What's the Matador?

What's the Matador? (1942)

*** (out of 4)

The Three Stooges play a comedy act who con their way into a job in Mexico. Once there they end up making a husband incredibly jealous when they come onto his wife. Finally the trio get to perform their act but the husband just happens to be in the crowd. It seems that WHAT'S THE MATADOR? is one of the least popular shorts that the Stooges made and I can understand why some might feel that way but I've always enjoyed this one. I think you can say that there really wasn't anything too original here and it seems that the writers must have thrown this one together quickly as they were wanting to leave on vacation or something because it actually clocks in a couple minutes shorter than most in the series. With that said, the boys running into a jealous husband has always been a subject matter that I've enjoyed in the series. I thought the first run-in with the husband was hilarious and things got even better when the boys find themselves in his bedroom constantly trying to hide from him. The second half of the short has Moe and Larry inside a bull costume with Curly playing the matador and of course a real bull gets in the ring. Fans of the Stooges should find some good laughs to be had.

This is one of the funniest of all the Stooge classics. No wonder various elements of this short have been used in many Stooge shorts that came out in later years. I especially loved the scenes with the Stooges and Jose. Jose is the ultimate jealous husband. He is such a paranoid individual that he would probably kill a man just for looking at his wife. But the scene that really makes this film is, of course, the bullfighting scene, especially Curly's reaction that the bull is real and not Moe and Larry in a bull costume. That scene alone makes this a classic.

Larry, Curly, and Moe come up with a new matador act. Their agency receives a call from Mexico City looking for a matador. The boys travel south but their suitcase gets switched. They track down their suitcase despite a series of misunderstandings.

Siesta is stupid and hilarious. Before that, I start with Curly getting hit by the secretary. It occurs to me that he needs to get hit more by his female co-stars. Their frustration with him would be a great running gag. This is basically divided into three acts which is very interesting. The final bullfighting act has Curly doing his thing. It ends with a great Curly bit and this is great.

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

This is one of My favorite Three Stooges shorts with Curly! All Appearing in this short are Suzanne Kaaren, Harry Burns, Dorothy Appleby, Eddie Laughton, Cy Schindell, John Tyrrell, Bert Young, and Don Zelaya! This one is so hilarious! Curly has a great performance here and in My opinion its one of his best. There is another one similar like this with Joe Besser called Sappy Bullfighters and I strongly recommend both of these classic Three Stooges shorts!

Very good episode as we know all of us fans, one of the best. There is a part in this film where curly is being accosted by dolores's husband and he is slapping him on the arm rather briskly and then pulls him off of Dolores when he pulls him off of Dolores look at curly's mouth and listen to what he says he says God damn it, it's this plane as day I cannot believe nobody else has commented on this. There is no mistaking it when you look at it and listen to it I went back and listened to it and saw it up close about four times and it's very distinct and curly does not look happy after he says it look at the look at his face he looks very pissed.