Mouse Hunt (Mousehunt) (1997)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 17
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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 7
No consensus yet.
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Gore Verbinski, the TV-commercials director responsible for the Budweiser frogs, directed this Adam Rifkin screenplay about two brothers (Nathan Lane and Lee Evans) who inherit a string factory and a decaying country home after the death of their father (the late William Hickey, in his last role). After moving in, they learn that the house has historical architectural importance and is valued in the millions. However, they are constantly tormented by a mouse within the walls. They engage in
Dec 19, 1997 Wide
Dec 1, 1998
Dreamworks
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Cast
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Nathan Lane
Ernie Smuntz -
Lee Evans
Lars Smuntz -
Vicki Lewis
April Smuntz -
Maury Chaykin
Alexander Falko -
Eric Christmas
The Lawyer -
Michael Jeter
Quincy Thorpe -
Debra Christofferson
Ingrid -
Camilla Søeberg
Hilde -
William Hickey
Rudolph Smuntz -
Christopher Walken
Caesar -
Cliff Emmich
The Mayor
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All Critics (52) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (17) | DVD (9)
A vivacious, clever slapstick comedy.
Dickens meets Wile E. Coyote.
Audience Reviews for Mouse Hunt (Mousehunt)
Super Reviewer
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- Ernie Smuntz: I don't think we're dealing with an ordinary mouse...
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- Caesar: What's tha-? Horse! Fiendish! I won't eat it!
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Foreign Titles
- Mäusejagd (DE)
- Mousehunt (UK)


Physical comedy is extremely hard and demanding thing and in my books only comedic icons like Buster Keaton or Jacques Tati has succeeded with it. But to watch actors like Nathan Lane and Lee Evans trying to be funny while running and screaming is as funny as someone farting your face.
Gore Verbinski creates an interesting milieu for his film and that creepy old mansion where most of the film takes place definetly deserved a better story than this film has.
Mousehunt is annoying as hell and frustrating to sit through. There are no innovation here, there are no laughs of anykind and there is nothing that would make it worth to watch. Kids will possibly be more comapssionate towards it but for adult audience Mousehunt is just pure torture with crappy CGI.