Stuart Little 2

Performer: Original Soundtrack
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Producers: Glen Brunman, Bonnie Greenberg-Goodman, Lia Vollack. The soundtrack album for Stuart Little 2 is dominated by cheery pop/rock songs performed by artists affiliated with its releasing label, Epic Records. (Since this is a "music from and inspired by" album, some may not really be in the film.) Celine Dion occupies the position taken by Trisha Yearwood on the soundtrack to Stuart Little in 1999, singing an upbeat rhythm number called "I'm Alive." Other songs, such as Chantal Kreviazuk's "Another Small Adventure," Shawn Colvin's "Hold on to the Good Things," and Billy Gilman's "Count on Me," continue the sunny sentiments, and while Vitamin C's "Smile" acknowledges that life is not always peaches and cream, she admonishes "put a smile on your face, make the world a better place" over and over in the chorus. Making the world a better place is also the message of Mary Mary's remake of Jackie DeShannon's 1969 hit "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," one of several old songs presumably included to make parents and grandparents feel at home in the theater. The other revival of such a song is Nathan Lane's big-band version of "One," the 1969 hit by Three Dog Night written by Harry Nilsson. Lane provides the voice of a cat in the picture. Just where Steppenwolf's 1968 heavy metal anthem "Born to be Wild" or Gilbert O'Sullivan's maudlin 1972 chart-topper "Alone Again (Naturally)," in which he contemplates suicide and describes the death of his parents, fit into this scenario is not clear. But soundtrack albums of pop songs often don't make much sense unless you've seen the movies they come from. As with the first Stuart Little soundtrack, Alan Silvestri's score is restricted to two tracks. On them, he sounds like a John Williams wannabe, trying for grand themes among the by-the-numbers suspense and resolution music. ~ William Ruhlmann The phrase "something for everyone" has seldom applied so perfectly as it does to the soundtrack of STUART LITTLE 2, the second installment in the cinematic exploits of everyone's favorite talking mouse. Suffice it to say that there has seldom been a single CD that runs the stylistic gamut to this extent. Things open with a bang courtesy of Celine Dion's anthemic, celebratory "I'm Alive" and Mary Mary's funked-up version of the classic "Put a Little Love in Your Heart." Before long, we're treated to Snowbell the cat (voiced by Nathan Lane") delivering a lounge-jazz version of the Three Dog Night hit "One," the Romantics' new wave/power pop nugget "What I Like About You," and Gilbert O'Sullivan's gorgeous ode to existential angst "Alone Again (Naturally)." If that's not diverse enough for you, throw in Steppenwolf's biker anthem "Born to be Wild" and a couple of lush orchestral pieces by film composer Alan Silvestri. If you can connect those sonic dots, you're a candidate for a MacArthur "genius" grant.

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