The Mouse that Roared, the Sequel

The clever amongst you will recall the classic Peter Sellers film The Mouse that Roared, wherein our hero plays multiple roles in the saga of the Duchy of Grand Fenwyck, a small principality whose livelihood is imperiled by the post-war import of Australian wine, and therefore decides to attack America in the hopes of losing, so as to secure Marshall Plan like financing from our magnanimous land. So it sends an army in chainmail on its one ship to New York, only to land while everyone is underground while a scientist is dealing with some problems with his master nuclear bomb. They take the bomb and the professor and his very pretty blonde daughter back to Grand Fenwyck, and hilarious hijinks ensue.

Our new version would feature a bank that sets out to fail, in order to assure a rescue by the Fed. This time the Peter Sellers characters -- played by Alan Cummings -- would contrive to engineer a portfolio so contrarian and bad it would have to fail... but the market turns and great riches befall them.

OK, so it's hard to spin this plot out into more than an SNL skit. Unless, unless, we could use Woody Allen to enlist Scarlet Johansen in the role of the very pretty blonde daughter, such that hilarious hijinks could ensue.