Alicia I love this movie so much

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

cheesecrop "Soup To Nuts" marks the debut of the legendary comedy team the Three Stooges. Here, the Stooges are comprised of Larry, Moe, and Shemp. Along for the ride is a fourth comic, a gentleman named Fred Sanborn, who's silent character is reminiscent of Harpo Marx. It suggests some Marxian thought may have gone into this, though I have no proof of this.The plot is a bit of nonsense involving a costume shop that is swimming in red ink, and how Ted & the Stooges will save it. The Stooges are nominal firemen, while Healy works at the store. Everyone else, save for actor Charles Winniger, have been lost to time. Considering the year this is being done (1930), they're not too, too bad. Still, if you're looking for "Citizen Kane"-style performances, you've come to the wrong place.Allow me to say something about Ted Healy. Most people have the impression that Healy was some kind of monster figure who the Stooges had to break free of. Yet something is wrong here. On one hand, the Stooges never spoke negatively of Healy after his passing, and they all worked in Hollywood for 40 more years. In addition, one can see little spots in their work with Healy that indicate some of the Stooges later routines were already in use during their Healy days. This seems to indicate that Healy had some sort of talent for at least devising comic material, if not for delivering it. This film may do little to redeem him as a comic, though you may see it different. However, if you are to believe some of the plaudits handed down to the man by others, then it is clear that we may be missing something regarding this man.Hope you enjoy the film!

mark.waltz If this is what vaudeville was, it must have been rotting by the time this film came out! It was difficult not to give it a bomb, but for historical value and the actual quality of the film's print, it wasn't impossible to watch. Charles Winninger, usually wonderful in films, plays an inventor who creates the most inane burglar alarm in film history. It's obvious that he's going to get caught in it. Frances McCoy, as the secretary, is probably the most annoying character in early talkie history. She would drive El Brendel back to Sweden! The Three Stooges play the most insipid group of firemen ever on the screen, and it is rather insulting to the profession to even see this presented on screen. A six year old Billy Barty is probably the only one to come out good in this film; His cameo is actually a bit amusing, and probably rates the two laughs I discovered in it.

Cyke 048: Soup to Nuts (1930) - released 9/28/1930; viewed 5/8/06.The National Socialists win 107 seats in the German parliament.BIRTHS: Warren Buffett, Ray Charles, Shel Silverstein.DOUG: And I thought the Marx Brothers' act was rough and unrefined in 1930. Okay, we watched Another Fine Mess with Laurel & Hardy, and I started reading about them and the other comedy teams from the 30s and 40s, like the Three Stooges. I soon found that their first movie, the Rube Goldberg-penned Soup to Nuts was released in 1930, and was out on DVD. Thus, this eleventh-hour addition squeezes its way in just before we close out 1930 for good. I found this movie to be mostly sub-par with the exception of a couple scenes near the end where Moe, Larry (looking a lot like Ringo Starr here), and Shemp really get to cut loose ("It's the Elevator Dance! It has no steps!"). Although it's advertised these days as a Stooges movie, they're just part of an ensemble, and mostly function as a foil for Ted Healy (as they would do for several more movies before ditching Ted and striking out on their own). I found most of the humor to be derivative of the Marx Brothers: Healy is Groucho, the Stooges are all Chico, Fred Sanborn (eyebrows!) is Harpo, and Stan Smith is Zeppo, complete with romantic subplot. It seems in these old slapstick comedies, the two characters who fall in love invariably turn out to be the most boring characters in the movie. I thought most of the gags to be decent at best and predictable most of the time. Much of the supporting cast is lackluster, although Frances McCoy steals the show as the chatterbox phone secretary Queenie.KEVIN: Before we wrap up 1930, we first have this little Rube Goldberg-penned comedy featuring Ted Healy and the Three Stooges. As one would expect, the Stooges were not even close to hitting their stride here in their first full-length feature, back when it was Moe, Larry, and Shemp, who are credited as nameless Firemen. They're not even the main players, as they're primarily a three-man foil for lead Ted Healy. Mostly, it felt as though they were ripping off the Marx brothers, with Ted as Groucho, all the Stooges as Chico, and silent Fred Sanborn as Harpo. There were a few very funny moments, mostly when the story stops and Ted and the Stooges take center stage, and when Otto explains his Rube Goldberg anti-burglar system (the explanation was funnier than the execution). I also enjoyed the scene-stealing loudmouth Frances McCoy, who was a special treat considering we'll never see her again. And Goldberg should stick to his day job (which is cartooning, not inventing. That's his night job).Last film viewed: The Jazz Singer (1927). Last film chronologically: Animal Crackers (1930). Next film viewed: Little Caesar (1931). Next film chronologically: The Big Trail (1930).

pcisom The film is tedious and clunky. (Howard J. Green, credited as continuity director, should never have worked in film again.) But one single scene redeems everything else (on the DVD, No. 18, Three Charming Boys). Here the film's storyline (thankfully) comes to a complete halt. In a stationary, medium shot filmed in one take, Ted Healy, Moe, Larry and Shemp recreate a vaudeville routine that is as close to seeing the Stooges live on stage as exists anywhere (unless there's still a 100-year-old audience member still alive and kicking somewhere). When Healy calls his Stoooges into the shot, he takes an instinctive step to his right, as he undoubtedly had done night after night on the live stage. The routine is more rehearsed than anything else in the film (for obvious reasons), illustrated best when Healy reads a letter Shemp has written and Shemp mouths the contents of the letter along with Healy. Stooge aficionados will be particularly interested to note that Shemp, not Moe functions as the boss Stooge.