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The Three Stooges: The Three Stooges in Orbit

starring: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, Carol Christensen, Edson Stroll
directed by: Edward Bernds

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404941410
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 140494141X
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: November 25, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 19616
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: July 04, 1962



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Moe, Larry, and Joe star as the Three Stooges in this science-fiction farce that has a pair of Martians trying to steal an all-powerful submarine-tank-rocket military weapon. As the Martians are flying away with it, the Stooges hang on and force it to crash-land in a television studio.



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The Three Stooges in Orbit has the team playing not only themselves but themselves trying to make it big on a television show. Since they keep breaking leases by cooking in their apartments, they rent a room in a spooky castle that houses not only a wacky professor (played by 'the fourth Stooge,' Emil Sitka, veteran of many a Stooge short) and his pretty daughter, but a pair of Martians who are waiting for him to perfect his latest invention and use it to conquer the Earth. After an old situation-device in which the craft is too large to leave the workroom, the Stooges make a trip into space that adds nothing to the plot, and finally defeat the invaders by hoisting them on their own petard. The usual chase routine is replaced here by a fairly well done sequence in which the team is outside the craft trying to thwart the two Martians locked inside the craft, while a death ray is wiping out most of California. (The use of stock footage from other monster-invasion films is unintentionally hilarious.)

The love interest, deemed so necessary in films aimed at young audiences, is brief and tinged with mild comedy. The Martian make-up is obviously based on the original Frankenstein head shape, and it is a relief to hear them speak in some babble other than English as subtitles 'translate' for us. In fact, the cleverest bit in this film is Moe's reading a subtitle to learn of the proposed destruction of this planet--a gag worthy of Mel Brooks. The film reveals its age when the chief Martian bangs his boot on the table in the manner of Khrushchev and his shoe at the United Nations. But the only real weaknesses are Curly Joe's fright reactions, so much funnier when done by Curly or Shemp in the past. --Frank Behrens



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A loony sci-fi caper for the Stooges
Poking fun at sci-fi movies and Martian invasions (both done sillier in their own right), the Stooges ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Massively unimpressive
Even for a film from the DeRita era, I found this pretty awful and didn't laugh once, though there are ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Another Stooge-pendous flick!
It was 45 years ago when Stooge-mania was riding high with another in the series of feature length movies ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The question remains of Ogg and Zogg
Gather 'round my friends. That's it make room for everyone. C'mon now kids up in front...everyone comfortable? ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Moe, Larry & Curly Joe in Orbit
The Three Stooges play themselves as TV stars. After getting kick out of their apartment and a long day of looking ... Read More

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