Product: Stuart Little (1999)
Rating: 4.0
Cute film--but without the deleted scene on VHS...
"Stuart Little" is a cutesy family film (which was, weirdly, coscripted with M. Night Shaylaman, who made the superbly suspenseful "The Sixth Sense") which is based loosely on the entertaining book by E.B. White. It's downsized from the book for a happy ending--but not too downsized to become corny and boring.Geena Davis, finally breaking off from her worst movie and TV roles, to a much more likable--not to mention BETTER--role as Mrs. Little, while Johnathan Lipniski is ever as cute as Stuart's older brother. Michael J. Fox is the perfect voice to voice tiny Stuart Little, and Nathan Lane is the voice as the eeevil Snowbell the cat.Despite the film's promising elements, the movie would have been more enjoyable if they hadn't cut the restaurant dance scene from the VHS version. It's a lively, yet memorable scene that shouldn't have been left on the cutting room floor and on the DVD version. But it's entertaining still without the restaurant dance sequence.Rated PG for brief language.