Mouse Hunt . Newcity Chicago . 12-22-97

Mouse Hunt

DIRECTED BY: Gore Verbinski

REVIEWED: 12-22-97

"Mouse Hunt" is "Tom & Jerry" with human actors, an occasionally entertaining hodge-podge of cartoon violence with no soul. Scroogy chef Nathan Lane and his soft-hearted and -headed brother Lee Evans (hamming up his role like an ersatz Jerry Lewis) inherit an old mansion that turns out to be a missing architectural masterpiece, and all that stands in their way of earning millions at an auction is one wily mouse. This sets the stage for the mouse-hunting brothers to get blown up, crushed, clobbered and covered in sewage, and it's milky amusing to watch the two stooges taking it on the chin. The whiskered hero pulls off some eye-popping feats, the mouse-cam views are inventive and funny, and the ubiquitous Christopher Walken introduces a blackly comedic edge as an exterminator who will go to any lengths to catch his prey (guess what he nibbles on to determine the critter's diet?). But like the "raisins" a guest sups on during the climactic auction scene, the pointless mugging and mauling in "Mouse Trap" ultimately left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

--Sam Jemielity

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