Plantiana
Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
bkoganbing
As this 3 Stooges short was rolling I could hear in my mind Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye singing that Irving Berlin tune Gee I wish I was back in the army from White Christmas. The boys actually got to do just that.Despite their service in the trenches we did win World War I and note their contribution on Armistice Day. They get out and take Stooge like revenge on their Sergeant Stanley Blystone who's been giving them a hard time since being drafted.But even the hard times of the Depression and harder I'm sure for a stooge don't make them want to be soldiers again. In fact in those days the army was small and selective. But on a bad day and being tricked into it, the boys join up and get their old sergeant again.The final sequence has them manning a field artillery piece during a training exercise that was called off but no one gave the boys the word. The damage they do with a cannon is agonizingly funny. They might have given Hitler a wrong impression of the state of our readiness.
Stebaer4
Yes this is The worst Three stooges movie serial that was ever made.It's depressing both for how because they're poor and hungry they do accidentally rejoin the Army after 17 years as another reviewer pointed out and because they as you'll see why they do so as well as because they end up with the same horrible Superior Soldier in charge of them again.Without giving too much away this ends just as sadly as it starts off,stays this way in the middle,and ends this way too.Any time I see the title of the feature when it's on with the other Three Stooges Features on my Local Station of mytv-38(as it's currently addressed and as it's always been whether as TV-38 or UPN- 38 was always the #1 watching Stooge station in all of the Nation.)I just turn off the TV for 20 minutes and do something else.(10/12/2015)Now just to add to this today and since 2 months ago my Mom,Mary and I were watching this and the other 3 Stooges Features on mytv-38.The only funny used over dialogue is when Larry said "You know I've been thinking" Then Moe said to him "Every time you think you weaken the Nation."But I wasn't going to turn it off while she was watching it but this still doesn't change my opinions as to how it's depressing all the way through and is still the worst one.In a Latter Feature it's Shemp who said What Larry said above and then Moe said that same ending quote.Truthfully,Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a. "Ste" of Framingham,Ma USA
Michael_Elliott
Half Shot Shooters (1936) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Seventeen years after the end of WW1, the Three stooges find themselves poor and hungry so they accidentally sign up for the Army to cause more trouble. There are a few gags here that work but most of them miss. One of the best gags has Curley pulling his shoe up and another has the three firing off a canon, which hits their Admirel's boat.Now available on Columbia's 2-disc set, which features over 20 shorts, all digitally remastered and looking better than since they were originally released.
holme-1
I have to disagree with whoever puts down this one because I think there are many hilarious moments! The conflict the stooges have with their sergeant is hilarious! This theme would later be revisited in "Boobs In Arms" (1940). One of the best Curly shorts.Grade: A+
