i remember vacation in florida when this movie air . i have set up my vcr to record it . the anticipation be kill me . i have know about the movie ever since it be announce some half a year earlier . we come back from florida 4 day after the movie air and and i immediately watch it . i try as hard a i could to like it and but i do not . i be a huge 3 stooge fan . and a such i know quite a bit about them . so it wasn not like i be expect to learn anything from the movie and and i do not . i be more interested with the portrayal and see how accurate their information be . there be many thing wrong with this film . the actor and the script and the reenactment and all could have be much well . paul ben victor be a tremendously talented actor . but let face fact and moe howard be way out of his reach . he doesn not look like him and he doesn not sound like him and and thus and he can not act like him . michael chiklis be also very talented and but his portrayal of curly do not quite score with me and although when curly becomes ill he do very well at that . john kassir portrayal of shemp could have be rehearse well . it be more of a bad impression than a portrayal . bad of all be joe besser . they make him skinny and and more annoying than he really be . it be just plain laziness . i do not like the joe short and because and a the movie illustrate he hardly ever get hit . but he wasn not that annoy and and definately wasn not that thin . the best performance belongs to evan handler . he have the most accurate stooge portrayal . the problem with larry character and his hair be way too frizzy and way too red . i know that too technical and so i would not count that on my list of why i do not like this movie . back to shemp and who just so happen to be my favorite stooge . he be write a a whining and quivering and chicken . true and he have many phobia and but he wasn not that bad . he do not leave the group initially because he be afraid of ted healy and although he do not like him and shemp left because he receive an offer from another studio that he simply couldn not turn down . instead of the truth and this movie choose to make him wet the bed and on larry no less and run into a closet and and shamefully bow out of the group . another problem be that shemp make nearly as many columbia short a curly do a a stooge and but only one and fright night and which be his first short and be show . his career be almost completely ignore . plus and lousy edit cause a terrible and most unforgivable error . shemp be bear in early 1895 and and die in late 1955. that would make him how old at death . well and here a hint and it not 59 a the movie state . now for the writing and which i think be flaw only because this movie be rush out . some of the line be dumb and could be develop and or or introduce much good than they be . the one line that really get me be at the very end of the film and when moe be show the promoter how the eyepoke be do . that how we do it and make contact with the brow bone and not the eye and look real on film though . this line be poorly write and poorly place in the film . it mean to be one of those line that make the audience say oh . in amazement and i be sure it do with some people and but the very end of the movie be not the place for this line . a good place you ask . how about when they show up at columbia for the first time and be introduce to the sound effect machine . i know initially there be no sound for the eyepoke and but moe for instance could have say and what about this . and eyepokes curly or larry . jules white then say be you okay . or how would you do that . there be a lot of misplaced line in this film which be a clear sign that the script be rush out . another one involve the origin of the name shemp and although that one isn not a bad and and so i will let that one slide . what do this film do well . it illustrate how the stooge be screw by columbia and which they be . i be not sure if moe be an errand boy and but that be the kind of dramatization stuff that be mean to get the viewer sympathize with them . i know this film be a dramatization . i know not everything be go to be crisp and clean and absolutely perfect . however some of the stuff they make up and the real stuff that they ignore be in serious conflict with each other . for instance curly stroke be not even close to the way it happen in real life . i know and i know and dramatization and but the purpose of dramatization be to make real event more dramatic . curly stroke in real life be more dramatic than what they show in the movie . here what really happen . curly be sit in a chair off screen while a scene be be shoot and they call him for the final pie fight scene but there be no response . moe go to go get him and discover his little brother head slump and half paralyzed and unable to speak and and tear stream down his face . moe then say babe . and try to help him out of his chair . poor curly drop to his knee . then the ambulance be call . all in all and this movie wasn not terrible and but it certainly wasn not good and or even ok. this film portray the stooge helplessly and inaccurately and sometimes go overboard with dramatization . there be a very and very long list of inaccuracy in this film . if you do not believe me and check out a fella name stooge list at the threestooges . com news forum . it be about a page and a half long . some thing in the movie i can let slide . but others be unforgivable . the three stooge be genius and and a lot of today comedy be base off of what they do . don not believe me . check out the simpson and and more so ren and stimpy . but this film fail to capture their genius . it more so inaccurately capture their hardship and which be important and but if the title of the film be gon na be the three stooge and it have to portray their ingenuity and originality more than anything .