Product: Stuart Little (1999)
Rating: 4.0
The mouse is real, yes?
This reminds me of the old black and white movies (starring Jimmy Stewart or some such). It is so heart warming I will not have to wear a vest this summer (this is the UK).What a delightful little film. It totally entranced my six and seven year old kids and it was all I could do not to keep the tears from streaming. Boy wants a younger son, parents adopt mouse, boy gets disappointed but mouse and boy become best friends. Mouse's parents come to get him, everyone sad, turns out to be a set up, mouse escapes. Happy ending where even the treacherous cat ends up being a goodie.The CGI is amazing. The mouse (Stuart), his parents and the talking cats are superbly well done. The little kid (Jonathon Lipnicki) is just as good as he was in Jerry Maguire. Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie do not really have to do much - but they do the clean living caring parents to a tee.There are some good laughs and some great cameos (watch out for Stuart's 'parents) but where the DVD comes into its own is in all the extras you get. There are music videos, out takes, deleted scenes. storyboards. You name it, the DVD has got it.I strongly recommend you buy this and watch it over and over. Watch out for the boat race and for the screen tests.