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BRIDELESS GROOM threadAnother week, another suck stock job. However, this isn't quite worth the flaming burn in hell.
Most of the new footage in this one is pretty good for a stock job. We have the boys screwing up in a kitchen. Sorry, but there's no way anyone would ever fall for Dora and Flora. No person who is that much of a human piece of s*** can put up a good enough act to get themselves married. They are as unlikable here as Walter Long is in ANY OLD PORT or, in a Stooge reference, Sergeant MacGillicuddy. Yes, I just compared them to that cretin.
I think the turpentine was a last minute change because, if you look closely, the canister says "salad oil" when Moe initially is grabbing it out of the cabinet. It only says turpentine after the turkey is "bathed." See the attached image; it says "salad oil" on that can. Moe also does a good rendition of Curly's shaving routine. Shemp does pretty good with the muffins, but he seems bored with his role here whereas Moe and Larry do quite well.
The highlights of this short are Dee Green singing and Christine McIntyre mistaking Shemp for "cousin Basil," which... oh, right, that's stock footage!
The entire scene of the girls in the justice's office is retarded here. It was already such a worthless POS scene in the original to get it knocked down multiple pegs in my book, but here it's unjustified. In the original, the gold-digging sluts only arrive because they read about the fortune in the newspaper. Well, there was no newspaper for them to read about here because Uncle Caleb isn't dead, and if we suppose Moe and Larry did take out an ad, then they're going for a stretch in Sing-Sing for fraud! There's no reason on earth for those to ever show up. And how the heck would they just happen to ALL show up there? God help us, because it is pathetic scripting and stock-jobbing here!
The ending is pretty good, though, as Shemp decides to load Moe and Larry with a little bit of lead... Yeah, it's another "lame bullet in the ass ending," but Moe and Larry deserve it nevertheless.
I changed my mind... this short does suck pretty horribly, actually, but it's better than some of what was and what will be.
4/10