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4.0 out of 5 stars
The Three Stooges And The Law, Jul 8 2004
By A Customer
DVD Review- After releasing the magnificent 'Stooges At Work' DVD, Columbia gives us Stooge fans 5 more Stooge shorts to enjoy. This collection contains 5 shorts that fit the 'Law' theme very well. "The Three Troubledoers" is the only weak short in this collection. The other 4 are as hilarious as can be. Picture Quality- All shorts are 35mm prints and they look good, except there are quite a bit of dirt at times. "Pop Goes The Easel" looks very nice, especially since it's the oldest short in this collection. Sound Quality- All the shorts sound very good, except for "Yes, We Have No Bonanza". The sound on that short is somewhat distorted and could be bothersome at times.
Final Comments- This collection contains some very good shorts. However, Columbia didn't do such a good job as their previous release, 'Stooges At Work', in terms of picture and sound quality. They did a descent job, however. No special features are on this collection except for a Spanish audio track and English subtitles. Columbia gives us the 'Play All' feature which is another plus. Overall, very nice collection, but still could've used better effort by Columbia.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Idiots DeLuxe!, May 13 2004
Here we see the Stooges in jail for suspicion of murder. Three beautiful women meet them and propose marriage. The Stooges are about to be executed but are freed after the real murderer(s) confessed. Moe is court,being tried for mayhem. Curly with Larry alongside him in the audience,shouts to the judge,"You mean murder!" Moe is acquitted and continues with the behavior that brought him into the courtroom. The Stooges even find a bonanza which is stolen money(the crooks buried it underground). The Stooges become artists and later go to war with wet clay! Also a beautiful girl named Nell promises to marry Curly,a newly appointed sheriff,if he saved her father's life and bring Blackie,an armed villain,to justice. In POP GOES THE EASEL,the artist film,the real-life daughters of Moe Howard and Larry Fine,then small children,appear in the scene where they play hopscotch and they both chuckle when their dads and Curly play. A must for all Three Stooges fans.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Classics, But Worn Out "Themes", Mar 10 2004
These are among the best Curly-era shorts that the Stooges made and the prints look pretty good, but it's very apparent that Columbia has run out of ideas for DVD "themes" and have begun to repeat themselves ("Cops & Robbers" comes to mind). I feel the same as many fans that it would've been a lot easier if Columbia had simply released all 190 shorts in chronological order from the beginning instead of doing "themed" releases. At long last, Columbia has finally listened to the many complaints from Stooge fans about not being able to watch the shorts straight through and have remedied the problem on this DVD as well as the previous "Stooges At Work" DVD. Thank goodness they've also done away with the annoying loadup intros that plagued some of the earlier releases, especially the pinball and slot machine sequences. You had no choice but to sit through it because you couldn't get past them. Columbia also needs to include more shorts on the DVD's; they started out with 6 or more in the beginning, but they've now cut it down to 5 each. Maybe someday Columbia will get it's act together...one can only hope!
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