Product: Stuart Little (1999)
Rating: 3.0
Technically superb, not so on other categories
Having missed SL when in theaters, there came finally the chance for me to view it with its home video release. For those unfamiliar with the original novel, it is hard to believe how and why the Littles would go adopt a mouse as "son" without further questions asked, but given its target audience, there's nothing that a kid can't believe. I would if I were one. As rumored, the CGI effects on Stuart are nothing less than superb. Amazingly natural, so much so that you tend to forget it's all about CGI. As an animator myself, I'd wish I could come close to such level of perfection. However, my personal feeling is that the story plot needed a little more massaging, many things come across in a way too simple mode. Maybe because of my adult point of view, but a little arguing between the familiars and Stuart about acceptance and pathos wouldn't have hurt one bit.