Stuart Little 2 (2002)

Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.

Director:

Rob Minkoff

Writers:

E.B. White (characters from the book "Stuart Little"), Douglas Wick (story),

Stars:

Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael J. Fox	...	Stuart Little (voice)
Geena Davis	...	Mrs. Little
Hugh Laurie	...	Mr. Little
Jonathan Lipnicki	...	George Little
Anna Hoelck	...	Martha Little
Ashley Hoelck	...	Martha Little
Nathan Lane	...	Snowbell (voice)
Melanie Griffith	...	Margalo the Bird (voice)
James Woods	...	The Evil Falcon (voice)
Steve Zahn	...	Monty (voice)
Marc John Jefferies	...	Will, George's Friend
Angelo Massagli	...	Wallace
Jim Doughan	...	Soccerball Coach
Brad Garrett	...	Plumber
Conan McCarty	...	Referee

Storyline

Stuart's mother is being over-protective of him, especially when he narrowly escapes injury in a soccer game. His big brother George has also made a new friend, Will, so Stuart is feeing lonely. Stuart rescues a canary, Margalo, from a falcon; she moves in with the Littles. One day, Margalo is nowhere to be found, so Stuart and Snowbell set out across the city to find her while George covers for Stuart (the first time he's had to lie).

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Plot Keywords:

falcon | soccer | baseball game | brother brother relationship | taxi | 

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Taglines:

A Little Goes A Long Way

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for brief mild language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 July 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

O Pequeno Stuart Little 2

Filming Locations:

Culver City, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$120,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$391,607 (Brazil) (20 December 2002)

Gross:

$2,816,122 (Brazil) (24 January 2003)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation, Franklin/Waterman Productions, Red Wagon Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The falcon was supposed to have an army of pigeons as his minions.

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Goofs

After the falcon puts Margalo in the paint can and puts the lid on, the holes in the lid are elongated but when Snowbell is trying to get the lid off to let Margalo out, the holes are perfectly round.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Stuart Little: [as he grabs George's glasses] George, wake up.
[George is still sleeping]
Stuart Little: George!
George Little: [talking into his pillow] It's Saturday.
Stuart Little: I know. But it's the first day of Soccer. It's our first game.
George Little: [wakes up and puts his glasses on] Soccer? Uh... I can't today. I caught a cold while sleeping.
[George sneezes]
Stuart Little: You'll be fine. Come on, come on. It's gonna be great.
[Stuart takes his pajama top off and kicks it into the laundry hamper like a soccer ball]
[...]

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Crazy Credits

During the first half of the closing credits, the cast is shown with their name and their character they played in a circle.

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Connections

References Bedazzled (2000)

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Soundtracks

"The Beach (from Vertigo)"
Written by Bernard Herrmann

User Reviews

This "Little" goes a long way.

While less isn't always more, the makers of "Stuart Little 2" resisted the temptation to pad it out from its shorthand running time, meaning it goes by quickly and painlessly. Not that the actual plot of this followup to the original charmer is hard to take in itself (Stuart is starting to feel a bit left out, and when Margalo the wren literally drops into his life he gets a new dimension).

In terms of technical levels it's only slightly easier to fault (Margalo looks a bit too cartoonish to be real, unlike Stuart Little himself and the falcon that's the movie's villain - but then again, Melanie Griffith [the voice of Margalo] always seems like a cartoon anyway), but the story by screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin and the movie's producer Douglas Wick is what makes this ultimately inferior to its predecessor; what helped drive "Stuart Little" was our hero's wish to be accepted by his human brother and by the cat - sneer all you want, but the family message was hard to ignore. For the sequel it's more standard - the friend who's acting out of ulterior motives at first but then turns out to be a real friend, etc. Stuart isn't so much the protagonist this time, and it hurts a little.

So the freshness is reduced, but this still isn't stale - the charm and humour of the first movie remains, Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane are as adept as ever as Stuart and Snowbell ("This better be important." "Margalo is missing." "I'd better be more specific - I meant important to ME."), and the human Littles remain just right - loving but not without making you want to slit your own throats. HBO Family has recently aired an animated version with all the principals except Hugh Laurie absent - it'll have to go a long way to live up to the two movies. (In-joke for score fans: Alan Silvestri slips in a quote from his "Back to the Future" theme in the climax.)

But I can see why this didn't do as well at the box-office as it should have

• having a soccer match plus including Gilbert O'Sullivan AND Celine Dion on

the soundtrack was asking for trouble...