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Summary: Cool!
Review: This movie is really good. An interesting plot and the characters make this movie worth seeing. You can immediately see that the characters make this movie what it is. It is a little different than what the previews suggest, but it is good anyway. Defiantly go see this movie. You'll love it!!!!
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Summary: As good as Monsters Inc.
Review: Lilo and Stitch was my favorite Disney movie that wasn't made by Pixar since Tarzan.
Once the Disney sign comes up at the begining of the movie as an alien door, you are interested. The movie starts out at a trial of the not only for mad scientist Jumba Jukiba for making unarthurized genetic experiments, but for his experiment because it destroys cities. Jumba is put in prison and his experiment 626 gets conected to a genetic gun that only shoots at him. However, experiment 626 escapes.
Now we meet Lilo, a very cute Hawaiian girl who has no friends because she sees the world differently. She can be very unusual. She feeds fish sandwiches, has a doll with bug eggs in its head, and takes pictures of fat people on the beach. She has no parents, but she does have a teenage sister named Nani. Cobra Bubles is a social worker who wants to send Lilo to an orphanage if Nani can't keep things straight.
All of a sudden, experiment 626 lands on Earth. He gets run over by a truck that breaks so he is sent to the pound. Lilo goes to the pound to buy a dog and adopts the experiment who she names Stitch. Lilo teaches Stitch to be good through Elvis Presley, surfing, and teaching him about family.
Meanwhile, Jumba Jukiba is on Earth trying to find Stitch in order to get back his freedom. He is asissted by Pleakey, a so called "Earth expert" who thinks that Earth is a feeding ground for the endangered misquito who is being breed after being nearly extinct. The aliens are trying to find Stitch. This causes alot of behavior problems with Stitch. However, this causes less chance of Nani being able to find a job, giving more chance of Lilo going to an orphange. And now, Captain Goto is out finding Stitch!
What will happen? Just see Lilo and Stitch to find out!
All in all, this is as good as Monsters Inc.
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Summary: Great fun, but too extreme for under-4s.
Review: The animation and vocal characterizations are first rate, the prime lesson - family means no one gets left our or left behind -- is heartwarming, and there are many cross-pop-culture references that parents will enjoy. I am submitting this review solely to warn parents of little children that, IMHO, the movie is too difficult and scary for children under 4. In fact, I would think hard before taking a child under 6. The reason is that the initial premise -- the movie begins with a criminal inquisition before an alien council and involves a wide variety of freakish creatures including multi-eyed criminal, a shark-headed giant, and the destruction-machine Stitch -- is too difficult and the characters too monsterlike for little ones. In the end, all of the creatures are good, even the evil scientist, but it takes some time to get there. Until Stitch starts learning compassion, which is midway through the movie, he also is a scary character. Lilo and her human family are the best things in the movie.
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Summary: My son loved every minute...
Review: My 5 year old was so enthralled he was leaning forward in seat. At the end he was dancing with the music. There were enough adult jokes to keep the parents entertained.
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Summary: One of Disney's Best
Review: What can you say about a movie that includes excellent surfing, Elvis songs, Ving Rhames playing a social worker named Cobra Bubbles, and the line, "Ohana means family," spoken within minutes of the line, "It's OK, my dog found the chainsaw"? How about, "Go see it now"? Codirectors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois have created a film that is fresh and original yet pays tribute to the best of Disney animation. Their animated version of Kauai is as beautiful as the real thing, and the mixed audience of adults and kids in the theater with us was laughing out loud the whole time. But the thing that really shines is the story that brings quirky characters together in a heartwarming tribute to family. Have you left for the theater yet?
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Summary: WONDERFUL
Review: Lilo & Stitch is a wonderful heartwarming movie.The story is about a young girl named Lilo who cannot make any friends. She lives with her sister who is about 18. They are fighting to stay together form a Social worker trying to take Lilo away. She gets Lilo a "dog" who she names Stitch who is actually an alien from another planet. There are two other aliens trying to take him back to the home planet. It is a very enjoyable movie. Buy this movie.
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Summary: A Real Charmer!
Review: I can enthusiastically recommend Lilo and Stitch to both families with kids and 'Toon fans. You've read and heard the plot elsewhere, so I would just like to address a few issues for parents taking kids to this movie. My son, ten, has always hated the "orphan" angle that is so frequent in kids' movies (and literature, for that matter.) I can sympathize: how would I feel, as a mom, if every other movie aimed at me dealt with the death of a child? But in Lilo and Stitch this was handled sensitively: the parents had died before the beginning of the movie, and while Lilo is obviously aching for her parents, there aren't many scenes that deal directly with the deaths. (She does show a photo of them to Stitch, and explains that her parents had gone for a drive in their car on a rainy night.) Also, the social worker who questions whether Lilo can stay with her sister is not presented as a villian, which you would expect. The aliens trying to retrieve Stitch are shown as bumbling, rather than sinister. And lastly, there are few "startling," jumping-out-at-you scenes. All these elements make the movie appropriate for little kids on up. And 'Toon fans: the plot is strong, the humor is off-beat, the watercolor back-drops are beautiful, and, I must confess, I got sniffly more than once. All this and a fine Elvis Presley soundtrack.
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Summary: A bit of a scare
Review: When I walked into the theatre to see Lilo and Stitch, I was expecting the wild and exciting thrill of an action/comedy movie. What I got was a sad story that was far too advanced for younger children. I liked it, in general, but my younger sister hated it with a passion. She was frightened by the fact that Stitch was lost and alone, and started to cry when Stitch uttered the lines "I'm Lost!" I believe all of us can relate to Stitch in some way. The older of us using destruction to mask the pain we feel. However, inside we feel like Stitch, a bit sad, and sometimes lonely. For kids, many feel very lonely, and often scared. When they see Stitch alone, it projects the fear, as if saying that anyone and everyone can get lost. The same fear is projected when Lilo is nearly taken by the social worker. This is saying to the kids that they could get taken away too. Is this what we wanna tell our kids? that they can be stolen from their family? In the end, the value of Ohana is good, but the kids have seen so much pain in Lilo and Stitch that they miss the importance. The adult themes are so overwhelming, that the kids miss the value of Ohana.
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Summary: Not what you might expect from Disney
Review: I definitely went into this movie expecting something akin to Disney of the 90's (excluding Pochahontas.) However, this is a departure from what I know of Disney. Stitch is a mutant alien and is banished from his planet. Nothing wrong so far. He ends up in Hawaii with two sisters - the younger of the two at risk of being taken away by a social worker. Disney and social workers are not coknown bedfellows. While Stitch provides some cute laughs here and there, the plot drags as you become further entrenched in this rather adult plot. I was hoping for some of wit of Emperor's New Groove that appealed to young and old alike. Somewhere, Disney lost their focus with this film. I will say that many, many kids were in the theater and they loved it. It's not bad - but be prepared for something different here.
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Summary: Nicely Done
Review: We have been spoiled. All we've seen for kids this year are CGI behemoths like Shrek, Monsters Inc., and Jimmy Neutron (all nominated for Oscars). Although I loved Monsters Inc., I thought Shrek was highly overrated but I had to admit the animation was great. Disney attempted to break that mold last year with Atlantis which was a minor disappointment not only at the box office but with critics. Disney is trying again with their new movie Lilo & Stitch. It tells the story of an alienated little girl meeting and alienated...alien. As with Atlantis there are no musical numbers and a few strategic CG elemtents thrown in, but in Lilo & Stitch, the story had more emotion, like The Iron Giant only tugging a lot harder at your heart strings. It's hard to resist this sweet little movie and the absolutely fantastic watercolor backgrounds that were so rich and vibrant that it felt like diving right into a sunny painting of Hawaii. The story occasionally falterd when the two bumbling alien duo took the stage and some of the characters were a bit mishapen, but all in all it was a sweet, tounching movie.
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