History Film / MouseHunt

1997 directorial debut of GoreVerbinski, who later gave us the ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' films. This was also one of the first movies released by a fledgling little company called DreamWorks and the one which established their rivalry with {{Disney}}. One wonders if they made the film center around a mouse just to be ironic.

* AntiClimaxBoss: After repeated and increasingly extreme attempts to get rid of the mouse fail, the brothers turn on each other leading Lars to throw an orange at Ernie, missing and knocking the mouse behind him unconscious. The brothers are in disbelief.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When it's mentioned that the last owner of the house was found in a trunk in the attic, it's not

* KillerRabbit: The mouse. The last owner of the house before Smuntz Sr. was found dead locked in a trunk in the attic. This seems vaguely unsettling until the ambulance picks up Caesar the Exterminator halfway through the film. He was found the same way, except this time the mouse decided to be nice and call 911. Not to mention the rest of the stuff it does to Caesar and the Smuntz brothers.

* SelfMadeMan: Mr. Smuntz.

1997 directorial debut of Gore Verbinski, who later gave us the ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' films. This was also one of the first movies released by a fledgling little company called DreamWorks and the one which established their rivalry with {{Disney}}. One wonders if they made the film center around a mouse just to be ironic.

Directorial debut of Gore Verbinski, who later gave us the ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' films. This was also one of the first movies released by a fledgling little company called DreamWorks and the one which established their rivalry with {{Disney}}. One wonders if they made the film center around a mouse just to be ironic.

This movie contains the following tropes:

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The brothers both throw this at each other, in a naturally poorly handled fashion, after realizing both were making arrangements for the factory without the other as well as a particularly brutal defeat by the mouse.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The brothers both throw this at each other, in a naturally poorly handled fashion, after realising both were making arrangements for the factory without the other as well as a particularly brutal defeat by the mouse.

How about the fact that that Nathan Lane says Hakuna Matata.....

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse? In a literal sense. Near the end, the mouse disappears, but eventually [[CapeFear is seen hiding under Ernie and Lars' car]].

* AxCrazy: Catzilla.

* WellDoneSonGuy
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse? In a literal sense. Near the end, the mouse disappears, but eventually is seen hiding under Ernie and Lars' car.

** Isn't that kind of the point, thought? In the end both the brothers ''and'' the mouse end well.

* HandOrObjectUnderwear: The outcome of the above-mentioned string factory episode. Ironically, the balls of thread Lars uses to cover his crotch appear to actually be his clothes in their unraveled form. Heh, heh, [[IncrediblyLamePun balls]].

* HandOrObjectUnderwear: The outcome of the above-mentioned string factory episode. Ironically, the balls of thread Lars uses to cover his crotch appear to actually be his clothes in their unraveled form. Heh, heh, [[IncreadiblyLamePun balls]].

* HandOrObjectUnderwear

* NightmareFuel: The painting of their father is moody throughout the film, but then magically changes to a grin, when the sons finally work together for real. In intention, a beautiful event to show the father being proud of his sons even after death, but ''the goddamn painting changes through supernatural forces''. Not intentionally scary, but if you think about it, it's chilling.

-->''This is Nathan Lane. You loved him in'' TheBirdcage.

-->''"These are the cha-cha twins. They are not in ''Mouse Hunt''."''

**Lars initially lampshades this, which Ernie promptly mocks.