The brutish schtick got old a long time ago.

| Aug 16, 2017

The architects behind There's Something About Mary and Kingpin make merry with the poking and thumping, but are ultimately far too fond of their comic heroes to make them or us truly squirm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2012

This could have been a truly awful summation of the work of such minor legends but it works surprisingly well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2012

It shows that what made the Stooges work all those years ago, though hardly in vogue, still works today.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2012

The quicker it's forgotten, the better.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 23, 2012

Quaint but exuberantly crafted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2012

Chase scenes and physical comedy exchanges allow the action to romp along at a fair lick.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2012

'The Three Stooges' is exactly the film it wants to be. Was it worth ten years of anyone's life? Probably not. Is it worth 88 minutes of yours? Absolutely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2012

The mooted Stooges - Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, Benicio del Toro - dodged a bullet judging by this muddle of creaky slapstick and laugh-free plotting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2012

The movie is so infantile that it achieves a special kind of purity and gentleness.

| Apr 23, 2012

The metafriction between these classic dupes and today's idiots chafes uneasily.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2012

The leads acquit themselves in the physical comedy, resurrecting shtick honed on a thousand-and-one vaudeville stages, and recreated in as many playgrounds.

| Apr 16, 2012

In the hands of the Farrellys, the Stooges are, unsurprisingly, made into totems of the duo's favored themes and values: separation anxiety, and the special qualities of home and family, however dysfunctional.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 13, 2012

Any reasonable objections to the Farrellys' Three Stooges will not be on the grounds that it desecrates a revered comedy franchise, but on the grounds that it's not very funny.

| Original Score: C | Apr 13, 2012

None of this would be possible without the inspired and fully-committed performances of Sean Hayes as Larry, Will Sasso as Curly, and Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe... They never break character or wink at the audience...

| Original Score: 2.1/2 | Apr 13, 2012

All three leads are adequate, but the simple act of attempting to re-create the madcap aura of the original Stooges' brotherly sadomasochism is doomed from the get-go.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Apr 13, 2012

It is so relentlessly, gleefully and willfully dumb that, even if you are so broken an individual that you refuse to laugh, you will at least watch it in reverence and awe.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 13, 2012

For the Farrellys, The Three Stooges is a labor of love. For non-believers, it's merely a labor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2012

Even by Stooges standards, it's overly juvenile and totally dumb.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2012

You would think that after a quarter-century in development at four different studios, somebody would have figured out how to make a funny movie about the Three Stooges.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2012