BeSummers
Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.
Numerootno
A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
slymusic
Directed by Del Lord, "They Stooge to Conga" is arguably the most violent Three Stooges film ever made. Larry, Curly, and Moe are repairmen who wreck the doorbell wiring in someone's house and later bungle the neighborhood telephone wiring before they realize they've stumbled upon a Nazi hideout! Memorable sequences: This short contains the most graphic piece of Stooge violence involving Curly's climbing spike! (Almost equalling that is the circular wood blade applied to Curly's nose!) Curly and Larry pull Moe through a wall upon searching the house for a live wire. The chef, played by Dudley Dickerson, manages to steal the show with his few scenes; he gets shoved away by Moe, gets splatted with a bowl of batter, reacts to an exploding telephone, and gets a waffle iron stuck on his behind.Back in 1943, when "They Stooge to Conga" was first released, I'm sure that the excessively violent gags in this film caused theatergoers to cringe (today, those gags would be NOTHING). All I can say is this: It's a good thing all those props the Stooges used to whack each other were fake!
lzf0
This short contains the most violent gag in Stooge history. The spike from Curly's shoe goes into Moe's eye! How could Del Lord and Hugh McCollum allow such a gag? This was more in the style of Jules White. I would like to note that these "violent beyond any doubt to be funny" gags are really few and far between in the Three Stooges canon. They did make 190 short subjects for Columbia! The other over the top violent gags I can think of consist of the following: the wire, nose, ear gag in "Pardon My Backfire", the bellows gag in "Corny Casanovas", the Christmas lights down Moe's throat gag in "He Cooked His Goose", and "Half Shot Shooters" almost in its entirety. It must be noted that it was not the Stooges shorts alone that engaged in cruel comic violence. These kind of gags can be found in other Columbia short comedies, especially those directed by Jules White. Lest we forget, Stan Laurel had a cruel, violent streak in his comedy as well.
rbverhoef
In 'They Stooge to Conga' we see Moe, Larry and Curly as three fixers. They can fix anything. A woman calls for them, she wants her doorbell fixed. The men start working but instead of fixing anything they mess up the entire house. We also learn that the house is actually the secret headquarters for some Nazis.The stooges think the broken doorbell is a wire problem. After the house is a complete mess, they go outside to see if there is a problem with the wires there. They mess things up again, and a lot of people are not able to make telephone calls. Around this point they discover who they are dealing with.This is a very funny short, although it is a little slow in the middle. The scenes outside with a climbing spike are a little too graphic, I think. The start with the wires and the ending with Moe impersonating Hitler make up for that. A very nice Three Stooges short.
MisterWhiplash
The Three Stooges come back in this short after a 2 year absence from the Natzi parodies. This time though, they don't play dictators, they play fixers. They are hired to fix a doorbell, but un-beknonst to them, the employees are spies. Plenty of laughs, especially the wire sequence in the house. One of the Stooges funniest. Note- look for Lloyd Bridges as a telephone man (one of his first roles). A+
