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Fresh and Exciting

A lot of fun.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

"The Three Stooges Meet Hercules" is considered by many Stooge fans to be the best feature film the boys ever made, and while it is not my personal favorite Stooge feature, I do concur that this film is quite excellent. Wonderfully directed by Edward Bernds, with a very good music score by Paul Dunlap, this film is a time-travel adventure story, with Moe, Curly-Joe, and Larry cast as pharmacists who help their friend Schuyler Davis (Quinn Redeker) with his bizarre space-time conveyor. Schuyler, his girlfriend Diane (Vicki Trickett), and the Stooges all take a trip from New York back to Ancient Greece, approximately 900 B.C.My favorite scenes from "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules" include the following (DON'T read any further if you haven't yet seen this picture). At the pharmacy, Larry and Curly-Joe try to concoct their own elixirs, and they make a huge mess instead; particularly funny is Larry's act of accidentally hitting Moe in the back of the head with a flying bottle. Familiar Stooges character actor Emil Sitka has a small but humorous part as a shepherd who gives confusing directions. The Stooges clumsily attempt to break Ulysses (John Cliff) out of jail (reminiscent of the Stooges' earlier 1947 short "Out West"). When the boys try to repair Schuyler's time machine, they accidentally set off some fireworks. The Stooges disguise themselves as women when they find themselves in a women's bathing area, but their disguises don't last very long. On the galley ship, the Stooges overpower their captors, and Larry & Curly-Joe dance around the ship while Moe bangs the slave master's drum."The Three Stooges Meet Hercules" is a very enjoyable feature-length comedy. The supporting cast consists mostly of unknowns, but they do first-rate work. In addition to Quinn Redeker, Vicki Trickett, and Emil Sitka, there are Samson Burke as the mighty Hercules, Gene Roth (who appeared in various earlier Stooge shorts with both Shemp and Joe as the third Stooges) as a harbor captain, and George N. Neise as two lecherous heels: Ralph Dimsal (head of the pharmacy where the Stooges & Diane work) and Odius (the undeserving king of all Ithaca).

I came to this film NOT a big fan of the stooges. Having said that I laughed myself silly at it. Unlike a typical Stooges short, it has a plot, actual jokes, and some interesting casting. Though they are long in the tooth in this film, they perform admirably. Keeping their fine physical humor (which doesn't usually send me, but it is well used here) and adding some fun word play and situational humor. The supporting cast is quite able and the production qualities are higher than I normally associate with the stooges work.I ran across this while waiting at my doctor's office for some paperwork and stayed around to see how it all worked out. I laughed out loud in public several times. I will seek it out, as I own, nor have been interested in owning anything by the Stooges. This may be among their best work. This is one I'll buy.Good stuff.

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962) was another theatrical film that the aging "Three Stooges" did for their new generation of fans. Having to tone down the physicality of their slapstick humor, the Stooges had to use a lot more verbal exchanges than they have did in the past. The three lovable geezers work in a pharmacy. Theie boss is a swell guy but he's also a spineless creep. A freak accident causes all of them to travel back to Ancient Greece and create all kinds of havoc. Several questions are raised (aren't there always). How did they wind up traveling backwards in time? Who will greet them in Ancient Greece. Where do they wind up at? How can they communicate to the natives if they speak ancient Greek? To find out the answers to these earth shaking questions then you'll have to watch THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES!!!Recommended for die-hard geriatric Three Stooges fans.

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** In this movie (incidentally, I find it pretty amusing that while the original and definitive team of Moe, Larry and Curly begged that tight-ass Harry Cohen to do features for years, it took 30 years and three third Stooges later for them to get features), Larry, Moe and Curly-Joe are friends with a young scientist named Schuyler Davis (Quinn Redeker), who is having trouble with his girlfriend Diane (Vicki Trickett) because he's too wrapped up in a time machine he's inventing and because he's too passive to stand up to the Stooges' lecherous boss Mr. Dimsel (George Neise), who has his eye on Diane. Out of concern for Schuyler, the Stooges decide to help him finish it so he doesn't lose Diane. Of course they screw it up, so when Schuyler and Diane show up, somehow the machine manages to transport them to Ancient Greece. Once there, Dimsel's ancestor, King Odius, who robbed the great Ulysses of his throne, takes a liking to Diane and condemns the Stooges and Schuyler to the galleys for freeing Ulysses from his cell once they realize they helped Odius when they should have been helping Ulysses. On the galleys, Schuyler grows stronger to the point where the Stooges escape and promote him as Hercules so they can money to get back and rescue Diane. Along the way Schuyler's self-confidence grows along with his muscles and he convinces Hercules to help Ulysses get his throne back in exchange for Schuyler sparring his life and he, Diane and the Stooges head back to present day. And presumably, Schuyler and Diane live happily ever after.My views of the third Stooges go as follows: Curly was the funniest, and there were none funnier. Shemp was kind of bland, but he did have his moments. Joe Besser just plain stunk because he was unwilling to take a pie in the face or get slapped around and didn't he know that was the whole point to being the third Stooge? And Curly-Joe was, well... He was okay, but he wasn't much more. However, this movie, a spoof of the popular Hercules movies at the time, is actually pretty funny. But what I liked about it the most was that most Stooge films concentrate on Moe beating the hell out of the other two guys. This one focuses on that, but the main point to it is the Stooges' friendship with Schuyler and them helping him to build up his self-confidence, and I admire that in a Stooge film. It's certainly something they never tried before.