What the hell is Hollywood ruining now: The Three Stooges movie

[Magus]

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO WATCHETH THE TRAILER

So yeah like I don't freaking know this is either the worst idea of all time or the best idea of all time--no this is an extremely terrible idea.

Like number 1 they just co-opted the plot to The Blues Brothers for this movie. Like John Belushi would be rolling his grave if he weren't busy partying in the afterlife with Jim Morrison over the biggest pile of cocaine and woman anyone ever saw. But I assure you he would be miffed if he were viewing our current plane of existence at this juncture.

Number 2, making them orphans seems to preclude the inclusion of Mama, who was easily one of the funniest characters in the shorts. Like yeah I'm sure at least one of the shorts had them save an orphanage but I don't think they ever were orphans (I've seen hundreds of these shorts but I might have missed one, though). Also there are dozen of the various 20 minute plots that could have just been expanded into an hour and a half, such as that time they were pretending to be plumbers and ruined the shit out of those rich people's house, or that time they were pretending to be exterminators and ruined the shit out of those rich people's house, or that time they were pretending to be musicians and ruined the shit out of those rich people's house--well you get the picture.

Or that time they went looking for gold in the desert. That episode was hilarious.

One thing I do have to give this movie credit for is the actors do indeed do a spot-on impression of the Stooges (well, the guy playing Larry is slightly off, but I was pretty impressed by the Moe and Curly here). But why watch this movie when it would make more sense to watch the dozens and dozens of shorts which are still pretty damn funny? Sure you can't make pop culture references but those are just a short cut to actual jokes. The Stooges never made many pop culture references (at most they wound up fighting in World War II) and got plenty of laughs without them.

Also that opening part was just one dumb Stooges gag too far. If they cut baby Stooges out of it it might make it slightly better.

Finally, why don't the Farrelly brothers focus on getting Dumb and Dumber 2 made? Can't they dig up Jeff Daniels and pay Jim Carrey whatever massive salary he demands and get this thing done? Dumb and Dumber was basically the Three Stooges except there were only two of them and it was an original thing, so why not focus on getting that made?

Anyway, what do you think of the modern Stooges? The only thing that gives me hope is they didn't shy away from the slapstick.