Snow White and the Three Stooges

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In fact, Snow White lost in the woods is almost a frame-by-frame copy of the Disney sequence, complete with a live tree out of the 1939 Wizard of Oz. This might grab some youngsters' attention by frightening them and some by amusing them, but the love sequences and the forgettable songs might bore them. The fight sequences are possibly too grisly for some children; Guy Rolfe dies by falling into a vat of boiling oil.

As a Three Stooges vehicle, it differs from their other films. Except for Curly Joe's spoonerisms, there is little humor in the dialogue, a bare minimum of slaps (without the reassuring comic sounds), and no eye pokes. (Moe was sensitive to parental complaints about their television shorts.) There is, however, a touching moment when they are mourning the supposed death of Snow White. And you do get to see them in color. --Frank Behrens

Product Reviews

(5 stars) - Great movie for your kids
I understand this was going to be a Carol Heiss movie to show off her skating but she could not act or sing. So they got the three stooges out of storage and they got the top billing to bring in people. It could be they knew from the start she could not do it without a known start, so they probably wrote the the movie for her and came out with the three stooges, they would have been cheap also. Big stars cost too much.

It is a fun movie and I find the 3 stooges lots more fun than the 7 dwarfs!

I have the tape and when it dies I will get the DVD.

(5 stars) - An unstoogelike movie
I bought this movie because of faded memories from seeing this when I was a child. After seeing it again, I like it more now than my memories told me. The fact that it was done in CinemaScope color was a great touch, and the guys kept to the Snow White story line fairly close - with a few variations.

Without the usual antics that you would usually see in their short films, they actually showed that they could 'Act'. This is still my favorite Three Stooges product, by far. If you have young kids, they will probably enjoy it as well. If you are looking for vintage nyuck, nyuck, nyuck footage forget it. This is just a good fairy tale redone with class. And a musical at that. Who would have thunk!

(4 stars) - A lavish, technicolor fairy tale for the Stooges
Fans of the Three Stooges may find themselves divided on whether or not they like this 1961 re-working of the fairy tale classic. Depending on the age group viewing, children might get bored during the long musical production numbers while waiting for the Stooges to return; die-hard Stooge fans might complain that the Stooges are taking a secondary role, providing much-needed comic relief for Olympic skater Carol Heiss & company; and others might find it a nice change of pace from all the Stooge's usual violent slapstick, and an utterly charming film.
To accomodate the plot, Moe, Larry & Curly Joe have replaced the Seven Dwarfs, Prince Charming is their companion on their travels, and of course, there are many musical numbers performed on ice skates to showcase Heiss' talents (along with skaters who are made up in long shot masquerading as the Stooges).
But, it's actually the villainy of Patricia Medina as the Wicked Queen and Guy Rolfe as her right-hand man who provide the more delicious moments of the story.
It's a rare delight to see the Stooges in a big budgeted production--and in technicolor, no doubt! Their scene in which they return too late to find Snow White fallen victim to the poisonous bite of the apple is well done, and genuinely touching as they openly weep.
It's true that the Stooges have done far funnier fare in their earlier years (even their current 1960's features). But if you can endure the syrupy romantic moments & production numbers, it's enjoyable family fun.

(4 stars) - Love this movie!
I had forgotten how much I enjoy this movie. The download to my computer, though, is painfully slow. Not likely to rent online again.

(3 stars) - Not that bad, not that great
This actually doesn't seem like a half-bad little film if one takes it as a children's fairytale and not a Three Stooges movie. It is interesting and pleasant enough, and sticks fairly well to the familiar Snow White story (with the obvious exception of the Seven Dwarves not being in it); I can definitely see it as being rather appealing to young children. And it is gorgeous to look at, being in Technicolor. However, even taking that into consideration, it doesn't exactly hold up as great top-notch entertainment either. It just symbolises what the Stooges had become in this final phase of their career when they were being marketed heavily to children and forced to seriously tone down the slapstick violence by parents' groups. Being child-friendly does not have to equate being boring, watered-down, lame, and unintelligent. A lot of their classic shorts can be considered child-friendly without being bad kiddy fare. And if the kids of the era were able to watch those shorts in syndication without incident, it wouldn't have killed the powers that be to have allowed some more violence in their features. (There are a couple of pretty violent scenes, but none of them with the Stooges.) Apart from the opening scene where the prologue is told via the storybook, with the Stooges periodically popping up on pages where they shouldn't, the only times I laughed were when the film was so unintentionally bad it was funny.

Moe and Larry do a valiant job with the crummy material (and DeRita once again exhibits no real chemistry with them, let alone much of a personality), but apart from that, there's some extraordinarily bad acting, particularly from Carol Heiss. She was rather pretty and was a great iceskater, but who told her she could act? And then there are the lame songs and some rather long and boring iceskating scenes, esp. the one around the midway point. At least these songs and iceskating scenes might not have seemed so bad had they actually had something to do with the plot. And while it is a kind of nice change of pace to see the Stooges in dramatic pathos-laden roles, they just don't seem like themselves. The kindly grandfatherly types they played in this era are so at odds with their well-established characters from the entire rest of their career! We know that at heart they're sympathetic and even lovable guys, but they're not supposed to be this nice and sweet! The color also makes them look their age; in black and white, even in the last of their shorts, they seem beyond the constraints of their actual ages. In particular, it makes Moe's eye-bags look even more pronounced. I'm glad they were finally able to be in starring full-length features and to make serious money after so long of being exploited, but I just wish these features had been more tailored to their talents and strengths, instead of being boring embarrassing sappy watered-down bad kiddy fare. While I could recommend it as a nice old-fashioned children's movie, I could never recommend it as a great Stooges movie.

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