Thebrothers return home only to find the police outside. The police came after a 911 call was made from the house where screaming could be heard and the cops found Caesar trapped in the attic in a trunk. The brothers enter the house and find it completely wrecked.
They get a voice message from La Corda Nostra which causes a huge argument between the two brothers, Ernie furious that Lars hid the offer from him and Lars furious that Ernie tried to go behind his back. This culminates with Ernie throwing a small orange at Lars which accidentally hits the mouse who was scurrying past on the mantelpiece, knocking him unconscious.
Talking about controversial actors is never easy. I myself am writing about Arthur T Troll, who famously showed up to film Fellowship of the Ring the day after a week long trip to Vegas, drunk off his arse, swaying from side to side, almost impaling Elijah Wood, and how Peter Jackson was forced to use footage of the cast subduing him, animating arrows over the elephant tranquilizer Orlando Bloom finally felled him with.
I saw this movie once, with a friend in high school. The only thing I remembered was the scene at the cat pound where a child is dragged down the hallway, screaming for their cat, while the cat is being gassed in the other room. The scene has stuck with me and occasionally leaps into the front of my mind to horrify me again.
Interestingly enough I was just watching a CNN documentary on Snuffly Whiskerwinks, how he was inspired by Sniffles the Mouse (I had no idea he became attracted to acting because of the similarities of their names), meeting his wife on the set of Fiddler, and of course the long spiral down. You know you watch some of those old interviews he did and they seemed funny then but not so much now. Makes you wonder how many of those were jokes and how much of it were quiet cries for help.
Of all the Disney sequels, the ones that I am least likely to compare to unanesthetized root canal surgery are the Aladdin sequels. Helps if I view them more as the pilot and finale to an overall decent 90s television series, rather than as successors to one of the best animated films of all time.
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