The Mouse Trap 2024 Horror/Thriller Movie Review

Paul  Branson

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00:00Hello everyone, my name is Paul Branson and I do many things, movie reviews, food reviews,

00:07and much more.

00:08Today I'm talking about Steamboat Whistle, and that's a Mickey Mouse cartoon, black

00:16and white, back in the 1930s or 40s.

00:20Now it became copyright free this year, and when it did, people started putting it on

00:26YouTube.

00:27Mickey Mouse, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, copyrighted it.

00:29But not the Mickey Mouse that we know.

00:32This Mickey Mouse was slightly different.

00:34It was one of the first cartoons of black and white they put out, I believe.

00:39So this particular Mickey Mouse is copyright free.

00:42So people started putting it out and getting millions of views on YouTube.

00:46All of a sudden, Disney didn't really like that.

00:49So they got their lawyers to get YouTube to take it down.

00:54Now all Disney had to do was to keep that type of Mickey Mouse away from the public

01:00so they can't do various things with it, edit it and do what they want with it, was to make

01:05a small little video.

01:07That's all they had to do.

01:08And boom, they would have had their rights to it again.

01:11But they didn't do it.

01:13With millions and millions of dollars that Disney has, and all they had to do was make

01:17another little cartoon of that Mickey Mouse.

01:22They couldn't do it.

01:23They didn't do it.

01:24So now it's public domain, a certain type of Mickey Mouse.

01:29So they made a slasher film called Mousetrap.

01:32And that's the film I'm talking about today.

01:35It just came out yesterday, so I rented it, I think it was like four bucks.

01:39And I enjoyed it.

01:40Now the reviews came out this morning.

01:42When I woke up this morning, people were giving it, I think IMBD was giving it a 2.8 out of

01:4810.

01:49And Rotten Tomatoes was giving it a 40%.

01:52I liked it a little bit better than that, because I know certain things when it comes

01:57to low-budget films, there's certain things they just can't do.

02:01I get that.

02:03I didn't like the format too much.

02:04Like when it first opened up, they had a Star Wars type thing, you know how Star Wars has

02:09that writing stuff coming down like stars all around it, and they were talking about

02:14copyrights and all that stuff.

02:16And I was like, I didn't really like that too much.

02:18I know why they had to do it, but I didn't like it.

02:23And then it went to a jailhouse, with a couple of cops talking to a woman in jail, saying

02:27what happened.

02:29So now, I don't like that either.

02:31You know how they always do that, someone's running away from the killer, and then they

02:35say five hours later, or two days earlier, and I'm not a real big fan of that.

02:42But I was okay with it, because I figured, okay, she's telling the story now, and then

02:46it will just show her ending the story, and you didn't know who survived, you didn't know

02:51who died, in a way.

02:56You knew she survived, because they were talking to this one woman, and I was like, okay.

03:01So now, it starts off a beautiful scene, when she told the story, of an arcade, an old-fashioned

03:08arcade, Fun Haven, I think they called it, or Fun Arcade, or whatever it was.

03:12But it was a nice building, and obviously, this was shot on a very low, low budget.

03:18But I didn't mind the actors, I didn't mind the storyline.

03:21The boss had to make them stay late, because there was another party coming in of eight

03:25kids, for a couple, two, three hours.

03:29But it wasn't kids that were coming in.

03:31Alex had a birthday party, and she was one of the employees there.

03:34And the other employee there left, and said she's coming back.

03:38But it wasn't kids coming at the party this time.

03:41It was her friends giving her a surprise party.

03:44Now the owner goes to the back room, and watches Steamboat Whizzy, uh, Whizzy, Whizzle, the

03:49smart cartoon.

03:50And that was kind of cool.

03:52And he had a mask sitting there, too.

03:55Now you don't really know what happens next, because obviously I'm not going to tell you.

03:59But now, Mickey Mouse, and that mask, is on somebody.

04:03And now, that somebody, and he was creepy.

04:06Mickey Mouse was actually creepy.

04:08His voice was creepy, everything about that, the kills were good.

04:13A lot of scenes were rushed, but this is the problem I had.

04:16They kept on going back and forth to, to the police station, and the woman behind the

04:23bars, going, wait a minute, that didn't make sense, you were over there.

04:27Because they were thinking, she's the killer.

04:28Was she?

04:29I'm not going to say.

04:30Because it was kind of like a thriller, mystery, slasher type film.

04:33And I didn't like that.

04:37I would have preferred leaving that out, and just go to Fairhaven Arcade, and get right

04:42into the story.

04:43And some shots should have been redone, because some of the acting is like, okay, sometimes

04:48her acting was really good, and then some shots should have been redone.

04:52But I overlook stuff like this.

04:54I believe they probably had a very rushed, they had to do this in a very fast and quick

04:59way.

05:00I get that.

05:01And the director did a good job.

05:02The music was good, and the scenes of killing was good.

05:05The character development wasn't there, but they were going for that 1980s look.

05:10And that 1980s, they didn't really have a lot of character development.

05:14You did have some character development in the 80s going, I don't want this person to

05:17die, or this person to die.

05:19But I thought it was way better than a 2.8 out of 10.

05:22I actually give this movie probably a 6, maybe a 6.5.

05:26It was a fun movie.

05:27It needed to be cleaned up a little bit, but if you like horror movies, now, yes, I do

05:32have to admit, as I said before, character development wasn't really there, but it was

05:37all about Alex's birthday party.

05:39And they got locked in Fairhaven, or whatever, Funhaven, Fairhaven, but whatever it was,

05:44they got locked in there.

05:45They couldn't leave, and weird stuff started happening, and creepy voices started happening.

05:50Would have I liked that a little bit or more earlier in the film?

05:52Possibly, but they were leading up to it, and it was nice.

05:56It was a nice feel to it.

05:58I just did not like going back to the jailhouse and back and forth.

06:02The ending paid off, and I wouldn't mind a sequel.

06:05And there were certain aspects I'm just not going to tell you, because I'd spoil it for

06:09you.

06:10I do think it's worth a watch, and I do enjoy it, so I'd give it a 6, a 6.5, overlooking

06:14a few things.

06:15All right, everyone, that's my take on that, and there's some actors, the main actors,

06:22Alex, before I let you go, she was in The Sacrifice Games, so if you haven't checked

06:27out The Sacrifice Games, I had the same feeling towards that movie as well, but it was better

06:34in a lot of ways.

06:35But I still had the same feeling, and I kind of gave it...

06:40I don't really want to say...

06:42I might do The Sacrifice Games at some other time, but I had the same feelings about it

06:47as this movie.

06:48All right, everyone, bye for now, have an incredible day, an incredible, fantastic day,

06:53and thanks for watching.

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