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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303442396
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6303442390
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: May 23, 1995
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 25824
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: August 21, 1963
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963) has some distinction among the few features made by Moe and Larry with Joe DeRita. Basically a retelling of the Jules Verne classic, the plot has the added twist of Phineas Fogg III having to emulate the experience of his ancestor but without paying a penny in doing so. Again there is a bank robbery that is blamed on Fogg, but this time the culprits actively attempt to stop his progress since the perpetuator is the very villain who made the bet to begin with.
A personable Jay Sheffield plays the circumnavigator straight and love interest Joan Freeman does what acting she can, given a stereotyped role. What is interesting is that the Stooges, at least in their opening scenes, try to play English servants, accents and all, but they fall into more familiar patterns as the film progresses. While in India, the three get to reprise the vaudeville routine of the nearly blind Maja who goes 'Aha?' (done better by Curly in 'Three Little Pirates'). While in San Francisco, they reprise the fight sequence of 'Punch Drunks' (again surpassed by Curly in the second Stooges short way back in 1934) in which Curly Joe can win only when driven berserk by the sound of 'Pop Goes the Weasel' as played by Larry.
In lieu of the expected chase at the end, there is the wild attempt to get to the club just before midnight to win all the side bets Fogg had placed on his 80-days deadline. Their arrival through a solid wall is a fitting ending to a film that just might induce youngsters to read the original book. A very respectable Three Stooges effort. --Frank Behrens
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Stooges take a hit & miss journey
"The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze" is a charmingly amusing Stooges excursion as it takes the boys to many exotic locales (although some of them are obviously within the confines of a studio). The opening credits even include an amusing apology to the original author, Jules Vern.
Phileas Fogg III (played with amiable optimism by Jay Sheffield) is challenged to bet his family fortune that he can't make the same journey his ancestor did--the catch being that he cannot spend one ... Read More
Rating:  - Not that bad, not that great
Though my expectations for any film from the DeRita era are slim to none, this film did a pretty solid job at holding my interest in spite of some boring scenes and the excess length. A modern adaptation of the Jules Verne classic 'Around the World in 80 Days,' the story starts in London and goes on to Turkey, India, China, Japan, California, Ontario, and finally full circle back to London. Along the way are a couple of scenes that are (in my opinion kind of pale) reworkings of earlier classic routines, ... Read More
Rating: - Late career respectable effort
There haven't been many completely successful (in the artistic sense) feature length slapstick or broad comedies starring legendary comics such as the Three Stooges, and here's another one which should have been much funnier - opportunities fall by the wayside as the director, writer, and editor seem to forget what makes this kind of humor work - it's got to move fast, there's got to be quotable funny lines, etc.
In all fairness, you could count on two hands the collective feature-length *classics* by ... Read More
Rating: - This has got to be their second best
If I had to line up the films from good to worst, I would have to start with Snoe White meets The Tree Stooges, then The Three Stogees Around The world in a Daze, thenThe Three Stooges meet Hercules.
The Three Stooges in Orbit and Stop Look and Laugh do not even rate a true mentioning. Any othere that may exist, I do not believe I have seen.
Rating:  - If only Jules Verne could see this!
Believe me I enjoyed the Three Stooges films of the early 60's and this is one of the best! An hour and a half of good slapstick with a tale from one of the classics of all time. I laughed out loud at the misadventures of our boys. Go buy this you numbskul!
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