Lilo and Stitch
Cast
Chris Sanders as Stitch
Daveigh Chase as Lilo
Jason Scott Lee as David Kawena
Tia Carrere as Nani David Ogden Stiers as Jumba Ving Rhames as Cobra Bubbles
Kevin Michael Richardson as Captain Gantu
Kevin McDonald as Pleakley Zoe Caldwell as Grand Councilwoman
Family. An alien, Stitch, is created by an evil scientist. This evil scientist, Jumba, is now on trial for creating illegal experiments, and Stitch is one of them. Jumba is sentenced to jail while Stitch is supposed to be transported to an asteroid to live out the rest of his life. While in the ship, Stitch breaks free, nabs a red Police Cruiser, and makes a run to Earth. He crashlands in Hawaii where he is later adopted by Lilo, a hawaiian girl. She thinks Stitch is a dog. The Galactic Council needs to recapture Stitch and dispose of him. They call on Jumba from his cell, and tell him to get Stitch for his freedom. He accepts, and it's now up to Stitch to see if he lives.
Rater #1
9/10. It was AN AWESOME Movie. The plot was great, and the characters were so realistic. Some of the Background was done in watercolors, which makes everything so beautiful. Stitch is an interesting character that Disney thought up of. Lilo was funny, and she is so gullible too. She thinks Stitch is a dog and it used to be a Collie before he got ran over. The Disney Animators bring out the best in the characters. This is a great movie that Everyone must see!!!!
Rater #2
4/10. I don't really like the company of Disney, but sometimes they make
movies that surprise me with their quality (Monsters, Inc., The Lion
King). Their animated films can be quite good. Note the word "can".
Lilo, voiced by Daveigh Chase (The Ring), is a five-year-old Hawaiian
girl who is being raised by her older sister Nani, voiced by Tia
Carrere. Lilo and Nani's parents died.
Meanwhile, in space, project 626 (voice of Chris Sanders) was made to
be a vicious killing machine thing. When it escapes, it falls to
Earth, while two bumbling aliens try to get it. 626 is found by Lilo
and is named Stitch (hence the name Lilo and Stitch). The movie is
about their so-called "adventures".
First off, Lilo and Stitch tries to hard. It tries too hard to be
funny, to appeal to all age brackets, and to bring back the appeal of
the early 90s, when such movies like Beauty and the Beast and The
Lion King were deemed best of the best. Sure I laughed a few times,
but not enough. Its rather gross humor at times (Stitch licking the
inside of his nose, getting apparatus from the nose and eating it)
didn't appeal to me at all. Adults would find that revolting, though
kids would crack up. Why did they use lavish watercolors instead of
CGI? Maybe so they can go up to Dreamworks and say "WE don't need
computers to make a movie!" Lilo and Stitch would have worked better
as a computer generated movie for some reason. It just seemed out of
place to use blue-collar work.
Ving Rhames comes in (!) as a social worker named Cobra Bubbles
(generating one of the few laughs I protruded) and wants to take Lilo
away from Nani. Gasp! O no! We really know them so well to care!
And that is where my second point comes in. It seems to abandon many
plot elements along the way. Lilo runs into a hula dance lesson, but
is never seen dancing again. Why aren't we told more about the
parents (or would that be too harsh for the young ones who really pay
attention to every word said)? David (Jason Scott Lee), a young man,
seems to come and go and is introduced without any knowledge. Why is
he here and why aren't we told about him at all?
Also, they tried to "dumb it down" a little. Why should we hate a man
doing his job (Mr. Bubbles)? We obviously see that Nani is not being
a very good parent, so why should we care that they are going to be
separated? It's for the best. Too much slapstick even for me. Wow-
kids fall. Hahaha. What was the purpose of putting songs from Elvis
in? Could it be that it's a musical but those smart folks at Disney
couldn't think of any songs to put in? Well, duh!
You may think I totally hate it now, but it is watchable and, as I
said before, a little funny. Its whole space theme, I just didn't
think should have been put in there. It seemed to not fit along with
the remote Hawaiian island theme (but fish-out-of-water, I guess).
Lilo and Stitch is harmless kid's fare, but avoid if possible if you
have half a usable mind.
Rater #3
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rater #4
Has Not Seen Movie
Rated PG for mild sci-fi action.
Running time: 105 minutes
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