Thank you to Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment for the review copy. You can watch the trailer here.
We were sent a pre-release to DVD and Blu-Ray copy of the Three Stooges. It’s a slapstick version of the version I used to watch when I was younger. The kids were enthralled from the start as there is a lot of coshing, boshing and old-fashioned bopping on the heads. I’ve not seen middler laugh at a film for a long time and I did worry about letting him see it, but he thoroughly enjoyed it.
It was a nice touch at the end where they showed that the hammers were soft rubber and didn’t hurt anyone at all. I know some people will see that as pointless and irrelevant, but for my special needs boy it is something that I appreciated as it gave the slapstick a reference for being fake and not real bopping and tweaking.
Basically, it’s pretty much about three boneheads in three way comedy. The Farrelly Brothers are the three stooges, and the film starts off with them being abandoned at the door of an orphanage. When the home is at risk, it falls on the brothers to create a miracle to save their childhood home. They keep getting themselves into trouble and manage to find themselves in the middle of many odd situations.
It’s not as predictable as I thought it would be, and it definitely appealed to my boys.
There are differences in the options, which are listed below. Buying from Amazon, you can pre-order now for delivery on the 11th.
- Deleted / Extended Scenes
- What’s the Big Idea? A History of The Three Stooges
- Knuckleheads: Behind the Scenes of The Three Stooges
- Did You Hear That? The Three Stooges Sound Effects
- Poifect!: Casting The Three Stooges
- The Three Stooges Mash-Up
- Original Screen Test
- Theatrical Trailer
- Deleted / Extended Scenes
- Knuckleheads: Behind the Scenes of The Three Stooges
- Did You Hear That? The Three Stooges Sound Effects
- The Three Stooges Mash-Up
- Theatrical Trailer
