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Summary: Best movie of 2002!!
Review: Here we have one of the funniest, most creative and original, and genuinely emotional animated films that has EVER been created, and this pretentious "Watchman-on-the-Wall" person has the nerve to put it down for elements that don't even figure into it. "Lilo & Stitch" is the only movie I have ever seen that makes me cry literally from beginning to end; half the time because it's just that charming and funny, and the other half the time because the themes of love, loyalty, and family are SO beautifully and tenderly conveyed. Right from the film's opening credits sequence you will surely have tears in your eyes from the sheer beauty of the Hawaiian musical numbers and the open affection of the filmmakers for the Hawaiian culture. On a character note, Lilo has perhaps more depth than any animated character I've ever seen. Her eccentricities and emotional baggage make her, by turns, delightfully charming and totally heartbreaking. Stitch is, hands-down, the most original and entertaining animated character I have EVER seen, and so long as he is on the screen, I am having the BEST time with all of his fantastically wonderful random movements and noises. "Lilo & Stitch" also deserves kudos for having the courage to be so modern in its handling of such important real-life issues as broken familes and Departments of Child Welfare. This is an absolutely brilliant and deeply moving little film that deserves FAR better than the lazy, cheesy direct-to-video sequel and TV series that are already in the works, and my only wish at this point is that Disney would treat their finest properties with enough reverence and respect to give them the better-thought-out *theatrical* sequel treatment they so strongly deserve. I may not pay much attention to the forthcoming direct-to-video "Stitch: The Movie," but "Lilo & Stitch" is one movie that I personally cannot WAIT to add to my personal DVD collection... it has entertained and moved me more thoroughly than any other movie I have had the privelige of seeing this year! Happy viewing, one and all!!
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Summary: Great Fun!
Review: I haven't laughed so hard in a Disney movie since Aladdin. It's got great humor and a cute story to go with it!
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Summary: Warm hearted and charmed family film
Review: Lilo & Stitch is the Disney's comeback to its classic warm hearted and charmed whole family films. I love it, my three years old daughter love it! She can watch this movie three times in a row (because of her we went to the movie theater three times) and I'm sure will be the same with the dvd, which I'm sure I'll buy it! It also teaches about the family values, that family is where the heart belongs, no matter who are the components of it, (a lesson is being forget in this society). Its emphasis is: "OHANA means family, family means nobody's left behind!", a word we sure need to add in our vocabulary.
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Summary: Nice animation!!!
Review: This movie took in $35.8 million in its June, 2002 weekend debut,and it was one of the "sleeper hits" of that summer. All in all, it appears to be a harmless foray into the animated world, by showing that "families are made up of all kinds," and that is true in the animated world. Some great work for the kids to watch and lots of action.
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Summary: Disney's best in a very long time.
Review: Lilo and Stitch (Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois, 2002)Lilo and Stitch is the best Disney movie in over a decade. That would be true simply because it's the first one that hasn't tried to revise history and/or literature into politically correct pap alone, but there's a bit more to it than that. For one thing, this movie (written by Sanders, also responsible for the only other Disney film of the last ten years worth watching, Mulan) doesn't feel like a Disney film-at least, not a recent Disney film. Those of us from Generation X and older have memories, mostly fond, of having the geewillikers scared out of us by older Disney fare. Fantasia, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, you name it, all of them have scenes that have scarred the psyches of millions of kids the world over for decades (to the benefit of the kiddies, to be sure). That changed a ways back; some pundits sounded the death knell when we couldn't even get a minor jump out of the Beast (of Beauty and... fame) getting angry. Well, it's eleven years later, and Sanders and first-timer Deblois seem to be seeking to get back to the old ways. They couldn't get much past the House of Walt, but what they did get past was somewhat promising. The movie's opening takes place on a starship, where Stitch, a genetically engineered alien killing machine, is being exiled from (okay, we'll say it) the Federation. (Come on, you didn't see that? Really, now.) He's shot into deep space to land on, yep, you guessed it, Earth. But before the little koala-lookin' six-armed sucker gets booted, he goes on a rampage and wreaks havoc throughout the ship. It's the most violent thing in an animated Disney film in just about forever. And they manage to top it later, but that would be giving too much away. After Stitch gets to Earth, he ends up in a pet shelter and adopted by your typical Disney family-teenage girl raising young sister. From there it becomes your typical overbearing Disney lovefest with heroic people (and aliens) overcoming all kinds of adversity (including a wonderful character voiced by Ving Rhames, who would have made Men in Black II a much better film), a bunch of gratuitous surfing shots so they could get in this year's shoo-in Best Original Song Oscar, and an utterly predictable, albeit glorious, climax and ending. But at least they didn't try to stick in any historical figures or make mincemeat out of a novel. *** ½
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Summary: Disney back to form
Review: It's been a long time since Disney produced such a good film,worthy of its best masterpieces.Everything is as it should in a real old-times Disney:the backgrounds,the story,the animation,the characters.This comes as a relief after the rather disappointing Atlantis.In fact it is a child's dream come true, complete with good music and loopy Characters.
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Summary: "Lilo & Stitch" Rekindles Faith in Disney
Review: My love for Disney had begun dwindling slowly since "Aladdin," when it was released in 1992. Their storylines took on the same tone and slowly began to get darker. "Lilo & Stitch" helped to throw that concept out the window. It's a light-hearted comedy without the cheese of the typical Disney songs, and it flows better than anything they've put out in a decade. Lilo's cynicism and her affable existentialism (something that I'm sure kids won't think about) add a depth to her character unlike that ever seen in a Disney film. Nani was drawn like a real woman should look, and Stitch ... well ... he was aptly named, since I coudn't stop laughing from the moment he appeared on screen. Don't let your kids, your wife, your husband, girlfriend or boyfriend miss out on this one.
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Summary: "Disney" Animation Finally Starts To 'Grow Up!'
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This review had to be broken down into two parts: The first half starting out as more of a call to attention for many of the ''adults'' who have expressed a number of ''concerns'' about the Disney production, ''LILO & STITCH.'' * [Part I] * ~
For those parents who are complaining about certain "unwholesome content" of this animated feature (disrespectful attitudes, the ''midriffs,'' the violence, the intensity, the tendency to scare small children, etc.), I offer a simple suggestion: Just deal with it and get over it, because it's ALL ''YOUR'' FAULT for allowing your young children to view this film in the first place BEFORE having done your homework! In case all of you supposedly 'moral purists' had not noticed, ''LILO & STITCH'' was given a *''PG''* MPAA Rating! That's ''PG,'' as in ''Parental Guidance Suggested'' -- wherein the subtitle bar reads:
''Some Material May Not Be Suitable For Children.'' ... Get It? If anyone is unclear as to what movie ratings mean or reveal about a film's contents and what it suggests to ''concerned parents,'' I recommend that you learn all about it at the official film ratings web site at ''mpaa .org'' and they'll teach you all about it. Also, for those parents complaining about the content their children are being exposed to in this or any film, ''screenit .com'' is a service which will tell you *EVERYTHING* you need know (the good, the bad and the ugly) about what to expect in a movie or video BEFORE showing it to your 'precious little angels.' So please, EXERCISE SOME PARENTAL 'RESPONSIBILITY,' STOP MAKING 'EXCUSES' and QUIT PASSING THE 'BLAME'! As several poo-pooers have already suggested, go see ''SPIRIT'' instead, if you want something strictly for the kidlets and/or if you DON'T want to take responsibility for what they see in the movie theatre ... and leave ''LILO & STITCH'' for the REST of us! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = *[Part II]* ~
With that all said, There's not much more I can add to the praise which has already been heaped upon this daring Disney film, except this: ''LILO & STITCH'' is the first and only Disney animated feature film I have ever found interesting enough for me to consider breaking my [literally] lifelong personal boycott against Disney animated feature films! (And this is no lie ... all anyone would ever need to do is ask my mother how many Disney movies I've ever begged her to take me to.) One could probably call the Live-Action/CGI amalgam ''TRON'' the only exception (though it was really not a Disney production at all, but an independent film project Disney purchased when no other studio would touch it, and to Disney's great credit, they had enough foresight to see just how visionary the project was and understood the importance and future impact of the then new technology). Admittedly, my initial interest in this new feature was the fact that the story is set in my home state of Hawaii. Added incentives included no operatic arias, no dancing refrigerators, no diabetic system-shocking hyper-saccharin syrupy sweetness, and no talking animals ... except for Stitch, of course. When I learned those things about the film, and learned that the underlying theme of the film was ''Ohana,'' I just had to let my curiosity dictate. And though I wouldn't place ''Lilo & Stitch'' anywhere on the same level as with the Warner Bros. feature ''THE IRON GIANT,'' I was still thoroughly satisfied and found myself VERY impressed with it -- enough to want to place myself on the 'new release notification' list, pending the release of the DVD, which I DO intend on purchasing upon availability. I also appreciated the limited use of CGI, as I have a difficult time relating to the visual clashing which often takes place whenever CGI is incorporated into cel animation. Again, I cannot add much more positive to what so many have already said, but considering that an adamant lifelong ''Anti-Disneyite'' can so willingly and freely do something he'd sworn he'd never do even in a jillionbillion years-- heap praise on a Disney animated feature film --should be considered a very positive sign, indeed! American animation has clearly been growing up in the past few years, and it looks as if Disney may have finally reached its puberty stage. That's a good thing, and it's about time. * * *
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Summary: "It's small and broken, but still good"
Review: While Disney's A-list animators trudged away on the large-format screen spectacular _Treasure Planet_, the B team slipped into theaters with a knockout summer flick for the whole family. The first half-hour of _Lilo and Stitch_ is nearly perfect, with wit, charm and imagination to spare. Only later, when facile sentimentality dominates the proceedings, does the film start to wear out its welcome. That said, the sad, lonely Lilo (who lip-synchs "Heartbreak Hotel" and means every word of it) makes for an unusually thoughtful and well-defined child protagonist, something you'd expect from Japanese anime rather than Der MausHaus. If _Lilo and Stitch_ is too calculating to be a great film, it's at least very good. Several scenes shine, including a surfing interlude that unobtrusively celebrates family bonding. The quiet, soft-pedaled ending -- in which we discover, in the most reassuring manner possible, that nothing was ever quite as it seemed -- is handled with uncommon grace and dignity. One other point: For the life of me I cannot fathom why this film is rated PG, since if any film deserves a "general audience" it is this one. As I recall, the MPAA's official explanation for the PG rating is "mild sci-fi action violence." Frankly, I don't buy that rationale; plenty of G-rated films, classic and recent, feature more "action violence" than _Lilo and Stitch_. I suspect that this film received a PG rating because its characters act like real, flawed human beings -- which is to say that they don't always behave exactly as they ought -- and because this film speaks to children without talking down to them.
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Summary: Lilo and Stitch
Review: Great Movie for all ages! I can't wait until it comes out on DVD, I plan to buy it for myself as well as for gifts!
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