Stuart Little - Nostalgia Critic

this episode brought to you by hello fresh delicious pre-measured ingredients and simple chef made recipes delivered to your doorstep every week [Music] [Music] [Music] hello I'm the Nostalgia Critic I remember it so you don't have to most of us know the classic story of Stuart Little EB White's timeless tale of a little mouse who lives with a human family goes on the silliest of adventures and overcomes his fears resulting in the happiest of endings well you don't remember dick because that's not what this book is like at all despite millions reading it many block out the nonsensical insanity that Stuart little actually was for starters he's not a mouse he's a human that looks like a mouse and he's not adopted his mother just pushed him out that way at the age of seven he acts and talks like he's 16 he befriends a bird who runs away and he uses a gas-powered toy car with a magic invisible lever to find her he takes a job as a substitute teacher along the way dates a girl who happens to be the exact same height but blows it because his toy canoe is destroyed and she freaks out by his temper tantrum keep in mind this is the climax thus he drives north still searching for the bird never finding her and that's where it stops it literally ends right there back then critics were like what the hell are you high but kids seem to love it and I guess it made sense it's a weird bizarre story told in a very grounded and low-key way but how strange that so many people remember it being such a normal run-of-the-mill kids book when it was anything but well hell out of that may have to do with the movie who had the difficult task of taking this wildly odd journal of madness and turning it into a profitable family film how do Hollywood writers make such a giant hit out of such strangeness the answer is they don't this is in fact the very first film to be written entirely by the 90s they just gave the 90s the book of Zack Morris cellphone ate it up and [ __ ] out a pair of khakis in a v-neck sweater upgrade from the director of the haunted mansion and lime King with the script by M night Shyamalan no really who made this Stewart little as an attempt to give audiences an adaptation of the book they thought they read you can pretty much call this film the Mandela effect as it only loosely follows the strangeness of the book and his dead gives us light run-of-the-mill family fluff a tweet for some reason remember the book being is it an improvement on the literary drunken ramble or is it the 90s ever crime being [ __ ] a lot of money with no substance now let's see if things were better safe than crazy this is Stewart little so how can we hammer in were in the 90s hi Jerry Maguire kid I'd like to take some shots on how overly cutesy his acting is but seeing how he can probably kick my ass now I'm just gonna stick with all some twin jokes hi sweetie ah the 90s when even boarding a bus had to have whimsical music let's stop ooh and see whimsy and human I can't emphasize that enough this is George little his parents played by Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie are off to the orphanage to adopt a brother for him Oh none of these kids are mice this place blows they of course come across Stuart voiced by Michael J Fox who tries to give them advice on which kid would be the best for them it happens the same way every time first you won't know what to do you'll be a little bit scared and you'll meet one of them talk to me somehow you just know okay let's be honest it the dialogue for this character was written for a kid instead of a mouse he would totally look like a serial killer it happens the same way every time first you won't know what to do you'll be a little scared then you'll meet one event talk to them and somehow you'll just know anti-god [Music] the credits give us a pretty nice shot of the city thank God we focus on the clouds through most of them New York is such a boring place to shoot and bring Stuart to his new home as featured in several Disney properties they say every little in the world can find this house even if they've never been here before I'm just gonna guess and say that's a shot mol online you just like a tour I don't have any money I'm just gonna guess and say that wasn't a shell mole online cuz it actually got a laugh out of me an attentional one but George is unimpressed with his new brother or perhaps at the fact that the littles seem to have a strength fetish come on Tim Burton and the Cat in the Hat have more variety than you have anything you wanna ask Stuart go ahead I'm an open book something the writers of this clearly didn't do at first sure Ali med is kind of fighting Stuart among the regular sized house and appliances though it doesn't look like he's actually there he does come across as very expressive and y'all just said cute he's very cute but the [ __ ] family film formula starts to take hold when their cat named Snowbell enters the picture Stuart is one of the family now we do not eat family members did they really not think this would be an issue I mean in the book he's just born that way and they happen to already have a cat here it's like buying an ant farm to get along with your pet and eater it's bad odds maybe I can help what do you like can I can I scratch yours okay place your bets which gay 90's actor voices him for brunettes Sean Hayes or miscellaneous queer I guy 10 so I'm I'm Way past 10 Lane of course lighting director I still connected the dots this is my family can't we share read my furry pink lips my poorly computer-generated borrow from babe lips no Oh full house music here's some USC pics offsetting the cue pandering that's sure to lie ahead they match so little they kind of match perfectly Stewart gets thrown in the washing machine though and tries getting help from Snowbell oh I've got to stare at traffic yawn licked myself and believe me that could take hours if you do it right that wasn't alive from the script that's just when Nathan Lane said he was gonna do after the shoot mrs. little gets him out in time and dr. Dabney Coleman looks him over delivering a line so bad that only Dabney Coleman could possibly make it funny he's gonna be fine very clean how did he make that line magic I don't know mr. little talks to George about giving his mousy brother a fair chance but it quickly for no reason turns into a talk about boats you want to race your boat George it's like trying an American accent you just do it have fun and don't listen to the critics I like that they shop for Stuart's party clothes in the doll section of a toy store but what kind of party has everybody arrived at the exact same time oh you can't say that anymore great job right it's not PC suit I don't know nothing's PC anymore they introduced Stuart to the family and they give him gift they're way too big for him because the parents never told anyone he was a mouse the thought occurs to me that these parents are really awful I got Billy a skateboard oh I forgot to tell you Billy's in a wheelchair oh well I got sippy a hair part oh I forgot to tell you Cindy has no head oh I got Johnny some sneakers Johnny's a bear let's find this orphanage but George is still angry that his new brother as a mouse at least I think that's the emotion he's going for are you all not bicycles and bowling balls how's he incasa baseball how is he gonna do any of those things it's not my brother he's a mouse remember when the Olsen twins said you're in big trouble mister that was dumb I just wanted to ask you something why did you want to ask us about my real family look like well sure they were Jewish immigrants and they said they lost you at sea but they just didn't like you very much so mr. and mrs. little go to find out about Stewart's original parents it's out of the question and it's against the rules besides it's very hard to track Mouse families they're not very good with paperwork oh I mean we all think it but we never say what the [ __ ] meanwhile tries to get along with Snowbell again but another cat enters the house and we partake in clearly cats not acting but we're just gonna put lips on them like they are yeah you look pale maybe you should see a vet AFET what a swell idea do you know anybody I'm not so happy with mine now that's just lazy am i right Chaplin I'm not even in the same location it's you right here's a riddle which one of these is the lifeless CG puppet idea when the Olsens released that greatest hits CD I bet they're fizz artists deal hard as this guy's George gives steward the iconic toy car remember so well from the book so naturally he takes it for a higher boat like the movie Stuart helps George finish the boat for the big race but Snowbell is finally fed up and looks for outside help a mouse with a pet cat that's sick I can't can't have eroded from master word of this gets out it'll be bad for cats all over it'll be the worst thing to happen to cats since Rome cats don't worry think about I'm all over it you're right what a high I mean come on Belle would have worked on two levels but so the day of the race arrives and their boat named wasp yes I'm so surprised they call it that too it's ready to float okay how did they make a toy boat look evil ships from Pirates of the Caribbean don't look that evil he George what did you do get that out of a cereal box oh don't tell me you're the owner of that boat someone's got to finish last I didn't know I wanted a series about dr. evil as an eight-year-old but thank you please am I totally down gotta be a shallow online can't you just see you following up with you like hot dogs right Stewart drops the remote though much too Anton and his boat posses delight come on boys we have a lego Tea Party at a toy Yacht Club gee however will they resolve this I'm blown away with indifference oh I mean uh you got a dude was weird George [Music] surprisingly straightforward answer I was wondering why we built this with a functioning steering wheel a toast to improbable technics only does about demolish another kids boat but he has a boy bodyguard shove the driver away how nineties bullies this is a special cloud and lazy heaven waiting for you is there would be if they weren't so lazy this is serious toy boat race I've ever seen in my life so your mouse brother might die we still to follow the rules of the race of which I think every single one has been broken that Mouse anyway that's no mouse that's my brother he has an a pac-man take that main antagonist we introduced halfway through the movie and we'll never speak up again seriously though I'm gonna miss you [Applause] [Music] you nail do you like school question is that of course I like food I needed to live do do do you like light absolutely love it though I'm not exactly the best cook [Music] meals can be very difficult but all of that will change with hellofresh hellofresh is a mule-kick delivery service that shops plans and deliver step-by-step recipes and pre-measured ingredients so you can just cook it add dry as home-cooked meals made simple and then 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at this tell Stuart he needs to go with him George give Stuart the toy car and they drive away to his new home and an abandoned miniature golf course sleep tight don't let the bedbugs bite yeah I'm serious about those bedbugs keep an eye open the spider named Charlotte smells nice but she will eat you the family tries adjusting to life without Stuart but the woman from the orphanage says that Stuart's parents are dead there was an unsteady pyramid of cans and it collapsed they had to identify them by their dental records cream of mushroom soup two-for-one sale am I supposed to movie seriously big one Stuart's parents came and took him away three days ago Stuart's parents died in a tragic cream mushroom soup incident years ago I just told you oh my god oh my god even in Stuart little it's still worth frigging little this still has to be a Shyamalan twist I don't get it you wouldn't even a thing yet why stop there how about Stuart is actually dead the littles are actually superheroes and the trees what the hell's that happening again I don't know just tell fairy tale you weirdo Oh God fairy tale Doyle the police arrived as it's revealed its no bail and the other cats who set this up you scratch him out what's smokey the police are involved I don't want to get kicked out of my house so would he go to jail if mice can be adopted can felines do time you don't refit in if you start working on prisoners of law it's settled Stuart little get scratched tonight okay all right I'll give you credit Stuart little you made that adorable cat terrifying if I was a thug in Batman I'd actually be more afraid of this than Michael Keaton to kill you I want you to tell all your friends about me are you I'm Batman what are our chances of seeing Stuart again you want it straight no absolutely not Stuart's probably home right now waiting for you again i legit funny scene I wish I could stop them and put them on my mantle it gets a little weirdly dark though it's my guess these two sickos on some kind of cross country Mouse killing spree so where is that book on the grisly photos look at Desmond Oh have fun knowing what happens in this universe kids oh oh wait run movies still what what are we doing Stuart's parents admit they're not his parents and they were threatened to lie to him about being so which makes Stuart happy knowing he's still a little I'm gonna let us doubt them a little I'm Stuart Little [Music] not a nineties film unless this was reference somehow oh wait a minute let's stop blewett's Stewart drives back home via an unusually long shot of Central Park clouds and blackness 'no cinematography is got a ton of cats corner him he rides his car into the sewer though and gets away he makes it home and discovers Snowbell is the only one there ever since you left is just movies parties rollerskating they were just so happy to get rid of you okay seriously at this point wouldn't it make sense just to eat him the family already thinks he's gone Snowbell could just gobble him up and nobody would know dramatically why go through another lie just to drag things out or did I just answer my own question I tried to warn you Stewart I told you it wasn't gonna work out don't wait sorry so we need this is very relatable drama we've all been adopted just to find our real parents just to find their fake parents just to find our adoptive parents again just to find they hate us just to find they don't hate us stop reading my journal of course his family is actually out putting up flyers and they just miss each other even snow Belle's lies about the family hating him are so harsh it kind of makes it hard to like him again it's just so over the top relentlessly mean they did that right after you left and George she gave it to him and he tore it up I'd give you the pieces but mr. little set them on fire well and I just found out your real parents they're dead and there is no God but there is a hell and they're going to it and so are you you're gonna love me by the end the other cats ask Snowbell to track him down kid no it's not like we didn't just have a big chasing with cats and they locate him down in Central Park didn't your mother's warned you not to go into Central Park at night my mother was the reason you didn't go with the Central Park at night you know damn it will be stopped going in a good line every once in a while I want to hate all of you there's no bail fine Stewart though it decides to protect him from the rest of the cats I'm doing this for the littles all right I lied okay I'm the one that hates you don't care he literally just said he hates you this mean he's supposed to be redeemed now I can just no what's he doing to your leg what the hell is going on just give it a can of swear word what the hell is going on well then hilariously doesn't fit oh wait I forgot there's literally no other reason for this movie to be PG and you know we got to let the cool kids know that Stuart little has an edge who can't says he'll parental guidance is needed [ __ ] parental guidance was neither went riding this damn movie Stuart for what the 12th time gives a speech about what being a family is all about sure you'll probably scratch him up pretty bad you'll tear him to shreds you may even kill him but Snowbell will not run away right snow that's what should have been there but instead what just get snow Bell looking afraid so what would that have been too much would have warranted a pg-13 picket separated for a bit but Snowbell catches them on a loose branch and start slowing them into the water I'm sure you know if only they had cam reflexes to jump off pity they're dogs but there's one cat left [Music] maybe it's because of my cat owner now but I feel a JIT bad for these animals how many times did they have to smack him in the face or drop him in the water because the director of the haunted mansion said the film wouldn't be complete without it this guy killed Simba's dad kitties you don't want to work with him Snowbell bring Stuart home and the littles are united this is how people look at the end of a fairy tale yeah at the end of Annie be white book but a fairy tale sure and there was to read little it's bland dated and forgettable but I suppose it is inoffensive I mean yes the book is strange and unique and I would have liked it did the movie attempted to tell something strange and unique but at the same time I think most people going in no they're not gonna give what the original book was with this and instead kiss I'm tired but not really harmful cliches some of them are even enjoyably bad like the out of nowhere bully and the weird swearing cat I do give credit to an occasional funny line and some expressive animation from Stuart but it truly is an in one Mouse ear out the other kind of boredom trading in the strange bizarreness of the book for the safe coziness of the 90s I can't say there's much to recommend in it but I can't say there's much you should avoid at all cost either not offensive but not imagined and either hopefully you can figure out if this is the right nineties cheese for your inner mouse that no nostalgia critic and by god I had to balance out all this cutesy bland is with something tougher and awesome oh look a segue into next week's review we're doing two naughty [Music] hi the Walker here mission 22 is this week's charity shout out mission 22 is a nonprofit who combats the ever rising veteran suicide rate every day more than 20 veterans are lost to suicide mission 22 wants to bring that number to zero it does this with three main programs veteran treatment programs memorials and national awareness mission 22 provides treatment programs to veterans for post-traumatic stress traumatic brain injury and other issues they might be facing it organizes events and builds memorials to create social impact and awareness for these issues through these programs and enables a push for the betterment of our nation's heroes and stands United in the war 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Length: 25min 42sec (1542 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 24 2019