Let’s be completely honest and say that hamsters are not exactly the most likely heroes or villains of any movie they’ve ever been in. Speaking matter of fact they’re more like a part of the scenery more often than not. But there have been a few movies in which these fuzzy little rodents, and their cousins, have been featured as one of the more noticeable aspects simply because the moment happens to call for it. That being said however there are very few moments in which they take center stage and really drive a movie all by themselves. In various scenes they might become a big part of the movie, but then the camera pans to the star and things start picking up again. It’s not so much that hamsters can’t be the stars of a movie, it’s that people tend to get tired of the CGI that’s needed when they know what hamsters are really like.
Here are a few scenes in which hamsters steal the show for a moment.
5. Houseguest
Unless you watch the movie you might only ever get to see the hamster habitat in the trailer since clips of this movie are hard to find. Sinbad in his heyday was pretty funny, but this movie really underwhelmed at the box office like a lot of stuff he did on his own. The story is that he’s a guy on the run from loan sharks that want their money and has to find some way, any way, to keep away from them so that he can come up with enough money to pay them off. So he poses as an old friend to a man that hasn’t seen him in 20 years in order to find a place to stay and hide out for a while.
4. Dr. Dolittle
I’ll confess, Rodney is a guinea pig, not a hamster. If you’re going to ask what the difference is though, hamsters are a lot smaller than guinea pigs to start with and a guinea pig is like a 4th cousin once removed, or something along those lines. They’re both rodents, but they’re different enough to require people to know as much. In this movie however Rodney is the wise-cracking guinea pig that becomes the first animal that Dr. Dolittle knowingly speaks to when his gift returns, and the last one he wants to talk to initially. Throughout the movie Rodney doesn’t change much, though he does finally become more accepted by the good doctor.
3. The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Some people genuinely think that the second Nutty Professor was better than the first since it got a little raunchier and actually separated Buddy from Sherman. It was pretty funny to be honest and it did feature a few more jokes and situations that were insane but still humorous. Where it kind of went off the rails however was with the hamsters since having one grow to the size of an elephant was kind of overkill even by movie standards. First the thing hulks out and fires off pellets that hit like cannonballs, and then he mistakes a human hiding under a fur coat as his love interest. It got a little wacky.
2. Bolt
Bolt is the story of a dog that is fully invested in the show he’s the main part of and doesn’t know a single thing different. When he’s accidentally packaged up and shipped off to who knows where however he comes to find out that he’s just an ordinary, run of the mill dog that is the star of his own show. The hamster scene is pretty funny since Rhino, a grand name for a ball of fuzz, is introduced since the little guy is under the same impression as Bolt was before he was introduced to the real world. In many ways Rhino is like one of those diehard fans that doesn’t seem to get that anything and everything he sees on TV isn’t real.
1. G-Force
If our national security was being left in the paws of a team of guinea pigs then it’s very conceivable that things might have hit a turn for the worse quite some time ago and the last straws are being grasped at as the movie unfolds. The whole premise is that a madman is concocting a scheme to take over the world using a mechanized army that can be anywhere at anytime and go unnoticed by anyone until it’s time to strike. Creating an entire team out of guinea pigs, a mole, and a fly seems kind of interesting in some regards but altogether silly overall. This could be why the movie never really took off and why a lot of people might look at you funny if you mention it.
Yes, some of them were hamsters and some were guinea pigs. Apart from the size they do look alike.
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