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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404959545
Format: DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404959548
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Running Time: 138 minutes
Sales Rank: 80735
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 19, 1940
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Product Description:
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 08/10/2004
Amazon.com:
Goofs on the Loose is a four-pack of mid-'30s Three Stooges shorts, with enough concentrated nyuk-nyuks to satisfy fans. Two of the shorts are from their first year with Columbia, 1934. 'Men in Black' has the boys as residents in a very unlucky hospital. It's nonstop mayhem, featuring an unorthodox approach to healing (the words 'Give 'em the anesthetic' usually means a mallet will be applied to skull) and a good running gag about an ill-advised glass door. This one was nominated for the best short subject Oscar. 'Punch Drunks' is an all-time Stooges gem, with Curly as Moe's new boxing discovery--but he can only achieve his fighting fury when Larry plays 'Pop Goes the Weasel' on the violin. From 1937, 'The Sitter Downers' has three brides for three stooges, but their honeymoon is delayed by the building of a house, in typical Stooges style. Curly is wound up especially tight in this one, and it has some primo sight gags about home construction. 'Playing the Ponies' navigates a zig-zag Stooges storyline, taking them from restaurant (Curly fixes an appetizing filet of sole) to horse track. It has a classic Stooges hand jive, although it shows how slapdash their shtick could get.
A quartet of shorts (three new to DVD) make up the solid Stooged & Confoosed, all with mid-period Curly in woo-woo-woo form. 'Violent is the Word for Curly' somehow morphs the boys from gas-station attendants to European college professors. Not only does it feature Curly roasting on a spit, but the Stooges instruct the students of Mildew College for Women in the intricacies of 'Swinging the Alphabet,' a memorable nonsense song. 'You Nazty Spy' is the Stooges' answer to Duck Soup and The Great Dictator, as a cabal of businessmen install Moe as the dictator of Moronika. With an accidental mustache and jibbering German, Moe does a convincing Hitler. (But didn't he always?) 'No Census, No Feeling' is a rangy, so-so bit that begins with a lame premise about the Stooges as census takers (it was 1940, after all) and ends up at a football game. But the best gag has Curly mixing up a noxious fruit punch. You know 'An Ache in Every Stake' will be a goodie from the moment Moe and Larry attempt to remove a block of ice from around Curly's head by using a chisel and mallet. Its centerpiece is a variation on the flight of stairs from Laurel and Hardy's 'The Music Box,' but Curly does nicely stuffing a turkey, too.
Both Goofs on the Loose and Stooged & Confoosed are presented with Columbia's 'ChromaChoice' device, which allows for easy toggling between the original black-and-white shorts (which appear in great shape) and a colorized version. The colorized images are sensibly rendered, but they still have that washed-out paleness they've always had--eggshell greens and light browns abound. Stooges purists will stick to black-and-white, the better to appreciate the subtleties of a cheese grater being scraped across Curly's face. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - THIS REAL FAN PREFERS THE COLOR - A TESTAMENT
I have already written a separate review for each of these collections [each is available as single disc, 4-episode set, as well] where I gave my opinion of the color and the content. Having owned them for several months now, I find myself choosing the color versions over the black and white each time I view the episodes. In my youth, having watched many of the episodes over and over on TV, in black and white, and in un-mastered versions, I must say that I enjoy these brilliant remastered films, ... Read More
Rating:  - What a mistake
Technically speaking, if one considers the B&W and colorised versions as separate entities, there are 8 shorts on each of the discs here. This set could have been a real winner, and have sold a lot lot better, had there only been that same number of shorts, with no colorisation and no retreads from earlier discs. ('Violent Is the Word for Curly,' 'Men in Black,' and 'Punch Drunks' have all already been released.) Instead we get this, a two-disc set that only contains 4 shorts proper apiece, ... Read More
Rating: - The law of diminishing nyuks?
Ya know, it's weird... it seems I've lost a bit of my love for the Three Stooges over the last few years. This became apparent when I happened across this couple of DVD releases, used, at a price I just couldn't refuse. I took `em home, gave `em a look, and found myself not laughing out loud at the boys' antics nearly as much as I used to. Oh, I let out a chuckle or two here and there, and found most of the proceedings at least smile-cracking amusing. But for some reason, the wonderfully raucous belly ... Read More
Rating:  - Curly in color. Amazing feat.
This collection is soitenley worth your money. This 2 DVD set, 8 shorts in total(allbeit a bit skimpy), are amazing quality and is the best you've ever seen the stooges, even better, you have the option to watch them in full color thanks to technology.
Both DVD's have unprescedented picture quality. Whether you are watching the digitized color or the remastered black and whites, the picture is crisp and clean and there is little if any distortions between the eight twenty minute shorts. ... Read More
Rating: - GOOD JOB ON THE COLOR- BIG SURPISE!
I WAS SKEPTICAL AT FIRST WITH MAKING THE STOOGES COLOR, BUT BELIEVE ME THEY DID A GREAT JOB. YOU CAN TOGGLE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOR VERSIONS WHILE YOU WATCH. EVEN THE BLACK AND WHITE VERSIONS LOOK ALOT CLEANER. THE EXTRA FEATURES INCLUDE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THIS COLORIZATION PROCESS WAS DONE. THIS COLOR METHOD IS FAR SUPERIOR TO COLORIZATION ATTEMPTS YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. ITS UNBELIEVABLE. I WAS SKEPTICAL AT FIRST BUT NOW IM A BELIEVER.
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