The Three Stooges Go Around the World In a Daze 1963.
This was the penultimate starring feature for the stooges and it is not very good.
I have avoided watching these late Stooges features b/c I figured they would not be very good. The Three Stooges Go Around the World In a Daze is regarded by some as their best late feature. Pity.
It's a 1963 release from Columbia and as such, it has a 'modern' look to it as compared to their 30s and 40s features that most of us now.
Moe and Larry are on hand looking fairly hale and hearty. I never noticed before how short Moe is. The valiant Joe DeRita is in here for Curly as Curly Joe. He tries, but he is rarely funny.
When you can isolate the funny moments in a film and have it come down to half a dozen, you know you don't have much of a comedy before you.
The film is a telling of the famous Jules Verne story - Around the World In Eighty Days. In this one, the grandson of the first intrepid traveler attempts, on a bet, to duplicate his grandfather's feat. The Stooges are in his employ as butlers. The other plot intricacies are not worth going into.
There are a few startling topical references in there with Larry, IIRC, making a reference to JFK's fitness program as they hike across country.
They have their exploits in various lands, but they are really filling time until the film says "The End" after about 80 minutes.
One laugh out loud sight gag - Curly Joe is in the ring with a sumo wrestler in Japan. As the big man staggers (or CJ goes to pin him - whatever), they hit the middle of the ring and it collapses inward in a concave manner. Funny! The other sight gag has the Stooges involved in a fight in a darkened warehouse. As the light repeatedly comes on and goes off, we see different moments in the fracas....in in that one funny moment, an arm comes out from the side of the screen and hits Moe in the face with it's fist. Well timed.
And those are the highlights of the film.
It's a good natured feature, harmless and benign.
Recognizable character actors - Murray Alper turns up as an Allied Van Lines truck driver.
There's not too much more to add. Nice effort by the Stooges and far from inept.
This was the penultimate starring feature for the stooges and it is not very good.
I have avoided watching these late Stooges features b/c I figured they would not be very good. The Three Stooges Go Around the World In a Daze is regarded by some as their best late feature. Pity.
It's a 1963 release from Columbia and as such, it has a 'modern' look to it as compared to their 30s and 40s features that most of us now.
Moe and Larry are on hand looking fairly hale and hearty. I never noticed before how short Moe is. The valiant Joe DeRita is in here for Curly as Curly Joe. He tries, but he is rarely funny.
When you can isolate the funny moments in a film and have it come down to half a dozen, you know you don't have much of a comedy before you.
The film is a telling of the famous Jules Verne story - Around the World In Eighty Days. In this one, the grandson of the first intrepid traveler attempts, on a bet, to duplicate his grandfather's feat. The Stooges are in his employ as butlers. The other plot intricacies are not worth going into.
There are a few startling topical references in there with Larry, IIRC, making a reference to JFK's fitness program as they hike across country.
They have their exploits in various lands, but they are really filling time until the film says "The End" after about 80 minutes.
One laugh out loud sight gag - Curly Joe is in the ring with a sumo wrestler in Japan. As the big man staggers (or CJ goes to pin him - whatever), they hit the middle of the ring and it collapses inward in a concave manner. Funny! The other sight gag has the Stooges involved in a fight in a darkened warehouse. As the light repeatedly comes on and goes off, we see different moments in the fracas....in in that one funny moment, an arm comes out from the side of the screen and hits Moe in the face with it's fist. Well timed.
And those are the highlights of the film.
It's a good natured feature, harmless and benign.
Recognizable character actors - Murray Alper turns up as an Allied Van Lines truck driver.
There's not too much more to add. Nice effort by the Stooges and far from inept.