Stuart Little 2
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| Directed by | Rob Minkoff |
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| Produced by | Douglas Wick Lucy Fisher |
| Written by | E. B. White (characters) Bruce Joel Rubin (screenplay) |
| Starring | Michael J. Fox Melanie Griffith Nathan Lane Hugh Laurie Geena Davis Jonathan Lipnicki James Woods Steve Zahn |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | Steven Poster |
| Editing by | Priscilla Nedd Friendly |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 19, 2002 (USA) |
| Running time | 78 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$120,000,000 |
| Gross revenue | $169,956,806 |
| Preceded by | Stuart Little (1999) |
| Followed by | Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2006) |
Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 film, directed by Rob Minkoff. It is a sequel to the 1999 film Stuart Little, and includes characters from the children's book by E. B. White such as Margalo the bird.
The film was followed up with a direct-to-video sequel, Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild in 2006.
This film was released on July 19, 2002 by Columbia Pictures.
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[edit] Plot
Questioning his ability after a grueling soccer match alongside George who kicked him with a soccer ball (Jonathan Lipnicki), Stuart (Michael J. Fox) gets even more downhearted after George's airplane gets broken in an accident because of him. However, Stuart's dad (Hugh Laurie) tells him that for every Little, there is a "silver lining", or a solution to every problem.
On his way home from school, Stuart encounters a female yellow canary named Margalo (Melanie Griffith) while she is pursued by a Falcon (James Woods). He drives her to safety. In a matter of time, Margalo, the canary, and Stuart have become best friends. But, Margalo has a secret. The Falcon that attacked her is a crime lord who uses her to steal from households, and he soon catches up to her, reminding her that if she doesn't find an object of good value, the sanctuary he promised her will be called off. But Margalo can't seem to concentrate on her assignment, as she begins to harbour tender feelings for Stuart.
The Falcon eventually loses patience and threatens to kill Stuart if Margalo doesn't deliver. Margalo sadly takes Stuart's mom's (Geena Davis) ring. When the family sees it is missing, they think it has fallen down the sink. Stuart offers to go down and get it, nearly succeeding. When he is in danger, Margalo saves him, and he thanks her, making her feel even more guilty, so she decides to leave. When Stuart can't find her, he assumes she has been kidnapped - and that the Falcon is somehow involved. He leaves on a quest with his reluctant cat Snowbell (Nathan Lane), but not before setting up a plan with George.
Stuart and Snowbell decide to get information on the Falcon's whereabouts, so they enlist the help of the alley cat Monty (Steve Zahn). It is revealed the Falcon's lair lies at the top of the fabled "Pishkin" Building.
The next morning, Stuart and Snowbell hatch a plan to get to the top. Snowbell gathers some balloons for Stuart, and the mouse ties them to a small basket, ascending him to the top. He soon finds out that Margalo is the Falcon's slave, and was forced to take the ring. He tries to save her, but the Falcon stops him short, and drops him from - from an immense height - into a garbage truck.
Meanwhile, Snowbell struggles to get to the top, as Stuart's family discover his absence and leave the house to save him. Up at the top, Snowbell hears that Stuart is dead, not knowing he is in the truck, from Margalo. He swears revenge as he frees Margalo - revealing that he truly does care about Stuart - but when the Falcon returns, Snowbell loses his confidence and hides in a paint bucket, which the Falcon kicks off the tower and causes to fall from the top. Snowbell survives the fall, as it is delayed, so the impact is not hard and the bucket protects him.
On the barge, Stuart blames himself for everything, and gives up. But suddenly, he finds George's broken plane, and with some materials, fixes it up, and flies to save Margalo, who has just fled the evil tyrant. Stuart begins an aerial adventure through the park, with Margalo at his side. The Falcon eventually loses them while the Little Family finds them and follows them in a taxi. Unfortunately Falcon catches up and rips off the top of the plane's two wings.
Stuart knows he can't run from the Falcon, and lets Margalo off. Stuart turns and flies the damaged plane in a kamikaze run while Falcon goes into an attack dive. Stuart temporarily blinds him using Mrs. Little's ring and jumps using a handkerchief as a parachute. The kamikaze attack works and Falcon is struck and defeated. Although Falcon survives the attack he's seriously wounded and lands in a garbage can that Monty is desperately scavenging in just after Monty asks if he can get a decent meal, then prepares to presumably eat the villain. Stuart's parachute is destroyed by the propeller of the destroyed plane, but Margalo saves him.
At the park square, Stuart is congratulated by his family and Margalo and Snowbell reunites with them as well. That evening, Margalo leaves with the other birds to migrate south, but not before saying goodbye to her friends, including Snowbell, who is at the point of tears. Stuart says the silver lining is that she'll be back in the spring. Stuart's baby sister says her first word, or words, "Bye bye, birdie."
[edit] Cast
[edit] Live-Action Cast
- Geena Davis — Mrs. Eleanor Little
- Hugh Laurie — Mr. Frederick Little
- Jonathan Lipnicki — George Little
[edit] Voice Cast
- Michael J. Fox — Voice of Stuart Little
- Nathan Lane — Voice of Snowbell
- Melanie Griffith — Voice of Margalo
- James Woods — Voice of Falcon
- Steve Zahn — Voice of Monty
[edit] Production Trivia
- Most of the shots in the movie were created using matte paintings and digital sky manipulation to give the movie a stylized, hyper-real look.
- In the scene where Stuart pulls a spoon out of a jam jar, the spoon was CGI but the jar was real. It was rigged by a puppeteer.
- Geena Davis was pregnant during some of the re-shoots. They used several techniques to hide her large belly. At one point, they even considered using a CG waistline.
- The baby who played Martha refused to knock the bowl of oatmeal off the table. The crew kept telling her to do it and she still refused. Finally, they made her think that knocking the oatmeal off was some kind of game.
- There was originally a scene on the barge where the barge dumps the garbage in the ocean.
- When the Littles are in the taxi and George notices Stuart's wrecked car and says "Mom?", she clearly says "Yes, Stuart" instead of "Yes, George".
- In the scene where the Littles are at Yankess Stadium, the shot where the outfielder is frantically running back toward the wall was actually taken from Kevin Costner's 1999 movie, "For Love of the Game."
- At the end of the movie, when Martha says her first words, they are "Bye, bye, birdie", a possible reference to Bye Bye Birdie.
- Michael J. Fox and James Woods had previously worked together in the 1991 Universal action-comedy feature film, The Hard Way.
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