"Pop Goes the Easel" is certainly one of the more entertaining Three Stooges titles looking at the gigantic amount of films they. It runs for 18 minutes, slightly over like most other short films from them. Don#t be fooled by the photos here on imdb, it is a black-and-white film, also like mother other works by them. The names Adler and White sound familiar and they collaborated frequently with this writer-director duo. It is from 1935, so almost 85 years old now and everybody working on this one is long gone sadly, which is not too surprising because it is an early Three Stooges film. This also means it has Curly of course. There is one little anti-Germany joke, which surprised me a bit because they made many short films later on that had no political references at all. I did not like the watch as a whole though. The beginning with the trio looking unsuccessfully for jobs was fun (even if it could have needed more Larry), especially Moe's spelling part and boy who would have thought Curly was a secret Spelling bee winner. Or maybe I should say Curley. But as soon as the action moves on to the art gallery, I found it fairly uninteresting. The part with the Stooges in drag was not half as funny as it wanted to be. the only thing memorable is how Larry actually made for a woman really optically. I guess it is for good reason he is the only one with longer hair. And in the end, there is that really big messy battley basically destroying the entire art gallery. Not funny either. same can be said about the slightly violent (as always) slapstick comedy from the Stooges. I thought this was a disappointment and I am a bit surprised seeing it among the more known Stooges shorts these days given the number of votes here on imdb. I am not convinced at all. Watch something else instead. Also they could have made much much more with Leo White. Ie is really funny and deserved more screen time here. Too forgettable overall.
Review of Pop Goes the Easel
