“As Elvis might put it, you can’t help falling in love with LILO & STITCH.” — Claudia Puig, USA TODAY. Out-of-this-world storytelling, stunning Disney animation, and wild and irresistible characters are at the heart of Disney’s hilarious new animated adventure. This worldwide box office sensation is a heartwarming comedy about the power of loyalty, friendship, and finding your place in the world. On the lush and tropical Hawaiian Islands, an independent little girl named Lilo adopts what she thinks is an innocent puppy, completely unaware that he is a mischievous creature who has escaped from a faraway planet. Stitch takes Hawaii by storm, wreaking havoc and hanging ten while he evades the alien bounty hunters who are bent on recapturing him. It’s an action-packed comedy the whole family will enjoy over and over again.Warm, funny, and imaginative, Lilo & Stitch is the best animated feature the Walt Disney Studios have produced in years. On the planet Turo, mad scientist Jumba Jookiba (voice by David Ogden Stiers) has created a miniature monster programmed for destruction. When the monster escapes to Earth, it’s adopted as a pet and named “Stitch” by Lilo (Daveigh Chase), a lonely little Hawaiian girl. Lilo and her older sister Nani (Tia Carrere) have been struggling to stay together since their parents died. Stitch and Lilo share some hilarious adventures, evading welfare officer Cobra Bubbles (Ving Rhames) and galactic police agents. They learn the timely lesson that a family can be something you’re born into–or something you assemble. A warmth and sincerity that recall The Iron Giant and the films of Hiyao Miyazaki make Lilo a delightful fantasy adults and children can truly enjoy together. –Charles Solomon
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March 8, 2010
#1
I’m not going to let them bother me,though. It’s not like they’re
meant to be taken seriously. Canonically,the commercials are
meaningless. The events shown in the commercials are not what
happened in the movies. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is one of my
favorite movies. Belle and Beast danced without interruption. It HAPPENED. It is an indisputable fact of the fiction… Not that it matters,because the rest of that scene has already happened. I was really angry when I first knew about these commercials,but now I’m completely ambivalent.
March 8, 2010
#2
Oh wow. Where to start? It’s like Wack-A-Mole at Chucky Cheese. So many moles, so few mallets. This movie is singularly the most cruel movie I’ve seen in the past dozen years. It’s Animal Farm with a bad Hawaiian soundtrack and no sense of humor. It’s so bad, I have to talk in broken sentences, like a punch-drunk boxer who lost the last round on a technicality. Wait – I am getting a sense of how the story-board at Disney went!! Happy-go-lucky, destructive beastie does not fit in to society. Moons government authority figure. Audience giggles, nods in understanding that he must be banished. Can’t be productive member of higher society. Only an evil scientist likes it. Stitch is only redeemed when he learns to appreciate family, and get along with everybody else. Children taught valuable lesson about what happens when authority figures go unheeded. Estrangement, banishment, righteous indignation – Bad musical interludes will be your fate if you do not find your right place in Society. See, everybody really wants to “be like folks”, right? We all wanna be the SAME, don’t we? We wanna FIT IN and FIND OUR PLACE in the world. Oh sure, Stitch can be crazy and wacky and creatively independant (for the first half of his life), but when it gets right down to it, he’s a sorry, needy squid like the rest of the modern world. Stitch is on his knees begging for Family before the One-Hour mark in the movie, spittling the movie’s theme line just in CASE you missed the point when it was said for the previous 87 times. Ohana means Family. Of course, it’s not really about family – it’s about conformity (maybe that’s what family is about these days, too – who knows?). It’s about finding a group and blending in. Disney tells us about freedom – the freedom to be like everyone else or be excoriated. Excuse me, but I’d rather cozy up to “Dude Where’s My Car” while being pelted with rocks than ever have to subject myself to this trite, insidious piece of propaganda again. If I wanted trashy propaganda, I’d watch Triumph of the Will – at least then the fascists would be easily spotted. Today, they apparently sometimes have mouse ears and cute fuzzy voices.
March 9, 2010
#3
Well, the ads and previews of this one did not look the least bit interesting to me at all, and coupled with my growing dislike for the what has become of Buena Vista-Touchstone-Dimension Inc., I decided to go against instinct and take my 6 year old son who was very happy about going to this film. I guess with all the various corporation$ using the Stitch image on everything from burgers to maxipads these days and shoving the thing down our throats everywhere we go lately, he was an easy mark.
To quickly describe this worthless movie: VIOLENT-violent & coupled with an evil level of P.C.ness.
It is weird to me how PC’ness has gone so far off the deep end today that it has twisted back upon itself and now promotes some really bad, bad stuff, low morals, violence, strange ideas and unaccountability (no one is responsible for their own actions anymore). People who think this movie was “laughable, “clever”, “witty”…oh “so entertaining”…are truly brainwashed and I am not sure there is any hope for them!?
From the laser gun fights, painful looking machinery, weapon of mass destruction concept, atypical social worker (did you check out his earings, shades and overall menacing demeanor?), physical and verbal violence between family members and friends, and the totally unattractive depiction of the Hawaiian characters both physically and morally. PC alert: All adult females are depicted with thunder thighs and flat chests–(but short shorts and mid-drift tops are ok I guess?!) I assume there is to be no more pretty Pocahontas barbie dolls allowed in Disney films ever again (heaven forbid we get to look at a beautiful heroine). Sheesh this movie was just a wreck! I lived in Hawaii for three years, and the ocean swim/surf scenes were the only true highlight of the film, and they did bring back a few memories of the Hawaii I remember. If there was a story line or message (oh yeah the Ohana thing) it sure paled in comparison to the insanity and chaos that abounded. The animation wasn’t even something to marvel about. I just kept thinking of the “Spirit” movie I also recently went to see. By comparison “Spirit” is absolutley gorgeous. In fact I would go so far as to say “Spirit” had me actually oohing and awing over its brilliant colorful artistry. I would go see that again just to “see” it again.
I will say this: Disney has some serious “click clacks” for serving us up “Lilo & Stitch”! What next? It just seems to get worse and worse. The last truly great movie they made was “Beauty and the Beast” and that was at least ten years ago.
Sadly disapointed in Alaska…
March 9, 2010
#4
“Lilo and Stitch” is “ET” meets “Frankenstein” meets “Lassie”. This is one WEIRD movie. I preferred “Spirit” to this strange animated film.
March 9, 2010
#5
Title “Stitch” must come from the method obviously employed writing the screenplay, blatent unimaginative stitching of commercially successful stories – ET, Monsters Inc., Gremlins, etc. Doesn’t work. In contrast to the wonderfully original Spirit: Stallion of the Cimerron, never once reaches the audience on an deep emotional level. Nothing more than a long, tedious cartoon. Hardly surprising the previews included an upcoming Disney appropriation of Stuart Little – just changing the mouse into a Bear!