If your dad came back as a snowman after being dead for a year, what would you ask him? Perhaps, is there an afterlife? Or, what is heaven like? Or-why a snowman? But no sooner does the snowman in 'Jack Frost' appear than it is harnessed to a desperately banal plot about snowball fights at the kid's school. A family in New York City is surprised to learn that their new son is in fact a mouse. White, Adventure Theatre-MTC’s production of Stuart Little convincingly brings the little mouse to life. My mind reeled back to last year's grotesque family 'comedy' named ' Jack Frost.' That was the film in which a family's father dies and is reincarnated as a snowman. Stuart Little delivers big laughs Based on the classic book by E.B. He is provided with a new wardrobe and a tiny red convertible roadster to race around in and is chased through Central Park by hungry cats. The movie of course puts Stuart through many adventures and confronts him with tragic misunderstandings. It didn't help that a few days earlier I'd seen another new movie in which an equally cute and lovable mouse was stomped on by a sadist and squished. It doesn't matter how much they love him or how happy he is to be in this new home all we can think about is how he hardly needs even the hem of his blanket.Īll through the movie I kept cringing at the terrible things that could happen to the family's miniature son. There is something pathetic about a scene where his new parents ( Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie) tuck him in at bedtime. But movies are an unforgivably literal medium, and the fact is, no live-action movie about Stuart Little can possibly work because he is so much smaller than everyone else! Stuart is definitely a mouse. In the book, Stuart works just fine as a character.

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