As baldy boy Curly, Mad TV‘s Will Sasso steps up with the needed rolypoly charm. And so, to play Larry, skilled clown Sean Hayes ( Will and Grace) transforms himself by shaving his head down the middle, letting prickly tufts of Larry-like hair protrude on the sides. And if the Farrellys couldn’t cast their movie with lookalikes, they would find three actors willing to be silly putty in their mischievous hands. And besides, audiences with short attention spans are bigger than ever. Kids know the short clips on Funny or Die, don’t they, even if they never caught the Stooges online or DVD. Instead of a standard biopic that might explain how a 1930’s vaudeville act called the Three Stooges – brothers Moe and Curly Howard and their friend Larry Fine – made their Hollywood mark with nearly 200 short films that featured the boys slapping, poking and punching each other senseless, the Farrellys decided to hit the 2012 multiplex with a trio of Stooges shorts set in the present. In trying to introduce a new generation to the slapstick art of the Three Stooges, directors and co-writers Bobby and Peter Farrelly do it the hard way. There’s an idea at play in this rampant idiocy, as well as considerable risk.
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