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Have Rocket, Will Travel

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On the grounds of the National Space Foundation, maintenance workers Moe (Moe Howard), Larry (Larry Fine) and Curly Joe (Joe DeRita) help director J.P. Morse (Jerome Cowan) and scientists Ingrid Naarveg (Anna Lisa) and Ted Benson (Robert Colbert) when their rocket fails to launch. In the laboratory, Larry accidentally develops fuel for the rocket and, along with the monkey intended for the original trial, the three men launch themselves to Mars, where a series of creatures and adventures await.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 07/25/2009
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It has the same amount of slapstick, but the Stooges are older and there's not enough yuks ... . Go to Full Review
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04/13/2022 Funny and original!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more 02/01/2019 The best comedy movie ever made! See more 07/22/2012 This film will exceed your expectations, if your expectations for a science fiction film starring the Three Stooges are appropriately low. See more 02/02/2012 Love the giant spider. See more 05/15/2011 It had been a LONG time since I saw this film and to tell the truth I thought I remembered more than I did. This was the first Stooges feature after their break with Columbia and first film appearance of Curly Jo as the third stooge. They play janitors who accidently get sent to Venus where they meet a talking unicorn and a robot who has conquored the planet and converted most of the inhabitants to energy. So now the robot is lonely and creates copies of the Stooges to keep him company. By no means a great film, weak stooges are better than no stooges and I'm sure is far better than the "new" 3 Stooges movie will be. Enjoyed the Stooges singing (a rarity) and the robot giving them the old triple slap. "Maverick" star Robert Colbert plays a scientist in this with dialogue funnier than a lot of the comedy moments in this film. Guess that's what happens when you don't hire a comedy writer to write a comedy. The writer of this film mostly wrote westerns and "Dr. Kildare" episodes--the perfect writer for the Stooges, right? At least Curly Joe fits in seamlessly and this put the stooges back to work for one last hurrah. See more 03/04/2011 The first of the "Curly Joe years" features, "Have Rocket Will Travel" announces the arrival of a new, kiddie-friendly version of the Stooges to get in on teh financial action of thsi new TV generation that had discovered all of teh classic shorts. Columbia Pictures did not share any of the profit form the syndication rights with and of the stooges. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis On the grounds of the National Space Foundation, maintenance workers Moe (Moe Howard), Larry (Larry Fine) and Curly Joe (Joe DeRita) help director J.P. Morse (Jerome Cowan) and scientists Ingrid Naarveg (Anna Lisa) and Ted Benson (Robert Colbert) when their rocket fails to launch. In the laboratory, Larry accidentally develops fuel for the rocket and, along with the monkey intended for the original trial, the three men launch themselves to Mars, where a series of creatures and adventures await.
Director
David Lowell Rich
Producer
Harry A. Romm
Screenwriter
Raphael Hayes
Production Co
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 28, 2016
Runtime
1h 16m