"Rockin' Thru the Rockies" is as you may have guessed from the title already a little black-and-white western short film from 1940, so this one is already over 75 years old. The names White and Bruckman tell the trained eye that here we have another Three Stooges work and this one is from the earlier days of WWII before they really got political. Curly is on board here still of course and you could easily see how they were picking him as the star here with the best material as he would get away with even more than the other two, like the bear scene. It's mostly the usual. The Stooges struggle with the snow as this is not a dusty dry western, with aggressive Indians, with their fellow white and, most of all, with each other. If you like the Stooges comedy approach, then you will like this one too I guess. I personally though though that the really funny moments here weren't frequent enough, not even for a 17.5-minute film. I guess there's a reason this one did not get remade later on. Perhaps some were struggling with the depiction of Native Americans here, but I guess for me this was the least of all problems. And it just got way too absurd at times. Realism-based comedy is really the last thing you will find in a 3S comedy, especially this one here. I give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
Review of Rockin' Thru the Rockies
