Stream it:
|
Own it:
|
With: Simon Phillips, Sophie McIntosh, Madeline Kelman, Ben Harris, Callum Sywyk, Mireille Gagné, James Laurin, Kayleigh Styles, Mackenzie Mills, Jesse Nasmith, Allegra Nocita, Damir Kovic, Nick Biskupek, Wyatt Dorion
|
Written by: Simon Phillips
|
Directed by: Jamie Bailey
|
MPAA Rating: NR
|
Running Time: 80
|
|
Date: 08/06/2024
|
|
|
|
Slipped a Mickey
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
An atrocious, unbearably awful slasher movie and a thoughtless cash-grab involving beloved characters that have entered the public domain, this absolute waste of time and effort should be avoided.
Rebecca (Mackenzie Mills) has survived some kind of tragedy that has resulted in many deaths. She's interviewed by police detectives Cole (Damir Kovic) and Marsh (Nick Biskupek), and tells her story. Alex (Sophie McIntosh) works at Fun Haven, an entertainment center. Her boss, Tim (Simon Phillips) asks her and co-worker Jayna (Madeline Kelman), to stay late for a private party. Jayna talks Alex into letting her leave to go on a date.
The party turns out to be a surprise birthday party for Alex, thrown by her friends Marcus (Callum Sywyk), Marie (Allegra Nocita), Ryan (Ben Harris), Danny (Jesse Nasmith), Paul (James Laurin), Jackie (Kayleigh Styles), Gemma (Mireille Gagné), and Rebecca. The begin drinking and having fun, but unfortunately, a killer in a Mickey Mouse mask is in the building, and begins picking them off one by one.
Like the two Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey movies, The Mouse Trap is based on a property that, after 95 years, no longer falls under copyright, and that property is the first "talkie" Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie (1928). The Fun Haven manager sits down to watch it, hears sinister voices, and then puts on a Mickey mask and starts killing people.
For some reason, he can also teleport.
Then we have the characters, the friends, who — as is the case in so many other bad slasher movies — don't seem like actual friends. They are interchangeable, and their acting is amateurish at best. The wraparound segments with the police detectives are completely useless, and were clearly added as padding to stretch the movie out to 80 minutes.
Finally, to add insult to injury, there's no real ending. The movie more or less just… stops. It's so bad that it even makes Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey look decent, which is no easy feat. As one character wonders at one point, "is this some terrible subplot of a bad slasher film?" Indeed.
|
