Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Christopher Walken, Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Maury Chaykin, Vicki Lewis
Revealing mistake: When Ernest is climbing up the chimney to get the mouse, the chimney shakes/wobbles slightly, showing us that it's made of rubber.
Revealing mistake: When the mouse chews the rope to make the little elevator fall with Catzilla in it, in the shot where the elevator is going to fall you can see that the cat has been replaced by a fake cat, before the elevator drops.
Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Lars is in the string factory alone and the machinery pulls on loose threads on his clothing, there is a shot where a crewman's arm can be seen through some mesh holding the thread.
Ernie: I don't think we're dealing with an ordinary mouse.
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