Fiddlers Three

This is a good short, but it is a little too much like "Squareheads Of The Round Table" which was a classic. The "Nursery rhymes" scenes were good, especially the Simple Simon one! I find the remake a little better, but this is also good.

Grade: B

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!

One of the most different Three Stooges shorts is Fiddlers Three. In this short are Vernon Dent, Virginia Hunter, Philip Van Zandt, Joe Palma, Cy Schindell, and Al Thompson. The acting by these actors are good especially by Dent and Van Zandt. There are many funny scenes here that I think most Three Stooges fans will love! In My opinion this one of the most different Three Stooges shorts. I recommend this one!

In the small kingdom of Coleslaw-vania, Shemp, Larry, and Moe are fiddlers entertaining old King Cole. The King permits the Stooges to marry after Princess Alisha gets married in the spring. Murgitroyd, the evil court magician, kidnaps the princess planning to marry and rule the kingdom himself.

The big setup is the magic box and that's loads of fun. It's a little different but it could use some work. Also, the magician needs a better outfit. It's slapdash and cheap. The guys obviously grabbed a bunch of stuff from the bargain bin and slapped together a story. I would like them to do more with the magic box idea. Instead of simply being scared, they should be fighting each other for space and laughing at each other getting stabbed.

Court magicians want to get married. Not until the princess is married first. This leads to the usual frantic stuff we are used to with the Stooges as they do what they can to get their way. There are bonks and clunks and eye pokes and all the other stuff. This is a cut above some of their others ad the plot is interesting.

I've been watching the Three Stooges collection in order of production, and this entry, in their 14th year, is the first one that felt like it was made for kids. Even the talented Vernon Dent couldn't add anything significant to the one-dimensional role of King Cole. The "nursery rhymes" section is cutesy filler (although the boys do get to show off their harmonizing). The chase scene is infantile. Finally we get some laughs when the boys hide in the magician's box. Unfortunately, the plot is all too reminiscent of the episode right before, "Squareheads of the Round Table". You should see every Three Stooges short ever made, but feel free to close one eye during this one!