It has characters for adults and plenty for children and it's all a bit of fun with a slightly overly sweet centre to it.In New York City, you would come across a small house, home to a family known as the Littles. It may not be hilarious for adults in the way Toy Story and it's like are but it is not dull. Overall this is an enjoyable family film. The funny stuff comes from Lane, Zahn, Kirby, Tilly and, best of all, Palminteri, who's mafia cat is hilarious and sends up his own characters by doing so. Fox does the best work - he makes his Stuart very sweet and likeable a true prince amongst mice! Lipnicki does OK but is basically just the `cute kid' that is legally required in all American family movies.

Davis and Laurie play it straight and are lumbered with carrying the emotional side of the film and don't have much comedy (a shame considering Laurie's talents). Just as deserving is the animal training - anyone with cats will know how hard it is to get the little b*stards to do anything you want, so to have them do so much work is very impressive (although I understand it is all about food). For the most part it all flows well together and was deserving of the Oscar nomination. The animation is superb and only occasionally does Stuart look out of place in the frame. It's not perfect for, like I said it does get a bit overly sentimental at times although it just about manages to stay sweetly sentimental and not fall into being sickly sentimental. The main story is quite sweet but also has a good sense of humour that will appeal to adults as much as children. If my plot synopsis has talked up the mafia connotations of the cats, it is because that is the part of the film that I find the funniest part of the film because it is lacking in the syrup that kind of takes away from the rest of the film. To get rid of Stuart, Snowball reaches out to some local alley cats to set up a whack on Stuart. Despite early resistance from George, Stuart makes himself part of the family, much to the chagrin of the house cat Snowball.

When they go to the orphanage they meet an adorable mouse called Stuart and decide to adopt him. The Little family are looking to adopt a boy to give their son George a brother.

Stuart little 1999 part 1