While Stuart Little 2 doesn't rank quite as high as some of my favorites such as Toy Story or A Bug's Life, it's still an all-around fun movie, and I'd put it easily on a par with an animated feature like Antz. There are even a few moments in the climactic scenes that are truly tense or poignant, more so than I might have expected. The characters genuinely come to life, from Stuart himself to Margalo, Falcon, Snowbell, and Snowbell's alley-cat pal, and I found myself feeling a part of their adventure as the film unfolded. The story itself is quite entertaining, with enough creative elements to keep adult viewers enjoying it just as much as the younger set, or maybe more, as I think adults will be the ones to enjoy Snowbell's commentary to the fullest. The mouth movements are evidently rendered by the use of CGI, and are well-done, giving them convincing speech without overdoing it.
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For the live-action cats, I was impressed with the smooth integration of their performances into the movie it can't have been easy to get the necessary behavior onto film. Margalo and especially Falcon are also modeled extremely well: Margalo is slightly more "cartoonish" in her features (necessary, I think, in order to give a bird face enough range of emotion) but Falcon is eerily realistic. Stuart himself is an amazing piece of CGI animation, with his fur absolutely realistic to the point that I just wanted to reach out and pet him on his cute little soft head, and his facial expressions modeled exquisitely, giving him an excellent range of emotions. Visually, Stuart Little 2 is extremely polished. The film Stuart Little 2 takes some of the interesting story elements from the book and makes them into a much tighter overall narrative. The novel Stuart Little is an odd and in some ways rather unsatisfying story, reading like a miscellaneous collection of adventures about Stuart but with a very open (and in my opinion, unsatisfying) ending tacked on. Normally I tend to be in favor of film adaptations following their source materials closely, but in the case of Stuart Little 2 I can see that the loose nature of the adaptation makes for a much better film than a straight book-to-film script could have. The whole loving picture-book family could have been sickeningly sweet, except that they're rendered with an affectionate humor that recognizes that this is indeed a storybook world. Anyone who has had an overprotective parent will find the ring of truth in Mom's panicky but well-intentioned smothering of Stuart, and Dad steps in as the "perfect husband and father" who backs up Mom when it counts but is willing to let Stuart let go of Mom's apron strings. The Littles' home is gaudily decorated with bright, sunny colors, visually representative of the sunny personalities of Mom (Geena Davis) and Dad (Hugh Laurie), who are just enough over the top as parents to be funny but not so much as to be overdone. These elements are woven together into an entirely different story, however, with Margalo a much more important character with a past history that ends up drawing Stuart into a life-threatening adventure.įrom the very beginning, Stuart Little 2 creates a stylized, fairy-tale world in which everything is slightly larger than life. White: the cat Snowbell, the songbird Margalo (Melanie Griffith), and several minor incidents such as his adventure in the kitchen drain pipe, landing in the garbage barge, and having a tiny toy car to drive.
In addition to its title character and his family, Stuart Little 2 takes several elements directly from the original novel by E.B. Saddened by George's sudden enthusiasm for playing with the neighbor instead of him, Stuart longs for a friend of his own. Fox) ends up being excluded from many of the activities that human kids his own age enjoy. Of course, being only about six inches tall, Stuart (voiced by Michael J.
But in the fairytale world of Stuart Little 2, Stuart is completely accepted as their son, complete with going to school, eating breakfast with the family, and even playing in the little kids' soccer league with his human brother George. Stuart Little is the smallest member of the Little family.