STUART LITTLE A review excerpt by Joe Barlow (c) Copyright 2000, All Rights Reserved.
What astonishes me about Stuart Little is not its aggressive cuteness (of which there is no shortage) but its abundance of wit. Works geared towards children are often insultingly banal, both to the parents who are forced to endure them and to the kids themselves. (I remember reading several "young adult" books while in elementary school and wondering why the author was "talking" to me like I was an idiot.) I'm not sure who to credit for the story's wit--the screenwriters? The director? The actors, who convey the dialogue with such natural rhythm that it sounds almost musical at times? No matter; I'm sure the film's charm is a sum of all these parts, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that Stuart himself was inserted into the footage weeks after the actors had finished shooting their scenes and gone home.
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