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Summary: Four and a half stars from me
Review: Little and Lonely Lilo meets up with the even smaller and equally as lonely alien creature. She adopts him thinking he is a dog, and names him Stitch.
The alien creature/dog is hardly cuddly and adorable, yet he does have a certain quality that makes you instantly like him. Could it be because he was thrown out like trash from outer space?
I did feel sorry for him being sent so far away from the only one he could consider family, the evil professor/doctor who created him.
Lilo is being raised by her teenaged sister, Nani. Nani is having a tough time with Lilo, as the child is a handful. She acts out of anger and yearns for attention. The one real thing she wants is a friend. The other little girls all make fun of her, and they don't want anything to do with her. Poor Lil' Lilo.
Stitch and her become friends, not instantly, but eventually after their time together they become "Ohana" ("Ohana means family, and family means never leaving anyone behind") -- That line is spoken a few times in the movie.
Nonetheless, Lilo & Stitch embark on adventure, and Stitch does his best Elvis Presley imitation.
A few Elvis tunes, some huge waves, and an extremely fascinating animation job make this film a superb addition to Disneys' catalog of movies. This is one of the best to come out in recent years.
Although, nothing can top the old Disney faves like, "Snow White", and "Winnie the Pooh", and "Cinderella". "Lilo&Stich" is a fun movie, and has a good story. A great movie for the entire family! I highly recommend it!!Eileen Famiglietti
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Summary: A Dysfunctional Disney Film?
Review: Lilo & Stitch, the latest offering from the Disney media machine, is (putting it mildly) quite a depature from the grand old tradition of Uncle Walt's animated classics of the past. Take a genetically created creature from a distant planet that is programmed soley for destruction and have it crashland in the backyard of a broken Hawaiian family and you've got yourself Lilo & Stitch. We see young Lilo get into a graphic fist fight at school, throw tantrums and go out of her way to get her highly-strung but otherwise caring sister/guardian in trouble. To this mixture add the creature Stitch, bent on destruction and mayhem and watch the sparks really fly. Also appearing in this drama are a child social worker who looks like a cross between a WWF wrestler and a member of P. Diddy's entourage and a buff pyromaniacal surfer dude who has the hots for Lilo's sister Nani. Initially the creature Stitch appears quite bi-polar and is highly un-likable (much like the Lilo character), but eventually learns a valuable lesson about family and love and becomes much more tolerable (much like the Lilo character). Additionally, all the female characters were drawn with what appears to be a little too much ... em ... size in the southern regions which is distracting to say the least - insulting at worst. The plot is tried and true and there are no big surprises in the final resolution of the conflict. Yet, like all Disney ventures, the film is very watchable and the charactarizations and voice work admirable. Not likely to be one of the all time classics (i.e., don't hold your breath for the stage adaptation) but definitely worth a look.
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Summary: Disney Magic
Review: After a stale run of historical movies and rehashes of old films/stories, this is truly Disney's best movie since "The Lion King." An Original tale about a monster called 626/Stitch who was created by an "Evil Genius" for the purpose of destruction. After nearly ruining everything he touches, Stitch learns the importance of acceptance and family. Overall good family fun that should not be missed.
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Summary: Once again Disney succeeds in bringing back tradition!
Review: It's Classic and sci-fi? Yes! These days it was like Disney's old original animated features were really bombed at the box-office (e.g. emperor's new groove). It was as if only Pixar productions really mattered (Monsters Inc.). Well not anymore, this week ranking over $100 million at the box-office-Lilo &Stitch is really great! It's a funny lovable story and his hard not to like. Unlike most traditional Disney features where a lot of the characters are similar to older cartoons, this feature has unique characters with hard-not-to like personalities. It's extremely funny and adults as well as kids will love it! It show's the traditional Hawaiian way of life clearly as it entertains you without boring you for a minute! At the beginning of the feature when Stitch is shown you'd think "Oh no! Yet another try to make an animated version of independence day!" But soon you'd stop. It's very entertaining and is not about another war to save the earth. The story is about an alien planet where a young blue alien was created illegally (Stitch). Stitch is dangerous and loves ruining stuff (for example ruining Belle's ballroom sequence from Beauty &the beast). At a pound in Hawaii he's found by a little loving girl "Lilo" who has to tame him unless she wants him to go away. The story is unique and unlike any other animated feature before. It in a way could be called the animated version of E.T sharing the same loving-caring theme that E.T. did following up records at the box-office. Beautifully painted scenes and brightly-coloured lands make the scenery enjoyable. It's much more enjoyable and original than "Spirit". It's like returning to Disney and reliving the magic of Disney. A beautiful creation like this hasn't been seen from Disney in years! It's a goofy Scooby-Doo (cartoon version) type pranks n tricks film. It's a cartoon that proves that older traditional Disney features are still loved today! It's not a usual flick that has villains. But it still is a Mulan-type character- strong and kind. Although like most cartoons it carries a fairy-tale type fantasy plot, (the alien) not including the alien it's like a reality film. The film does have a few sad atmospheres but still it's one you'd want to see. The Elvis sounds are very different from what you'd expect to hear in a Disney cartoon set in Hawaii but the fact is that it makes it even more enjoyable! The climax of the film is just as exciting and astonishing as the Lion King take-over and the Beauty and the Beast defense system. It's a film that hopefully will win the best animated feature Oscar! Maybe it'll be nominated for best picture?(Beauty and the beast did!). It's like a blue koala trapped in a beautiful Tomb Raider (game version) scene! Basically if you're looking for a hearty, sad, exciting, loving, funny, enjoyable, beautiful creation-you've come to look in the right place. It's what the traditional Disney features were all about. It's what you may not find very often nowadays! It's Lilo &Stitch! ----Ahmed Mashhood
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Summary: HAWAIAN ROLLER COASTER RIDE
Review: I didnt want to go see Lilo and Stitch-I wanted to see Scooby Doo But after Lilo started I liked it! The movie is about two sisters that after the Grim Reaper takes their parents-they decide to get a dog and they adopt Stitch-but they dont know that he is and really smart-really strong runaway
alien on the run from space creatures! I have the soundtrack for this movie and the music is great-the Elvis songs are good-but the first song is my favorite! So I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves the tropics-
or has nothing better to do except get out of that hot sun and
sit in a cool theatre!
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Summary: "Lilo & Stitch" is AMAZING!
Review: Truly, "Lilo & Stitch" has to be the best, the grestest, the most run-you-out-of-superlatives animated feature to come out of the Mouse House in a good many years. Wonderfully fresh and witty, resoundingly hilarious, and surprisingly touching (without ever becoming sappy or sentimental) this is THE film of Summer 2002. By now you know what the story is about: alien escapes, girl adopts alien, girl and alien try to understand each other. What follows (and what forms the main crux of the film) is a story of transformation, beautifully rendered through the theme of "ohana" as the alien criminal "Stitch", who is programmed only to destroy, learns the power of family and how to Love. The pace is steady, the characters genuinely realized, and the musical backdrop of the film (Hawaiian melodies mixed with Elvis classics) make the film an out-and-out winner. Furthermore, it is the first Disney film in years which will tug fervently at your heart strings, if not make you shed the occasional tear. The animation harkens back to a more sensitive, less flashy style and we see watercolor backdrops for the first time in a Disney film since Bambi 60 years ago. The assertion being made by many that "Lilo & Stitch" marks the beginning of the fourth Golden Age for Disney animation is a substantial one (the previous three being marked by the releases of "Snow White", "Cinderella" and "The Little Mermaid"), but such notices are to be established in the future. For now, revel in the miracle that is "Lilo & Stitch": an extraordinary motion picture filled with warmth and heart and boundless wonder.
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Summary: Completes The Mystery
Review: This film was not on any of my lists of things to do or movies to see. However, I wound up doing the driving for the youngster and I was pleasantly surprised as well as confused. The two biggest money making films of the summer came equipped with a PG rating for the galaxy far away and long ago, and PG-13 for the arachnid from Manhattan. I understand that the movie industry has their own group that rate their own product, and that objectivity is based upon politics and influence. I am sure George Lucas could have gotten a G for his film if he had wanted to. The spider was appropriately rated especially when the gratuitous shot of Kirsten Dunst in a rain soaked t-shirt is included. Only Mr. Lucas could get a straight PG for a film that includes dismemberment and 4 decapitations, one performed in front of the victim's son. My point is how did this film deserve a PG? This animated flick is not one of the new slick 3-d techno whiz films. The animation looks like it did a couple of decades ago, and the backgrounds are done like watercolors, they are more for impression, and do not compete for your eye. The film is loaded with traditional family fare, and for those older members of the audience, an Elvis soundtrack, albeit updated, gives the older folks something to enjoy. The film is good, and the character of Cobra Bubbles voiced by Ving Rhames is one of the highlights of the film, Lilo is a riot. Disney borrowed heavily from some of Lucas's films, but how many movies are original anymore? Great kid-flick, that should have been rated G.
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Summary: An enjoyable disney film
Review: What is there to say about Lilo& Stitch? An evil alien escapes and lands on Earth and gets adopted. It is to typical of Disney to have one or no parents. In tis movie tere are none. Kids will love it and adults will find it fairly enjoyable. I kind of liked it because: Beautiful animation bring the movie to life, a loveable Stitch, a few funny jokes and a good Disney ending. I think kids will absolutly love it. Bottom Line: C
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Summary: What were they thinking?
Review: I took my 10-year-old son to see Lilo and Stitch today, and I was really disappointed. I had high hopes because of the soundtrack (I am an unapologetic Elvis fan), and the unique watercolor animation. Unfortunately, I came away not only disappointed, but wondering what the writers could have been thinking. In Lilo's first scene, she punches a girl in the face and bites her. In the next scene, she is obviously living in an inappropriate environment with her sister (filthy house, little supervision, pots left boiling on the stove and scissors on the floor.) They never said how old Lilo is supposed to be, but I pegged her at about 5 years old. After the social worker visits to see if she is being properly taken care of (she is not) Lilo has a physical fight with her much older sister and hides in a clothes dryer to get away from her. A clothes dryer. She climbs into it and shuts the door, and when she thinks her sister is gone, she opens the door from the inside and jumps out. Why didn't they just have her climb into an abandoned refridgerator in the back yard and shut the door? What were these people thinking? My son is old enough to know better, but there were so many tiny tots in the theater that I was appalled that they might get the idea that a clothes dryer would be a fun place to hide. The social worker is portrayed throughout most of the movie as a scary, mean character, and we are obviously supposed to root for Lilo to remain living in a situation where her sister gives her money and tells her to hang around town by herself while she works, leaves her at home alone when she has a job interview (even after being warned not to by the social worker), and verbally and physically abuses her. All because "even a broken little family is good." Good grief.
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Summary: My favorite Disney movie ! One of my favorites, period !
Review: You've read the plot details in other reviews, so I won't rehash them here. My 19 year old daughter saw this movie with her boyfriend and came home raving about it. She insisted that I see it with her. What a wonderfule movie ! This is the first Disney movie I have ever seen that had REAL people in it - warts and all. Yes, unhappy kids sometimes act aggressive. Yes, teenage girls don't always act as responsibly as they should. And yes, space aliens can be pretty weird ... Okay, okay - perhaps space aliens aren't real. In this movie, nobody is all good, and nobody is all bad and nobody gets killed or left behind. I dragged my husband off to see it and he loved it, too ! I recommended it to my sister and nieces (ages 4 and 6) and they loved it, too. Grab the kids and your spouse, leave the prigs and sourpusses at home, and SEE THIS MOVIE !
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