I'm nowhere near ready to see the Farley Brothers' Three Stooges remake that's coming out next year. Not only will it probably replace the Stooges normally funny antics with unfunny toilet humor, but it also will feature a cameo by (*gulp*) the cast of Jersey Shore.
On the one hand, I could see the Stooges doing toilet humor anyway... but other than that, I HATE the Farley Brothers. Dumb and Dumber was the unfunniest of Jim Carry's original 3 big movies (The Mask and Ace Ventura being the other 2) and the only film they did I liked was Osmosis Jones, but ONLY for the animated sequences.
I know Cartoon writer Jeffery Scott (Moe's grandson) was trying desperately to make a new Stooge project. There's a bunch of unwritten pilots for something called "Wee Stooges."
Somehow this is just wrong. It's like recasting the Marx brothers. I mean, there was the telefilm, but that was biographical. And clearly a LOT better than this could ever be.
Still, I wonder how this compares to crap like The Three Robonic Stooges.
As for HKP... I don't see any positive stuff coming out of this for people who will think the movie sucks. I mean, at least with the Smurfs we got the comics, Alvin and the Chipmunks gave us crappy overpriced single disk releases of the cartoon. Hong Kong Phooey was already released in its entirety on DVD (I have it)... and if there's any merchandise, I bet it looks exclusively like the movie.