Customer Reviews

Lilo and Stitch

5 star:		(185)
4 star:		(43)
3 star:		(20)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(30)

 

 

Traditional animation has taken quite a few hits in recent years and some from the studio you would least suspect, Disney. Disney's last traditional animated effort, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, only managed to gather $84 million by the end of its run, well short of the film's $120 million budget. Many recent Disney animated features have suffered from bloated budgets of which include Fantasia 2000 ($90 million budget), Tarzan ($130 million), and the studio's holiday animated release, Treasure Planet ($140 million). Then how has this genre been able to survive? Thanks in part to the Walt Disney Company's Florida animation facility, they have been able to produce the occasional hit to keep the animation wing of the studio chugging along. Traditional animation needs a hit more then ever due to the failures of not only Disney but Dreamworks, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox which seem to signal the end of this motion picture staple genre.

The story centers on a mischievous alien who crash lands on Earth and learns the meaning of family from his new friends. Experiment 626, created by the mad scientist Jumbaa, is declared a huge hazard to the universe and is ordered by the Galactic Federation to be exiled on a far distant asteroid. Unfortunately things quickly go wrong and 626 hijacks a space cruiser only to crash into the Hawaiian Islands on the planet Earth. Being mistaken for a normal dog, a misunderstood girl named Lilo adopts the galactic criminal and dubs him Stitch. Unbeknownst to his adopted family, Stitch had been programmed to destroy everything in sight and nothing else but over time the fugitive learns accepts the love of his new friends and learns the meaning of family. The story for Lilo & Stitch starts off a little slow at the beginning but as the film goes on, it quickly picks up and comes off as being unique and well done. One thing that can clearly be said is that the plot holds up much better then Atlantis: The Lost Empire, which suffered severely especially in its third act.

Stitch may look ugly but, as he puts it, he's just "cute and fluffy". The character of Stitch has to be one of the most original creations coming from Disney animation. Certainly he is more different then any other Disney animated character and that is probably why he is so loveable. The Walt Disney Company will definitely be making a fine coin off this wonderful creation based on merchandise sales this summer to be sure. Be forewarned that some smaller children may be frightened by some of Stitch's mischievous antics at the beginning of the feature but they are nothing of huge concern. The character of Lilo, who is a typical six year old who is cute and weird but also has a bit of a dark side, is probably one of the most down to Earth animated characters ever. She feeds a fish peanut butter sandwiches everyday believing it controls the weather and when another little girl makes a comment, Lilo jumps on her and punches her. Her antics worry the audience and yet at the same time we can't help but feel sorry for the way others treat her. The only problem found in the cast of characters lies with the background aliens. Though there are a variety of them in the feature, they aren't as unique to audience members as the aliens in Men In Black or Evolution but it is difficult to do that with so many alien features in recent years.

Overall, Lilo & Stitch is a pure Disney gem and ranks up there with many of the past traditional animated classics. Certainly the film doesn't match up with the artistic merits of The Lion King or Aladdin but its own unique style makes it stand out from the rest of the box office pack this summer. This has to be one of the most different Disney animated films in recent memory but the studio needs to keep up with its ever changing audience. Stitch suffers from a slow start and over cuteness in the story department but there is tons of humor that mixes well with the overall story and delightful characters that makes up for those small squabbles. Despite featuring no original songs, the soundtrack for Lilo & Stitch offers several Elvis Presley songs that go extremely well with the actions occurring in the film. Lilo & Stitch is definitely one of the best comedies of the year and should be considered one of most unique and outstanding animated features in recent years.

Our whole family enjoys the Lilo and Stitch characters, as well as the lessons around friendship and family.

Un jour pendant que je me promener, j'ai eu envie de louer ce fameux film donc j'aivais beaucoup entendu parler à la télévision. Quand j'ai su que Stitch était au fond une machine à détruire, j'ai eu une sacré frousse. Mais quand ont va jusqu'à la fin du film ont fini par adorer Stitch et ont a même envie de le serrer dans nous bras tellement qu'il est mignon et mouelleux. Enfin, j'avais passer une belle soiré en voyant ce film. Bien sûr ça était un peu difficile d'utiliser le DVD mais j'ai réussi à écouter le film.

great movie about a girl who is about to be taken away from her sister after their parents are killed and an alien is exiled to earth and she finds him and takes him in and he causes rampage all over the city and town.

this is such a funny movie! it can keep anyone laughing and the visuals and colors and music are amazing! most of the music is elvis so...its gonna be a great score!

anyone can enjoy this movie!

What a disappointment from Disney. The animation in this effort is nowhere near as spectacular as it could have been. With static backgrounds that sometimes look like they were drawn with crayons, this movie represents a low point in Disney animation, occasionally resembling a cheesy, medium budget weekend morning cartoon.

With the success of movies like Toy Story and Monsters Inc, it seems computer generated animation rules the roost these days. If only Disney others would go back to the drawing board and lavish the kind of care on their new projects that was evident for the likes of "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King"!

My overall review: this half-hearted attempt is probably worth indulging if you have youngsters among the audience, but it holds very sparse appeal in general. I'd recommend Nemo instead if you want to have some real family fun.

OMG OMG ITS THE stupidest MOVIE EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!

OMG OMG BUY IT TRASH IT!!!!! GANTU STINKS!!!!

I loved Lilo and Stitch. It was the most adorable cartoon I've seen! The story idea was hilarious, and the way it was presented was equaly funny. Stisch is an adorable mischif maker created by Jumba, an evil genious with a Russian accent. The cast of characters was great.

I also loved that the drawings in this movie were not Disny's usual perfect-figure drawings. It made the movie much warmer.

I paid 22 dollars for what I thought would be a great Disney film. The story line was disjointed, and certainly beyond what a young child could make any sense out of. Lately Disney's M.O. seems to be: Make the animation using as few colors as possible i.e. (powder blue, brown, muted red, and possibly one or two other colors). Many scenes in Stitch seem to have backdrops done in watercolor. DreamWorks and Pixar will be my choice for animation if this is the best Disney can do-they exhibit good color, depth of field, even if sometimes exaggerated,[ex. the trees in the background in certain scenes in Shrek had too much haze in an effort to simulate the contrast between the foreground and background] texture, and great sound. I'll keep The Lion King,
Shrek and other quality animation DVDs, but Stitch and Atlantis have got to go. To digress for a moment, the animation in Atlantis was dark, used a limited amount of colors, and had unatural lines especially on body parts, i.e. squared off fingers and fingernails, squared off muscles and the like. The 2.35:1 ratio was a nice touch in that I'm viewing it on a "106" screen through a projector.

I was sick with a cold one night and managed to catch this on ABC's The Wonderful World Of Disney. I decided to check it out because of all the good things I heard about it. I thought Stitch, Agent Pleakly and Dr. Jumba were very funny characters (David Odgen Steirs steals the show as Jumba). The "villain", Captain Gantu was my favorite character. He was a REALLY cool-looking alien. He's this like 12-foot tall, military buff-type guy (Kevin Micheal Richardson was the perfect voice for Gantu).

OVERALL.

LILO AND STITCH was a movie that was only good enough to keep me entertained. I give it a 3 and half out of 5. I wouldn't reccommend buying it though, but it's worth a rent if still think Disney stuff is cool (like me). This feature is not exactly as good as most everyone says it is (that's just my opinion). Personally I thought DUMBO (which is one of the greatest films ever made in animation history) was MUCH better than LILO AND STITCH. Still, if you wanna try it, don't let me be the one to stop you!

I rented lilo and stitch just last friday and I only saw it once before renting it. And it was on disney channel. and I gotta say it's an awesome movie to say the least. It shows that everyone's different in their own way and that any family can work out together and as long as you got ohana you will never be left behind or forgotton.