Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Lars is in the string factory alone and the machinery pulls on loose threads on his clothing, there is a shot where a crewman's arm can be seen through some mesh holding the thread.
Mouse Hunt (1997)
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Christopher Walken, Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Maury Chaykin, Vicki Lewis
Continuity mistake: When Ernie picks up the cereal pack and walks to the table, the mouse has chewed a hole in the pack, and cereals drops on the floor (the whole pack of cereals). And later in a shot from a different angle, the cereal is gone.
Audio problem: When Catzilla is chasing the mouse and gets stuck in the mousetraps and starts meowing, if you look closely at the mouth, the cat isn't really meowing at all.
Trivia: The character played by Nathan Lane says to a gentleman in Arabian dress, "Hakuna Matata," a line of Nathan's in The Lion King as the voice of Timon.
Ernie: He's Hitler with a tail. He's "The Omen" with whiskers. Even Nostradamus didn't see him coming.
Lars: Look! You blew a hole in the floor.
Ernie: And I distinctly remember somebody yelling, "Shoot! Shoot!"
Lars: Yeah, well you never listened to me before.
Ernie: I don't think we're dealing with an ordinary mouse.
Question: Is the mouse supposed to be the re-incarnation of the dead man that left the mansion to the brothers?
Question: The mouse was deliberately put in a parcel without airholes. How did it survive?
Answer: It survived because it's funny. Just like it survived everything else the brothers tried to do to it.
Question: What year does this movie take place?
Answer: There's not really an answer, because the film has sort-of a nebulous timeframe given its cartoon-like atmosphere. Ex. Everything is old fashioned in design, including architecture and clothing, but current technology is also present. It's not really meant to take place in the "real world" or a specific timeframe, so much as be a silly throwback to old comedies and especially old Laurel and Hardy films. So, the best answer to your question would be that it just sort of exists in its "own" time, so to speak - an amalgam of different time periods all put together for maximum comedy impact.
"Mouse Hunt" was not modeled on 1930s Laurel and Hardy films so much as it was a direct retread of 1940s "Herman and Catnip" and "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, which spawned many knock-offs over the decades, from "Coyote and Roadrunner" cartoons to live-action comedies such as "Home Alone" and others.
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Answer: No, it's just an intelligent and precocious mouse.
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