Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 4 nominations total
Michael J. Fox
- Stuart Little
- (voice)
Nathan Lane
- Snowbell
- (voice)
Melanie Griffith
- Margalo
- (voice)
James Woods
- Falcon
- (voice)
Steve Zahn
- Monty
- (voice)
Kevin Olson
- Irwin
- (as Kevin Johnson Olson)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAt one point the falcon was supposed to have an army of pigeons as his minions.
- GoofsToward the beginning of the film when Stuart flies the model plane outside and crashes it, his mother, father, brother, and friend all run out the house and into the park to chase after him. This means the baby was, presumably, left alone in the house - or, the writers just forgot about her completely.
- Quotes
Stuart Little: Little high, little low!
Mrs. Little: [from a distance] Little hey, little ho.
Margalo: What the heck was that?
Stuart Little: Oh, that's just how we greet each other.
Margalo: Interesting.
Snowbell: Nauseating is more like it.
- Crazy creditsDuring the first half of the closing credits, the cast is shown with their name and their character they played in a circle.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Céline Dion: I'm Alive (2002)
- SoundtracksPut a Little Love in Your Heart
Written by Jackie DeShannon, Randy Myers and Jimmy Holiday
Produced by Warren Campbell
Performed by Mary Mary
Courtesy of Columbia Records
Featured review
This "Little" goes a long way.
While less isn't always more, the makers of "Stuart Little 2" resisted the temptation to pad it out from its shorthand running time, meaning it goes by quickly and painlessly. Not that the actual plot of this followup to the original charmer is hard to take in itself (Stuart is starting to feel a bit left out, and when Margalo the wren literally drops into his life he gets a new dimension).
In terms of technical levels it's only slightly easier to fault (Margalo looks a bit too cartoonish to be real, unlike Stuart Little himself and the falcon that's the movie's villain - but then again, Melanie Griffith [the voice of Margalo] always seems like a cartoon anyway), but the story by screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin and the movie's producer Douglas Wick is what makes this ultimately inferior to its predecessor; what helped drive "Stuart Little" was our hero's wish to be accepted by his human brother and by the cat - sneer all you want, but the family message was hard to ignore. For the sequel it's more standard - the friend who's acting out of ulterior motives at first but then turns out to be a real friend, etc. Stuart isn't so much the protagonist this time, and it hurts a little.
So the freshness is reduced, but this still isn't stale - the charm and humour of the first movie remains, Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane are as adept as ever as Stuart and Snowbell ("This better be important." "Margalo is missing." "I'd better be more specific - I meant important to ME."), and the human Littles remain just right - loving but not without making you want to slit your own throats. HBO Family has recently aired an animated version with all the principals except Hugh Laurie absent - it'll have to go a long way to live up to the two movies. (In-joke for score fans: Alan Silvestri slips in a quote from his "Back to the Future" theme in the climax.)
But I can see why this didn't do as well at the box-office as it should have - having a soccer match plus including Gilbert O'Sullivan AND Celine Dion on the soundtrack was asking for trouble...
In terms of technical levels it's only slightly easier to fault (Margalo looks a bit too cartoonish to be real, unlike Stuart Little himself and the falcon that's the movie's villain - but then again, Melanie Griffith [the voice of Margalo] always seems like a cartoon anyway), but the story by screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin and the movie's producer Douglas Wick is what makes this ultimately inferior to its predecessor; what helped drive "Stuart Little" was our hero's wish to be accepted by his human brother and by the cat - sneer all you want, but the family message was hard to ignore. For the sequel it's more standard - the friend who's acting out of ulterior motives at first but then turns out to be a real friend, etc. Stuart isn't so much the protagonist this time, and it hurts a little.
So the freshness is reduced, but this still isn't stale - the charm and humour of the first movie remains, Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane are as adept as ever as Stuart and Snowbell ("This better be important." "Margalo is missing." "I'd better be more specific - I meant important to ME."), and the human Littles remain just right - loving but not without making you want to slit your own throats. HBO Family has recently aired an animated version with all the principals except Hugh Laurie absent - it'll have to go a long way to live up to the two movies. (In-joke for score fans: Alan Silvestri slips in a quote from his "Back to the Future" theme in the climax.)
But I can see why this didn't do as well at the box-office as it should have - having a soccer match plus including Gilbert O'Sullivan AND Celine Dion on the soundtrack was asking for trouble...
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- Victor Field
- Mar 2, 2003
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- SL2
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $120,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $64,956,806
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $15,115,152
- Jul 21, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $169,956,806
- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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