Mouse Hunt 1997 Full Movie In Hindi Download

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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]

But I'm getting quite a bit ahead of myself. Let's start by acknowledging what I assume is obvious from the seemingly contradictory fact that this involves some pretty impressive talent yet has been virtually forgotten: it's not good.

That's not entirely accurate. Instead, let's say this really doesn't work, and most people without an interest in Gore Verbinski's filmography would be better off skipping it. This is Verbinski's first full-length movie, which goes a long way towards explaining both his involvement and the fact this includes some notably impressive set pieces incorporating a mix of practical and early digital effects. The scale here is a lot smaller than, say, the sequences he included in the Pirates movies, but there's a similar approach to treating mayhem like a Rube Goldberg machine. It's impressive, particularly considering this is ostensibly a wacky kid's movie.

But impressive isn't the same as good, and the discrepancy between the two may in part be due to Verbinski prioritizing what he wants to film over the needs of the film. Mouse Hunt, at its core, should be a cartoon come to life. While Verbinski's approach to action meshes well with that goal, his preference for dark, gloomy, and at times gross imagery and ideas clashes with it. The performers and story feel like something out of a children's book, but Verbinski films it like a dark adult comedy. Hell, at times he drifts close to noir or horror. That makes for an interesting movie, but not exactly a fun one.

The story here is pretty bare-bones since it mainly exists to set up Tom-and-Jerry-style antics. Following the death of their father, brothers Ernie and Lars (Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, respectively) inherit both his string factory and a rundown house he owned, neither of which initially seem all that valuable. Their father, I should note, wanted them to work together in the string factory, but Ernie has no interest in leaving his successful restaurant to do so. Unfortunately for him, said restaurant stops being successful on Christmas Eve after the mayor eats half a roach and dies of a heart attack. Meanwhile, Lars's wife throws him out when she learns he's refused to sell the flailing string factory. Having nowhere else to go, the brothers head to their father's house, where - thanks in part to a mouse they fail to catch - they find evidence the building was secretly designed by a famed architect and is worth far more than they imagined.

They get to work renovating, but of course the mouse gets in the way. More accurately, their attempts to kill the mouse get in the way, with each encounter doing escalating amounts of damage to the property, as well as enacting absurd levels of cartoon violence against the brothers. They try getting a cat and hiring an exterminator, neither of which work - it becomes clear that the mouse is smarter than anyone's giving it credit for.

Eventually, they actually do catch the mouse after inadvertently knocking it unconscious while fighting among themselves, but neither brother is able to bring himself to kill the helpless creature. Instead they put it in a box and mail it to Fidel Castro (the '90s were a weird time), only for the package to be returned for insufficient postage. The mouse winds up free during the auction, and the brothers' attempt to finally get it destroys the property.

But contrary to their initial assumption, it does not destroy the mouse, which hitches a ride under their car when they go to their factory to sleep. In the morning, they wake up to find the mouse running a block of cheese through the string machinery, resulting in a twine ball of string cheese, which is a success. At the end, we see them working together to produce the stuff, aided by the mouse who functions as their taste tester.

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