Stuart Little 2

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Fox</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Geena Davis</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Hugh Laurie</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Jonathan Lipnicki</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Nathan Lane</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Marc John Jefferies</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Melanie Griffith</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> James Woods</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Many of you are familiar with the "Stuart Little" film released in 1999 because it generated over $300 million in worldwide box-office revenues and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. Like most sequels, whether the next in a series of films or the latest version of your favorite TV show brought to the big screen, you know the basic set up. The first film focused on discovering Stuart's personality and the world he lived in. "SL 2" delves into his character, with some coming of age issues such as resolving family conflicts with his parents and the pangs of first love.</div> <bR> <div> For those few of you, like myself, who have not seen "SL 1," here's the deal. Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) is a mouse that lives in a bunk bed above 10-year-old George (Jonathan Lipnicki) in a household with his parents Mr. & Mrs. Little (Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis), their cat Snowbell (Nathan Lane) and infant baby sister. Stuart the mouse goes to school with regular kids like George, so think of a film in which animals and people are on equal footing; they just look different.</div> <bR> <div> Stuart's parents have a different view on what he should do now that he is getting older. Dad thinks it's OK for him to play soccer while Mom is afraid he'll get hurt. And when you look at a mouse on the playing field with the pre teen boys, getting hurt appears to be more a matter of when…than if.</div> <bR> <div> Stuart has a convertible that he drives to school and one day while cruising with the top down, a bird by the name of Margalo (Melanie Griffith) falls into his front passenger seat after being chased by the movie's villainous falcon (voice by James Woods). Stuart brings Margalo home and Snowbell becomes jealous. </div> <bR> <div> As the story unfolds, Stuart finds his first love in Margalo but she is a free spirit who may have to fly south, at least for awhile. Different points of view in the family are addressed in a positive manner and Stuart learns to deal with his peers in school and how to combat evil as personified by the falcon.</div> <bR> <div> George was pleasantly surprised by how well the integration of the animal characters into the story worked with the real actors and in a </div> <div> real life setting such as Central Park in NYC. Melanie Griffith, James Woods and Nathan Lane bring considerable humor to the film in their supporting roles. </div> <bR> <div> "SL 2" is an example of why sequels are not necessarily bad. There is a lot of ink in the current press by critics on why sequels lack imagination and I disagree somewhat. As guilty as George is of looking at every version of "Law & Order," multiple times, the concept of seeing something familiar is not necessarily a bad thing. If the story is fresh and takes you to a new place, sequels are OK, even though many of the people and the settings are essentially the same. It seems that recently in the movies the sequels have become prequels, and no longer offer the thrill that comes with the power of discovery. Sade says in one of her songs, "It's never as good as the first time." Maybe so and maybe not…you decide.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="621" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> George O. Singleton  © 2002</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>Reelmoviec@aol.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>