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2012 · comedy · family

The Three Stooges (2012)

Directed by Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly1h 32m2012

Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry, Curly and Moe. When they learn that financial problems will soon force the only home they've ever known to close, the trio sets out to raise $830,000 in one month. Out in the world for the very first time, the three innocent bumblers become embroiled in a murder plot and find stardom on a TV reality show.

Our read: The Three Stooges (2012) (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · family entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / family, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.

ElsewhereTMDB5.8649
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • intimate
  • funny
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How The Three Stooges feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want silly nostalgic slapstick with the Stooges saving the day.”

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 1/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — You want sophisticated humor or hate cartoonish violence and puns.

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