Stuart Little

(Columbia TriStar)

Rob Minkoff's adaptation of the E.B. White children's classic trades Stuart the mouse's natty togs for cutesy sneakers, sends the rodent's interspecies love interest migrating right out of the script, and sanitizes White's light absurdist touch: Mrs. Little (Geena Davis) doesn't give birth to her two-inch son but adopts him. Computer-generated and voiced by Michael J. Fox, Stuart lacks the waggish, indomitable edge of his literary counterpart. He even shrinks from his furball foe, Snowbell the cat (Nathan Lane).