Watch: International Trailer For 'The Three Stooges' Has New Footage, Zero Laughs

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by Kevin Jagernauth
March 12, 2012 5:56 PM
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Is this the year that directorial passion projects get kicked in the junk? Andrew Stanton is already feeling the heat after his dream project "John Carter" opened to both a dismal box office and reviews, and next month, another long in the works pet project will arrive on screens, and it too has dreadful pre-release buzz. Possibly even worse than "John Carter."

The Farrelly Brothers will finally unleash "The Three Stooges" on the planet and holy shit, this just looks unbearable. We gotta hand it to them, sticking with the broad slapstick style is a big gamble, but it doesn't look like it's paying off. This new international trailer for the film serves up even more footage and while it lacks the "celeb" cameos of its U.S. counterpart which included Kate Upton and uh, Snooki, this focuses right on the comedy instead. And it ain't funny. Fart jokes, guys getting knocked in the head and bitten in the balls rule the day, and while that works on the vintage show in a compressed TV format (aided by nostalgia), blown up here and put in a contemporary setting it plays badly. Maybe within the editing of the movie it might work better, but we're not holding our breath. This is just plain obnoxious, which shouldn't be a surprise coming from the Farrellys, but they seemed to have outdone themselves here.

Anyway, you can see Larry, Curly and Moe on April 13th. Watch below. [Vlicious]

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Fred | March 12, 2012 6:59 PMReply

"vintage show in a compressed TV format"
Surely I can't be the only old fogey among your readership to know that long before the Stooges became afterschool TV fodder for children of the 60s-70s and beyond, their short subjects (and a few later features) were all made for the big screen. Or maybe I can.
JoJo | March 12, 2012 6:35 PMReply

I'm still trying to figure out if this movie really exists, or if it's just some cruel hoax perpetrated by someone at Fox.
a | March 12, 2012 6:20 PMReply

I think the lack of funny comes from the fact that the Three Stooges were never particularly funny.