The Farrelly brothers have long been known for their gross-out humor and their shocking comedies. After writing and directing movies like Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, There’s Something About Mary and Shallow Hal — where agreeable idiots get caught up in all sorts of trouble — Peter and Bobby Farrelly decided to tackle another set of goofy doofuses: The Three Stooges.
Their new movie places Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), Curly (Will Sasso) and Larry (Sean Hayes) in the present day, where they try to save the orphanage they lived in from financial ruin. The film may be set in today’s world, but it retains the slapstick humor and visual effects from the original Stooges routines — except, of course, for the black-and-white film.
“We tried to keep it looking exactly like the Stooges did it,” Peter tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross. “We talked to the studio and said, ‘Maybe we can shoot it in black and white. Or make it where it looks like it was shot in black and white, and then it was colorized later.’ And the studio said, ‘No way. Modern kids won’t go for it.’ And I’m glad we set them in modern day with crisp colors.”
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