If you haven't noticed, this issue of Fan Mail is dedicated to movies adapted from classic books - things that you read in high school English. So why are we reviewing Stuart Little? We weren't aware of this at first, but Stuart Little is also a classic book, a classic CHILDREN's book by E. B. White (who also authored the famous Charlotte's Web). Even though this is a family-oriented movie, it certainly is heavily packed in terms of the production crew - seriously, look into their credits and you might be pleasantly surprised. As for the cast members, "almost" Olympian Geena Davis is mama, Hugh Laurie (a Brit) is baba, Jonathan Lipnicki is kid George, and of course, Michael J. Fox as the voice of the adorable mouse. Some critics have satirically hinted that Davis is the one who looks more "computer-animated," but us vegetable movie critics (get it, Peas and Carrots?) strongly disagree. Sure, we were never fans of Davis, but we enjoyed her air of elegance and class in the film. I think we are spending too much time on Davis, however, let's get to Michael J. Fox's voice and the mouse. We will leave the bulk of SPFX issues to our colleague Blueberry Moose, but we want to add that without Fox's voice contributions, the mouse probably wouldn't have been as lively as he was. In general the story was beautiful (credit to E. B. White), but we felt too much time was spent on the boat race and the Central Park chase (minus for screenplay). We believe that more excitement could have been stirred up if they squeezed in more adventures of George and Stuart. Still, this lone shortcoming isn't enough to prevent us from giving this a "two-thumbs up," oh wait, we don't do that here. We give this 4.5 Go's: 4 + 0.5 for the beautiful d�cor of the Little Residence.

Submitted by: Blueberry Moose

Would you have ever imagined a "go-to-guy" to be about 7 inches tall? Well Stuart Little is witty, keen and sly. He miraculously gets himself out of hairy situations. This mouse has seen more action than the children in Honey I Shrunk the Kids. You must be wondering by now who put this combination of live-action (for a mouse) and groundbreaking visual effects technology together? � who other than the artists and innovators at Sony Pictures Imageworks headed by the Chief John Dykstra. They did exceedingly well in the movements of Stuart Little. Did you know there were around 5 rough draft Stuarts? � most of which had a stocky stature � finally the special effects team went with the friendly and slender body shape. As my colleague stated the movie could use a little more adventure for Stuart. In fact the producers hoped for their original action packed boat scene, which eventually got scrapped, once they found that it would take over half the movies budget to create. Even though the boat scene was slightly stunted, the use of digital effects to create a tiny mouse hero as well as the voice and movements for the cats' mouths were quite convincing. This movie receives 4 SPFX.