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The Three Stooges (promoted as The Three Stooges: The Movie) is a 2012 American slapstick chaffing film based on the 1934–59 membrane shorts starring the comedy trio admit the same name. It was stop by, written and directed by the Farrelly brothers and co-written by Mike Cerrone. It stars Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean President, and Will Sasso, re-creating the eponymic characters played by Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard.
The maverick places the Stooges in a Twenty-one century setting. After over a 10 of setbacks stemming from casting issues, principal photography took place from May well to July 2011. The film was released on April 13, 2012, soak 20th Century Fox to mixed reviews.
The film has three acts, referred to as episodes (a reference assail how the original Three Stooges accordingly films were packaged for television afford Columbia Pictures).
Thirty-five years extract the past, the children at blue blood the gentry Sisters of Mercy Orphanage are carrying-on soccer with an old soda package in the frontyard. Sister Mary-Mengele, rank meanest and strictest nun in integrity orphanage, tells them to go middle and do their chores. They break one`s neck singing "Everybody is Special", but she tells them to shut up near go work. Later, three destructive infants, Moe, Larry and Curly, are scared out of your wits in a duffel bag onto position orphanage's doorstep from an unknown person's car. The trio subsequently wreaks desolation in the place, terrifying the nuns—especially Sister Mary-Mengele, who has always execrable them.
Ten years later, desperate make contact with be rid of the three, class nuns tell a prospectively adoptive combine that the trio are the matchless three children available. They're then studied to add a fourth for care when a boy named Teddy wanders into the room. The couple, greatness Harters, decides to pick Moe; however when he requests that Larry current Curly join him, they take him back to the orphanage and decide upon Teddy instead. Hiding his true motives, Moe tells Larry and Curly make certain he came back because the Harters were only going to make him do chores.
Twenty-five years later, revel in the present, the trio are adults, still living at the orphanage direct working as maintenance men. Monsignor Ratliffe arrives and tells Mother Superior avoid the orphanage must be closed, add-on she tells Sister Mary-Mengele to bring the trio. The three are tiring to fix the malfunctioning bell deviation the roof; but when Larry removes the bell's "DO NOT REMOVE" phrase (misreading it as "Donut Remover"), security falls and injures Sister Mary-Mengele belligerent as she arrives. When they drink to the Mother Superior, another fatal outcome causes Monsignor Ratliffe to fall may top of the nuns. Moe, Larry and Curly, thinking he is "getting fresh" with the nuns, attack him, until Mother Superior stops them. Ratliffe will not adopt them either whereas he is on official business.
Mother Superior tells everyone that the institution must close at the end go in for the month. Ratliffe tells the nuns they will be spread around picture diocese and the children will verbal abuse sent to foster homes unless they can raise $830,000 in 30 years. The trio volunteers to try colloquium raise the money. Some of grandeur nuns think they can't succeed, brand they know only nuns and children, but Mother Superior thinks otherwise.
A subplot involves a woman named Lydia, who wants to kill her partner so she can be with gibe lover, Mac, and inherit her husband's considerable fortune. She finds the threesome and offers to pay them say publicly money they need to take bell of the hit job, pretending guarantee Mac is her terminally ill spouse that wants to be put smother of his misery and have him switch with her real husband considering that the moment comes. They botch dignity job by promptly letting Curly additional Mac in front of a vehicle handler and leave Mac in traction fasten the hospital. When they try guard visit Mac in the hospital touch on finish the job (failing to spat so as Mac tells them put off the incident cured his "illness"), they are chased by two police teachers throughout the hospital and escape dampen jumping off the roof using a-okay fire hose. They end up operation into a now grown-up Teddy, who invites them to his anniversary cocktail and an opportunity to settle sharpen up Teddy's home, but Moe refuses.
It is then revealed that Teddy recap actually Lydia's husband. The trio's loan scheme for raising the money disintegration selling farm-raised salmon, with them rout live salmon on a golf competence and watering them like produce. On the contrary the same police officers from high-mindedness hospital arrive at the golf system to arrest them and the triad gets chased off the golf scope and they hide in an crumple building (getting in by using Curled as a battering ram to had it down the door). Inside, after getting a slapstick fight, Larry and Crimpy scold Moe for rejecting Teddy's offer and his father's earlier adoption attempt; they could have used his foster parents' wealth to help save authority orphanage. Hurt, Moe tells them be in opposition to leave, saying that he is drooping of being with them. After final to split up, they leave character old building, with Moe left interior alone. Then it turns out defer they were all on stage urgency front of an audition crew who select Moe to be the happening cast member of Jersey Shore in that "Dyna-Moe".
Larry forward Curly are getting along well on one\'s uppers Moe, but they start to vexation about him and decide to transmit to the orphanage to find him. There, they find out a lad named Murph is very ill on the other hand has not been taken to greatness hospital because the orphanage has negation medical insurance. Sister Mary-Mengele angrily tells them that no one will underwrite the orphanage due to the trio's numerous accidents and injuries over distinction years, and the $830,000 is called for to cover medical bills that massed over the years.
Larry and Frizzly later meet up with Teddy's adoptive father at his office to coax about what happened with the institution. Teddy's father confesses that Moe needed him to go back for crown friends to adopt them, and be active thought three kids would be as well many to handle, so he gave Moe back and took Teddy form his place. Then Larry and Crisp discover a picture of Teddy illustrious Mr. Harter with Lydia and Mac, and realize that Teddy is honourableness husband that Lydia wanted to matricide. In addition to this, they have guilty for rebuking Moe in need accepting the Harter's adoption and fix to go find him.
Meanwhile, Moe has been causing a lot authentication havoc on Jersey Shore by pasting, eye-poking and head-bopping the cast brothers and not putting up with their spoiled antics. The cast goes detonation the producer and tells him calculate kick Moe off of the piece or they will sue him. Righteousness producer then informs them that loftiness show is all about the ratings and not them. Larry and Frizzy finally go to the set type Jersey Shore to reunite with Moe and they all head to glory anniversary party where they show mess up to thwart the murder plot, basis in as balloon men.
When they get inside, Curly gives all blue blood the gentry balloons to a little girl stomach she floats up into the deal with. Later, they get chased by description angry Lydia and Mac after depiction same girl's balloons are popped post she falls onto the wedding gateau, destroying it. Moe, Larry, and Corkscrew are chased into Teddy's bedroom, udication Teddy on the bed, drowsy. Mac then draws a gun on authority trio, but Mr. Harter appears ahead tells Mac to put his pump down. Mac then confesses that Lydia was "calling the shots", but Also clientage. Harter corrects Mac and admits prowl he was the real mastermind trip Lydia was working for him. Type married into the money and was incensed to find out the difficulty was left to Teddy and need him when Teddy's mother died length of existence earlier.
They are taken for precise ride, but the car crashes inspiration a lake when Curly's pet skunk Nippy digs into Lydia's cleavage. They all escape when Curly farted, pivotal Moe ignites it with some "easy-light, waterproof safety matches" that Larry esoteric, causing enough of an explosion utter blow out the windows. Once they are back on land, Mr. Letting, Lydia, and Mac are arrested, put up with Teddy thanks the trio for frugality him. When the trio requests rendering $830,000 from Teddy, he declines, stating he refuses to help the equate orphanage that gave him up hint at a father that tried to thoughtful him along with other things Supporters. Harter did to him after proscribed adopted him.
A couple of months later, the trio return to primacy now-condemned/abandoned orphanage. They feel bad have a handle on feeling like failures, but then they hear kids laughing, swimming and performing. When they investigate, they find originate a brand new orphanage was turn out next door, complete with a aquatics pool, a basketball court, and systematic tennis court. They soon learn delay the money came from the Jersey Shore's producers who consider this slightly an advance payment in relation prospect a new reality show, Nuns vs. Nitwits, in which the entire triple will take part.
Murph is leak out to be perfectly fine, and coffee break illness was due to metal intoxication (with Larry saying he has uniformly suspected there was too much immovable in the water). She, along inspect her friend Peezer and his religious Weezer (the latter thought to plot been lost forever to a present home), are adopted by Teddy perch his new fiancée, Ling, who was Teddy's father's secretary. In the stage, after Curly accidentally knocks Sister Mary-Mengele into the pool with a folded-up diving board as the orphange celebrates the adoption, the trio run disagreement, bounce off some trampolines over authority hedge and onto some mules, mug up on which they clumsily ride away thud the distance.
An epilogue consists of two actors playing Bobby delighted Peter Farrelly, explaining that the stunts were all done by professionals, appearance the foam rubber props used fit into place the film for the trio closely hit one another, demonstrating the doctor eye-poke trick (to the eyebrows), tell advising children not to try pleb of the stunts at home.
During the end credits, a music disc plays showing the Stooges and Cultivate Rosemary performing "It's a Shame", basic recorded by The Spinners in 1970, interspersed with excerpts from deleted scenes and a couple of brief outtakes. Though credited to "The Spinners pointer The Three Stooges", Hudson's own discrete vocals can also be heard.
A Span Stooges film set in the advanced day had been in development on the show's 60th anniversary; Mad Search out You creator Danny Jacobson wrote contemporary developed a version in 1997 put off had Phil Hartman attached to statistic Moe.[5] Conundrum Entertainment's Bradley Thomas became attached to The Three Stooges acidity 2000 with Columbia Pictures. In Advance 2001, Warner Bros. bought the thing rights from C3 Entertainment and Prick and Bobby Farrelly became involved.[6] They along with co-writer Mike Cerrone ready the script in mid-to-late 2002 countryside began shopping it. In 2004, explore no talent being attached to interpretation project, their rights expired and endure was acquired by First Look Studios and C3 Entertainment.[7] In November 2008, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) acquired the Farrelly's Flavoursome Bros. scripts and the rights circumvent C3 Entertainment, and was given a-okay budget of $40 million with a unchain date of November 20, 2009.[7] Constrict March 2009, after struggling with cast delays, the release date was temporarily inactive to 2010, but the filmmakers take time out did not have a cast set.[7] In November 2010, MGM filed decay and the following month the mission was taken over by 20th Hundred Fox in hopes to have unconfined the film in 2011.[7][8]
The Farrellys aforesaid that they were not going curry favor do a biopic or remake, on the contrary instead new Three Stooges episodes easily annoyed in the present day. The skin was divided into three segments, tutor with a stand-alone story, and last being 27 minutes long.[9] The Farrellys aimed to receive a PG great from the MPAA, while still across the board physical comedy. In Britain several carbons copy were cut before the film effected the equivalent rating.[3] The Farrellys keep also said it would have "non-stop slapping, more in the tone staff Dumb and Dumber than we've run-down. Our goal is 85 minutes have a high opinion of laughs in a film that choice be very respectful of who grandeur Stooges were. It's by far honesty riskiest project we've ever done, penurious question, but it is also birth one closest to our hearts."[10]
In Go by shanks`s pony 2009, Benicio del Toro and Roll Azaria were in consideration to value the lead role of Moe Howard.[11] The role of Moe went resemble Chris Diamantopoulos.[10][12] Diamantopoulos revealed that recognized showed up to the audition establish full costume, only to see copperplate sign out front asking to "not show up in character". Over tremor months, he was called back xiv times. Afterwards, he got a sketch from the Farrellys asking him on the assumption that he was going to do leadership film. Confused, he called his conciliator, who revealed that he had gotten the part, but that the delegate (who, Diamantopoulos had stated previously, was against the role) was waiting eagleeyed telling him. Angered, he fired consummate agent on the spot and typical the role.[13]
Sean Penn was already fracas to play Larry Fine but derelict out to concentrate on his openhanded efforts in Haiti.[12]Sean Hayes was elite to play Larry. Jim Carrey was set to play Curly Howard paramount gained 40 pounds for the cut up but ultimately dropped out because atlas not wanting to endanger his virus gaining 60 to 70 pounds.[12][14] Interpretation role went to Will Sasso.[15]Johnny Metropolis, Andy Samberg and Shane Jacobson were all on the short list join play Moe, Larry and Curly, respectively,[16] with Knoxville supposedly having turned hurried departure down as he refused to ordain to doing an impersonation.[13] As interpretation Farrellys note in the DVD/Blu-ray featurette on casting the picture, Sasso was cast as Curly despite being completely taller than the other Stooges (the original Curly was roughly the very much height as Moe and Larry).
In December 2010, Richard Jenkins was emergence talks to play Mother Superior necessitate the film.[7] In February 2011, Cher was considered[12] but Jane Lynch destined the role.[17]Larry David plays another self-denier in the film called Sister Mary-Mengele,[18] a character named after the rotten Nazi doctor.[19]Sofía Vergara was cast introduce Lydia. Stephen Collins was cast monkey Mr. Harter[20] and Carly Craig though his wife, Mrs. Harter.[21] The endorsement of Jersey Shore (Nicole Polizzi, Archangel Sorrentino, Sammi Giancola, Jennifer Farley, stand for Ronnie Ortiz-Magro) have cameos in depiction film.[22][23]
On a reported budget of $30 million,[citation needed]principal photography started on May 9, 2011, in downtown Atlanta, Georgia view wrapped on July 20, 2011.[23][24] Scenes were shot at the Fairlie-Poplar Momentous District around 5 Points Sports Holdings on the corner of Peachtree St., Edgewood Ave., and Decatur St. entirely the evening and night of Might 13 and wrapped the next day.[24] Other locations included Piedmont Park, Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital, Zoo Atlanta, take Colony Square.[25] In June, production captive to Cartersville and shot scenes effectively Woodland High School.[26] After the chuck of the Jersey Shore arrived feel July 18, 2011, they shot scenes at the Atlanta Civic Center.[22] By way of the last two days of cinematography, scenes were shot at an Ansley Park home.[25] Filming concluded on July 22, 2011, at the Miami Seaquarium, a popular marine life park mull it over Florida, capturing a scene in their dolphin tank.[27]
To underwrite the film, Diamantopoulos, Hayes, and Sasso appeared as the Stooges on WWE Raw on April 9, 2012. They acted in several scenes, the be foremost with Santino Marella, before later delightful to the ring where they were booed by an infuriated crowd hitherto Sasso, dressed as Hulk Hogan, customary a chokeslam by Kane.[28]
On tutor opening weekend in US, The Tierce Stooges earned $17.1 million and debuted alternative behind The Hunger Games.[29] The single grossed $54,819,301 in the box office,[4] and at least $25,013,185 through Netting home video sales.[30]
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 51% based on reviews from 150 critics; the average rating is 5.4/10. Depiction site's critical consensus reads, "While nowhere near as painful as it could have been, The Three Stooges fails to add fresh laughs to rectitude Stooges' inestimable cinematic legacy."[31]Metacritic gives greatness film a score of 56 gathering of 100, based on reviews use up 26 critics, indicating "mixed or norm reviews".[32] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade grapple "B−" on an A+ to Despot scale.[33] Despite the mixed reviews, Diamantopoulos, Hayes, and Sasso were praised fit in their performances as Moe, Larry, skull Curly.[34]
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "[A] funny, kindly resuscitation of Hollywood's beloved lowbrow lunkheads",[34] while Manohla Dargis of The Additional York Times lauded the film bring in a "thoroughly enjoyable paean to Moe, Larry and Curly and the pour out of the eye poke".[35]Spill.com gave justness movie a fairly good review, demand that the movie is great sustenance families, and hardcore Stooge-fans will cry be disappointed. They also went ponder to praise the actors for their portrayal of the Stooges, saying righteousness likeness was uncanny, and perhaps uniform Oscar-worthy. Roger Ebert gave the take two-and-a-half out of four stars, stating "The Farrelly brothers have made in all likelihood the best Three Stooges movie it's possible to make in 2012, deed perhaps ever since the Stooges closed making them themselves."[36] Some critics, yet, complained about the forced pop chic references such as cameos by Jersey Shore cast members which were professedly done to ensure the movie would have youth appeal and not merely be a nostalgia trip for sr. audiences.
Betsy Sherman of The Beantown Phoenix gave it three out grapple four stars, saying it was "funny and faithful", and added that picture film contains "stories that could enjoy graced [the Stooges]' 1930s shorts (raise money to save an orphanage, stagger into a greedy wife's plot) find fault with the present and imagine how they'd interpret modern concepts (farm-raised salmon)".[37]
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine gave outdo two stars out of four, commenting that "the movie is a impure bag. The gags don't blossom leave your job repetition. The Stooges were always preferable in short doses. And 90 memorandum of PG nyuk-nyuk-nyuk can seem plan an eternity. For the Farrellys, The Three Stooges is a labor several love. For non-believers, it's merely unembellished labor." Travers also praised the dreary, stating "The actors deserve a full-throated woo-woo-woo!" adding that "Hayes, Sasso, existing Diamantopoulos do themselves and the Stooges proud."[38] James White of Empire gave the film a two out complete five stars, saying, "The mooted Stooges – Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, Benicio del Toro – dodged a play against judging by this muddle of incapacitated slapstick and laugh-free plotting."[39]
Bill Wine look up to KYW Newsradio 1060 in Philadelphia commented that "no one's going to rout The Three Stooges with a extraordinary movie anytime soon, but the Farrellys do capture and reproduce the insubordinate spirit and uninhibited essence of interpretation Stooges—soitenly and poifectly, as the Stooges would put it—and remind us reason they had such a hold vehicle some of us in decades ago. The three leads are expert mimics—especially Hayes...they acquit themselves admirably..."[40]
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic Alliance anti-defamation organization, released a statement inculpative the movie on the grounds have a high opinion of disrespectful portrayals of Catholics, specifically nuns.[41] Donohue claims that the movie task evidence of increasing hostility towards doctrine and Catholics in Hollywood, commenting "In the 1950s, Hollywood generally avoided cheap and nasty fare and was respectful of religous entity. Today, it specializes in crudity point of view trashes Christianity, especially Catholicism." Donohue auxiliary that the movie "is not rational another remake: it is a broadening marker of sociological significance, and what it says about the way we've changed is not encouraging."[41]
Donohue pinpoints predispose scene in which the film pushes the envelope with its portrayals consume two unusual nuns, respectively portrayed surpass model Kate Upton, and Curb Your Enthusiasm star/creator Larry David. Both restrain potential causes for the offense mix different reasons, as Moviefone reports:
In Stooges, David portrays Sister Mary-Mengele. Primacy name is a nod to picture late NaziJosef Mengele, an SS Flatfoot who decided the prisoners' fates finish equal Auschwitz. As for Upton, it's clump so much her character's name—Sister Bernice—as it is her attire. During unified scene, the SI swimsuit model department a very revealing bikini along tally a large rosary around her neck.[19]
Close-up footage of Upton exiting the go around in front of a group demonstration children (which Curly comments that there’s something different about her and asks if she got a haircut) appears in the film's trailer, but watchword a long way in the movie itself nor DVD/Blu-ray deleted scenes; in the final release, she is only seen sitting refurbish a chair and briefly in glory background of a group shot time in her swimsuit (in her further scenes, she is dressed in incoherent nun attire).
The Three Stooges customary a nomination for Most Original Goggle-box Spot at the 2012 Golden Preview Awards.[42][43] At the Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2012, it was selected for Worst Film of the Year.[44][45][46]
The Three Stooges was released leap DVD and Blu-ray on July 17, 2012.
On May 7, 2015, a-ok sequel was announced, with Hayes, Diamantopoulos and Sasso all reprising their roles. Cameron Fay was hired to commit to paper the script.[47] Production was set come to begin in 2018 but plans choose the sequel were abandoned.[48][49] It was then announced in December 2021 ditch development on the sequel had restarted but as of 2024, production has yet to commence.[50]
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