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"Half Shot Shooters" is an American black-and-white live action short film from 1936, so this one is already over 80 years old and maybe the names of director White and writer Bruckman tell you already that here we have another Three Stooges short film. If not, then the mentions of Howard² and Fine should. This is one of the earlier works from the trio and this of course means Curly is still on board, even if he is not as much in the focus as he is in other works from around the same time. World War 2 was not happening yet, but maybe the many Stooges films about the military show us that times were tough and political crises seemed omnipresent. Interestingly enough in this one here you get a concrete World War I reference early on, something you don't see too often with the gang. At 18.5 minutes, it is one of their longer works if we are only talking about their many many short films. I think Blystone, a very experienced (western) actor, did a really fine job as the main antagonist, especially in the moment when he knows revenge is his. The part early on where the Stooges humiliate him is rather embarrassing to watch. But still, the negative is way more frequent than the positive. The final scene with the cannon is fairly weak and repetitive. The plays on words are okay at times. I wonder if their military superior is the one here who unintentionally taught Moe all his poking stuff etc. Still, this is not among the most known Stooges shorts, admittedly neither among the least known, but in my opinion it shouldn't be. All the mediocrity cannot be tolerated in the face of 2-3 fun moments. I give this one a thumbs-down. Not recommended.

As this 3 Stooges short was rolling I could hear in my mind Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye singing that Irving Berlin tune Gee I wish I was back in the army from White Christmas. The boys actually got to do just that.Despite their service in the trenches we did win World War I and note their contribution on Armistice Day. They get out and take Stooge like revenge on their Sergeant Stanley Blystone who's been giving them a hard time since being drafted.But even the hard times of the Depression and harder I'm sure for a stooge don't make them want to be soldiers again. In fact in those days the army was small and selective. But on a bad day and being tricked into it, the boys join up and get their old sergeant again.The final sequence has them manning a field artillery piece during a training exercise that was called off but no one gave the boys the word. The damage they do with a cannon is agonizingly funny. They might have given Hitler a wrong impression of the state of our readiness.

Yes this is The worst Three stooges movie serial that was ever made.It's depressing both for how because they're poor and hungry they do accidentally rejoin the Army after 17 years as another reviewer pointed out and because they as you'll see why they do so as well as because they end up with the same horrible Superior Soldier in charge of them again.Without giving too much away this ends just as sadly as it starts off,stays this way in the middle,and ends this way too.Any time I see the title of the feature when it's on with the other Three Stooges Features on my Local Station of mytv-38(as it's currently addressed and as it's always been whether as TV-38 or UPN- 38 was always the #1 watching Stooge station in all of the Nation.)I just turn off the TV for 20 minutes and do something else.(10/12/2015)Now just to add to this today and since 2 months ago my Mom,Mary and I were watching this and the other 3 Stooges Features on mytv-38.The only funny used over dialogue is when Larry said "You know I've been thinking" Then Moe said to him "Every time you think you weaken the Nation."But I wasn't going to turn it off while she was watching it but this still doesn't change my opinions as to how it's depressing all the way through and is still the worst one.In a Latter Feature it's Shemp who said What Larry said above and then Moe said that same ending quote.Truthfully,Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a. "Ste" of Framingham,Ma USA

Actually, when deciding which short is the worst, you have to choose between HALF-SHOT SHOOTERS and THREE PESTS IN A MESS. It's not fair to see the stooges get killed by a cannon at the end of the film. Not one bit of this short is funny. Don't waste your time.Grade: F--