As dubious as I find the concept, I'm still probably going to see it. Hell, I'll probably see it in theaters. It is well known amongst my peers that I have horrible taste - I own all three of Prince's movies.
The Stooges have a pretty basic formula that doesn't necessarily need the same people performing it to make the routines funny. They're not like Abbott & Costello for example.
It wouldn't bug me if they remade a few Stooges shorts that had been rewritten into a narrative. It's that there's a new Moe that I find annoying. Moe Howard wasn't just a character, he was a dude. If they were calling these Stooges Chris, Sean, and Curly Will, I'd be less bugged.
I find the concept of doing this movie not unlike doing a Rodney Dangerfield movie based on his stage persona or a new movie starring Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character. Their
schtick may have been broadly accessible but they were playing their own
characters.
Though I did
really like it when Moe poked Snooki in the eye. And I liked Russel Brand's
Arthur, and that character was another wholesale creation of a comedian adapted into film so my childhood love of the group is probably biasing me.