Stuart Little
This is the sort
of film that drives studio ad men to the limits of their exasperation. They
know that, worldwide, a certain percentage of people are, if nothing else,
easily susceptible to hypnotic suggestion. Anyway, that’s what demographics
tell them. And what are you going to do with a film version of E.B. White that
has Nathan Lane as the cat say to the title character (a computer projection),
“Talk to the butt!”?
All you can do is
write those magic words, YOU WILL BELIEVE, and watch the suckers shamble
in.