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Here's a wide range of DVD reviews covering various Stooge DVD/Blu Ray releases.

Updated 5/3/15

Three Stooges Triple Feature Collection - Vol 1 - BLU RAY
(Time Out For Rhythm, Rockin in the Rockies, Have Rocket, Will Travel)
Blu-Ray.com

Three Stooges Triple Feature Collection - Vol 2 - BLU RAY
(Three Stooges Meet Hercules, Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze, Outlaws is Coming)
Blu-Ray.com

Classic Shorts From the Dream Factory, Vol 3
DVD Talk - Classic Shorts From the Dream Factory, Vol 3

The Vitaphone Comedy Collection - Vol 2
DVD Talk - The Vitaphone Comedy Collection - Vol 2

The Three Stooges - Rare Treasures from the Columbia Vault

DVD Drive In - The Three Stooges - Rare Treasures from the Columbia Vault (bonus set from The Ultimate Collection)
Cinema Sentries - The Three Stooges - Rare Treasures from the Columbia Vault (bonus set from The Ultimate Collection)
Hitless Wonder Movie Blog - The Three Stooges - Rare Treasures from the Columbia Vault (bonus set from The Ultimate Collection)

The Vitaphone Comedy Collection - Vol 1

DVD Talk - The Vitaphone Comedy Collection - Vol 1

Three Stooges Ultimate Collection Reviews

DVD Talk - Three Stooges Ultimate Collection
In The Balcony - Three Stooges Ultimate Collection

Volume 8 (1955-1959) DVD Reviews

Home Theatre Forum - Three Stooges Collection Vol 8 1955-1959
DVD Talk - Three Stooges Collection Vol 8 1955-1959
DVD Talk - Three Stooges Collection Vol 8 1955-1959 (A second review from DVD Talk)
Newark (N.J) Star-Ledger - Three Stooges Collection Vol 8 - 1955-1959
Inside Pulse - Three Stooges Collection Vol 8 1955-1959

Volume 7 (1952-1954) DVD Reviews

DVD Talk - Three Stooges Collection Vol 7 1952-1954

Volume 6 (1949-1951) DVD Reviews

Rogue Cinema - Three Stooges Collection Vol 6 1949-1951
DVD Talk - Three Stooges Collection Vol 6 1949-1951
The DVD Lounge - Three Stooges Collection Vol 6 1949-1951
DVD Verdict - Three Stooges Collection Vol 6 1949-1951
Entertainment Weekly - Three Stooges Collection Vol 6 1949-1951
Home Theatre Forum - Three Stooges Collection Vol 6 1949-1951
Exclaim - Three Stooges Collection Vol 6 1949-1951

Volume 5 (1946-1948) DVD Reviews

The DVD Lounge - Three Stooges Collection Vol 5 1946-1948
Blog Critics - Three Stooges Collection Vol 5 1946-1948
DVD Talk - Three Stooges Collection Vol 5 1946-1948
Home Theatre Forum - Three Stooges Collection Vol 5 1946-1948
DVD Verdict - Three Stooges Collection Vol 5 1946-1948

Volume 4 (1943-1945) DVD Reviews

DVD Verdict - Three Stooges Collection Vol 4 1943-1945
DVDTalk - Three Stooges Collection Vol 4 1943-1945
Collider.com - Three Stooges Collection Vol 4 1943-1945
Home Theatre Forum - Three Stooges Collection Vol 4 1943-1945

Volume 3 (1940-1942) DVD Reviews

DVD Verdict - Three Stooges Collection Vol 3 1940-1942
DVD Beaver - Three Stooges Collection Vol 3 1940-1942
Home Theatre Forum - Three Stooges Collection Vol 3 1940-1942
DVD Talk - Three Stooges Collection Vol 3 1940-1942
Collider.com - Three Stooges Collection Vol 3 1940-1942

Volume 2 (1937-1939) DVD Reviews

DVD Verdict - Three Stooges Collection Vol 2 1937-1939
DVD Talk - Three Stooges Collection Vol 2 1937-1939
Obsessed With Film - Three Stooges Collection Vol 2 1937-1939
Digitally Obsessed - Three Stooges Collection Vol 2 1937-1939
DVD Beaver - Three Stooges Collection Vol 2 1937-1939

Collider.com - Three Stooges Collection Vol 2 1937-1939
Home Theatre Forum - Three Stooges Collection Vol 2 1937-1939

Volume 1 (1934-1936) DVD Reviews

DVD Verdict - Three Stooges Collection Vol 1 1934-1936
Cinema Retro - Three Stooges Collection Vol 1 1934-1936
DVDTalk - Three Stooges Collection Vol 1 1934-1936
Home Theatre Fourm - Three Stooges Collection Vol 1 1934-1936
DVD Beaver - Three Stooges Collection Vol 1 1934-1936
Collider.com - Three Stooges Collection Vol 1 1934-1936

Reviews of Other Stooge DVD/Blu Ray Releases

Blu-Ray.com - Buck Privates (Shemp solo) BLU RAY
Blu-Ray.com - It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Moe, Larry, Curly Joe cameo) BLU RAY
Blu-Ray.com - Twilight Zone, Season 1 (DeRita appears in one episode) BLU RAY
DVD Talk - Strange Affair (Shemp solo)
DVD Talk - Lone Wolf Meets A Lady (Shemp solo)
DVD Talk - Abbott & Costello Complete Universal Collection (4 films with Shemp in the cast and a 5th with a Besser walk-on)
DVD Beaver - Abbott & Costello Complete Universal Collection
DVD Beaver - Dr Death: Seeker of Souls (Moe solo)
DVDTalk.com - Swing Parade of 1946
DVDTalk.com - Three Stooges Meet Hercules
DVDTalk.com - Men Behind the Mayhem
DVDTalk.com - The Bravados (DeRita solo)
DVDTalk.com - San Francisco (Ted Healy solo)
DVDTalk.com - Charlie Chan Volume 5 (Includes Murder in New York - Shemp solo)
DVDTalk.com - It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Digitally Obsessed - Three Stooges... In A Daze
Digitally Obsessed - Three Stooges: All Time Favorites
DVD Verdict - Three Stooges in Orbit
DVD Verdict - Outlaws Is Coming
DVD Verdict - Arabian Nights (Shemp in color!)
Home Theater Forum - Arabian Nights
M&C - Dancing Lady
Blog Critics - Soup to Nuts
Forces of Geek - Soup to Nuts
DVD Verdict -Invisible Man Collection (includes INVISIBLE WOMAN - Shemp cameo)
DVD Verdict -John Wayne -The Franchise Collection (includes PITTSBURGH - Shemp cameo)
DVD Beaver - The Complete Thin Man Collection (includes ANOTHER THIN MAN - Shemp cameo)
Home Theatre Forum - Busby Berkley Vol 2 (includes Healy solos VARSITY SHOW and HOLLYWOOD HOTEL)

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Offline BeAStooge

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A highly favorable review from film comedy scholar/author, Jim Neibaur...

Rogue Cinema


Offline Justin T

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A highly favorable review from film comedy scholar/author, Jim Neibaur...

Rogue Cinema


That was a great review, he brought up a good point to the fans to buy all the sets
so that sales don't drop to much when we get to the later Shemp and Joe Besser
eras. I want all the Shemps on DVD.
"Moronica must expand! We must lend our neighbors a helping hand. We must lend them two helping hands, and help ourselves to our neighbors!"
Moe in "You Natzi Spy!"

Larry: Say, when I come back I’ll give you a password.
Moe: Brilliant, what’ll it be?
Larry: Open The Door!
"Studio Stoops"


Offline Moe Hailstone

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That was a great review, he brought up a good point to the fans to buy all the sets
so that sales don't drop to much when we get to the later Shemp and Joe Besser
eras. I want all the Shemps on DVD.

I personally enjoy Shemp just as much as Curly.  Joe was a bit annoying but since it would be stupid to skip him (and not have a complete set), I'll buy it at the end.

I wonder how long it will take before we even get to the Shemp years?
"Moronica must expand! We shall lend our neighbors a helping hand, we shall lend them two helping hands... and help ourselves to our neighbors!"  Moe Hailstone


Offline bbug

It's great to see the exposure the new Sony DVD remastered set is getting.

All the reviews are worth reading, but if I had to recommend which to read first I'd say the DvdTalk review is the most enjoyable.

To updated the current Amazon standings for the set as of 11/11/2007, 2:15 PM EDT:

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #85 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

Popular in these categories: (What's this?)
#1 in     DVD > Comedy > Parody & Spoof > Three Stooges
#5 in     DVD > Comedy > Series & Sequels
#12 in     DVD > Comedy > Television

Not surprisingly, it's holding on to the #1 slot for Three Stooges videos.  ;)

It's also doing very well in the Series & Sequels category trailing just behind 3 Seasons of the US "The Office" series and the "Bender's Big Score" Futurama collection.

The set is also doing very respectable business in the Comedy Television category trailing behind extremely popular DVD series like the US "The Office", "Seinfeld" 8 & 9, some Futurama seasons, and one season of "Boston Legal (which I like to think of as Bill Shattner's channeling of the Stooges into the 21st Century)".   [pie]

The only slightly troublesome volume above this Stooges set is season 8 of "Full House".  :(


Offline Monofletch

ordered mine!
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Offline BeAStooge

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Offline falsealarms

Another favorable Volume 2 review, with screen captures...

DVD Beaver


Added this to the list above. I gotta say - the menu's look a LOT better in this one. YMMV, though.


xraffle

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Added this to the list above. I gotta say - the menu's look a LOT better in this one. YMMV, though.

Yeah, the menus look awesome. This sets looks like it'll be better than Volume 1. From the screenshots, it seems like all the shorts will look the best I've ever seen.



AmalgamatedMoron

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Anyone know the sales figures of Vol. 1, relative to Sony's other material?  Any word on a specific release schedule for the future?  We had 7 months between the first two, at this rate it would take some time to see Shemp, not to mention Besser.


stooged and confused

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The figure is around 12,500-13,000 units. Sony called Volume 1 sales "very good" for this genre.


Offline falsealarms

Updated again with more reviews for vol 2.

DVD Talk will have one later this week too.


ThumpTheShoes

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The Collider.com review should be discounted for using colourised screenshots in their review of this set!

And, talk about lazy (or, is it leery?) I'm not even going to register at their site to tell them what I think!




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I was expecting a better review than that from DVDTalk. That review was really vague.



After looking over the reviews of volume 1 and 2 on DVDTalk, which were both written by the same person, i would agree. That one was small is comparison.


Shempyshine

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Actually, it's the longest of the three articles that reviewer wrote.  And I don't think it's "vague" at all.  He details each short, and tells you what he does and doesn't like about them.  He obviously knows the Stooges (and loves them), so what's "vague" about it?


xraffle

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Actually, it's the longest of the three articles that reviewer wrote.  And I don't think it's "vague" at all.  He details each short, and tells you what he does and doesn't like about them.  He obviously knows the Stooges (and loves them), so what's "vague" about it?

A lot of us know what the shorts are about and we all know what shorts are good or bad. On these DVD reviews, we're expecting the reviewer to get into more detail about the video and audio quality. The reviewer here only had two sentences on it. He should have went more in-depth.



Shempyshine

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Well, I don't think that review is intended strictly for the readers of this forum, do you?  It's a general review for general audiences -- many of whom might not be familiar with the shorts. 

As for the audio/visual quality, he states quite clearly that it's as good as the first two volumes -- which he detailed in the two earlier reviews (why repeat in detail what he's already detailed?) -- reviews, by the way, that everybody here seem to find okay.  So what's the beef?


xraffle

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Well, I don't think that review is intended strictly for the readers of this forum, do you?  It's a general review for general audiences -- many of whom might not be familiar with the shorts. 

As for the audio/visual quality, he states quite clearly that it's as good as the first two volumes -- which he detailed in the two earlier reviews (why repeat in detail what he's already detailed?) -- reviews, by the way, that everybody here seem to find okay.  So what's the beef?

I don't know. I was just expecting a little more.

You seem a little offended at what I said. I, in no way, intended to offend anyone. If the reviewer is happy with that kind of review and if "general audiences" are happy with it, then that's great. I, myself, am not that thrilled about it.




Shempyshine

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Nothing in my posts suggest I'm offended; not sure why you'd read them that way.
I'm just trying to understand why you find the review lacking.  But you state you don't really know why, so there's my answer.


xraffle

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I see. Well, the reason I found it lacking was because I'm not a general audience. I'm a die-hard fan. So, I was expecting more that just a general overview of the video and audio quality.



Offline falsealarms

Updated with a few vol 3 reviews trickling in a little earlier than expected.


Shempyshine

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Well, do you have a review I could read that has more detailed analysis of the video and audio?  Because what that guy wrote in his three reviews seemed to cover it pretty well:  he says they're close to pristine.  We know Sony hasn't screwed them up.  This is, after all, the third volume, and I haven't read anything from die-hard fans like you that says Sony  has screwed them up, so other than a problem with a specific short, which he doesn't mention, what more could he say?


Offline falsealarms

Well, do you have a review I could read that has more detailed analysis of the video and audio?  Because what that guy wrote in his three reviews seemed to cover it pretty well:  he says they're close to pristine.  We know Sony hasn't screwed them up.  This is, after all, the third volume, and I haven't read anything from die-hard fans like you that says Sony  has screwed them up, so other than a problem with a specific short, which he doesn't mention, what more could he say?

Those reviews are all I have. From the first two releases, I can say that the video and audio has never been better. You might be able to expect both the video and audio to be better as these releases go on ... technological improvements from the 30s to 40s to 50s etc.