crmfghtr This not only has some great Stooge schtick but lots of funny satire on old west films, modern life, even spoofing the Stooges themselves. Some bits are like a forerunner to Saturday Night Live "A Japanese Beetle?" Not my favorite Stooge feature film that goes to Hercules for its wonderful story, and great fun. However it is the funniest and most clever in delivery of humor. I like the Stooge 2 reelers a lot, seen them all. However lets face it, how many times can you laugh at Moe slapping or doing an eye poke? The feature films matured them, pun intended, into good story, cast and broader humor. The stooges morphed into whatever era situation was required to keep going. They should be proud of this, well done boys. So if you want non stop eye pokes and slaps, watch a Jules White directed 2 reeler, if you are in the mood for something different, this is for you.

jlthornb51 Perhaps the Stooges' finest work, this is a superb example of the trio at their very best. They outdo all bast efforts and enhance their legend with this, their last released film With a bit more sophistication and in many ways much more cerebral in its concept, this is comedy that will simply delight everyone. Obviously, this Stooges film had a particular influence upon Mel Brooks when he produced his own classic Western comedy, Blazing Saddles. However, no one has nor will succeeded in bringing a funnier and entertaining Western spoof to the screen than the Stooges did with their 1965 effort, The Outlaws is Coming.

maxcellus46 To paraphrase the previous reviewer's comments, if you're a Stooges fan, avoid this one at all costs! My basic question is, being the experienced troopers of comedy that Moe and Larry were, why did they insist on attempting to continue the act when it was so obvious that their home studio, Columbia, was so clearly not interested in giving them serious writers and veteran comedy directors? This movie plays like someone who's giving a pale imitation of the trio and you can see how very hard Moe and Larry are working to make every little bit of slapstick relevant. Joe De Rita, despite his background in vaudeville is just not up to the job as a replacement for Curly, Shemp, or even Joe Besser. If that's who Moe and Larry had left to pick from, they should have just closed up shop and enjoy their retirement years. Leaving us fans with better memories of far better films they had done earlier. Always leave them laughing is the motto for comedy and always quit while you're on top. Hence Seinfeld's leaving the sitcom while right up there, instead of sticking around for the inevitable decline.

slymusic Produced and directed by Moe Howard's son-in-law Norman Maurer, "The Outlaws Is Coming" is by no means the Three Stooges' greatest Western; that honor is reserved for some of their earlier shorts such as "Goofs and Saddles" (1937) and "Punchy Cowpunchers" (1950). Yet, "Outlaws" is still quite an entertaining comedy Western. The Stooges apparently wanted to make this final feature film as a tribute to the TV kid show hosts around the country who aired the Three Stooges shorts on their programs. So these hosts appear in this picture as special guests who portray all the assorted famous bandits from Bat Masterson (Ed T. McDonnell) to Billy the Kid (Johnny Ginger). Even Larry Fine's son-in-law Don Lamond, who portrays a prominent villain named Rance Roden, was a sportscaster who at one time hosted his own television show that aired the Stooge shorts. (Wait until after you see "The Outlaws Is Coming" before you read the next few paragraphs.) One of the funniest aspects of this Western is that it is rife with sixties jokes. Some examples are: 1.) a skunk named Elvis and an Indian maiden named Zsa Zsa; 2.) Larry's "Cleveland Indians" reference; 3.) Rance Roden selling a gigantic tank wagon to the Indians, guaranteed for 12,000 soldiers or 12,000 miles, whichever occurs first; 4.) sixties twist music coming from Curly-Joe's hunting horn; and 5.) the sign indicating parking hours for horses (8 to 6 except Sundays, Holidays & Hangings).Here are some other highlights from "The Outlaws Is Coming." The Stooges' Indian disguises (especially Curly-Joe's) fall apart as they attempt to dance. On two occasions the Stooges attempt to take a picture with their accordion camera, but they use too much flash powder and blow up everything in sight. Larry and Curly-Joe discover they're in the wrong hotel room while they are searching for the outlaws' guns. When Moe lectures the outlaws, he does an amusing take-off of the "Ya Got Trouble" number from "The Music Man" (1962). When Larry chats with the bartender (Harold "Tiny" Brauer), some of their words are cuckooed out. Moe accidentally sits in a puddle of glue, forcing Larry and Curly-Joe to engage in some hilarious ways of setting him free. And finally, Charlie Horse (Henry Gibson), an Indian with a southern drawl, expresses his disgust with the stereotypical Hollywood pidgin of Indians.To close, here are a couple of interesting tidbits about "The Outlaws Is Coming." First, I have never heard Moe shout any louder than he does at various junctures in this film. And second, when the Cavalry arrives at the end, Moe says, "Here they come, late as usual," which is an inside joke referring to the earlier Three Stooges short "Out West" (1947), in which the Cavalry also arrives late.