Three
Stooges work hard Here we see the Stooges mistaken for newspaper
reporters,who are actually drycleaners(an editor of another newspaper sees
the right door of their van open,thus reading "Star Press"). The back of
the van reads "Star Cleaning and Pressing Co." with both doors closed. The
Stooges also are hired to appear in a jungle film. They also are in
trouble with the law for taking pictures in a country when photography is
illegal. They fish for their own fish to sell. They also are hired as
construction workers and are immediately fired after poor structure(they
begin on the 97th floor of a skyscraper!). Supporting cast members include
Vernon Dent,Symona Boniface and Jane Hamilton. In BOOBY DUPES,the fish
film,after the Stooges' boat sinks and they find another one
astray,they're mistaken for Japanese enemies when Moe sways a large white
rag with a red stain on it on a fishing pole. Thinking it's a Japanese
flag,the pilot of the overhead helicopter drops bombs,near them if not on
them. That film was made during the World War 2 era,as was CRASH GOES THE
HASH,the newspaper film. A must for Three Stooges fans.
Play all
episodes featcher well this DVD is great, as all the three stooges
DVD's are great..... but i wont go into detail on what episodes are on
this DVD... because the review's below go into detail on the episodes..
but im glad to see all curly on this DVD..... there is one cool thing that
this DVD has that the other stooges DVD dont have and its the ''''''play
all episodes featcher'''''' yes you can play all episodes by just pushing
Play... you dont have to push play after each episode...... thanks
Columbia Pictures for adding that________________ ... Read more
Category: DVD (19
August, 2003) Publisher: Columbia Tristar
Hom ASIN: B00009ZPU4 Sales Rank: 7633
Features:
Black & White
Closed-captioned
Customer Reviews
Average Customer
Review: Based on 4
reviews.
The Three
Stooges in hysterical, er, historical comedies Yes, it is hard to
understand why you get three two-reelers on each Three Stooges videotape
but a DVD only gets you up to five. However, there is certainly a thematic
approach to this DVD that you rarely find with the videos as all of these
shorts are set back in time, when the days of olde when knights were bold
being the chief attraction, and you do get shorts with both Curly and
Shemp in the mix:
"Squareheads of the Round Table" (1948) is set in the Middle Ages where
the Stooges are trying to help Cedric the Blacksmith in winning the hand
of the Princess Elaine (Christine McIntyre). The boys pretend to be
troubadours to help out and then stumble on a plot to kill the King
(Vernon Dent) hatched by the Black Prince, which means dressing up as
knights and throwing fruit (it actually makes sense).
"I'm a Monkey's Uncle" (1948) is set in the Stone Age with the boys
having trouble with hunting and cooking before they go a-courting as Moe
introduces Larry and Shemp to his gal Aggie and her sisters Maggie and
Baggy. When some other cavemen show up and want the girls, the Stooges
have to fight back and save the day.
"Restless Knights" (1935) is one of the earlier Columbia Shorts and
offers the sight of Walter Brennan as the father of the Stooges. Again,
the setting is in the Middle Ages where the boys visit the court of the
King of Anesthesia and have to avoid being executed. There is a long
wrestling match, which does not really seem appropriate, but that happens
a lot with the Stooges.
"Matri-Phony" (1942) goes back to ancient Erysipelas, during the reign
of the emperor Octopus Grabus. The Stooges are known as Mohicus, Larrycus,
and Curleycue, as well as the biggest chiselers in town (they run a stone
works). The emperor (Vernon Dent) has his eye on a new woman for his harem
(Marjorie Deanne), and the boys hide her out. Taken prisoner Curley ends
up in drag making moves on the emperor.
"Fiddlers Three" (1948) is set in the Medieval Fairy Tale Times with
the Stooges serving as the jesters for Old King Cole (Vernon Dent again).
The main thing here are the skits in which the boys do nursery rhymes:
Shemp as Jack Be Nimble, Larry as Little Miss Muffett, Moe as Simple
Simon. When the princess (Virginia Hunter) is kidnapped, the boys go off
to the rescue. This one has the boys doing lots of Shakespearean tongue
twisters.
Nothing here is really classic Three Stooges comedy, but these are all
solid efforts. Seeing Walter Brennan as the Stooges father is certainly a
hoot, and it explains where the boys learned to slap each other around.
Restless
Knights If you are a Stooges collector this is for you. If you are
a fan of just Curly, you may want to pass on this one. Try "Curly
Classics, Cops And Robbers or All The World's A Stooge". This DVD has 3
Shemp episodes and 2 Curly. The 2 Curly episodes are obviously the
highlight of this set. "Restless Knights" from 1935 is one of the funnier
Stooge shorts and has a riotous wrestling scene. "Matri-Phony" is another
classic as the Stooges try to save a red headed beauty from being forced
to marry the King "Octopus-Grabus". The Shemp episodes provide some
entertaining moments...the funniest of the three would have had to have
been "Fiddlers Three" where the stooges play the "Fiddlers Three"
entertaining Ole King Cole.
I love the
Stooges - I hate Columbia Studios Only 5 two reelers on this DVD,
several of which I have always considered to be Shemp's best. But only 5?
Columbia knows a Stooge lover such as myself will always purchase even
though it is obvious that the technology allows for much more data to be
put on to a disk. When the Stooges signed that contact that gave away all
future compensation rights from any possible new medias, Columbia hosed
them and the tradition of hosing all their descendants and loyal fans
continues. ... Read more
Great DVD,
only one weak short. 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.
Classic
Curly Short and simple, if you're a Stooges fan, this is a must
have. It is nice to see this on DVD and the quality is decent. More
importantly, the shorts selected for this disk are real good Curly shorts.
Maybe not the best ones of Curly (I'd have a hard time deciding that) but
for us Stooge lovers, this is great.
The title
says it all! This package features the first four movie shorts
Moe,Larry and Curly made in 1934. The first one,WOMAN HATERS,is a
musical,all in rhyme. The Stooges join the Woman Haters club,but Larry
decides to quit after meeting a young woman he found so irresistible. He
promised he'd marry her,that's why he quit. PUNCH DRUNKS was written by
the Three Stooges. Curly fights against a stronger,tougher fighter and
wins thanks to "Pop Goes The Weasel",the song Larry,in the audience,played
on his violin. MEN IN BLACK features the Stooges as hospital workers who
are finally employed after being long overdue to graduate from medical
school. In THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS,the Stooges are college football players
who impress the hell out of three gangsters and their girlfriends(one of
them was a young and beautiful Lucille Ball). In A-PLUMBING WE WILL GO,the
Stooges screw up the plumbing rather than repair a simple leak as ordered
to. In MICRO-PHONIES,Curly lip-synchs a young woman's recording of "Voices
Of Spring" in a recording studio and at a party. The Stooges would later
become Woman Haters club members in 1955's GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE(with
Shemp). A-PLUMBING WE WILL GO spawned two remakes,1949's VAGABOND LOAFERS
which would be re-used for 1956's SCHEMING SCHEMERS. The young woman in
MICRO-PHONIES is Christine McIntyre,a beautiful actress who gave plenty of
moral support to the Stooges. ... Read more
Category: DVD (10
August, 2004) Publisher: Columbia Tristar
Hom ASIN: B0002A2WFO Sales Rank: 18692
Editorial Review
Goofs on the Loose is a four-pack of mid-'30s Three Stooges
shorts, with enough concentrated nyuk-nyuks to satisfy fans. Two of the
shorts are from their first year with Columbia, 1934. "Men in Black" has
the boys as residents in a very unlucky hospital. It's nonstop mayhem,
featuring an unorthodox approach to healing (the words "Give 'em the
anesthetic" usually means a mallet will be applied to skull) and a good
running gag about an ill-advised glass door. This one was nominated for
the best short subject Oscar. "Punch Drunks" is an all-time Stooges gem,
with Curly as Moe's new boxing discovery--but he can only achieve his
fighting fury when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasel" on the violin. From
1937, "The Sitter Downers" has three brides for three stooges, but their
honeymoon is delayed by the building of a house, in typical Stooges style.
Curly is wound up especially tight in this one, and it has some primo
sight gags about home construction. "Playing the Ponies" navigates a
zig-zag Stooges storyline, taking them from restaurant (Curly fixes an
appetizing filet of sole) to horse track. It has a classic Stooges hand
jive, although it shows how slapdash their shtick could get.
A quartet of shorts (three new to DVD) make up the solid Stooged
& Confoosed, all with mid-period Curly in woo-woo-woo form.
"Violent is the Word for Curly" somehow morphs the boys from gas-station
attendants to European college professors. Not only does it feature Curly
roasting on a spit, but the Stooges instruct the students of Mildew
College for Women in the intricacies of "Swinging the Alphabet," a
memorable nonsense song. "You Nazty Spy" is the Stooges' answer to Duck
Soup and The Great Dictator, as a cabal of businessmen install
Moe as the dictator of Moronika. With an accidental mustache and jibbering
German, Moe does a convincing Hitler. (But didn't he always?) "No Census,
No Feeling" is a rangy, so-so bit that begins with a lame premise about
the Stooges as census takers (it was 1940, after all) and ends up at a
football game. But the best gag has Curly mixing up a noxious fruit punch.
You know "An Ache in Every Stake" will be a goodie from the moment Moe and
Larry attempt to remove a block of ice from around Curly's head by using a
chisel and mallet. Its centerpiece is a variation on the flight of stairs
from Laurel and Hardy's "The Music Box," but Curly does nicely stuffing a
turkey, too.
Both Goofs on the Loose and Stooged & Confoosed are
presented with Columbia's "ChromaChoice" device, which allows for easy
toggling between the original black-and-white shorts (which appear in
great shape) and a colorized version. The colorized images are sensibly
rendered, but they still have that washed-out paleness they've always
had--eggshell greens and light browns abound. Stooges purists will stick
to black-and-white, the better to appreciate the subtleties of a cheese
grater being scraped across Curly's face. --Robert Horton
Why All The
Negative Reviews? This hasn't come out yet and people are starting
to make all sorts of negative comments. Maybe the Colorization looks good.
You'll never know until you actually buy it and watch it. Until then,
refrain from the negative comments. Columbia is working very hard on these
shorts in order to give the shorts good restoration and good color. Watch
it before making any sort of negative comments. And, let me remind you.
EACH DVD HAS THE BLACK AND WHITE ORIGINALS ON IT!! So, stop complaining.
If you hate the colorized version, don't watch it. Watch the black and
white version. That's why Columbia provided both. If it costs too much,
well too bad. Don't buy it, simple as that.
Sony lies
about color research. In the old days of B&W cinematography,
off colors such as Green & Purple would be used together because they
looked right in B&W. If Sony is doing the historical research they
claim for color accuracy, these would be the odd color combinations we
would see. Instead, they will be giving us their interpritation of the
styles of the day.
My question is: Will the B&W presentations be true B&W or just
mono-chromatic (no color) viewings of the colorized versions? If it is
just mono-chromatic, the grey tones could look very different than the
original un-altered B&W grey tones.
Now, they must think we fans are just Stooges and will not notice the
duplication of titles from previous DVD releases. We are basically getting
one (1) new DVDs worth of titles on two (2) DVDs for the price of two (2).
This reminds me of the old Laserdisc release SNAFU, when Volume 3 was
released with only three titles and those same 3 titles were in the last
half of Volume 2!
We know who the real Stooges are, the executives at the
Columbia/Tristar home video division of Sony Pictures.
Come on, even Ted Turner knows that Colorization is dead today! It does
not improve the movie. It has been a decade since I have even heard the
word mentioned. It is a forgotten technolocical FAD!
No
Colorization! Don't buy this junk, say NO to colorization! Please,
nyuk, nyuk, just say NO! BLACK AND WHITE ONLY! Don't fall for this
colorized crap. The colors will NOT be accurate! Boycott this one! ... Read more
If you want to hear "nyuk-nyuk-nyuk" in Spanish and Portuguese as well
as in English, then the DVD format is for you. The Three Stooges: All
the World's a Stooge gives a generous 124 minutes of seven
Curly classics in a random order: "Grips, Grunts and Groans" (1937), "The
World's a Stooge" (1941), "3 Dumb Clucks" (1937), "Three Little
Pirates" (1946), "Uncivil War Birds" (1946), "Back to the Woods" (1937),
and "Violent Is the Word for Curly" (1938). The shorts cover some familiar
territory; "Grips, Grunts and Groans" is only the Stooges' 20th short in
the Columbia series, and it is practically a rewrite of "Punch Drunks,"
the second. Here Curly is driven wild by a perfume rather than a song and
is put into a wrestling ring rather than a boxing ring. Even the
backscreen projection of the crowd is the same one used in the earlier
film.
"Three Little Pirates" contains the famous "Mahah, Ah Ha"
routine from their vaudeville days. "Back to the Woods" is one of their
relatively rare costume efforts. The highlight of "Violent Is the Word for
Curly" is a pleasant little vaudeville song about the alphabet. In "Three
Dumb Clucks," Curly gets to play a double role. The audio and video are
generally good. The film of "Three Little Pirates" used for the transfer
to DVD, however, shows a defect 10 minutes into the episode in
the form of vertical lines flickering to the left of the picture, which
some might find distracting. --Frank Behrens
Excellent
collection of Stooge shorts All the World's a Stooge is an
excellent DVD that contains several classic shorts. The DVD contains seven
shorts, several of which are true classics. "Grips, Grunts, and Groans"
follows the Stooges as they must replace a drunken wrestler, and while
funny, not a great short. "All the World's a Stooge" is about a husband
who adopts the Stooges to convince his wife not to adopt other children.
"Three Dumb Clucks" has the Stooges trying to break up the engagement of
their father which contains some very funny shots of Curly in a double
role. "Three Little Pirates" has the classic "maha, aha" routine but the
condition of the film is pretty bad. "Uncivil War Birds" has Moe and Larry
joining the Union and Curly joining the Confederacy which is my favorite
short on the DVD. The Three Stooges have a great rendition of "Dixie" in
the short that is truly funny. "Back to the Woods" has the Stooges as
prisoners sent to the colonies to help fight the Indians containing
several good routines. "Violent is the Word for Curly" contains the famous
Alphabet Song as well as "Super Service. This is a very good DVD that
looks very good with the exception of "Three Little Pirates." A must have
for Three Stooges fans!
Pretty
good. This is a pretty good DVD. GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS and ALL
THE WORLD'S A STOOGE are okay shorts, I guess. THREE DUMB CLUCKS is great.
Curly does an interesting performance playing himself and the Stooges'
father. Remade with Shemp as UP IN DAISY'S PENTHOUSE. THREE LITTLE PIRATES
is a great short. Curly gives his last great performance with the Maha-Aha
routine. UNCIVIL WARBIRDS is a pretty good short, with another one of
Curly's last great performances. BACK TO THE WOODS was very weak and
boring, however. Too slow and uninteresting. VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY
is a great short. The "Swingin' the Alphabet" song is classic. This DVD is
good enough to purchase. I'd buy it if I were you.
5 good
shorts, 2 weak shorts This one a good DVD. "Grips, Grunts, And
Groans" is in my top 5 favorite stooge shorts because it is fast-paced,
manic, and Curly going crazy is hilarious! "All The World's A Stooge", "3
Dumb Clucks", "Three Little Pirates", and "Uncivil Warbirds" are great
shorts too. "Back To The Woods" and "Violent Is The Word For Curly" are on
the weak side. This is still a good DVD for any stooge fan. The quality on
"Three Little Pirates" is not so good. ... Read more
Category: DVD (14
November, 2000) Publisher: Columbia
Tri-Star ASIN: B00004XOO1 Sales Rank:
12109
Features:
Black & White
Closed-captioned
Customer Reviews
Average Customer
Review: Based on 10
reviews.
Another
collection of slapstick Moe,Larry and silly Curly are performing
their slapstick routines as usual in this collection. In HOI POLLOI,the
Stooges are sanitation workers who volunteer to be transformed into
"gentlemen". Well,more dignified and sophisticated gentlemen. In NUTTY BUT
NICE,the Stooges search for a missing bank cashier whose child daughter is
sickened by his disappearance. In A-DUCKING THEY DID GO,the Stooges join a
duck-hunting club,which is bogus because it was initiated by swindlers. In
THE SITTER-DOWNERS,the Stooges' weddings to their girlfriends are
postponed until the Stooges build their fiancees their dreamhouse. In
FALSE ALARMS,the Stooges are firemen who steal the captain's new auto.
HALF-WITS HOLIDAY,a remake of HOI POLLOI,was Curly's last as a Stooge. He
became ill during filming of the last scene. He lived five years and eight
months after this film was made. Also,when the Stooges are told to do what
the professor's daughter does,Curly applies the lipstick to his lips just
like she did. After Moe applies the cosmetic to Curly's tongue,he eats
it,entirely! Also that film would be re-used for the following shorts with
Shemp(Moe's and Curly's brother who replaced Curly after this film):PEST
MAN WINS and SCHEMING SCHEMERS. There was a second re-make entitled PIES
AND GUYS with Joe Besser,made after the deaths of Curly and Shemp.
Another great
Stooges DVD Nutty but Nice is a great DVD containing six Stooges
shorts, all of them with Curly. "A Ducking They Did Go" has the Stooges
selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club with a great ending. "Hoi
Polloi" and "Half-Wits Holiday" are virtually the same short as the trio
are used to see if environment or heredity determines your social
behavior. "Higher Than A Kite" has the Stooges as mechanics who end up
hiding in a bomb and landing in a Nazi headquarters. "False Alarms" has
Moe, Larry, and Curly as firemen trying to get out of work to meet up with
their girls. "Nutty but Nice" has them searching for a little girl's
kidnapped father. All six of these shorts are very funny with several
classic Stooge routines like AMA, Amalgamated Morons Association, and two
classic pie fights. All of the shorts are cleaned up and look great so
don't miss Nutty but Nice.
Wait a
second. These Three Stooges comedies have plots! The three Columbia
shorts collected on "Nutty But Nice" are pretty funny, but what is
surprising is that on one Three Stooges videotape you would find that all
three stories have a plot that pretty much exists from start to finish.
There are a whole lot of Three Stooges comedies where the end has nothing
to do with the finish, but that is not the case here:
"The Sitter-Downers" is a 1937 comedy that find the Stooges in love,
with three sisters of course, but their father rejects their marriage
proposals so the boys stage a strike. To our surprise, it works and the
boys decide who gets which girl by drawing names out of a hat (Curly gets
"Stetson"). The payoff for this comedy is when the trio of happy couples
is given a free house to live in: the catch is that it comes in a kit and
the Stooges need to assemble it. Which they do and it looks pretty
good--until the final shot.
"Nutty but Nice" comes from 1940 and starts off with the Stooges
operating a restaurant but the main part of this is their efforts to cheer
up a little girl who is sad because her father disappeared from the bank
with $300,000 worth of bonds. But even with the Stooges dressed up as
little girls doing their lollipop routine, they cannot get her to crack a
smile. So they decide to track down the missing dad. This is actually a
happy ending to this one and, in an even bigger surprise, we actually get
back to the restaurant where the whole thing started.
"Slippery Silks" is a 1936 comedy where the Stooges start off as
antique restorers. That might be the strangest job they have had, but of
course they end up destroying a rare Chinese cabinet. So the next thing
the boys are doing is making dresses at Madame de France's gown shop. The
antique restoration (or destruction) from the first reel is combined with
the dress making from the second reel as the Stooges design clothes that
look like furniture (complete with the drawers).
I am still amazed at the sense of narrative completeness demonstrated
all three of these comedies. Two of the three had the story and screenplay
done by Ewart Adamson, but "Nutty but Nice" was written by Clyde Bruckman
and Felix Adler. Sorry, but that is the best explanation I can come up for
this strange occurrence. ... Read more
Category: DVD (21
August, 2001) Publisher: Columbia Tri-Star ASIN:
B00005M070 Sales Rank: 16494
Features:
Black & White
Closed-captioned
Customer Reviews
Average Customer
Review: Based on 8
reviews.
More
adventures of Larry Fine and the Howard Brothers Here's what you'll
see in this collection: Moe,Larry and Curly by order of their wives take a
job as salesmen. They try to sell Brighto,which they initially think is a
multi-purpose cleaner. It removed paint from somebody's car & made a
hole in a cop's uniform jacket. Not realizing Brighto is actually
medicine,the Stooges' boss fires and rehires them. So they sell their
entire supply to a hospital administrator,who owns the car the Stooges
ruined! The Stooges exterminate termites at a black-tie party. Moe,Larry
and Shemp fix a doorbell and serve as cooks and waiters at a party. After
being fired from various jobs,they study dentistry and go out West to
practice by the suggestion of their college dean. They also concoct a
"fountain of youth" that works beautifully on their drugstore landlord's
elderly wife but turns the landlord into a gorilla! Shemp,in order to
receive bequeathed money by a deadline,marries a not-so-attractive chorus
student. The titles are DIZZY DOCTORS(1937),TERMITES OF
1938(1938),BRIDELESS GROOM(1947),THE TOOTH WILL OUT(1951),LISTEN
JUDGE(1952) and BUBBLE TROUBLE(1953). BRIDELESS GROOM was later used for
1956's HUSBANDS BEWARE. LISTEN JUDGE is basically the same as 1941's AN
ACHE IN EVERY STAKE and 1943's THEY STOOGE TO CONGA. BUBBLE TROUBLE is a
remake of 1947's ALL GUMMED UP. THE TOOTH WILL OUT is actually leftover
footage from MERRY MAVERICKS.Director Edward Bernds decided to make
another short out of the leftover footage rather than shelve it. Smart
move,Ed! Other directors include Del Lord and Jules White.
You Can't Go
Wrong Here! Besides "Curly Classics", this one ranks as my second
favorite Three Stooges DVD; the excellent shorts "Termites Of 1938" and
"Dizzy Doctors" are worth the price of this disc! I know some people have
wondered why Columbia included "Brideless Groom" here, owing to the fact
that it's an often-used public domain film. Well, for the Stooges
"completist", it would be wrong if it weren't included at some point. I
will say that the quality of the film on this disc is markedly better than
some of the really grainy, bad quality prints used in some of the cheaper
priced Stooges discs!
A great DVD overall, but some suggestions to Columbia: I think we all
could do without the annoying "pinball machine" intro, and the VERY
annoying "slot machine" intro on the newer DVD's! Also, start making the
discs so the shorts can be played continuously instead of stopping after
each one!
What can you
say? These are the stooges and they are awesome. There's some funny
stuff on this DVD. It's well worth it. Get 'em while you can! ... Read more
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Based on 8
reviews.
Pure
Hilarity
NOT LAUGHING
OVER THE TRANSFER QUALITY
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Based on 3
reviews.
Sony lies
about color research.
Pretty
good.
