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The Stuart Little Movie Collection
Score: 80%
Rating: PG
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home
                  Entertainment

Region: 1
Media: DVD/3
Running Time: Stuart Little: 85
           Mins./Stuart Little 2: 78
           Mins./Stuart Little 3: 75
           Mins.

Genre: Family
Audio: Stuart Little: English
           5.1 Dolby Digital, English 2.0
           Dolby Surround; Stuart Little
           2
: English & French 5.1
           Dolby Digital;Stuart Little
           3
: English 5.1 Dolby
           Digital, French Dolby
           Surround
Subtitles:
           Stuart Little: English;
           Stuart Little 2: English
           & French;Stuart Little 3:
           English & French


Features:
  • Stuart Little
    • Bloopers and Gag Reel
    • Visual Effects Gag Reel
    • Deleted Scenes with Director's Commentary
    • Visual Effects Supervisor's Commentary
    • Making it Big: HBO Special
    • ... And Much More
  • Stuart Little 2
    • Filmmakers' Commentary
    • A Touch of Evil - Creating the perfect villain
    • Life in the Fast Lane - Zoom through the filmmaking process
    • Interactive Game: Stuart's Circle of Friends
    • Record your own Stuart Little Read-Along
    • ... And Much More
  • Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
    • "Reeko's Funk" Music Video
    • "Stuart's Summer Journal" Read-Along
    • "Help Stuart Escape" Interactive Game
    • "Monty's Monstrous Appetite" Interactive Game!
    • "Learn To Draw" Interactive Featurette

The Stuart Little Movie Collection brings together the three movies inspired by E. B. White's classic characters in one box set. This trilogy follows the smallest member of the Little family (who is somewhat like a mouse) as he shows time after time that size isn't everything. Stuart (played by Michael J. Fox) gets adopted into the Little family. His immediate family is comprised of father Frederick (Hugh Laurie from TV's House), mother Eleanor (Geena Davis), brother George (Jonathan Lipnicki of Jerry Maguire) and their pet cat Snowball (played by Nathan Lane).

The first film not only introduces the characters, but also shows the initial rivalry between Stuart and Snowball. This movie also shows how the different characters get used to Stuart's "special needs". The movie features a toy boat race with Stuart captaining the Little's entry as well as a run-in with some mean alley cats. But ultimately, Stuart learns what it means to be a part of a family through loyalty and friendship.

Stuart Little 2 shows the little mouse as he is going through some growing pains. This movie introduces another one of the classic book's characters, Margalo. In the movie, the little canary is being chased by a falcon and Stuart saves her. When Stuart invites her into the Little home, he starts to count her as a friend. But when it seems like Falcon has taken her, it's up to Stuart and Snowball to find the little bird and get her back safely. But there are a couple of twists and turns along the way. This movie adds actress Melanie Griffith as Margalo and actor James Woods as Falcon into the Stuart Little cast list.

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild is definitely the odd one out in this collection. The most noticeable difference is the fact that it is done in an animated/rotoscoping format (which might have been done purely to show that Lipnicki is not playing George). This movie shares the same theme as the first two: it doesn't matter how big you are, only how big you feel. In this chapter, the Littles move to a summer lake house and George and Stuart join the Lake Scouts with their dad taking the role of assistant scout leader.

Stuart's size quickly becomes an obstacle as he has trouble tying knots and rowing a canoe across the lake, and when all of the other scouts (including his big brother) advance to the higher ranks and he is left behind, Stuart starts to get discouraged.

Eventually Stuart befriends a local skunk, Reeko (played by Wayne Brady, Who's Line Is It Anyway) who teaches him the ins and outs of living in the woods. And Stuart will have to put all of his new knowledge to the test when the local legend "The Beast" gets the notion of snacking down on Snowball.

Though these three movies don't really duplicate the classic E. B. White story, they do pull a lot of inspiration from the book.



-J.R. Nip, GameVortex Communications
AKA Chris Meyer

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