DVD Movie Rating for: Mouse Hunt

5 out of 5 stars

Movie Plot of: Mouse Hunt

A family film about a mouse that lives in an old house where the geriatric owner dies, and Nathan Lane and Lee Evans (I) have plans for, but they have trouble getting rid of the mouse. It's like Home Alone with a mouse

DVD Production Details of: Mouse Hunt

Starring: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans

Director: Gore Verbinski

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Dreamworks Skg

DVD Release Date: March 4, 2003
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Production notes

Theatrical trailer(s), TV spot(s)

Deleted sceness

Stunt footage

Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats

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Mouse Hunt

Cast of the movie: Mouse Hunt

• Nathan Lane .... Ernie Smuntz
• Lee Evans .... Lars Smuntz
• Vicki Lewis .... April Smuntz (Lars' Wife)
• Maury Chaykin .... Alexander Falko (Mr. Falko)
• Eric Christmas .... Ernie and Lars' Lawyer
• Michael Jeter .... Quincy Thorpe
• Debra Christofferson .... Ingrid
• Camilla Søeberg .... Hilde (Bus-Terminal Bench Lady)
• Ian Abercrombie .... Auctioneer
• Annabelle Gurwitch .... Roxanne Atkins
• Eric Poppick .... The Banker
• Ernie Sabella .... Maury, the Cat Care Society Owner
• William Hickey .... Rudolph Smuntz (The Father of Ernie and Lars Smuntz)
• Christopher Walken.... Caeser, the Exterminator
• Cliff 'Fatty' Emmich .... Mayor McKringle (Very Fat Mayor)

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Reviews of the movie: Mouse Hunt

They've tried Catzilla, a feline so ferocious it can't be euthanized. They've tried booby traps that Rube Goldberg would marvel at. They've even tried Caesar (hilariously played by Christopher Walken), a demented exterminator whose "Squeak Seeker 2000" mouse-cam will infiltrate even the cleverest rodent's secret lair. But the Smuntz brothers Ernie (Nathan Lane) and Lars (British comedian Lee Evans) just can't win against the tenacious mouse that wreaks havoc in the vintage home they've inherited from their father. That's the one-note premise of this chaotic, lavishly produced comedy that starts on a high note and never lets up, eventually leaving the viewer exhausted. The special mouse effects (live-action, animatronic, and computer-generated) are delightful, and the slapstick is frequently ingenious, but the title says it all in a movie that is little more than an elaborate variation of Home Alone. A prime choice for family fun, but it's really just a live-action cartoon that overstays its welcome. It's harmless fun if all you're looking for is a marathon of slapstick gags and pratfalls, and it's notable as the final film appearance of veteran character actor William Hickey, who died in June of 1997, shortly after filming of Mouse Hunt was completed.

What a pleasant comedy! Here's a movie that brings back a subject which was specific to the cartoons from the forties and fifties: the game of the cat and the mouse. Here, there's a real mouse and the cat is epitomized by the Schmuntz brothers who wish to get rid of her in order to sell an old but expensive house. The more the film advances, the more the traps prepared by Lars and Ernie Schmuntz are worked out: it begins with the simple, trivial trap: the mousetrap and it ends with the appearance of the mouse-exterminator ( an unexpected and irresistible Christopher Walken). In short, what it seems to be a child's play at the beginning of the movie, ends up becoming a merciless fight in which there'll be no winner, no loser... Gore Verbinski adopted an inventive and clever making and he rightly choose his actors. Nathan Lane and Lee Evans form an ideal duo, not very far from the legendary Laurel and Hardy. They've got a different personality but are united to kill this mouse. Moreover, the movie doesn't only focus on this "mouse hunt" but also on the Schmuntz brothers' efforts to earn money in order to save their father's string factory ( a world without string is chaos...). Let's add some hilarious and efficient gags ; the movie pays a tribute to Tex Avery. Dialogs that kick the bull's eye and some cues are powerful such as: "in this mouse's mind, you are the intruders" says Walken to the Schmuntz brothers. At last, the real mouse is, of course, a little pest (she's even compared to Hitler with a tail) but in parallel, Verbinski attempts to make her touching. At the end, a comedy without too many claims but efficient enough to please to a large public.