Not sure what all the hype is about

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 1999)

I didn't know anything about the movie before I went to go see it, but was a little disappointed to find out it was based so much on fantasy. It was actually rather disturbing in a few scenes, going far beyond what's necessary to get a message across (i.e. the dry sponge scene.) A huge amount of time was spent focusing on a mouse, of all things. For a while there I was wondering if that's all there was to this movie--a mouse. I suppose it was somewhat entertaining, but I didn't find the storyline to be all that remarkable and the movie itself left me with an unsettling feeling.