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Nostradamus didn't see this thing coming!


Best line in the movie..... Also why why why didn't they have a sequel?! Lane and Evans were great as brothers. 1997.... Maybe 2017 a sequel?!?!

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Mousehunt was a really classic-look comedy movie, Hollywood is afraid of making movies in such tone nowadays hence why we keep hearing modern pop singers in movies nowadays rather than beautiful 70s/80s hits.

This movie is made in late 90s, regardless it wouldn't do well. Sequels to comedy movies such as this one doesn't work as they're supposed to. It is 21st century, and people became spoiled, idiots evolved. My bet is that this movie wouldn't be half funny if it was made nowadays.

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You'd need a team that understands this form of comedy. Which seems to be lacking in a lot of the current regimes.

This movie was essentially a live action cartoon with good gags and word play. But if we look at say a lot of modern live action movies based on cartoons and comics a lot of them seem phobic to using some of their most popular aesthetics in live action, and instead they rely on ones from the templates they've mashed them into, which more often than not are modern Hollywood action or comedy.

A lot of this movie is on purpose goofy and zany, this kind of aesthetic doesn't try to be realistic in some respects. WHile our own opinion may vary, I think we should all agree this is an example of how one can really use cartoon elements just as they are in live action.

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