12 oz. Mouse

Absurd, crude, poorly animated, and random are all words you will hear on the streets of the Internet about a little television show called 12 Oz Mouse. Though the previous words all do describe the show (very accurately) they forget to suggest that it is also one of the smartest and most complicated shows to have ever existed. Adult Swim recently turned out Matt Maiellaro’s personal masterpiece, taking it from the serial/episodic format that it held on Cartoon Network, and morphed it into a full length movie, timing out at just under four hours, and spreading over two DVDs just to contain it. The series enclosed more laughs than most comedic shows, and packed in plenty of action and thriller elements to create the story of a little, green, drunk mouse living in a cardboard city, breaking the fourth wall just about every few minutes. The plot itself is a little hard to comprehend, as everything related to the intricate storytelling is so miniscule in comparison to the plain focus of the characters. Mouse and Skillet, his little chinchilla friend with a love of lounge music, pick up odd jobs to pay for beer. They subsequently end up meeting new people, making new friends and ultimately waging war on the powers that be. The finished product of the movie comes across as if David Lynch would have produced an animated comedic version of Pulp Fiction, and surprisingly, it is a thousand times better than it sounds.

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