Fifi Blows Her Top

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 a fair Three Stooges short with Joe. With The Stooges in this one are Vanda Dupre, Philip Van Zandt, Marie Monteil, Christine McIntyre, Heinie Conklin, Joe Palma, Yvette Reynard, Harriette Tarler, and Al Thompson! There are some funny scenes here! Vanda Dupre has a very good performance! There is a similar Three Stooges short with Shemp called Love At First Bite. Fifi Blows Her Top is a good short with Joe. I recommend it!

Vanda "Fifi" Dupre- one of the most gorgeous creatures in Stooge film history in this near totally original film. Exchanges between Moe and Larry are great, but this is one of the few films where we see Joe's character depressed, and that brings the film down somehow (but not much). There is a lot of recycled material from the Shemp Stooge short "Love at First Bite" but is not technically a remake. Highlights are mostly the recycled material.. the bubble gum gags and the funny reminiscing stories. You will fall out of your seat laughing when you see (during Larry's flashback story) how an open-mouthed sleeping man in a restaurant can be fed from many feet away!

Here I go again, if you've read any of my other reviews on these "late" era Stooge shorts. First of all, a lot of this story actually goes way back to one of Laurel & Hardy's first sound two reeler, "Unaccustomed As We Are", which dates to about 1928. The gags involving a woman in a trunk and her husband discovering her in the boy's apartment suggesting something not quite right is used again here with the Stooges giving their version. BTW, L&H used this story yet again in "Blockheads" from 1938, so this story was pretty well worn by time the Stooges got ahold of it in 1958. That was usually the case with the Columbia Studio writers who did most of the Stooge shorts anyway. They certainly had a penchant for merely "stealing" material and gags that had been done earlier in the silent era of the 1920's by comics like Chaplin, Lloyd, and Keaton, and then "refitting" it for the Stooges to use.That brings up an interesting point. What if the Stooges had serious writers assigned to their shorts in the very beginning? Maybe Hollywood would've taken them much more seriously than they did. Be that as it may. This short is not too bad considering Joe Besser's constant blubbering and "childish" antics. I say this knowing that he actually was a very good comedian and had done excellent work out on his own during the 1940's but he and Moe and Larry just never did click together. Bad choice for a "third stooge". Another thing which bothers me about this short is why wasn't there more screen time given to Christine McIntyre? She certainly was a "stooge veteran" by this time and would've have been much funnier in the part of "Fifi". Fifi must have been some producer's little "item" on the side so she got the main part. That's all I can assume. All in all, however, this is one of those rare shorts with Joe that you really don't have to run into the hills to avoid. It's tolerable but not overly funny. Strictly kiddy fare.