Mouse Hunt - Nostalgia Critic

this episode brought to you by stamps.com why go to the store to get stamps when you can have them printed right at home for your convenience [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] hello I'm the Nostalgia Critic guy remember it so you don't have too hard to believe a little over 25 years ago DreamWorks was officially created it was good buzz around it as it was founded by powerhouses Spielberg Katzenberg and that third one but it wasn't until three years later that films were finally being put out the first was an action film with George Clooney and Nicole Kidman the second and Oscar drama directed by Spielberg and the third was a kids movie directed by Tim Burton with David Fincher's Kranz Gore Verbinski how was it oh very Gore Verbinski [Music] mouse hunt was a surprise hit at the box office pulling in over 120 million internationally against a 38 million budget it was a surprise because of family film grab children's attention with a December release that's pretty common but because audiences seem to know what to make of it it was very ugly looking but advertised as bright and colorful it had a lot of slapstick though some very uncomfortable moments too what critics weren't that enthusiastic audiences we're little less not enthusiastic to this day whenever I bring the film up most people don't really know how to react to it well that's why I'm here to verbalize your thoughts on this movie and shame you if you in any way disagree this is the way so let's go back to more innocent times before Verbinski family production and hang your little boys in the first few minutes class this is Mouse hunt the film opens with a profound quote I mean we were all thinking it but finally somebody said it we start off with a funeral so again not a huge difference to how he gets things going as it looks like Rudolph's Munn says the man who died he's played by William Hickey in fact this is the last film he ever worked on and boy do they know how to pay a man proper respect [Music] the pallbearers who botched it up are his sons Lars played by Lee Evans and Ernie played by Nathan Lane they're given their fathers string factory as well as his mansion it seems the previous owner was found locked in a trunk in the update Jeff Dunham worked with puppets so long he eventually put himself away wait you can't go warning we have to go through all these papers Wow how did you slapstick go from flinging a corpse at a funeral into a sewer - egg bouncing it's like Evel Knievel following up jumping 10 buses with what's that behind your ear Ernie runs a fancy restaurant where he pretends to be French and if you're wondering how Nathan Wayne's French accent is about as good as his German but he brings his father's box of Cubans into the kitchen because every chef knows that sanitary is [ __ ] and the cockroach gets loose wonderful I have prepared the meal of custard pies seltzer water and the finest in flaming and very sharp foods now kindly have a seat next to my anvil collection the mayor eats the head of the cockroach resulting in my favorite shout in the movie that's the look of my party's leader so what thus the mayor kicks the bucket and the restaurant closes Lars has given an offer to sell off the factory but a piece of string in his pocket sets off a memory it's been that pocket for 60 years ya-ya-ya-ya-ya lord knows I've been in enough duo's what am i guessed on my own movie his father asked Lars not to sell the factory so he turns down the offer his wife gets pissed and decides to break up with him that's all you've ever had a plan please April don't go I'm not going anywhere so you may pick up the best jokes in this movie are the insanely mean ones and the worst jokes leave room for the four house laugh track yeah I was on tap once too but there's only one way to go from there and that's down baby Laura sees Ernie is working at a local diner now honestly I'm surprised he got work that fast even Denny's would say we'll call you and both of them tried to figure out what to do in a damn impressive transition nice - Saul they get the idea to spend the night in the mansion only one bed I'll flip you for it now I knew it we ran inception have fun with that film theory they share the same bed but here's something creaking upstairs I sense boom boom music that's pretty white it's only a toy and somehow it's still scarier than any cinematic Green Goblin they come across a mouse and blueprints that show the house was designed by a legendary architect named LaRue summoning every 90s character actor glass of rainwater yes mr. Falco was the world's leading collector of LaRue's the collector is thrown off though when he discovers Ernie wants to do an auction as opposed to just sell it to him some movies like a tennis match between a laugh and a cringe no like that was a laugh that was another fuller house left rack they see the mouse again later that night and Ernie decides to axe it off yes listen to me a single vermin can bring you down believe me I know he's definitely talking about that they set up a trap at the mouth warts it resulting in more slapstick hey get me my CUDA only Nathan Lane can make that line sound intimidating they place it on the trap as we witnessed get this more slapstick so here's the thing about slapstick it's usually the funniest one either something major is on the line or it looks really painful making errors fixing up a house isn't that big a stake I mean they still have kind of repair it and the physicality is either done off screen or it just doesn't look like it hurts that much at least when you compare how many times the same stick has been done but something like seeing the mouse sleep in a bed and then his home is violently invaded is pretty funny his nap is interrupted his home is being obliterated his life is intensely threatened but to the brothers it's just redecorating so every time I get excited for a good setup like this I roll my eyes when I see a bathtub thrown into the mix I bet no one's gonna be writing that soon oh also you don't smile while you're screaming in terror how dare you have fun filming this they set up a ton more traps but wouldn't you know it their escape route won't open and the mouse doesn't set off any of them that leaves net while he's down there oh no they're heading towards us let's roll into them try using a vacuum to get him but accidentally get the sewage line instead poop is a physical fart but get this the house is being foreclosed on in two days come on they didn't receive more reminders about that what was their secretary Jennifer Connelly but who cares Mouse that clearly takes number one priority so they go to the pound and yeah let's get mean again let's get Gore Verbinski mean mouse hunt own it today this is just some people get ready to eat lunch now they go looking for a cat but it looks like all the pound has is kittens we really need a ferocious feline preferably with a history of mental illness I'm talking one mean [ __ ] battle upgrade one mean [ __ ] I can say that I'm gay or wait does that make it worse they're introduced to catzilla and again the meanest [ __ ] really is the funniest [Music] says who created this character Don Bluth despite the effects being fake this really is a funny as hell bet [Music] I'm so glad they released this night or cut of the Tom and Jerry movie of course outsmarts the feline and they finally call a creepy exterminator play by who else complained this part in 1997 you gotta ask bestest all right I bet it's selling a ceiling mostly shouldn't take me more than a day but to to remove it can't tell if he's tricking the mouse or if this is just a normal walking performance normal people I'm not psychologically equipped catch mice you have to get inside mine [ __ ] deer hunter this is the most believable performance he's ever played they tell the workers they have to delay their paychecks causing them to go on strength leaving Lars to do literally the heavy lifting [Applause] dude is the stream making or Skynet you get several threads stuck in the machines while walking continues to hunt for bears I mean mices the same character defecating dining-room calcium deficiency it's Christopher Walken eating Mouse [ __ ] would be a lot more entertaining still [ __ ] bizarre but not that entertaining [Applause] [Music] this is it man this is the single I was talking about man this is gonna be the biggest hit ever you just take a listen and tell me you don't want to dance for all our sakes we need to avoid crowds any way we can right now but 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on the factory so he called them up and says he's now interested saying you'll meet them at a public location [Music] ladies have you got your gaydar crossed he loses his head and chases it getting hit by a car well back in the office Lawrence's wife finds out about him inheriting the valuable house warming I thought I could die without seeing William hickeys come face thank God Nelson was there to provide me that opportunity back at the mansion the mouse hooks Watkins cord to the van causing him to get dragged all throughout the house classic routine why isn't this funny isn't it kind of impossible to see walk and dragged through wooden boards and not get a laugh the only thing I can figure is in a cartoon you can make the character go the speed you need to make the impact of that stuff break up once again making it seem more painful here he's going the speed of a backstroke it just doesn't feel authentic the only chuckle I got is seeing that Watkins face is surprisingly weirder looking upside down than it is right side up I don't know why I thought I looked more normal flipped Ernie finds out Lawrence's wife gave them the money needed to keep the house as well as her clothes because I don't know we got to hit every screwball comedy cliche time for walk-ins what the [ __ ] line of the movie I'm going to repeat that because you deserve to know if he said what you think he said all I can say is catch me if you can would be a very different movie if that was the opening speech [Applause] [Applause] how is that not a bumper sticker everybody would get it but wait it gets funnier walkins four-quarter is left when they found him of course locked in a trunk in the Attic I'm already wishing this was the origin story to the headless horseman they once again find the mouse and chase after him but he releases the gas and of course Lars needs to light a match okay [ __ ] you made the tub work I am so sorry I was looking at your 4-year plan and not your eight-year plan in a scene so funny I actually found myself crying from laughter the two of them explained what happened but only through whimpering grunts they are so traumatized they can't even form words this is one of those movies that's actually more painful when it's funny because when it's funny it's so funny and when it's not it's kindergarten lame Gollum went back and forth less than this movie [Music] well I already know the ending the house is bought by Rob McAllister and Kevin uses it later basically to recreate the exact same scenarios it's the prequel to the prequel everybody wanted the people who made the offer before a call and Lars realizes Ernie was going to sell the factory the things I wanted to do with my life you think I didn't have ambitions of my own I wanted to be an architect I did not see that coming gets picture right grace you should have made this the poster itself as tickets but it be more honest I can't just hit him with a shovel why not he's Hitler with a tail I know it was a song in the producers and Nutcracker 3d they find they can't finish him off so they decide to mail him to Fidel Castro cuz why the hell not they get the place paid off even managed to clean it up ok and the auction finally begins how does Cinderella's fairy godmother get drunk again they went all the last time before sorry that one Jo cancel them all out but it looks like the mouse was mailed back I mean is that surprising to caster I have a mouse fetish I never got this and he of course crashes the auction no matter what happens keep going it was the first thing they said on set every day hey dreamworks doing your first kids movie be sure to put this in it'll eat great huh nobody cares or notices must be a Hollywood party that's exactly the face Nathan Lane would make in this scenario he's on the rebound cigarette lights a lady's hair on fire they try flooding the Maus out of the hole filling the room with water in a matter of seconds causing the house to collapse because physics but a heavenly light drops their father's string on them oh no movie please don't do this you were so beautifully mean-spirited and they drive to the factory which suddenly starts operating it's cheese so they transform the string factory into a cheese factory because that's naturally where the story should go I really want to talk to you about his expansion and marketing you should be our spokesperson I know some people who use the mouse as a spokesperson or who came to work out pretty well will be stealing their ideas for a few years in fact it's almost like one of our big players worked for them yeah that pictures haunted [Music] come that was Mel sent I can see why a lot of people didn't know what to make of it it's tough on the one hand there's a lot of things I really do enjoy about it I like the darker look I enjoy when it's mean-spirited there are some really good laughs and yeah I have a soft spot for those old-school slapstick comedies like Three Stooges what's up-dock and Laurel and Hardy hell the main characters are called alar is an Ernie clearly this is ascends up to that type of comedy on the other hand though when it doesn't work it feels really dated and too kid-friendly there's so many times where it feels like it's trying too hard going too big too silly cuz you know that's what they did in the Laurel and Hardy movies but when it's not trying too hard it hits just the right notes I guess that's a better problem to have somebody trying too hard as opposed to not hard enough I think when that happens the film is more likely to leave a bigger impact so I guess it depends on your mood if you're in a forgiving nature you'll find some really solid laughs and clever scenes but if you're looking for something more cynical and modern this isn't the flake to check out I guess I'm glad I saw it I mean I feel like this was written as a run-of-the-mill children's flick but gore Verbinski's direction helped give it a darker but also timeless look that elevated it a bit and that's almost the problem it could have been elevated even more I suppose you could see this movie as a mess but there's an old-fashioned feel to it I can't help but admire it's not a good movie but it has good moments and if that's enough for you it's definitely worth taking a look I'm on the Strausser Critic I remember it so you don't have to whose finish Oh best I really don't want to do this review with you and my lab I see mouse a lot okay this is happening whether I wanted to or not to just keep your tail down tail down okay so if you hear purring anywhere in this review that's why hey Doug Walker here doing the charity shout out once again we're doing one that ties into helping out with a Cove in nineteen and this week we are doing water mission uh this is a charity that specializes in getting water to places that you know don't have much water and obviously meanwhile water and what they're doing with copa90 is they're making sure that gets to first 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Length: 23min 33sec (1413 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 08 2020