Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Christopher Walken, Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Maury Chaykin, Vicki Lewis
Plot hole: It takes less than 3 minutes to fill the house with water using a mere garden hose? I mean come on...
Plot hole: Before giving his father's piece of string to his brother, Lars kept it in his suit's pocket, however in a scene in the factory, we see that Lars' suit gets entirely destroyed and yet later on in the film, he somehow has the string.
Continuity mistake: When Ernie picks up the cereal pack and walks to the table, the mouse has chewed a hole in the pack, and cereals drops on the floor (the whole pack of cereals). And later in a shot from a different angle, the cereal is gone.
Ernie: He's Hitler with a tail. He's "The Omen" with whiskers. Even Nostradamus didn't see him coming.
Trivia: The character played by Nathan Lane says to a gentleman in Arabian dress, "Hakuna Matata," a line of Nathan's in The Lion King as the voice of Timon.
Answer: It survived because it's funny. Just like it survived everything else the brothers tried to do to it.
Grumpy Scot