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Summary: A Stitch in Time Saves a Little Girl
Review: I would not normally view a motion picture like this one. I went for the sound track. I am a huge Elvis fan. As you know, the soundtrack was based on the music of Elvis Presley. I did enjoy the story too. A little girl adopts, what she thinks is an ugly dog, but in reality is an alien that looks like a purple koula bear with 6 legs. The girl, Lilo, names the dog Stitch. In the meantime, two henchmen, aliens themselves, come to Earth to retrieve the purple what-ever-it-is. At the same time the CIA wants to seperated Lilo from her big sister. (I don't know why, I came into the movie late) All sis has to do is keep a job. But Stitch is a trouble-maker. Every job sis gets Stitch has a hand, or hands, in losing for her. I was not disappointed in the music. I enjoyed the creatures. I especially liked the henchmen's spaceship. It looked like a large fire engine red MD-11. Very cool. I highly recommend "Lilo and Stitch" for the entire family. Cammy Diaz A @ L.
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Summary: One of the best Disney animated films since Aladdin
Review: The Disney factory has managed to inject new life into the animated film over the past decade. Lilo and Stitch continues the trend with a sharp, funny and entertaining film that looks at the nature of family. Like most Disney films, Lilo and Stitch begins with a broken family on the mend and how the main character contributes to the healing process in a funny, likable way. Stitch is an alien on the run... The animation is fluid and the use of water colors (a first in a Disney film) adds depth and variety to the design. Lilo and Stitch manage to capture the wonder of an Island paradise. The themes of friendship, love and family are very strong and at the heart of the film. No Disney movie would be complete without a bickering Abbott and Costello (or Pumba and Timmon)and this film's team is made up of the mad scientist that created Stitch and the planetologist that tries to limit interaction between us and them. The social worker Bubbles comes off as an escapee from Men In Black (you'll find out more about him later in the film). Lilo and Stitch is an entertaining and engrossing family film. Disney has had a hit and miss track record with its animated features lately. Lilo and Stitch clearly belongs in the former category. I'd recommend the film for children 4 to 5 and up.
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Summary: Perfected Beyond Perfection
Review: Lilo and Stitch is one of the best movies a family could see together. It is stunningly cute, warm, and funny. It shares the beauty of friendship and family, while sharing lots of laughter with the audience. It is perfect for the family, and perfect for everyone. It is a masterpiece, a one-of-a-kind for Disney. The characters give a wonderful performance, and the animation is what it should be. Lilo and Stitch is a great movie, full of comedy, and full of smiles during and after the movie. Lilo and Stich should be seen by everyone, and everyone that sees Lilo and Stitch will probably be smiling for a long time afterwards.
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Summary: The best summer flick yet!
Review: I had heard bad reviews about this movie, so I expected to be just okay. I found it to be extremely entertaining. It was very unique compared to other Disney movies, but that was why I liked it so much. It's about an alien that escapes to earth after he is illegally created on another planet. While he is there, he is adopted by Lilo, a young girl who doesn't fit in and is looking for someone to call her friend. He learns the value of love, friendship and family and eventually gets to stay with them on earth. Many people have said go see "Spirit" instead because it is moving. Well, I found this movie to be VERY moving. I found myself near tears at some parts because of it. It was sad to see Stitch so upset and almost taken from his loved ones. But there was a happy ending, one thing you can always count on with Disney. It was just the right mix of action and family value to make it one of the best Disney movies ever.
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Summary: I Laughed, I cried, I jumped up and growled!!!
Review: Lilo is my little girl! 'nough said there...stitch is the pet I would want!! LOL I was entranced the second Lilo hit the screen, and stayed that way throughout! My husband and I saw this movie on our honeymoon...that's how much we loved it!!! The DVD is going to be on our shelves the day it is released!!!
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Summary: Laughing and Crying
Review: This movie made me laugh and made me cry. Even after the movie I can hear his voice saying that the family was broken but still good. Tears my heart everytime. He accepted that he was not born but created and he accepted lilo as his family . It is a great family movie and I reccommend that all see this movie. It will make people take a good look at their family and appreciate them more.
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Summary: Great as Last Years Disney Comedy Princess Diaries!!!!
Review: I went to see this last Saturday and thought it was a cute movie and thought it was as good as last summer's hit "Disney's The Princess Diaries" which is personally one of my most favorite movies with this one which that movie is a live-action not animated but this movie comes next with it Lilo & Stitch is a funny movie and has great animation and great music which there's a soundtrack out with one of my favorite songs by the A*teens "Can't Help Falling In Love" look for the website on Disney.com on liloandstitch.com and go see Lilo & Stitch well you still have the chance I gaurantee you will love this movie. 14 yr. old veiwer
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Summary: Just Adorable
Review: This movie compares favorably with another 'sisters' animation flick - Totoro. Admittedly, there is more action and violence in Lilo and Stitch than in that Japanese classic, but the theme of sisterhood in an unusual family is one of my favorites. The lucious watercolor backgrounds are perfect and provide soft edges to the boldy colored characters. The women in the animation are not 'traditional beauties' and since so few of us are, I thought this was great! Lilo is a very believable little girl and has lots of flaws and you can tell she hurts in her heart. She carries her grief and acts it out in many frustrating ways! It's almost as if Stitch is a manifestation of this little girl's internal monster. However, the fact that Stitch was cured of his selfish, destructive nature means there is hope for Lilo and all of us. Great little movie, very short and sweet and a gem to look at. Little too syrupy at times, which is why it loses a star...however I agree with the main sentiment 'In a family, nobody gets left behind'.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I saw Lilo & Stitch and it was the best movie in a while. I mean as soon as you see Lilo you immediately fall in love with her. This movie is just too adorable. It brought out the child in me. I have a 6 1/2yr old daughter and she has seen it twice already and is ready to watch it again. We both loved it. It's just like Monster's Inc whre you immediately fall in love with Boo and the rest of the Characters. This was a wonderful movie. I gotta say that when I first went to see it I thought it would be kind of boring but I was wrong. It was great, and now I want to go watch it again. Can't wait until it comes out on video.
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Summary: Something new and wonderful from Disney.
Review: I had two primary concerns prior to seeing Lilo & Stitch. First, I'm always leery of movies centered around subjects or themes important to me, lest they screw it up, and this movie takes place in Hawaii, which I shall always consider my home. Second, any liberties that would be taken with the movie would be taken by Disney. I've been conflicted about Disney for several years. Lately, I've had a hard time forgetting about their slapdash animation, their overly liberal portrayal of historical events, and their hamfisted marketing and distribution methods, no matter how alluring the story might be. To say I was pleasantly surprised by Lilo & Stitch would be an understatement. I loved the movie. They made a couple of geographical errors with regard to Kauai, but that's ok, and I doubt much of their audience would notice. They didn't portray Hawaiians as living in grass shacks in sunny paradise where everything is easy and happy. They even had a couple of characters who sounded right (and believe me, a lot of getting Hawaii right is getting the voices right). I felt that the old- school watercolor backgrounds were a perfect match for the soft, laid-back, atmosphere of Kauai. They went out of their way to include any number of little details that made the movie feel like it was set in Hawaii, and not in some designer's idea of what Hawaii is like based upon a bunch of travel brochures and years of hearing "Tiny Bubbles." (The detail to the foot work in the hula sequences alone were a delight. And the shave ice. And the slippers. And the Hawaiian quilts. And... You get the idea.) Even more than all of that, however, was the story. A wonderful blend of slapstick, sadness, hope, fear, desperation, humor, joy, and sentimentality (you didn't think you'd get out of a Disney movie without the sentimentality, did you?). As with many of the more recent Disney movies, it is obvious that an effort was made to make Lilo & Stitch attractive to more than the keikis (children) in the family. Many of the jokes are aimed at the adult viewer, and there is a good bit of violence and disobedience in the movie (Stitch really is a handful). In case you haven't heard, this story is about ohana (family), but focuses not on the traditional nuclear family, or even the extended biological families that are so common in much of Asia. Instead, Disney goes out of their way to make it clear that anyone can be family, so long as you love and care about one another. I think that this worked particularly well in the Hawaii setting, where every woman in your family's lives can be called "Auntie." I also found it refreshing to have this sort of non- traditional family brought to the forefront and shown to work. Sure, life isn't easy, but whose is? As for the individual characters... I loved them all, but Lilo is my hero. I want to be her when I grow up. Rather, I think that any number of girls who grew up on the outside, maybe a little more imaginative, a little less overtly 'girly', will relate to Lilo. The sadness, the rebelliousness, the eagerness to make friends while not having any idea how to do so. It all resonated with me. Lilo's sister Nani's anguish at trying to be a good mother years ahead of her time while dealing with her own sorrow is very believeable, as is David's earnest devotion to Nani. Even the fantastic characters (Cobra Bubbles, Jumba, and Pleakley, and others) are delightful in their roles. And then, of course, there's Stitch. It comes as no surprise that Stitch is the catalyst for many of the events in the movie, and that his interactions with Lilo are paramount to the story (it is, after all, named "Lilo & Stitch"). However, I think that, unlike many of Disney's foils in the past, Stitch stands up as a real and loveable character in his own right. All in all, I found Lilo & Stitch to be a delightful surprise that had me alternately homesick for my home state of Hawaii, laughing out loud, and sniffling into a tissue. If this is the direction Disney will be taking with their full-length feature films, then perhaps I can stop being quite so leery.
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