Comments on: Hollywood’s New 3 Stooges: Benicio del Toro, Jim Carrey and… Sean Penn??

By: Hard Right

Hard Right — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:13:15 +0000

Two commie lovers and comedian who doesn’t want to be a comedian anymore?
Do they not understand that COMMUNIST stooges are not the answer?

F*** hollywood.

By: Mack

Mack — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:08:16 +0000

Another movie that will lose money!

Hollywood doesn’t get it! You can take a communist actor offstage, put a clown suit on him; but he’s still just a communist clown onstage.

There’s nothing funny about a communist clown! (ò¿ó)

By: Mary Lou Welz

Mary Lou Welz — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:34:13 +0000

Just saying the name Penn, makes me feel stupid.
I would have to avoid the movie or I would become a blathering idiot.
Shower time.

By: SpideyTerry

SpideyTerry — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:13:50 +0000

Big mistake. For one, updating the Stooges is just plain nonsense. Hollywood has already proven many, many times that they are largely incapable of replicating prior successes and making them good (just look the remakes of “Halloween”, “The Omen”, “Psycho”). There is also an air of arrogance here, like people are saying, “We can do it even better than they did.” (Though to be fair, I may just be letting my anti-Hollywood bias get to me in that regard.)

Second, why pay to see this movie when the original Stooges are widely available already, especially on the far-cheaper-than-a-movie-ticket television? A local channel airs the Stooges every Sunday, and while I’m not sure if they still do, Spike has aired them in the past.

Third, the casting is ridiculous. Carrey is the only one with any real comedic experience, but he largely lost his mojo years ago. He could get it back, but it seems like he doesn’t even care anymore. I know next to nothing about Del Toro, so I wanna be fair and not complain about him too much, but he just doesn’t seem like Moe to me. And Penn? Sheesh, say what you will about Larry, but he was definitely a likable and talented guy – two traits that Penn seems to have never possessed in his entire life. Couldn’t they find a better cast? How about the actors that played the Stooges in ABC’s excellent bio-pic from some years back? A talented bunch, and they actually looked like them (more or less).

Chalk up another potential Hollywood blunder. I, of course, hope it doesn’t suck, but experience has unfortunately said otherwise in Hollywood-related matters.

By: DavidL

DavidL — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:20:38 +0000

Color me skeptical. No sane person would attempt modernize or redo, Alfrad Hitchhcock. Why, because you can’t improve the work of the Masters The Stooger were the undiputed masters of physical comedy. These no why three Hollywood smucks can master a few weeks, of movie schedule, what the Howard Brothrs and Larry Fine perfected over years.