GUNS A POPPIN!

Pretty lame Stooge movie although Moe and Larry do their best with the weak material. However, it does pick up during the cabin/gunfight scene. They each get off 3 funny things in a quick sequence of events. When Joe Palma admires Moe's rifle he says "yeah, I got it for my Bar-Mitszva". What!?!?! 50 years before then? They Larry gets a handgun and says "I'll get that rat" which I think is very funny. Then Besser does what I think is the funniest thing he ever did with The Stooges. When Palma is shooting off the top of his head he turns around and says "That hurts!!!" and knocks the hat off Joe's head. Just watch the way he does it and I think you'll see what I mean. This film is worth watching just for those reasons. However I agree that the original with Curly was much better, but at this point its obvious they were sleep-walking through their roles to get a paycheck. But even weak Stooges is better than most of what passes itself off as comedy today.

Horrible remake of Idiots Deluxe, and I don't think the original was that good to begin with. However, Idiots Deluxe is gold compared to this tripe.

I watch this short more these days, and I found enjoyable parts to up my rating. There's a part in the shootout where stray bullets are flying, and Moe is sitting in his recliner. He lifts up his leg, and the bullet whizzes under it, shattering his nerve tonic. Rating: 3 stars BeatleMoe

This is so painful to watch!! Moe plays a very convincing part. The bit with the cat is so funny. when Moe needed quiet and he tells it to 'stop stomping around'. I liked it better with Curly in idiots deluxe. Moe is such a good actor!!!

A pretty uneven remake of IDIOTS DE LUXE. The redone gags in the first half are slow, the transitions from the old footage to new footage are sloppy and Besser is awful stepping into Curly's role & re-doing his lines. But it gets a lot better in the middle with the hilarious new plot twist added involving the shoot-out between the sherrif and the bandit right in the Stooges cabin. Then we go back to mediocrity at the end, where Besser was too much of a sissy in real life to let Moe hit him with the axe, so Larry had to take the axe, and the "hard head/broken object" gag didn't look right with him. Moe screaming "My nerves" into the camera as the short fades out was just lame.

I'll give this two pokes, mostly for the hilarious sherrif/bandit shoot-out, which should've been used in its own original short instead of put in the middle of a remake with a terrible beginning and end.

This is a crappy remake of a great short.If I were around I would ask Jules this Question "Are Moe and Larry cows?Why do you keep milking loathsome ideas out of them ?!",this short was terrible I rather watch Idiot Deluxe than this.

Decent remake of the classic IDIOTS DELUXE.Most of the new plot deals with the Stooges encounterwith fugitive Mad Bill Hiccup. The scenes in the cabinwith the Stooges are quite funny...FOOD FIGHT!!!Rating 2 1/2 pokes.."Quiet You Imbeciles!"

Bad remake, Joe does get punished quite a bit actually but the problem here is that Joe seems to take Larry's role which kinda bugs me. Plus, the new addition to the plot didn't work out as well as it could've.Besser abuse: Trombone slide twisted around his neck w/Larry's, Salt poured on tongue, Spaghetti thown in face, and head bonked with Larry's. All are dished out by Moe.1 1/2 pokesEdited by - Mike Holme on 11/29/2001 3:42:21 AM

While there are certainly worse Besser shorts, this one just doesn't really take off for me. Honestly, Idiot's Deluxe has never been one of my favorite Curlys, but this is nowhere near as good as the original. I'll give it 2 out of 5 stars.

Not bad for a remake of a Curly short with Joe. I do like the added subplot. One reason this Joe short has always been etched in my mind is because on my very first viewing of it, I happened to catch it on TV, dubbed in Spanish. That was over 20 years ago on some local station. It got my interest and I couldn't wait to see it in English so I'd know what was going on! LOL