Well, with the Farrelly Brothers' Three
Stooges movie out and me considering seeing it, why not talk a bit
about other Stooges movies I've seen and like?
In this case, I happened to find 1959's
Have Rocket,
Will Travel
on Veoh. Since this was indeed made in 1959, it was towards the end
of the Stooges' career as a comedy act. It also meant that our
heroes were Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita.
The basic plot of
this roughly 80-minute comedy/sci-fi flick is that the Stooges are
janitors at a fictional early incarnation of NASA, where the lovely
Doctor Ingid Naarveg is trying to invent rocket fuel. Doc Ingrid's
not having any luck, and her boss threatens to fire her if she
doesn't come up with something quick. The Stooges hear this and do
what they always do: fumble about for a bit and somehow manage to
pull a working formula out of their asses in the nick of time by
using random stuff from around the lab.
Of course, the
process of loading their concoction onto a handy rocket that had
previously failed wakes the lab's head guy, who chases the Stooges
into said rocket and inadvertently shoots them off to Venus, where
the rocket had been programed to go before it crashed at the start of
the movie.
While on Venus, the
trio gets chased by a giant fire-breathing spider, meets and
befriends a unicorn and has a battle of wits with a scatterbrained
computer that makes robot copies of them. After escaping the
computer and its half-baked robot minions, the Stooges bring the
unicorn back to Earth and are made national heroes at a party scene
they'd done a few times before in their classic shorts.
In the end, the
Stooges, deciding they'd rather go back to Venus with the unicorn
than stay at the party, sing us out and Moe takes a pair of pies to
the face.
I'll say right now
that I can't easily pick a favorite of these movies, because I think
of my favorite scenes from all the ones I've seen when I think of
them. This one comes to mind because the Stooges themselves sing the
theme song to the movie. It's kind of cool because it shows that not
only could the Stooges do comedy well, they were also pretty good
singers.
This is amongst the
movies I wish I actually had in my video collection, along with the
other Stooges movies I'll be looking for on Veoh in the near future.
Keep on the lookout for those to be on the way in the near future.
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