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MouseHunt is a 1997 American slapstick black comedy buddy film written by Adam Rifkin and directed by Gore Verbinski in his feature film directorial debut. It stars Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Maury Chaykin, and Christopher Walken. The film follows two Laurel and Hardy-like brothers in their struggle against one small but crafty house mouse for possession of a mansion which was willed to them by their father. While the film is set in the late 20th century, styles range humorously from the 1940s to the 1990s. It was the first family film to be released by DreamWorks Pictures, who released it in the United States on December 19, 1997, to mixed reviews, but was a commercial success. It has also grown a cult following in recent years.

When the once-wealthy string magnate Rudolf Smuntz dies, he leaves his factory and an abandoned Victorian mansion to his two sons; the dutiful and optimistic Lars, and venal cynic Ernie, who has ignored the family business to become a chef; he walks out of the reading of their father's will, taking a box of cigars. At Ernie's restaurant, a cockroach crawls out of the box of cigars and into a dish prepared for the mayor, causing him to have a fatal heart attack when he accidentally bites into it. Ernie's restaurant is shut down and he becomes homeless. Meanwhile, a cord company called Zeppco International offers Lars a buyout for the string factory, but he remembers he promised his father to never sell it, and refuses. Lars' gold digger wife April furiously kicks him out. With nowhere else to go, the brothers spend the night in the mansion.

The brothers cannot sleep due to noises caused by a mouse, and while investigating find blueprints of the property. The blueprints reveal the mansion was the final design of a famous architect, Charles Lyle LaRue, and it would be worth a fortune if restored. The brothers decide to renovate and auction the mansion to recover their lives. Ernie, fearing a repeat of the cockroach incident, convinces Lars they must also get rid of the mouse. Conventional methods fail when the mouse demonstrates itself to be exceptionally intelligent. The brothers resort to extreme measures to remove the mouse, including buying a monstrous Maine Coon cat named "Catzilla" and hiring an eccentric exterminator named Caesar; the mouse drops Catzilla to his death in a dumbwaiter, and drags Caesar through the mansion using his truck's winch line.

Ernie had borrowed against the mansion's mortgage to help pay for the renovations, and the bank informs them they will be evicted in two days unless they reimburse the money. With their limited funds the brothers cannot pay their workers, causing them to go on strike. Ernie finds Zeppco's business card and arranges a meeting to secretly accept their buyout offer. Lars goes to the factory to manufacture enough string to pay off the mortgage and is met by April, who has learned of the mansion's value and takes Lars back, giving him the funds they need. Ernie's meeting with Zeppco's representatives goes awry when he attempts to impress some women and is hit by a bus. The brothers return to the mansion and find it surrounded by emergency personnel, who received a mysterious 911 call of Caesar screaming from inside a trunk.

The brothers chase the mouse with a shotgun and accidentally ignite a bug bomb Caesar had dropped, blowing a massive hole in the floor. Lars overhears Zeppco on the answering machine, revealing Ernie's plans, and the two argue with the mouse watching. When Lars throws an orange at Ernie, he ducks and the mouse is struck and stunned, but is still alive. The brothers cannot bring themselves to kill it and mail it in a box addressed to Fidel Castro. The brothers reconcile and finish their renovations. The night of the auction Lars discovers the postal box returned to the mansion and a hole chewed in it, while Ernie sees the mouse on his podium as he speaks to the auctioneers. As the auction begins, the brothers try flushing the mouse out with a garden hose, filling an inner wall of the mansion with water until it bursts, washing the auctioneers out and causing the mansion to collapse. April leaves with a wealthy bidder and the brothers are left with nothing, but take solace that the mouse was surely killed in the collapse.

The brothers spend the night in the factory, unaware the mouse has survived and followed them. Seeing their sorry state, the mouse takes pity on them and activates the factory's machinery, dropping a block of cheese into the wax boiler to produce a ball of string cheese. Inspired, the brothers renovate the factory to produce string cheese and other cheese-based products. Lars runs the factory with Ernie as his chef, and the mouse as their taste-tester for new cheese combinations.

Mouse Hunt was released on VHS on May 5, 1998,[5] and DVD on December 8, 1998, by DreamWorks Home Entertainment.[6] It was released on Blu-ray on February 2, 2021, by Paramount Home Entertainment.[7]

Mouse Hunt received mixed reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 44% of 33 critics had given the film a positive review. The critics consensus reads: "Mouse Hunt gets trapped under the weight of its excessive slapstick antics."[8] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 54 out of 100 based on reviews from 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert gave the film two stars, calling it "not very funny, and maybe couldn't have been very funny no matter what, because the pieces for comedy are not in place... A comedy that hasn't assigned sympathy to some characters and made others hateful cannot expect to get many laughs, because the audience doesn't know who to laugh at, or with."[10] His colleague Gene Siskel disagreed and liked the film.[11]

Regarding the digital special effects, Ebert deemed the film "an excellent example of the way modern advances in special effects can sabotage a picture (Titanic is an example of effects being used wisely). Because it is possible to make a movie in which the mouse can do all sorts of clever things, the filmmakers have assumed incorrectly that it would be funny to see the mouse doing them."[10]

It's starting to feel more and more like fall as the days get chillier and we find ourselves grabbing extra layers! We were so fortunate to have two sunny days this past week with our Forest Playschool program.

Both Monday and Friday Forest Playschool started the same - coloring pictures of salamanders at our carpet sqaures and then embarking on a mouse hunt in the garden. Emily and I told both groups that there were over 30 mice on the loose and that it was our job to round them up. The playschoolers were VERY excited about searching high and low for these mice. Friends were surprised to find mice of all colors and patterns! The brightly colored mice were the easiest to find since they didn't camoflague as well into the environment as the solid colored, more neutral toned mice. However, it did take us a long time to find some of the bright blue mice because they were blending into our blue trail signs!

After each playschooler found a handful of mice, we placed them all on the ground and counted how many their were together to make sure we found them all. It was a great opportunity to practice counting and to view all of the mice at once.

After our mouse hunt, it was time for Morning Meeting so we returned to our pool-noodle circle to plan the day. Usuaully Emily and I will pick a playschooler to lead Morning Meeting and help plan our day, but since this was our first time together I modeled how to be the leader. I decided that we would spend our day exploring and getting familiar with Forest Camp, a play area just off the Hires Trail that has a fort, fire circle and plenty of materials for imaginative play and exploration. To get to Forest Camp we practiced walking with our pool noodles so that we would stay a safe distance apart from each other.

Friday's group is made up of returning students who were either familiar with each other, the program, Audubon and/or Emily and I. Because of this, the energy was high and the group dynamic seemed to click right away.

In the forest, playschoolers were excited to search for salamanders. It felt like we flipped over every rock and log within our boundaries until we found a Red Eft and Red Backed Salamander sitting together like two old pals beneath one of the stumps around our fire circle.

Meanwhile, the rest of the group was working on a special potion in the fort's cauldron. We gathered pine needles, acorns, ferns, pine cones, moss, lichen and any other natural materials we could. We hoped that some real witches might stop by and try our potion!

Monday's group is a bit newer to our program, Audubon and each other so they were a bit more timid in approaching each other to play. So, we started with some group activities like searching for salamanders to get us better aquainted. We were hopeful since it rained heavily the previous night that we would find lots of salamanders. Somehow we didn't find any, but we did find a Spring Peeper! This frog was no bigger than the tip of my thumb! Emily held the frog and walked around to the playschoolers so they could get a closer look.

Some of our playschoolers took care to build a Gnome Home out of sticks, bark and rocks while others invented their own imaginative game with sticks. One kiddo found a piece of wood that looks just like Vermont!

After our time at Forest Camp, we headed back to our circle to eat lunch, read a story and do 'thank you circle' before our adults arrived. A few of our playschoolers shared that their favorite part of the day was "All of it!" and "Being back at Audubon", which warms our hearts. We are so happy to have students back at the center!

MouseHunt is a popular game in which players, referred to as hunters, catch mice with a variety of traps and cheeses to earn experience points and virtual gold through passive gameplay. From time to time the developers add new locations and mice as well as sponsor thousands of dollars for periodic giveaways and tournaments. MouseHunt was developed by HitGrab Inc. as a Facebook application and released to a small group for beta testing in early 2008. On 7 March 2008, MouseHunt was officially released to the general public. Just nine months later, MouseHunt earned its creators a $250,000 development grant from Facebook and the game continues to grow in popularity.

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