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- 80MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekBobby and Peter Farrelly's The Three Stooges is not particularly great, though it is possibly brilliant, a picture that goes beyond homage to become its own rambunctious invention - it's one big eye-poke, with footnotes.
- 75Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallThe Farrellys affectionately structure their movie to resemble the Stooges' one-reelers from the 1930s, while the modern setting shows how timeless their rapid-fire puns, insults and pratfalls truly are. Silliness never goes out of style.
- 70Peter and Bobby Farrelly tone down the abuse without compromising the numbskulls' unique style of physical comedy, making for an unexpectedly pleasant yet unapologetically lowbrow outing true to the spirit that has made the trio such an enduring comedy fixture since its bigscreen debut in 1930.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI didn't laugh 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 pretty much the movie Stooges fans were looking for.
- 60New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThere's just some great imitations of what remains an acquired taste.
- 60Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondSure you could just go and rent the original DVDs, but this kind of gut-busting, hit 'em in the groin humor is still funny as hell, especially in the hands of the Farrelly Brothers.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAbsurdly brutal slapstick is a tough thing to sustain across a feature. I spent a lot of The Three Stooges staring, not laughing. For me this was a stare-out-loud affair.
- 50TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissTheirs was a ruthless Cinema of Cruelty; this is whimsy with a coating of corrosion.
- The Three Stooges isn't very funny, but it is, like last year's far superior "The Muppets," a sincere act of fandom on an epic scale.
- 11Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovA work of near-existential pointlessness. It's true to the anarchic, silly spirit of the original clowning, but there's very little else to it.