For this one time, that I can think of, the "remake" is actually better than the original. The original "All Gummed Up" just stops at the birthday cake scene with everybody blowing bubbles then...that's it. It just seems normal that there should be another sequence added on to wrap up the fountain of youth concept, but there isn't. Obviously, in this version, someone in the studio actually realized the error and brought it to everyone's attention. So the ending is added where Mr. Flint demands that he wants to be young again like his newly transformed wife but it has a surprising effect on the male species. It turns them into apes! Now he turns into an angry and powerful gorilla and chases the boys around the drugstore. This is what was totally lacking in the original. That sense of urgency, tension and fear that is so much a part of a good comedy. I don't mean to discount the original and most of the footage from that one is used here but go for the remake first and then compare. You'll see what I mean. Enjoy!
10 Reviews
Fountain of youth
bkoganbing10 May 2020
A couple of veteran Stooge players are in Bubble Trouble. Emil Sitka and Christine McIntyre play their landlords.
Sitka wants to throw Moe, Larry and Shemp from the pharmacy they operate on his premises. He's one mean old skinflint. Then McIntyre comes complaining that the old skinflint is throwing her out after her giving him the best years of her life.
The boys go to work and after many tries invent some ugly looking goop that's a fountain of youth. Years come off her life.after McIntyre inhales a few slugs.
But itworks somewhat differently for men.
All I'll say is McIntyre got the best of the bargain.
Sitka wants to throw Moe, Larry and Shemp from the pharmacy they operate on his premises. He's one mean old skinflint. Then McIntyre comes complaining that the old skinflint is throwing her out after her giving him the best years of her life.
The boys go to work and after many tries invent some ugly looking goop that's a fountain of youth. Years come off her life.after McIntyre inhales a few slugs.
But itworks somewhat differently for men.
All I'll say is McIntyre got the best of the bargain.
A Step Up from "All Gummed Up"(Warning: May contain spoilers of "All Gummed Up" and "Bubble Trouble")
holme-15 May 2002
Warning: Spoilers
"Bubble Trouble" is a great step up from "All Gummed Up" since much has been corrected. The first thing that was corrected in this remake was the original's poor set-up. In the original, the bubble gum cake scene was tacked on at the end, but its fixed in this one since the bubble gum scene is placed in the middle, where it should've been in the first place. Another problem was that there wasn't too much excitement to be had here. This was fixed in the remake with a new ending which lasted 5 minutes in which the stooges are attacked by Mr. Flint, which is fast and funny. Overall, one of the most successful of the 1953-1956 remakes.
Grade: B+
Grade: B+
Good Three Stooges short!
Movie Nuttball11 March 2005
The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!
One of the most different Three Stooges shorts is Bubble Trouble. In this short are Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, and Victor Travers. The acting by these actors are good especially by McIntyre and Sitka. There are many funny scenes here that I think most Three Stooges fans will love! In My opinion this one of the most different Three Stooges shorts. There is another similar Three Stooges called All Gummed Up. I recommend both of these shorts!
One of the most different Three Stooges shorts is Bubble Trouble. In this short are Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, and Victor Travers. The acting by these actors are good especially by McIntyre and Sitka. There are many funny scenes here that I think most Three Stooges fans will love! In My opinion this one of the most different Three Stooges shorts. There is another similar Three Stooges called All Gummed Up. I recommend both of these shorts!
not much too it
jack_leiber22 April 2003
It's these type of remade dogs from the mid-50's that makes me wonder why Jules White even bothered. This short should have been titled "All Gummed Up part deux: The Director's cut" or something. But I guess this short could be worth something to those who haven't seen the original since it basically "borrows" nearly all the old footage, and Columbia has released this short on VHS & DVD (why, instead of a much better remake like 'Loose Loot' I have no idea)?!?
Grade: D-
Grade: D-
A curiosity, to say the least
louis-heyman4 July 2013
1953 marked the beginning of the decline of stooge shorts, mainly due to cost cutting measures taken by director/producer Jules White, who started taking footage from stooge shorts made in the late 1940s and editing them with some new footage & then selling them off to theaters as "new" 3 stooges films.
Good work if you can get it, I suppose, not to mention a good way to rip off the theater owners back then who thought they were getting new stooge films. But back in the days long before VCRs and DVD players were the fashion, people going to the movies back then probably didn't feel like they were getting ripped off.
As for this short, how anyone can say it's better than the original is beyond me. More than about 90% of this short is "All Gummed Up" and the little bit of new footage at the end is nothing to write home about. If I had to be brutally honest, the whole ape angle is downright lame. And I'm a big Shemp fan, but honestly the remakes were for the most part, forgettable & this is definitely one of the worst, right along with "Hot Ice" or "Flagpole Jitters".
3 out of 10.
Good work if you can get it, I suppose, not to mention a good way to rip off the theater owners back then who thought they were getting new stooge films. But back in the days long before VCRs and DVD players were the fashion, people going to the movies back then probably didn't feel like they were getting ripped off.
As for this short, how anyone can say it's better than the original is beyond me. More than about 90% of this short is "All Gummed Up" and the little bit of new footage at the end is nothing to write home about. If I had to be brutally honest, the whole ape angle is downright lame. And I'm a big Shemp fan, but honestly the remakes were for the most part, forgettable & this is definitely one of the worst, right along with "Hot Ice" or "Flagpole Jitters".
3 out of 10.
Better than All Gummed Up
csweetleaf210 April 2003
Even though I haven't seen this stooge short in about 2 years, it's a pretty short even though we don't get to see the new footage until the last 4 or 5 minutes of the short and that's when it becomes a classic (I never cared for All Gummed Up and I think that short was Shemp's weakest of the 1940's).
In the original Emil Sitka shrank after trying to drink the fountain of youth but in this short, he becomes a gorilla and grabs Moe and starts banging his head on the floor and his head becomes a squashed pancake and Moe and Larry suggest that the gorilla needs a mate and they get Shemp to try it and Shemp shoves it inside Moe's mouth and he does a chimp impersonation.
Not of one of the better remakes from the 1953-56 period but the gorilla scene makes it a classic, 2.25 out of 5 stars.
In the original Emil Sitka shrank after trying to drink the fountain of youth but in this short, he becomes a gorilla and grabs Moe and starts banging his head on the floor and his head becomes a squashed pancake and Moe and Larry suggest that the gorilla needs a mate and they get Shemp to try it and Shemp shoves it inside Moe's mouth and he does a chimp impersonation.
Not of one of the better remakes from the 1953-56 period but the gorilla scene makes it a classic, 2.25 out of 5 stars.
Drug store Stooges
Horst_In_Translation23 December 2017
Warning: Spoilers
"Bubble Trouble" is an American 16.5-minute live action short film from 1953, so this one has its 65th anniversary next year and if you take a look at the people who worked on it in front of as well as behind the camera, then you will find names that make it obvious that here we got another Three Stooges short film and I am not just talking about the lead trio. This is from the days when Shemp had not only taken over from Curly, but Curly had already died sadly and Shemp's death wasn't too far away either. All the Stooges are in their 50s in here. It is a remake of an older Stooges short with some alterations here and there, but as a whole it is really close. In here they are in trouble with the guy they got their lease from, but his wife is more fond of our three "heroes". And an invention may actually bring them glory as they may have come across a miraculous elixir that provides its user access to the fountain of youth. No surprise the antagonist wants his share of it too. Comedy here is typical Stooges and there are some okay moments in here I guess. However, as a whole it was simply done in the past already and comes short in terms of innovation. Besides, it needs to be said that the effects here, such as the woman's transformation, are extremely disappointing. Méliès had done better half a century earlier. So all in all the flaws are bigger than the pros I must say and while I am not one of those Shemp haters, I cannot give the gang a thumbs-up here. I may be a bit biased as I have probably never been the greatest Stooges lover, but this one gets a negative recommendation. Only watch it if you love the Stooges.
Better than the original
slymusic23 January 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Directed by Jules White, "Bubble Trouble" is a fine and funny Three Stooges short. A remake of "All Gummed Up" (1947), it contains much stock footage from that short as well. Most of the Stooge remakes from 1953 to 1956 are not nearly as good as the originals, but "Bubble Trouble" is one of the few exceptions, and there are two reasons for this. First, "All Gummed Up" actually ENDS with the bubble-gum-on-the-cake gag, leaving the short somewhat out of balance (as one Stooge author wrote, it was a sign of poor judgment on the part of Jules White). Second, the original short has the Stooges' grouchy old landlord Amos Flint (wonderfully played by Emil Sitka) transform into a baby when he tries the boys' fountain-of-youth serum. So Jules White must have figured that "Bubble Trouble" would be a lot funnier if the bubble gum gag was placed in the middle and if Flint transformed into a talking gorilla. White was correct in his assumption.
Undoubtedly the main highlights of "Bubble Trouble" are the two key gags mentioned above. In another classic Stooge moment, the boys mix all kinds of weird ingredients to make their serum, and they shake up the concoction in an old boot (a gag used in other Stooge shorts as well). And please, let us not overlook the contributions of Emil Sitka as the hilarious Amos Flint (whether a human or a gorilla) or Christine McIntyre as Flint's wife Cerina, who turns into a lovely young woman upon tasting the boys' serum. McIntyre even gets a chance to use her beautiful soprano voice, as she does in a few other Stooge shorts, too; when Cerina proudly carries her cake out of the back room, she sings the first two lines of "I'll Take Romance," written by Ben Oakland and Oscar Hammerstein II.
To summarize, "Bubble Trouble" is a must for all Three Stooges fans.
Undoubtedly the main highlights of "Bubble Trouble" are the two key gags mentioned above. In another classic Stooge moment, the boys mix all kinds of weird ingredients to make their serum, and they shake up the concoction in an old boot (a gag used in other Stooge shorts as well). And please, let us not overlook the contributions of Emil Sitka as the hilarious Amos Flint (whether a human or a gorilla) or Christine McIntyre as Flint's wife Cerina, who turns into a lovely young woman upon tasting the boys' serum. McIntyre even gets a chance to use her beautiful soprano voice, as she does in a few other Stooge shorts, too; when Cerina proudly carries her cake out of the back room, she sings the first two lines of "I'll Take Romance," written by Ben Oakland and Oscar Hammerstein II.
To summarize, "Bubble Trouble" is a must for all Three Stooges fans.
Great remake, almost better than the original.
crusefamily7 February 2002
Although BUBBLE TROUBLE may contain a large amount of old footage from ALL GUMMED UP, I think this is great. The last five minutes of the short is changed into a scene where Amos Flint turns into a gorilla and fights the Stooges. One of the Stooges best remakes.
There's also about two seconds worth of stock footage from CORNY CASANOVAS. Amos Flint pushes Shemp against the wall. A flowerpot falls from the wall and lands on Shemp's head. Compare the scene of the flower falling off the wall to CORNY.
A great remake. Purchase this TODAY!
Grade: A-
There's also about two seconds worth of stock footage from CORNY CASANOVAS. Amos Flint pushes Shemp against the wall. A flowerpot falls from the wall and lands on Shemp's head. Compare the scene of the flower falling off the wall to CORNY.
A great remake. Purchase this TODAY!
Grade: A-
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