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Mouse-Hunt (DVD) |
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28/08/08 (81 review reads) |
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Advantages: great comical entertainment
Disadvantages: none
Director: Gore Verbinski
Producers: Bart Brown, Bruce Cohen and Tony Ludwig.
Writer: Adam Rifkin.
Stars: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken and William Hickey
Another Dreamworks effort, released in late 1997, this rather strange comedy follows two people who inherit a near derelict house only to find an unwanted resident.
**BRIEF PLOT**
Lars Smuntz, (played by Lee Evens) and Ernie Smuntz, (played by Nathan Lane), a high flying chef, are two brothers who have inherited there fathers string business but are finding it difficult to keep the business running...
Apart from the business they also inherited other thing, such as a spoon collection, a ceramic egg and a near derelict mansion, with more debts than they can deal with...
Unfortunately, for Ernie, his restaurant is shut due to an unforeseen and rather disastrous incident involving a local mayor and a cockroach...
As the brothers lives change for the worst all they have left is the factory, which Ernie wants to sell to cover the debts of the mansion, much to the horror of Lars.
When the pair end up staying at the mansion they soon discover that the building holds more secrets than they first thought.. giving them the answers to their financial dilemmas....
But, unfortunately for them, one of the secrets is a rather clever, if very annoying little rodent who lives in the walls and floors... causing the brothers difficulties in selling the building to the highest bidders...
They soon realise that the rodent must be evicted before the auction day so as not to upset the bidders...
But this is not as easy as it sounds.... as they try everything from buying a very vicious feline to eat the mouse, hiring a professional rodent exterminator and even using explosives in a very amateurish way.... with devastating consequences....
**CHARACTERS**
Nathan Lane as Ernie Smuntz
Lee Evans as Lars Smuntz
Vicki Lewis as April Smuntz
William Hickey as Rudolf Smuntz
Maury Chaykin as Alex Falko
Michael Jeter as Quincy Thorpe
Ian Abercrombie as The Auctioneer
Eric Christmas as The Smuntz' Lawyer
Ernie Sabella as Maury, the Pound Caretaker
Alex Koch as Len, a photographer
Cliff Emmich as Mayor McKringle
**IN CONCLUSION**
Your typical slapstick comedy, (a sort of Home Alone Kevin McCallister meets Mickey Mouse's smarter brother ...) and is sure to entertain everyone in the audience...
With Lee Evens on board you know it is going to be very comical indeed... and it doesn't fail at all... he plays the part of the confused, if slightly weaker brother to perfection, his ability to create laughter out of nothing is remarkable...
I have to admit that the real star of this show is the mouse... considering what the poor little rodent is put through by the brothers, including a room full of at least two hundred mouse traps all set to explode at the slightest vibration... but the little guys 'mission impossible' style to evade the traps is hilarious...especially the outcome...
Although the 'special effects regarding the mouse are sometimes a little on the tacky side this does not spoil the movie at all as the comedy outweighs the tackiness by far... Seeing the mouse as near human with feelings and emotions...leaving a nice warm glow inside every time the mouse outwits the slightly daft and ever increasingly frustrated brothers...
In all, it is a great family movie and well worth the hour and a half viewing time as you will not be disappointed...
Would I recommend this...?
Yes I would...
It is one for the entire family, maybe for a quiet Sunday afternoon, and it may just keep the kids happy and entertained, (therefore peaceful to all)...
You can get a copy from www.amazon.co.uk for less than £4.00 so you can't go wrong really...
Summary: Mickey Mouse outwits the Krankies....
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