Mousehunt
Saw this at a friend's place yesterday.
Wasn't really keyed up to see it, but it surprised me.
It's a really funny and visually appealing film.
The story is about these two guys (Nathan Lane and another actor I've never heard of) who are brothers who are looking to take over their dying father's string factory. It's set in the 20's (I think) and they also take over an old falling-apart house with a mouse living in it who takes no prisoners.
They set up many many mousetraps that the mouse always seems to avoid, and he even leaves the pit from one of the olives that was bait. His brother is incredulous: "He left the pit!"
Nathan Lane explains to his brother how mice have no sense of irony: (paraphrasing) I don't think he's sitting in a smoking jacket enjoying a cognac and giggling to himself "I left the pit!"
A series of zany mishaps occur at the house while the two brothers renovate the house and work on making the factory profitable. They hire Christopher Walken (Caesar the Exterminator) to root out the pesky mouse, and he's got more gear than a ghostbuster.
He's so good at catching mice that he can tell by their droppings whether or not the mouse is male or female. And he even eats one and notes "a calcium deficiency" in the mouses' diet.
Hilarious.
And the scene with "Catzilla" made me laugh hard.
Gore Verbinski directed (he did the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy) and it is very kinetic, with great production design, camerawork, costumes, sets and special effects. I really enjoyed it.
I don't seek out these types of films but my friend had the DVD and so we checked it out.
Great movie. Very entertaining.
Last edited by Johann; 06-21-2009 at 01:57 PM.
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