Horst_In_Translation Review of Stone Age Romeos

Stone Age Romeos (1955)

Again I am struggling to see the motivation why this was made

[4/10 · 17 September 2018]

"Stone Age Romeos" is an American live action short film from 1955, so this one is already over 60 years old and if you read the names White and Adler, then maybe you know already we have another Three Stooges short here. Even if this is far from their latest works, it is of course from the days when Shemp had taken over already and this was quite a while after Curly's death and sadly also not too far away from Dhemp's own untimely death. Most of what you see in here is taken from another Three Stooges short film from the late 1940s and this is also the reason why I wonder why this was even made. I mean it's fine if they lack creativity and ideas for new projects after so much and everything they made before and nobody would balme them, but why recycle these old films with a handful new scenes. Anyway, story-wise the highlight here is clearly the in-between, not the frame when they are in the now, but the very long middle part that shows us the Stooges as cavemen and how they meet cavewomen, but also how they meet antagonists and there is a lot fighting going on. The comedy here is typical Stooges material. This time, you rarely see one of the trio (usually Moe) exacting some kind of violence on the others, sometimes unintentionally, but it's basically all mishaps, like the ink scene. Best moment was maybe when the Stooges meet the females and for Shemp it's tables turned as she is the dominant part in their relationship and carries him away while for the other two it is the other (traditional) way around. Okay, that is all I think, overall neither a tedious nor an entertaining watch. As usual with the Stooges, it's all about individual comedic scenes and moments and the negative consequence is that these 16 minutes fall really flat when it comes to the story-telling department. Watch something else instead.