from Columbia Pictures
Directed by
Rob Minkoff
Starring
Geena
Davis (Mrs. Little)
Hugh Laurie (Mr. Little)
Jonathan Lipnicki (George Little)
Jeffrey Jones (Uncle Crenshaw)
Brian Doyle-Murray (Cousin Edgar)
Estelle Getty (Grandma Estelle)
Julia Sweeney (Mrs. Keeper)
Dabney Coleman (Dr. Beechwood)
Michael J. Fox (Stuart Little (voice))
Nathan Lane (Snowbell (voice))
Chazz Palminteri (Smokey (voice))
Steve Zahn (Monty (voice))
Jim Doughan (Lucky (voice))
David Alan Grier (Red (voice))
Bruno Kirby (Mr. Stout (voice))
Jennifer Tilly (Mrs. Stout (voice))
Allyce Beasley (voice)
Jon Polito
Lauren Schaffel (voice)
Written by
M.
Night Shyamalan
Greg Brooker
E.B.
White (novel) |
 Stuart Little
Rated PG for brief language
Directed by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King)
Written by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) and Greg Brooker
(based on the book for E. B. White).
Starring Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki,
Nathan Lane, and Chazz Palminteri
92 minutes
Based on the favorite children's book "Stuart Little"
by E. B. White, the film version is written by M. Night Shyamalan
and Greg Brooker and follows the tale of Stuart Little, a little
white mouse who is adopted into the human family of Mr. and Mrs.
Little (Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis). Their normal son George
(Jonathan Lipnicki) wants a brother and is very disappointed
when he is introduced to his new brother Stuart who is really
just a mouse. Not only is Stuart rejected by George he is also
almost eaten by the family cat Snowbell (Nathan Lane) and thrown
into the washing machine. While George bemoans the fact that
his one chance at a brother is a mouse and his fears about whether
or not he should enter a model boat race, Snowbell plots to rid
himself of Stuart who threatens to make Snowbell the laughing-stock
of the cat world.
This movie is really cute but I couldn't help but be perplexed
at the Littles for their seemingly senseless choice to adopt
a mouse (albeit a cute one) over the scores of cute and needy
children at the orphanage. It reminded me off an "impulse
buy" in the checkout line at a big chain megastore. All
throughout the movie I couldn't help but think of the goofiness
of that fact whenever the human-sized Littles interacted with
mouse-sized Stuart ... it made it very hard to "buy in to"
the storyline. Maybe the whole concept worked well in the book,
but...
What really saves this movie is the utter cuteness of the
mouse Stuart Little (voiced by Michael J. Fox) and the legion
of cats who help Snowbell rid himself of his "embarrassment".
If only there had been more of this mouse/cat interaction Stuart
Little might have been more of a must see movie. This is one
of those "should ofs" movies... they should have focused
less on the fact that Stuart Little was a mouse adopted into
a human family and more on the adventures that a mouse could
have in a human world. Maybe they'll make a sequel based on what
worked.
Trina Ernst
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