Heavenly Daze (1948) User Reviews

go to hell

[SnoopyStyle · 7/10 · 30 June 2020]

Shemp is denied entry into heaven. He is given a chance to enter if he can reform his cousins, Moe and Larry. The two remaining Stooges are hopelessly crooked and clueless. I like the sleazy Shemp in heaven. I like Moe and Larry fighting over the inheritance. I like most of this although I would prefer the Stooges to end this by going to hell.

One of my favorite Stooges short films

[Horst_In_Translation · 6/10 · 30 November 2017]

"Heavenly Daze" is an American 17-minute black-and-white short film from 1948, so one more month and this one has its 70th anniversary. Maybe the name of director Jules White tells you already that this is a Three Stooges film and at that point Shemp had already taken over from Curly. And the former also plays a pretty special separated role in here as he died before the film started and we see him at the heavenly gates where he is sent right back to Earth (as a ghost) to get some reason inside Moe and Larry. But he somewhat prefers playing pranks on them. Moe results surprisingly violently on one occasion. Boo! But yeah, it is still all about the comedy, which is shown by the fact that we not only don't see what happened to Shemp, but don't find out about it at all. And the ending of course makes it even lighter when they use that popular dream sequence reference. The film gets a bit worse the longer it goes admittedly like so many other times with the Stooges, but it's still an entertaining watch at times, so I forgive them for editing this one into a remake later on, also frequently happening with the trio, even if I cannot really understand the motivation because honestly why do it with the same cast. Anyway, it's close, but I give this one a thumbs-up. Worth watching for those too that are not great Stooges fans in general, including myself as you probably guessed from the rating already when I give it ***/***** "only" and say it is one of my favorites. Shemp as a voyeur worked and the Stooges may have worked as a duo too as we learn here.

Religious-themed Three Stooges short

[Leofwine_draca · 6/10 · 8 July 2017]

HEAVENLY DAZE is a religious-themed Three Stooges short, in which Shemp Howard arrives in Heaven only to discover that his work back on Earth isn't quite finished. Thus he proceeds to make trouble for his surviving buddies. This one plays out as expected, with a maximum of silly slapstick humour and not much in the way of wit. Some of the ghostly jokes are quite funny but I find the Three Stooges to be a pretty divisive presence and the humour wasn't too appealing for me.

Very funny short.

[alexyorba23 · 10/10 · 9 September 2005]

A very funny stooge short. It's hilarious to see Shemp dish out some punishment to both Moe and Larry without them being able to retaliate. Shemp is very mischievous in this episode as he is in many stooge shorts which is one of the many reasons that he is my favorite stooge of all time. It's very upsetting that TV stations do not have the rights to many other great stooge episodes, IE Scrambled Brains, Dopey Dicks, Mummies Dummies, Three Arabian Nuts, Pardon My Clutch, etc etc. It's a shame that new fans don't get to see the entire collection of Stooge shorts to truly appreciate them. Thankfully, some of these "missing" episodes are available on tape, but there are quite a few that are unattainable. Anyways, long live the stooges. SHEMP RULES!!!

Talk about odd!

[slymusic · 21 May 2007]

"Heavenly Daze," directed by Jules White, is one of the strangest of all Three Stooges comedies. Shemp dies and is told by his Uncle Mortimer (played by Moe), who just happens to be the keeper of the Pearly Gates, that he can remain in Heaven for good if he goes back down to Earth to (invisibly and inaudibly) reform his cousins Moe and Larry. After spending Shemp's puny inheritance on an apartment, a butler (Sam McDaniel), and a pair of tuxedos, Moe and Larry try to sell a phony fountain pen that writes under whipped cream (!) to a wealthy couple (Victor Travers and Symona Boniface) for $50,000.

"Heavenly Daze" is unfortunately not one of the better or funnier Three Stooges shorts, but it does contain at least one memorable scene. The screwball fountain pen invention becomes a gigantic mess when it spatters whipped cream all over Moe, Larry, and their astonished guests; the pen itself jabbing Larry's forehead was a real-life accident.

"Heavenly Daze" might be safely regarded as something of a waste, but it IS rather interesting in its bizarreness, and Shemp at least gets to have a little slapstick fun with Moe and Larry since they have no consciousness of him.

classic stooges....

[jack_leiber · 10/10 · 15 April 2003]

If "Heavenly Daze" isn't my favorite short, it's damn close to the top. The ever-underrated Shemp Howard shines in this film. I always bust a gut on the scenes in the stooges "new" digs when Shempie is scaring Moe & Larry's butler to death (played hysterically by Sam McDaniel who nearly steals every scene himself). A definite stooge classic I recommend to anyone with a funny-bone.

10/10

what a heavenly experience (Some spoilers)

[comicman117 · 10/10 · 18 January 2009]

One of the best three stooges short that they did with shemp. The three stooges are as funny as ever and it adds a original stooge plot. The plot is that Shemp has died and gone to heaven but Uncle mortimer is not going to let him threw the gates of heaven unless he change the way of his cousin (Moe and Larry). Down on earth Moe and Larry are using shemps money to there advantage. First they've rented a luxury apartment and hire a butler. At the same time Shemp has come down to earth and the stooges can not see him as he is a spirit but they know its shemp since he told them that they he would come back to haunt the two. Extremely funny.

My favorite Three Stooges short!!!

[crusefamily · 10/10 · 10 September 2001]

HEAVENLY DAZE is my favorite Three Stooges short. I am only 12 years old, but I'm a big fan of the Stooges. In the short, Shemp learns he can't get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. Shemp is my favorite stooge. HEAVENLY DAZE is a great short. You won't be disappointed.

My rating: A

Good one!

[Movie Nuttball · 10/10 · 29 June 2005]

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

One of My favorite Stooges shorts with Shemp is none other than Heavenly Daze! All appearing in this short are Vernon Dent, Sam McDaniel, Symona Boniface, Judy Malcolm, Marti Shelton, and Victor Travers. There are so many funny parts here. This is a very hilarious short. There is another similar Three Stooges short like this one called Bedlam in Paradise and I recommend both!

Old fishmonger, old skunkbait!

[angus_dei · 12 March 2006]

I had no idea the afterlife was so highly organized. Why, they've got trains that actually stick to schedule and tons of clerical workers. Luckily for Shemp, his Uncle Mortimer (who looks an awfully lot like Moe) occupies an important bureaucratic position, so he's able to cut Shemp a deal. Here we also learn that male angels, when sexually excited by shapely female angels, react by bringing their wings up over their shoulders. Apparently, however, this act is strictly a faux pas, judging from Uncle Mortimer's reaction to Shemp's excitability. We also learn that in the afterlife, we are bound to have run-ins with very small, yet very spiteful, rain clouds. These clouds are pretty hard, are suspended by strings, and dispense their rain through two small holes near their center. Shemp must catch the train to Earth, where he is given the daunting task of reforming Moe and Larry, whom we first meet in the office of lawyer I. Fleecum (apparently after he split from his erstwhile partners Cheatham and Howe), portrayed by the great Vernon Dent. Here, Vernon does what no self-respecting shyster would do---he tells the truth, by admitting to Larry and Moe that he has ripped them off blind. I like Larry's line here, "Mind if we breathe?" Shemp, being unseen and unheard, begins reforming Larry and Moe by slapping Moe as a payback for the years of abuse he suffered at Moe's hands (sounds effective to me). Then Larry and Moe go through the trouble of renting a posh apartment, even with a sporty butler, just to run a scam on a wealthy couple. And, yes, it's the old fountain-pen-that-writes-under-whipped-cream scam. Here's what I don't understand: when Moe sets up the pen, paper, and cream in the automatic mixer, why is the paper blank? Moe even admits to Larry that the pen is not likely to write! Wouldn't an experienced scam artist place a sheet of paper that already has fountain pen squiggles all over it, to fool the DePuysters into thinking that the pen really wrote under whipped cream? Thankfully, this is a Stooges short, so things like technical details and plot aren't really important. The best scene is the opening of the second reel. Here we see Moe and Larry in their opulent digs, where Larry gives Moe a greeting popular with society's upper crust, "I say, old fishmonger, old skunkbait!," whereupon Moe shows his bourgeois leanings by clobbering Larry for putting on airs. Then Spiffington the butler says "Thank yawww," which precipitates Moe and Larry engaging in brilliant ripostes of "Thank yawws," until Moe tires of the game and slaps Larry silly. It's worth seeing this short just for this scene alone, so don't be a schmoe: see this short!