Review of The Three Stooges (2012) by Collin S — 05 Aug 2012

About the best thing I can say about this is that Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulos are spot-on in their portrayals of the witless titular trio. They nail the mannerisms and vocalizations of the three so completely, it's actually a bit spooky - ghost watching on the same level as Jim Carrey's take on Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon.

Problem is, those performances are blown on a tale that's gratingly predictable, horribly misdirected and woefully, thoroughly unfunny. For some unfathomable reason, the troupe is dropped without any modification into the present, where their slapstick Vaudeville act is over-amped and completely out of place.

I get that nobody on the planet was clamoring for a reinvention of this particular wheel, but when the script's so desperate for validation it shoehorns in the cast of Jersey Shore for more than just a cameo, maybe it's time to take a step back and reassess.

It's a total disaster, not just missing the boat but careening off the pier and plummeting to the bottom of the ocean. If this is the best revival modern Hollywood can come up with for three legends, they should take a long, hard look at their motives before they go about plundering any more graves.