A DVD-shaped-babysitter-to-be, Stuart Little 2 might pick up where its predecessor left off, but does anyone remember where that was? The definition of passable children's entertainment, 1999's Stuart Little loosely adapted E.B. White's children's-lit classic into a high-spirited, attractively shot, unrelentingly bland little adventure seemingly designed to be consumed and forgotten. In Stuart Little 2, the voice of Michael J. Fox returns, embodied by a pleasant CGI mouse who drives a little red car and accompanies his human brother (Jonathan Lipnicki) on various adventures. But as SL2 begins, Lipnicki has discovered friends of his own species and the pleasures of the Playstation 2, and his attention has begun to stray from his devoted sibling. This leaves Fox with little company but his former enemy Snowbell, a housecat with a voice borrowed from Nathan Lane and a sensibility borrowed from quipmeister Bruce Vilanch. A life of adventure-free dejection seems in store until Fox befriends a wounded bird voiced by Melanie Griffith who—shades of Another Day In Paradise—is actually the partner of a felonious falcon voiced by James Woods. After casing the joint, Woods charges Griffith with retrieving the wedding ring worn by Little matriarch Geena Davis. The question of why he would prefer jewelry over, say, the meaty innards of the Little household's animal residents is never addressed, nor does it get in the way of the computer-animated adventures that follow. With a less milquetoast hero, these might have turned out more exciting, but as intelligent mice go, SL2's protagonist has nothing on Mickey, Jerry, Itchy, Mighty, or the Great Mouse Detective. Director Rob Minkoff, returning from the original, keeps the tone sweet. But with a script by Ghost scribe Bruce Joel Rubin, in which the exclamation "I'm gonna be falcon poop!" passes as wit, SL2 never becomes more than a just-acceptable kiddie time-filler. Like its predecessor, Stuart Little 2 comes from the Go-Gurt school of children's filmmaking: It puts the same dull sludge in a rad new package.