The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

A little intro if the readers may allow me, the Stooges were in my infancy my first heroes ever, in those shorts at noon as schedule at TV with my fellows mates, henceforth I used to watch all them full length feature like this whereof the best from my beloved troublemakers.

Quite sure The Three Stooges go Around the World in a Daze was the best production at its time at least for me for the writers had allowed an average screenplay, instead in the others that were lame and fuzzy, this turn a presentable classic story of which in advance the producers put their apologizes to make a joke with so prized novel, ours friends work at England as loyal servants of so upstanding member of British aristocracy Phileas Fogg III (Jay Sheffield) that is challenge for a journey around the world in 80 days without spending a penny as his ancestor did, it actually is the defiant set up to Phileas leaving the bank with a previous stolen money without noticed.

They start the long journey hidden in a Cargo vessel toward Istambul, at this time the Scotland Yard is aware of the robbery and is there to arrest Phileas along with the crooks that intent to kill him aiming for erase any hint that leads them to, thus enters the wiseacres Stooges with more lucky than sense, the next stop at India where as stowaways on train stumble with an American tourist girl Amelia Carter (Joan Freeman) reaching in a palace of a scoundrel Maharajah that wills for take the gorgeous girl to add his vast harem, once more the Stooges save the day on a show of flying knifes among singing clarinet that Curly Joe becomes furious to listen certain tune, they headed to China imprisoned previously in the border.

Arriving there the Stooges undergo a brainwashed by Chinese, pure nonsense instead the Chinese are brainwashed becomes in a instant Stooges themselves, they are spelled from there in a little boat that adrift for a while, they reach at Japan so awaited arrival at Tokyo, there a fight with a strong Japanese is settle to in San Francisco a final match will be on those gimmick singing clarinet, after that they planned go straight to New York and at last crossing the sea to reaching in time in London, right? Absolutely not they wrongly headed to Canada spending a precious time and the high stakes, well not so fast, the destiny will be seal their luck until there, at last something palatable to Stooges exposes their standard physical comedy!!

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First Watch: 1977 /How many: 5 /Source: TV-Youtube /Rating: 7.

I have seen alottttt of stooge movies in my day and this has to be one of the greatest FULL stooges movie there ever was. If you want Larry, Moe, and Curly-Joe? Watch this, this has to be the funniest one yet made by the stooges faction!

MY rating out of 10 = 10.

It's now the 60s and Phileas Fogg III great grandson of the original Fogg of Jules Verne's famous story makes a similar bet with a couple of crooks who have just robbed the Bank of England and thrown suspicion on him. But instead of a Cantinflas like man Friday he has three house servants who accompany him. Guess who those servants are?

There's a twist to this bet. Jay Sheffield has to do it all without spending a dime or working for passage. No credit cards allowed. But as Moe says he's fortunate to be employing three of the biggest chiselers around. The Stooges are ingenious at finding ways to travel on the arm.

Like in the book and the Mike Todd extravaganza the super punctual Phileas Fogg finds some romance in India and in this case it's stranded Joan Freeman from Council Bluffs, Iowa.

My favorite bit is how the guys drive the Chinese Communists crazy by resisting brainwashing techniques. Quite simple, they're too stupid for them to have any effect. Shades of The Manchurian Candidate.

Another good piece is Curly Joe's attempts at Sumo wrestling. You have to see this one.

Stooge fans should approve.

While I'm not wildly enthusiastic about the Moe, Larry and Curly-Joe trio of the late 50s and 1960s--not to mention the softer approach the boys were taking during this time period--every now and then I find myself in the mood to watch a full-length Three Stooges feature, and this is the one I generally view the most.

This film spends a lot of time at the beginning setting up the plot and introducing us to all the main players of this story--in what I can assume is an effort on Norman Maurer's part to get us to care about these characters.

Of course--with seemingly any stooge feature of this period--a love story seemed to be requisite to help pad out the running time. As far as love interests go, Jay Sheffield is competent I would say. Not quite as cardboard or unlikable as some romantic leads I've seen in other movies and Joan Freeman is quite the looker.

But, the reason I think any of us are paying attention to this particular film is the stooges themselves and I would say they bring considerable "funny" to this feature. Most of it seems to occur during the second half of the film--although there is the good scene in the opening minutes where the "boys" are introduced and they have quite a time preparing Mr. Fogg's breakfast.

Stooge fans all over the world have no doubt been debating for years Joe Derita's "skills" in handling old Curly Howard material--most notably in this film, "Pop Goes the Weasel" and the "Maharajah" routine. I would say I think Derita did well in his handling of said material. While I'm not exactly crazy about "Curly-Joe", he could on occasion deliver a good one-liner or display some skill at slapstick--and let's be honest, anyone would have been a step up from Joe Besser.

Funniest moment in the movie has to be Curly-Joe's sumo wrestling rematch with Itchy-Kitchy.

7 stars

Many hardcore Stooges fans look down on the latter-day Three Stooges, but "the Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze" is a fine film and a worthy addition to the Three Stooges canon. Shemp and the original Curly Joe aren't here, but this is Joe Derita's finest moment as a Stooge. The Stooges are in fine form, slapping and clobbering each other and falling into various misadventures(based loosely on the classic Jules Verne novel). You needn't worry about the romantic subplot drawing too much attention away from the boys - this film's sense of proportion is admirable. The Stooges resurrect a few of their old routines and throw in some new ones. The gentlemen playing the heels also turn in admirable comic performances. For my money, my favourite part of the movie is when the Three Stooges go to Red China. This part alone is worth the price of the movie. See for yourself. People who hate the Stooges won't be converted here, but the faithful will find much to rejoice in. Even in their latter days, they could still mug and thwock. Onesies or twosies? Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. Greg Cameron, Surrey, B.C., Canada