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DVD The Three Stooges - Goofs on the Loose / Stooged & Confoosed (Colorized / Black & White)
Goofs on the Loose is a four-pack of mid-'30s Three Stooges shorts, with enough concentrated nyuk-nyuks to satisfy fans. Two of the shorts are from their first year with Columbia, 1934. "Men in Black" has the boys as residents in a very unlucky hospital. It's nonstop mayhem, featuring an unorthodox approach to healing (the words "Give 'em the anesthetic" usually means a mallet will be applied to skull) and a good running gag about an ill-advised glass door. This one was nominated for the best short subject Oscar. "Punch Drunks" is an all-time Stooges gem, with Curly as Moe's new boxing discovery--but he can only achieve his fighting fury when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasel" on the violin. From 1937, "The Sitter Downers" has three brides for three stooges, but their honeymoon is delayed by the building of a house, in typical Stooges style. Curly is wound up especially tight in this one, and it has some primo sight gags about home construction. "Playing the Ponies" navigates a zig-zag Stooges storyline, taking them from restaurant (Curly fixes an appetizing filet of sole) to horse track. It has a classic Stooges hand jive, although it shows how slapdash their shtick could get.
A quartet of shorts (three new to DVD) make up the solid Stooged & Confoosed, all with mid-period Curly in woo-woo-woo form. "Violent is the Word for Curly" somehow morphs the boys from gas-station attendants to European college professors. Not only does it feature Curly roasting on a spit, but the Stooges instruct the students of Mildew College for Women in the intricacies of "Swinging the Alphabet," a memorable nonsense song. "You Nazty Spy" is the Stooges' answer to Duck Soup and The Great Dictator, as a cabal of businessmen install Moe as the dictator of Moronika. With an accidental mustache and jibbering German, Moe does a convincing Hitler. (But didn't he always?) "No Census, No Feeling" is a rangy, so-so bit that begins with a lame premise about the Stooges as census takers (it was 1940, after all) and ends up at a football game. But the best gag has Curly mixing up a noxious fruit punch. You know "An Ache in Every Stake" will be a goodie from the moment Moe and Larry attempt to remove a block of ice from around Curly's head by using a chisel and mallet. Its centerpiece is a variation on the flight of stairs from Laurel and Hardy's "The Music Box," but Curly does nicely stuffing a turkey, too.
Both Goofs on the Loose and Stooged & Confoosed are presented with Columbia's "ChromaChoice" device, which allows for easy toggling between the original black-and-white shorts (which appear in great shape) and a colorized version. The colorized images are sensibly rendered, but they still have that washed-out paleness they've always had--eggshell greens and light browns abound. Stooges purists will stick to black-and-white, the better to appreciate the subtleties of a cheese grater being scraped across Curly's face. --Robert Horton
Review(s): DVD The Three Stooges - Goofs on the Loose / Stooged & Confoosed (Colorized / Black & White)
Why All The Negative Reviews?
This hasn't come out yet and people are starting to make all sorts of negative comments. Maybe the Colorization looks good. You'll never know until you actually buy it and watch it. Until then, refrain from the negative comments. Columbia is working very hard on these shorts in order to give the shorts good restoration and good color. Watch it before making any sort of negative comments. And, let me remind you. EACH DVD HAS THE BLACK AND WHITE ORIGINALS ON IT!! So, stop complaining. If you hate the colorized version, don't watch it. Watch the black and white version. That's why Columbia provided both. If it costs too much, well too bad. Don't buy it, simple as that.
Sony lies about color research.
In the old days of B&W cinematography, off colors such as Green & Purple would be used together because they looked right in B&W. If Sony is doing the historical research they claim for color accuracy, these would be the odd color combinations we would see. Instead, they will be giving us their interpritation of the styles of the day.
My question is: Will the B&W presentations be true B&W or just mono-chromatic (no color) viewings of the colorized versions? If it is just mono-chromatic, the grey tones could look very different than the original un-altered B&W grey tones.
Now, they must think we fans are just Stooges and will not notice the duplication of titles from previous DVD releases. We are basically getting one (1) new DVDs worth of titles on two (2) DVDs for the price of two (2). This reminds me of the old Laserdisc release SNAFU, when Volume 3 was released with only three titles and those same 3 titles were in the last half of Volume 2!
We know who the real Stooges are, the executives at the Columbia/Tristar home video division of Sony Pictures.
Come on, even Ted Turner knows that Colorization is dead today! It does not improve the movie. It has been a decade since I have even heard the word mentioned. It is a forgotten technolocical FAD!
No Colorization!
Don't buy this junk, say NO to colorization! Please, nyuk, nyuk, just say NO! BLACK AND WHITE ONLY! Don't fall for this colorized crap. The colors will NOT be accurate! Boycott this one!
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The quality of these retorations is pretty good, but not as top notch as some of the other releases.
This set's irresistable for seeing as much of Curly as you might need, though.
Given technology today, why could the studio not load a high number of all-Curly shorts onto one or a few DVDs? It would surely be a boon to Stooge lovers... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Moe Howard - Larry Fine Director(s): Del Lord DVD Release Date: Released the 02 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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It's clear that they went frame-by-frame, filling in scratches, blips and sound drops. And where frames have been missing in every version I've ever seen, they (somehow) extrapolated the material to create velvety, smooth action from highly compromised source material.
The special features are nice, too. But mostly here you get some wonderful Curly material, restored to such quality that it's like being in a Depression-era theatre, laughing along with all these other people so much in need of a laugh.
Shemp had been called a much more talented comedian than Curly.
That shows you what reviewers know...Shemp is always going to stand in Curly's long, wide shadow. To Stooge fans, it's either watching Curly or waiting to watch Curly.
When it comes to long-awaited treats like The Marx Brothers Collection, you can never get too much of a good thing. These seven comedies can't compare to the sheer lunacy of the five classics (The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup) that the Marx Bros. made for Paramount between 1929 and 1933 (available in The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection), but when uber-producer Irving Thalberg signed Groucho, Harpo, and Chico to an MGM contract in 1935 (by which time sibling costar Zeppo had become the team's off-screen manager), he knew just how to cure their box-office blues. As a result, A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races were critical and commercial hits, lavishly produced... More Info about this DVD Director(s): William A. Seiter - Archie Mayo - Charles Reisner DVD Release Date: Released the 04 May 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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8 classic films for a great price, what more can you ask for ! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Charles Lamont - Charles Barton DVD Release Date: Released the 03 August 2004 Usually ships in 4 to 11 days
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