***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** In this movie (incidentally, I find it pretty amusing that while the original and definitive team of Moe, Larry and Curly begged that tight-ass Harry Cohen to do features for years, it took 30 years and three third Stooges later for them to get features), Larry, Moe and Curly-Joe are friends with a young scientist named Schuyler Davis (Quinn Redeker), who is having trouble with his girlfriend Diane (Vicki Trickett) because he's too wrapped up in a time machine he's inventing and because he's too passive to stand up to the Stooges' lecherous boss Mr. Dimsel (George Neise), who has his eye on Diane. Out of concern for Schuyler, the Stooges decide to help him finish it so he doesn't lose Diane. Of course they screw it up, so when Schuyler and Diane show up, somehow the machine manages to transport them to Ancient Greece. Once there, Dimsel's ancestor, King Odius, who robbed the great Ulysses of his throne, takes a liking to Diane and condemns the Stooges and Schuyler to the galleys for freeing Ulysses from his cell once they realize they helped Odius when they should have been helping Ulysses. On the galleys, Schuyler grows stronger to the point where the Stooges escape and promote him as Hercules so they can money to get back and rescue Diane. Along the way Schuyler's self-confidence grows along with his muscles and he convinces Hercules to help Ulysses get his throne back in exchange for Schuyler sparring his life and he, Diane and the Stooges head back to present day. And presumably, Schuyler and Diane live happily ever after.
My views of the third Stooges go as follows: Curly was the funniest, and there were none funnier. Shemp was kind of bland, but he did have his moments. Joe Besser just plain stunk because he was unwilling to take a pie in the face or get slapped around and didn't he know that was the whole point to being the third Stooge? And Curly-Joe was, well... He was okay, but he wasn't much more. However, this movie, a spoof of the popular Hercules movies at the time, is actually pretty funny. But what I liked about it the most was that most Stooge films concentrate on Moe beating the hell out of the other two guys. This one focuses on that, but the main point to it is the Stooges' friendship with Schuyler and them helping him to build up his self-confidence, and I admire that in a Stooge film. It's certainly something they never tried before.
My views of the third Stooges go as follows: Curly was the funniest, and there were none funnier. Shemp was kind of bland, but he did have his moments. Joe Besser just plain stunk because he was unwilling to take a pie in the face or get slapped around and didn't he know that was the whole point to being the third Stooge? And Curly-Joe was, well... He was okay, but he wasn't much more. However, this movie, a spoof of the popular Hercules movies at the time, is actually pretty funny. But what I liked about it the most was that most Stooge films concentrate on Moe beating the hell out of the other two guys. This one focuses on that, but the main point to it is the Stooges' friendship with Schuyler and them helping him to build up his self-confidence, and I admire that in a Stooge film. It's certainly something they never tried before.