The Mouse Trap (2024)


 Late last year when Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey came out, I said this was the beginning of childhood movies that we grew up with turning into slasher films. I wasn't particularly impressed with Pooh when I saw it and yet, there's a sequel and I have no intention of watching the sequel. At the time of this writing, a new universe is in the works called The Twisted Childhood universe which started with Blood and Honey followed by Bambi, Peter Pan and maybe Pinocchio.

I'm not here to talk about that universe. I'm here to talk about Micky's Mousetrap. The story concerns a group of friends celebrating the 21st birthday of one of their friends at an arcade when they run into Mickey Mouse and he begins slaughtering them one by one. Will anyone survive?
I'll admit I was intrigued by the plot mainly because all I kept hearing was Disney's copyright on Mickey Mouse expired so the filmmakers of this movie set out to make a slasher movie. The film itself while low budget had some interesting moments but I felt it petered out when it got to the ending. I've seen my fair share of slasher movies over the years and when it comes to characters, I want to be able to like or hate them. A brown paper bag has more personality then the characters in this. I didn't care for any of them and I just wanted Mickey to kill them. I found it amusing at one point that the boss of the arcade had a small 35mm projector and was watching Steamboat Willie the very first Mickey Mouse cartoon.
Was it a fun slasher? Yes & no. Yes, because you get to see people run around trying to survive the situation they're in and no, because the characters lacked any sort of personality and were nothing more than your typical cliche.
2/5



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