The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Hi followers (if there's any). Today I'm gonna review a classic movie, and I say classic in both senses; old and exceptional. I don't know whether you can still get a copy of this movie but when there's a will, blablabla.

'The Mouse That Roared' is a screwball comedy that tells a story of a fictitious backwater European country; the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, that is deep in debt and trouble. Counting on the United States of America's monetary generosity towards her vanquished war enemies, the country's leader, Grand Duchess Gloriana XII (Peter Sellers) embarked on a plan to invade USA and quickly surrender and capitalise on the subsequent war reparations. However, upon arriving in New York with twenty or so soldiers who are not quite armed to the teeth with chain-mails and long-bows, the country's military Number 1; Grand Constable Tully Bascombe (also played by Peter Sellers) finds himself actually succeeding with the invasion after somehow gaining possession of the Q- bomb, a weapon of mass destruction prototype; - he is now stuck with the responsibility of looking after the table-turing yet volatile bomb. The movie shines in itself as a movie, but what also makes this movie a truly exceptional comedy is the great Peter Sellers' multiple roles as various members of (the clueless) Fenwick's aristocracy.

The GOOD:
1) The premise of 'The Mouse That Roared' is hilarious
2) Peter Sellers showcases his enormous Pre-Pink Panther comedic talent in this movie, you can't take your eyes off him

The BAD:
1) The story and the jokes peter out halfway through. You can't help drawing a comparison to Grand Fenwick's war effort itself, they can't sustain it beyond the beginning.

So my VERDICT for this movie is: 8/10.

Here's a piece of movie TRIVIA: The New York invasion sequence was filmed in Manhattan on a Sunday morning when most residents were attending Mass, accounting for the city's empty streets.