Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Wizard-8 I have to confess that I have never watched in its entirety any one of the classic Three Stooges short films. The few seconds that I have seen of any of their shorts has far from impressed me, with their brand of slapstick coming across as forced and far from inspired. But I have a feeling that any one of those original shorts has to play out a lot better than "Have Rocket - Will Travel". The biggest problem with this movie is that the Three Stooges look far too old for their brand of slapstick violence - when they slap and poke each other, you will wince seeing these elderly guys in pain. Another problem with the movie is that even though it's only about 78 minutes long, it feels way too long. There isn't a heck of a lot of plot here, and things are stretched out way past the breaking point, especially when the trio get back from Venus - the movie doesn't simply know what to do at that point. There are other problems, but those are the main two that make the movie quite an ordeal to sit through. If you want to see slapstick violence that's actually funny and energetic, watch a Terence Hill and Bud Spencer movie instead.

mark.waltz The planet Venus is populated by energy…that and a lonely robot. Make energy, a lonely robot and a tarantula which shoots fire out of its fangs. Oh, don't forget a squeaky voiced unicorn whom the Three Stooges rescue when they discover it caught with its horn caught in a rock. How the boys get to Venus is pretty forgettable, but unfortunately, it takes them forever to get there. They are good hearted, however, determined to help kind-hearted scientist Anna-Lisa invent a fuel which will get the rocket tipped upside down outside their shack upside right and prevent her boss (Jerome Cowan) from firing her. In the process, they pop popcorn, discover that sugar makes a great fuel (especially when Moe drinks the fuel by mistake, thinking it's coffee), and turn the plumbing business back fifty years in an effort to find the key to the spaceship which fell down a drain. Kids of the late 1950's might have found this funny, but this wouldn't cure the A.D.D. of today's youth who would find this instantly idiotic. Robert Colbert, the hero of "The Time Tunnel" and the original patriarch of "The Young and the Restless", is pretty much wasted as a fellow scientist in love with the pretty Anna-Lisa, basically standing back observing the goings-on of the foolish Three Stooges whose comedy even 30 years after their first appearances together is violent and dated, especially when presented to a young audience. An attempt to bring slapstick in with three robot versions of the boys coming down to earth after harassing the shrunken ones on Venus just falls flat. Then, there's a fight started at a lavish social gathering to honor the returned stooges, crowned heroes, in the film's ridiculous finale. Joe DeRita is a poor substitute for the late Curly, and the title song is weak as well. Stick with the shorts. At least they are over within 20 minutes.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1959, Have Rocket, will Travel, The Three Stooges travel to Venus with new rocket fuel formula and encounter giant spiders, talking unicorn and baddie master robot and so forth.*Special Stars- Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe De Rita as the boys. Don Lamond a soon-to-be son in law joins them in many film duties.*Theme- The boys have the 'yuks' on us.*Based on- The Three Stooges, Columbia Studios film shorts.*Trivia/location/goofs- It's online. The Threee Stooges first full length feature film. Clearly shot in the NW SF Valley area near Chatsworth, Calif.*Emotion- This film is satisfactory, cubed. But, it is a gimmick-riddled film of little note to their long 50+ year funny entertainment careers. It's a forced gimmick exploitation of the Stooge genre. This film's title is a 'spin' off the popular TV series with Richard Boone, "Have gun, will Travel". And in real life, Don Lamond helps the Stooges get into the TV craze.

horrorfilmx This movie is the equivalent of a satisfying trip to your favorite fast food restaurant. Let's face it, if you're in the mood for a quarter pounder with cheese than the most delicious sirloin steak isn't going to satisfy you --- only that greaseburger will do. By the same token if you're looking for some low-brow Stooge fun then Ernst Lubitsch at his peak ain't gonna do it for you but this film will. Sure, it's not even the Stooges at their best, their glory days were almost twenty years in the past, but they still had some of the old zip and all the old shtick is trotted out like it was brand new and mixed with enough fifties sci-fi clichés to provide a satisfying junk meal. In fact a straight sci-fi movie like QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE could have used some of this movie's imagination and energy. I particularly liked the giant fire spewing tarantula, an effect pulled off quite well I might add, at least as well as Universal's "classic" TARANTULA. And I have to admit I find the title song kind of catchy. So sue me.