Stuart Little 2

Stuart Little 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rob Minkoff
Produced by	Douglas Wick Lucy Fisher
Screenplay by	Bruce Joel Rubin
Story by	Douglas Wick Bruce Joel Rubin
Based on	Stuart Little  by E. B. White
Starring	Geena Davis Hugh Laurie Jonathan Lipnicki
Music by	Alan Silvestri
Cinematography	Steven Poster
Editing by	Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
Studio	Franklin/Waterman Productions Red Wagon Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	July 19, 2002 (2002-07-19)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$120 million
Box office	$169,956,806

Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 American live action and CGI animated film, directed by Rob Minkoff and starring Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie and Jonathan Lipnicki and the voices of Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane, Melanie Griffith, James Woods and Steve Zahn. The film is a sequel to the 1999 film and includes characters from the children's book by E. B. White such as Margalo. The movie was released to theaters on July 19, 2002.

The film was followed by the third and final film a direct-to-video sequel, entitled Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild in 2006.

Plot

Three years after the first film, Stuart Little questions his ability after a grueling soccer match alongside George, who kicked him with a soccer ball. He becomes even more downhearted after George's toy airplane gets broken in an accident because of him. However, Stuart's father, Frederick Little, tells him that for every Little, there is a "silver lining", a good thing that comes out of an apparently bad situation.

On his way home from school, Stuart saves a female canary named Margalo who is being pursued by a peregrine falcon, and they become friends. But she is secretly working with Falcon to case and steal from households. When he presses her to find and take an object of value, or lose the sanctuary he promised her, she can't seem to concentrate on her assignment, as she is beginning to fall in love with Stuart. Falcon eventually loses patience and threatens to kill him if she doesn't deliver. Worried for his safety, she takes Eleanor Little's diamond wedding ring.

When the Little's see that the ring is missing, they think it has fallen down the sink. Stuart offers to be lowered down the drain on a string to get it, and nearly succeeds. When the string breaks Margalo saves him, and his thanks to her only makes her feel even more guilty, so she decides to leave. When he can't find her, he assumes she has been kidnapped - and that Falcon is somehow involved. He leaves on a quest to rescue her with the household's reluctant cat Snowbell, but not before setting up a plan with George.

Stuart and Snowbell enlist the help of Monty, who tells them that Falcon's lair is at the disused observation deck of the nearby Pishkin Building. They use balloons to get Stuart to the top, where he finds out that Margalo is Falcon's slave, and was forced to take the ring. He tries to save her, but Falcon captures him, and drops him in a garbage truck. Unaware of this, Margalo tells Snowbell that Falcon killed Stuart.

On a garbage scow where he has ended up, Stuart blames himself for everything, and has almost lost all hope. Suddenly, he finds George's broken plane, fixes it up, and flies to save Margalo, who, having been freed by Snowbell, just fled from Falcon. The Little's, who have discovered his absence and whereabouts follow him by taxi as he begins an aerial adventure through the park, with Margalo at his side. They lose Falcon, but he catches up and makes an attempt to kill Stuart, when he detaches the plane's upper wing, damaging the main one and causing it to enter a steep nose dive, which fails when Stuart recovers from the dive, nearly missing the Little's. Unable to run from Falcon, he lets Margalo off. He turns and flies the damaged plane in a kamikaze run while Falcon goes into an attack dive. He uses Mrs. Little's ring to temporarily blind him, and jumps out using a bandana as a parachute. The kamikaze attack works and Falcon is struck head on and defeated. Although he survives the attack, he falls out of the sky and lands in a garbage can that Monty is scavenging in, and is presumably eaten by him, but not before Stuart falls when his parachute is sliced apart by the propeller of the shattered plane, and then is rescued by Margalo.

Stuart is congratulated by his family, and Margalo, who gives Mrs. Little her ring back, 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. Stuart says the "silver lining" is that she'll be back in the spring, and his baby sister, Martha, says her first words: "Bye bye, birdie.", as the family head inside to the comfort of their home.

Cast

• Michael J. Fox (voice) as Stuart Little
• Geena Davis as Eleanor Little
• Hugh Laurie as Frederick Little
• Jonathan Lipnicki as George Little
• Anna and Ashley Hoelck as Martha Little
• Marc John Jefferies as Will, George's friend
• Jim Doughan (who voiced Lucky in the first film) as Stuart and George's soccer coach
• Nathan Lane (voice) as Snowbell, the Little family cat.
• Melanie Griffith (voice) as Margalo
• James Woods (voice) as Falcon
• Steve Zahn as (voice) Monty, Snowbell's friend.

Reception

The film received positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes has reported that 81% of critics gave the film a positive review.

Soundtrack

1. "I'm Alive" - Celine Dion
2. "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" - Mary Mary
3. "Top of the World" - Mandy Moore
4. "Another Small Adventure" - Chantal Kreviazuk
5. "One" - Nathan Lane
6. "What I Like About You" - The Romantics
7. "Hold On to the Good Things" - Shawn Colvin
8. "Count On Me" - Billy Gilman
9. "Smile" - Vitamin C
10. "Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan
11. "Born to Be Wild" - Steppenwolf
12. "Little Angel of Mine" - No Secrets
13. "Falcon Finito"
14. "Silver Lining"

Tracks 13 and 14 are Score music by Alan Silvestri

Video game

Stuart Little 2 (2002) is for the PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP and 32-bit and/or 64-bit personal computers.

Awards and Nominations

Year	Awards	Category	Nominee	Result
2002	BAFTA Children's Award	Best Feature Film	Douglas Wick Lucy Fisher Rob Minkoff Bruce Joel Rubin	Nominated
2003	Golden Trailer Award	Best Animation/Family Film		Nominated
2003	Visual Effects Society Award	Best Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture	Tony Bancroft David Schaub Eric Armstrong Sean Mullen	Won
2003		Best Visual Effects Photography in a Motion Picture	Earl Wiggins Mark Vargo Tom Houghton Anna Foerster	Nominated
2003	Young Artist Award	Best Family Feature Film		Nominated

External links

• Official website
• Stuart Little 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• Stuart Little 2 at AllRovi
• Stuart Little 2 at the TCM Movie Database