Genre:
Comedy
Directed by:
Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring:
Release date:
Fri 13, Apr 2012
Budget $30 million
Box office $46,216,329
The Three Stooges is a 2012 slapstick comedy film based on
the early to mid-20th century shorts of the same name. The movie was produced,
written and directed by the Farrelly brothers and co-written by Mike Cerrone,
and stars Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes, and Will Sasso, recreating the
eponymous characters played by Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard. The
film's story places the Stooges in a modern setting.
After over a decade of casting problems, principal
photography took place from May to July 2011. The film was released on April
13, 2012, and is rated PG in the US (for slapstick action violence, some rude
and suggestive humor including language) by the MPAA rating system.
Plot
The film is composed of three acts, which are referred to as
episodes (a reference to how the original Three Stooges short films were
packaged for television by Columbia Pictures).
Act/Episode 1: More Orphan Than Not
Ever since Moe, Larry, and Curly were dumped on the doorstep
of the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage, they have wreaked havoc in the place,
leaving the nuns who run it utterly terrified. Out of desperation, when a
prospective couple comes to adopt, the exasperated nuns bring out the trio as
being the only three available, eventually adding a fourth when another boy,
Teddy, enters the picture. The couple decides to pick Moe, but when he requests
Larry and Curly join him, he is dropped back off at the orphanage, and they
choose Teddy instead. 25 years later, the trio is still living there and
attempting to help out taking care of the kids. When Monsignor Ratliffe arrives
to give everyone an important message, he gets attacked by Moe, Larry, and
Curly, who think that Monsignor Ratliffe was making out with the nuns.
Monsignor Ratliffe is not going to adopt either of them either, as he is on
official business. As they get wind that the orphanage will be shutting down
unless they can come up with $830,000 in 30 days, the trio volunteers to go out
and try to raise the money somehow.
Act/Episode 2: The Bananas Split
A subplot involves a woman named Lydia, who wants to kill
her husband so she can be with her lover, Mac, and inherit her husband's
considerable fortune. She offers to pay the trio the money they need to take
care of the job. However, they botch the job and leave the supposed husband
(actually Mac) in traction in the hospital. When they try to visit to finish
the job, they are chased throughout the hospital and escape by jumping off the
roof using a fire hose. They end up running into a now grown-up Teddy from the
orphanage, who invites them to his anniversary party. It turns out that Lydia
is Teddy's wife. Their next scheme for raising the money has them selling farm
raised salmon, with them scattering salmon on a golf range and watering them
like produce. The trio are chased off the golf course and hide somewhere, where
they have a huge argument and slapstick fight. Larry and Curly then confronts
Moe for not accepting the adoption with Ted's adopted parents because with the
wealth they had, he could've used it to help save the oprhanage. They leave Moe
alone immediately. After they do so, it turns out they were all on stage in
front of an audition crew, who select Moe to be the newest cast member of
Jersey Shore as "Dyna-Moe".
Final Act/Episode 3: No Moe Mister Nice Guy
Larry and Curly are getting along well without Moe but
decide to go find him, first returning to the orphanage, where they find out a
girl named Murph is very sick, but has not been taken to the hospital because
the orphanage has no medical insurance. It turns out that no one will insure
the orphanage due to the trio's numerous accidents and injuries, and the
$830,000 is needed in order to cover medical bills that accumulated over the
years. Larry and Curly later confronts Ted's adopted father about what happened
at his office. He confessed that Moe wanted him to go back for his friends to
adopt them and he didn't want to so he gave Moe back and took Ted in his place.
They finally go to the set of Jersey Shore to reunite with
Moe, and they all head to the anniversary party where they appear to thwart the
murder plot, only to get chased by the angry Lydia and Mac after they
accidentally ruin their wedding cake while saving a little girl's life. They
discover Teddy's adoptive father, a powerful attorney, was the real mastermind.
He married into the money and was incensed to find out the money was left to
Teddy and not him when Teddy's mother died years earlier. They are taken for a
ride, but the car winds up in the water when Curly's pet rat distracts them;
then, they all escape when Curly passes gas, and they light it with
"waterproof, strike-anywhere matches" they had, causing enough of an
explosion to blow out the windows.
Once they are back on land, Lydia, her lover, and Teddy's
adoptive dad are arrested, and Teddy thanks the trio for saving him. When they
request the $830K, he turns them down, stating he refuses to help the same
orphanage that gave him up to a father that almost tried to kill him, among other
things over the years.
Three months later, the trio return to the now-condemned
orphanage, but as they start crying for feeling like failures, they hear kids
laughing, swimming, and playing. When they investigate, they find out a whole
brand new orphanage was built next door, complete with a swimming pool and
tennis court.
They soon learn that the money came from the Jersey Shore's
producers who consider this as an advance payment in relation to a new reality
show "Nuns vs Nitwits", in which the entire trio will be part of.
Murph is revealed to be perfectly fine, her illness due to too much iron in the
water (which Larry had always suspected, yet no one listened to him), and that
she, along with brothers Peezer and Weezer (the latter thought to have been
lost forever to a foster home), will be adopted by Teddy and his new wife,
Ling. In the end, after causing one more incident, the trio run away and bounce
off trampolines out of the orphanage onto mules, where they ride off away from
the orphanage, thus ending the film.
Postscript Epilogue
An epilogue consists of two young actors (Antonio Sabato,
Jr. and Justin Lopez) playing the Farrelly brothers, explaining that the stunts
were all done by professionals, showing the foam rubber props used in the film
for the trio to hit one another, demonstrating the fake eye-poke trick (to the
eyebrows), and advising children to not try any of the stunts at home.
During the closing credits a music video plays showing the
Stooges and Sister Rosemary (Jennifer Hudson) performing "It's a
Shame", originally recorded by The Spinners in 1970, interspersed with
excerpts from deleted scenes and a couple of brief outtakes. Though credited to
"The Spinners and The Three Stooges", Hudson's own distinctive vocals
can also be heard.
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References.
External links:
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