Stuart Little (1999)
Directed by Rob Minkoff
When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.
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The Sheep Detectives carries a sophistication reminiscent of those '90s live-action family films like Babe, Mouse Hunt, Stuart Little, or even my VHS classic The Borrowers, back before the genre got tainted by lazy TV-to-live-action adaptations like The Smurfs and the dumpster fire of Disney's live-action output.
In the tradition of Stuart Little and Hugo before it, Paddington is one of those amazing films that perfectly blends heart and humor, with a gigantic quantity of whimsy.
So, yes, there are familiar elements here -- from children's-lit and children's-film classics as varied as 101 Dalmatians, Stuart Little, and Winnie the Pooh, but there's also a broad-and-bizarre stroke of Monty Python-style absurdity and more than a few welcome, modernized-yet-classical touches like a calypso band, D Lime, acting as a chorus to the film's urban adventuring.
El segundo largo de Paddington dirigido por Paul King tiene la cualidad de una producción de lujo, frecuente en el cine americano y limitada a lo correcto en las de otras industrias, y otra principal y mucho menos usual: la brillantez y variedad de la dirección artística, el reparto donde sólo el pequeño oso es producto de la animación y todos los que le rodean son actores y muy buenos, el guión que da papel a muchos personajes, la genuina comicidad mientras que lo habitual en el género es confundirla con la mera ingenuidad (en esto coincide con Stuart Little, de parecido planteamiento, y que también contaba con un estupendo guión).
Tess's dad (Harold Gould, "Stuart Little") lives with them, providing a father figure to Harry, although he's too out of touch to have much impact on his granddaughter's world.