Mouse Hunt . Tucson Weekly . 01-12-98

Mouse Hunt

DIRECTED BY: Gore Verbinski

REVIEWED: 01-12-98

You know that Coyote and Roadrunner cartoon where Coyote is trying to kill Roadrunner but his trap backfires, and he falls off a cliff, and then in the next scene he's fine and tries to kill Roadrunner again, but his trap backfires, and he falls off a cliff, and then that same thing happens again and again and again until you just wish that someone at Acme would invent a device that once and for all finished off the two of them so you could just stare at the empty desert landscape? Well, if you edited out anything that was remotely funny in that cartoon, and then repeated the remaining scenes another four hundred times, you'd have made a film that was almost infinitely more entertaining than Mouse Hunt. For my part, I ran screaming from the theater after the fifth repetition of the hunters-fall-into-their-own-trap "gag," but I hear that many who stayed to the end were forever scarred, and can only walk the desolate back alleyways of life, dreaming of a better world where films have plots, characters, and even some vague sense of craft.

--DiGiovanna

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