The Three Stooges Story

Starring:Three Stooges
Studio: Good Times Video
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

The Best Stooges Documentary Ever
I wish there was something below 1-star!
Cheaply made documentary

The Three Stooges Story
Starring: Three Stooges
Manufacturer: Good Times Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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The Three Stooges - Festival

ASIN: B00005B1WV
Release Date: 2001-05-15

Customer Reviews:

The Best Stooges Documentary Ever.......2005-09-05

I was not expecting much from this after reading the nasty reviews, but this nearly 2-hour DVD is fantastic.

I'm a longtime Stooges fan, for over fifteen years. I've bought lots of Stooges tapes, seen lots of footage. This documentary was crammed with stuff I had never seen before, including:

- footage from one of Larry Fine's last interviews
- interviews with Emil Sitka (longtime Stooges co-star), and Ed Burns (director). Some of the footage shown was used in the inferior doc 'The Making Of The Stooges', but most of it wasn't.
- color footage and more clips from the rarely seen Ted Healy MGM shorts from the early 30's.
- TV commercials, some from the late 60s!
- TV appearances, including The Steve Allen Show.
- Rare Interview footage with Moe, Larry, & Curly Joe from the late 1950's
- trailers for rarer films, such as Gold Raiders and Stooges Fun-O-Rama

Anyone who says they've seen all this footage lots of times is spoiled; just becuase it's public domain doesn't mean it's not worthwhile. The use of stock footage didn't seem unusual to me; I'm sure the budget didn't allow for hunting down rare photographs, and you have to have something going while the narrator's talking.

While it does have a lot of stuff from the 4 public domain shorts (and Heavenly Daze, I wonder if that's PD now), it doesn't totally depend on them like The Making of The Stooges or even the A&E Biography did.

Unlike those biographies, instead of learning the basics of The Stooges' lives, I also felt I learned more about their personalities, particulary Moe and Larry, who are not often talked about.

If there's anything I can say against this documentary, it's that it might be too detailed for a casual fan. If you don't know anything about The Stooges and want to find out more, you'd be better off with The Men Behind The Mayhem DVD. But for the hardcore fan who knows every short, this is a great buy.

The DVD itself is certainly not the highest of quality (the one I bought didn't even have chapter stops, but it was part of a set.) but the rarity of the footage and the bargain price make this an essential purchase for all Three Stooges fans.

I wish there was something below 1-star!.......2005-04-04

You know... There are bad movies. There are really bad movies. There are depressingly bad movies...Then there's this piece of life sucking waste. Whomever put this together had no focus, no narrative, no vision. The information itself (What little there was.) was interesting, but it was put together in such a bad way that it became unwatchable. I got a feeling that 60%-75% of the movie was filler. Clips from old shorts, interviews with camera men who worked on Stooges sets and said nothing relevant...filler.

If you look you'll notice the directors name isn't available. There is a reason: They're ashamed of this monstrosity, as well they should be! This movie isn't worth the money that it would take to mail it.

Cheaply made documentary.......2001-10-29

...This DVD is a collection of recycled stooge interview/movie/short clips with an original narrative track. There is NO original footage. Often, old film clips that have nothing to do with the stooges are inserted as filler material. In fact, the actual stooge clips they do use are repeated as many as 5 times.

Audio quality also leaves a lot to be desired. The narrator sounds as though he's reading from inside a public restroom.

I've bought several stooge DVDs...They're ALL cheap, repetitive and have poorly designed menus.

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