A Year in Shorts Day 332: "Men in Black"
While I do consider myself a fan of classic film comedy, I’ll be the first to admit that I have some pretty glaring blindspots. Most of the films of Laurel and Hardy, for instance, or the works of Abbott and Costello. But perhaps the biggest gap in my comedy watching habits are the Three Stooges. Which is kind of weird if you think about it. After all, if the rest of their films are anything like their 1934 Oscar-nominated short Men in Black, then odds are I’ll probably like them! (via Wikipedia) Not even remotely related to the Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones vehicle of the same, Men in Black (directed by Raymond McCarey, younger brother of Duck Soup director Leo McCarey) follows the Stooges on their first day working as doctors in a hospital. If you think this is a bad idea, so does everyone else- they only graduated med school because they'd repeated their senior year too many times. An absurd premise to be sure, but Men in Black is an absurd short, so who's complaining? The ...