Cute and Fluffy (Spoilers)

Rating: 8/10 (23 June 2002)

Well, maybe the movie is more than that, but who am I to argue with Stitch, who refuses to let his creator rearrange his structure to be less "cute and fluffy"? "Lilo and Stitch" is a beautiful animated and sweet movie (which, believe it or not, actually accurately portrays the way a child exhibits symptoms of grief and loss) with a lot of manic humor. It proves to me, once again, why hand-drawn animation is better than computer animation (even though it does use some, itself).
If I really wanted to, I could probably argue out the alien concept (and Stitch, too), since really the heart of the story is Lilo and her sister and just about anything could have been substituted in Stitch's place (a real dog that had been abused by it's owner (they exibit the same tendencies), a lost koala, the Tazmanian Devil or something), but, what the hell, if it doesn't really matter then why not an alien science project? Besides, there's just something neatly absurdist about it all, like the old Looney Tunes aliens.