Noutions
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Loui Blair
It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
Gary
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
"Yes, We Have No Bonanza" is one of the final quotes of Curly in this 1939 short film starring the Three Stooges and the film itself was named after said quote. It is over 75 years old already and came out the very year World War II started. The film runs for 16 minutes and is in black-and-white which is approximately true for the majority of Stooges short movies. Here they are in the Wild West and the title of my review refers to the very first scene, in which we see the Stooges with thick mustaches. Other than that, the story is pretty generic and similar to other Sttoges short films. The trio is working honestly to get money, but they run into a bunch of crooks and their hidden treasure. But luck is not on our heroes' side for long. The only thing missing here really are the love interests for the Stooges. This film is actually a remake of a completely unknown Jules White movie from five years earlier. And the jokes and slapstick humor in here are nothing new either. It's exactly what you see in every other Stooges film. I myself am not a huge fan of the trio, but that's just subjective. If you like other works from them, you will probably like this one too as it is one of their more known works (also because of Curly still being in here) and has a pretty decent rating here on IMDb, which is way too high for my taste. Oh yeah and people loves animals on screen back then, so a little dog can be seen occasionally too. I give it a thumbs-down though. Not recommended.
bkoganbing
It's not the old west that the Three Stooges are doing their thing in Yes We Have No Bonanza. Instead Moe, Larry, and Curly are in the more modern west of Roy Rogers B films with people using automobiles as much as horses. The boys are working as waiters, singing waiters even in a saloon where they hope to make a stake and go prospecting. Lending authenticity to this western spoof is traditional movie western villain Dick Curtis who owns the saloon the Stooges work in.Both in the town scenes and later out on the desert I have to say that Dick Curtis looked like he was as enjoying this as much as the Stooges. In a sense Curtis was like Douglass Dumbrille who was a serious villain in many films, but then did comic villains and did them well with people like Abbott&Costello and the Marx Brothers.I guess the title sort of gives it away that the boys don't get fame and fortune, just a lot of laughs.
Michael_Elliott
Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939)*** (out of 4)Set in the Old West (although there are cars here), the Three Stooges find themselves working as waiters but their goals are to marry the woman they love who also work in the bar. That's nearly impossible as the girl's father owes money to the bar owner but the boys set out to get their riches in gold and think they find it. This certainly isn't classic Stooges but there are enough funny moments here to make it worth viewing. One of the best gags is a scene where Curly throws Moe a bear, which he catches but when he tries to throw Larry one he misses and it ends up all over Moe. Other nice gags include a sequence where the boys think their mule has eaten a stick of dynamite as well as another great one when they finally discover some money. The start of the film also has Moe and Larry singing a couple songs, which are pretty good, although the woman singing with them are pretty bad. I'm not quite sure why so much of the film takes place in the 1800s yet we then get a few moments with cars that would make you think it was current times. This here really isn't that big of a deal as there are plenty of laughs.
Movie Nuttball
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 is a very funny Three Stooges western short. All of the performances are very good and Curly is hilarious! Dick Curtis performs well as the villain and Lynton Brent does as well. Also there are brief but good performances by Vernon Dent, Jean Carmen, Lola Jensen, Suzanne Kaaren. I recommend this Three Stooges short!
