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Much Curly Will Sasso Bully depends on whether that Mother Superior Jane Lynch The Cabin in the Woods Email the Movie was what you were hoping Answer Man » Lydia Sofia Vergara Casa de mi Padre to hear. Their "The Three Sister Rosemary Jennifer Hudson Chico & Rita Stooges" has the look and Sister Mary Mengele Larry David Chronicle feel of a Stooges classic Coriolanus on sale now and possibly some of the Crazy Horse 20th Century-Fox presents a film same gags. So there's that. Damsels in Distress directed by Bobby Farrelly and Deadline Growing up, I missed the Peter Farrelly. Written by Mike Declaration of War whole Three Stooges thing. Cerrone and the Farrellys. Running The Deep Blue Sea Either they weren't on the time: 92 minutes. Rated PG (for Delicacy station in my hometown, or slapstick action violence, some Fake It So Real we hadn't bought a TV set rude and suggestive humor Footnote The Forgiveness of Blood yet, or they came to town including language). Four Lovers too late for me. I'm pretty Friends with Kids Buy now » sure that at the right age, I Goon would have loved them. No Hell and Back Again doubt many parents will House of Pleasures want to share their The Hunger Games formative experience with Printer-friendly » The Hunter their children. E-mail this to a friend » In Darkness In the Family For example, at the The Innkeepers screening I attended, Jeff Who Lives at Home Mancow Muller was there Jiro Dreams of Sushi Buy now » with his twin daughters, Ava John Carter Grace and Isabella Sofia, who are sweethearts. No doubt he was Journey 2: Mysterious Island The Kid With a Bike grateful for the public service announcement at the end of the movie Kill List by two actors playing the Farrellys, who demonstrated to the The Lady audiences that the hammers and sledgehammers the Stooges hit Lockout one another on the head with were rubber props. They also used London River slow-motion footage to show that no Stooge is really being poked in The Lucky One the eye; you aim at the eyebrows. Marley Mirror Mirror Buy now » As much as anything else in the movie, this cautionary lecture Musical Chairs evoked the era when the Stooges reigned at kiddie matinees and My Piece of the Pie low-rent TV stations. "Warning — kids!" they were always being told. October Baby On the Ice "Don't try this yourself!" Solemn stories were told about the kid who Once Upon a Time in Anatolia shot his eye out with a BB gun, or ate a lot of Kool-Aid and then Oscar nominated short docs drank an RC Cola and his stomach exploded. As nearly as I can The Raid: Redemption recall, nobody was hit over the head with a sledgehammer. Rampart Salmon Fishing in the Yemen The casting of the three leads is just about ideal. Larry, Curly and The Salt of Life Moe are played by Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Saving Face Buy now » Diamantopoulos, who are made to look enough like the originals to Seeking Justice justify no complaints. This movie has been in development hell for Silent House something like a decade and survived the bankruptcy of MGM. The Snowtown Murders They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain Perhaps we should be grateful for the delay. Over the years, Thin Ice Think Like a Man websites breathlessly reported the casting of such stars as Benicio This Is Not a Film del Toro, Sean Penn, Hank Azaria, Johnny Knoxville and Jim Carrey, This Means War but it's better this way because it's less distracting. Sean Penn is an A Thousand Words excellent actor, but I don't know if I could get into the spirit with him The Three Stooges as Larry. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Buy now » Titanic [3D] The film is wisely brief, 92 minutes, divided into three segments that 21 Jump Street are linked together with the Stooges' being raised in an orphanage. Undefeated They spent not only their childhoods there, but their entire lives until The Vow the present day — parents for some reason being reluctant to adopt W.E. them. The second and third segments center on the bankruptcy of We the Party the orphanage, and the pledge by the Stooges to raise $830,000 Windfall almost overnight to keep it open. The Woman in Black Wrath of the Titans Buy now » The nuns running the orphanage are also well-cast: Jane Lynch as more current releases » the Mother Superior, Larry David (yes, Larry David) as the autocratic Sister Mary Mengele, and Jennifer Hudson, slender and warm as Sister Rosemary. on dvd As they forage the city in search of funds, the Stooges get involved in new on dvd a murder plot against a millionaire and Moe finds accidental stardom in the cast of a popular TV program that I will not reveal. more new on dvd » Having said all of these things, I must say one more: I didn't laugh coming on dvd Buy now» much. I don't think the Stooges are funny, although perhaps I might once have. Some of the sight gags were clever, but meh. The three leads did an admirable job of impersonation. I think this might be more coming on dvd » pretty much the movie Stooges fans were looking for. I have no idea what their children will think about it. 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