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Given its odd combination of [[Slapstick]] and [[Black Comedy]] in a [[Retro Universe]] setting, the movie will probably become a [[Cult Classic]] one of these days. However at the time of its release and for a number of years after, it was considered to be quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made, with many critics predicting it would put a serious dent in Nathan Lane's career.
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* [[The Ace]]: The mouse
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Ernie, played by Nathan Lane, says [[The Lion King|"Hakuna Matata"]] to a vaguely ethnic foreigner at the auction.
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** Lars initially lampshades this, which Ernie promptly mocks, though he later agrees.
{{quote|"I don't think we're dealing with an ordinary mouse."}}
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Much of what happens to Ernie and Lars (and Caesar and Catzilla).
* [[Angrish]]: The brothers have a short conversation in angrish after the first time the mouse blows them up. Followed by [[Unstoppable Rage]], a complete lack of gun safety, and the mouse blowing them up ''again.''
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: [[In-Universe]]. After repeated and increasingly extreme attempts to get rid of the mouse fail, the brothers turn on each other leading Lars to throw an orange at Ernie, missing and knocking the mouse behind him unconscious. The brothers are in disbelief.
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* [[Pounds Are Animal Prisons]]: You ''wish'' it were a prison. A little girl is forced to leave her beloved kitten at the pound where it's ''[[Dead Baby Comedy|immediately gassed to death for absolutely no reason]]''. [[Dude, Not Funny|This is]] [[Played for Laughs]]!
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: The brothers both throw this at each other, [[Failed Attempt At Drama|in a naturally poorly handled fashion]], after realizing each were making different arrangements for the factory without informing the other, as well as a particularly brutal defeat by the mouse.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The entire film seems to run on this, but moments of particular note would be the very opening scene with [[The Fun in Funeral|the funeral]], the over-the-top reaction to {{spoiler|the cockroach}} that results in Ernie's restaurant going out of business, and of course the ending -- both the false climax where the [[Escalating War]] finally takes out the mouse (it seems) and the real one with the [[Auction]].
* [[Retro Universe]]: The film has a 1940s look, but seems to take place in the present day.
* [[Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts]]: This makes up a lot of the physical comedy.
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