Loco Boy Makes Good

Larry, Curly, and Moe gets kicked out of the Happy Haven Hotel. Moe finds a newspaper story about a lawsuit against a hotel and has the idea to fake an accidental fall. Curly steps on a bar of soap and the Stooges are ready to stage their scam on the Ye Olde Pilgrim Hotel. They get angry when an evil businessman threatens to take away the hotel from the old lady who owns it. They volunteer to fix up the hotel for her.

Curly switching places with the other guy at the window seems strangely fun. It's not actually funny but it has a quirkiness to it. I love hammering the nail with Curly's head. I hope that it doesn't hurt. Rolling out the floor is fun. Quite frankly, the best way to end this is for them to screw up the renovation so badly that the entire building implodes upon them. The party is a hit and miss affair. I don't really like the tomato throw. The magic jacket is fine although some of the slower parts have obviously been cut out. It would have been smoother to finish this with the bad construction. The point should be that they are so incompetent and could never fix up the hotel.

In this short subject the Stooges get tossed from their dwelling for lack of rent payment. They get an idea to sue a hotel by having Curly slio on a bar of soap, but Curly can't get a slip and fall right.

But that's OK because the hotel's a rundown place owned by a sweet old lady who they feel sorry for. She hires the boys to fix her place up and there's a nice bit with them trying to lay down a linoleum floor.

Come the nightclub opening and from a dignified supper club it turns into a participatory burlesque house courtesy of the Stooges.

This on has a lot of laughs.

Loco Boy Makes Good (1942)

*** (out of 4)

The Three Stooges are kicked out of their hotel because they haven't paid rent in eight months. They get the bright idea of putting down a bar of soap and slipping on it so that they can sue the hotel but they end up coming to the rescue of an elderly woman about to lose her hotel. Soon the boys get to work and bring in some new people. LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD features quite a few jokes that don't work but I think enough of them do to make this worth viewing for fans of the boys. This here certainly isn't going to show up in their top ten films ever made but there are enough laughs to make it worth sitting through. I think the best stuff happens in the first eight minutes as we see the trio trying to find a good hotel to get hurt in and this of course means that poor Curly has to keep taking one fall after another. One of the best jokes is actually a non-physical one has the boys are looking into a hotel's front window so the detective inside decides to take a look through the same window. The second half of the film is a bit strange and the laughs dry up but there's still some odd charm going on. The entire final five minutes or so feature the boys making the group laugh by doing a variety of things. These things don't necessarily make the viewer laugh but oh well.

Times sure have changed. All one has to do is look at sign in a Three Stooges short. Here, the opening scene reads, "Haven Haven Hotel - Rooms $1 A Month - Free Showers When It Rains." Corny? Of course, but those signs in these films during the 1930s and 1940s were always fun to read, whether it advertised what line of work the Stooges were in for a particular store, or where they happened to be.....or, in this case, where they've just been thrown out of for nonpayment of rent. Hey, they were only eight months in arrears.

Later, a sign says, "The Chisel Inn Hotel - presents Nil, Null & Void - 3 Hams Who Lay Their Own Eggs - Appearing in the Kokonuts Grove."

Ouch.

Corny or whatever, the boys have a good heart and try to help an old lady keep her motel. She's being threatened with eviction and she can't afford to spruce up the place and get more business. The Stooges offer their help. As they try to fix up the place, they go through some of their typical-but-funny screw-ups.

I guess it's just "saba-toogee," as Curly says....but they get the job done somehow and the place looks stunning! Despite their ineptness, the Stooges always help out nice people in need, an endearing quality of these nitwits. Here, they bail out this nice old lady.

Along the way, we get entertained by an inadvertent magic act by Curly, which is fun to watch. So is his dancing. Curly was pretty light on his feet "for a fat guy," as his partner points out.

Overall, this was an excellent Three Stooges movie, filled with a lot of laughs. The boys were on a roll during this period.

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

This one here is one of the funniest and cool Three Stooges shorts ever! I love the dance Curly has with Dorothy Appleby and the all of the scenes with Eddie Laughton! Look for Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent, Symona Boniface, John Tyrrell, and Victor Travers! The music in this short film is excellent! I strongly recommend this classic!