Title - Lilo & Stitch
Production - Walt Disney Pictures, Rideback
Starring - Maia Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, Chris Sanders, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Courtney B. Vance, Amy Hill, Tia Carrera, Hannah Waddingham, Jason Scott Lee
Writer - Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, Mike Van Waes
Director - Dean Fleischer Camp
Release - 22 May 2025
I vaguely remember liking the original animated movie very much. This, though; this was made for kids. Adults, watch something else.
Changing up the script from the original is fine with me as long as it makes sense to the story. The internet is a messy place. You can't satisfy everyone. People complain about how they deviated from the original for this version. And then when it's shot for shot from the original like Beauty And The Beast or The Lion King, people were cying about that too.
But these characters in this iteration just looked silly and stupid. Lilo had many a time been by herself and left alone, and she's more than capable of taking care of herself. There was no reason why her sister couldn't leave her alone at home for an hour or two to go for her job interview.
The inconsistencies, also, were dominant around Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen's characters. There were easier or more efficient ways to do what they wanted to do but they were there to make children laugh. Their characters belonged in an animated story.
There was clearly a huge jump in intelligence when Stitch started talking in English. For the most part of the movie, he was a silly creature that caused mayhem to the people around him like Mr. Bean. And all of a sudden in the third act, he could understand and speak the language. How do you buy into that logic? (It was easier if it was animated, but in live-action a lot more had to be achieved in order to make it realistic.)
And, how was this the movie of the year that crossed a billion dollars? Go figure.
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