This was an absolute scream. Loved it.

Rating: 8/10 (30 June 2002)

You can't go wrong with this-great selection of Elvis tunes, fun pop-culture references, a great nod to Bugs/Elmer/Yosemite involving a gun and a carrot, ummmm roller-coaster aerial chase, even a little bit of 'X Files' gets tossed into da mix.
Plotwise its nothing more than E-T goes Hawaiian, save for the fact that ET here is a dog/alien/Killing machine mix, and the kid-ain't no Henry Thomas. I found the kid and her sister's situation believable(to a point...), the characterizations of the kid realistic-she's obnoxious, lonely, loud, ummm tries to do the right thing but winds up making things worse on herself and her sister in the process, all those kinds of things real kids do. The animation and her dialogue brought to mind Charlie Brown/Calvin and Hobbes at their best, and that ain't a bad source to build on.
The Hawaiian locale-hula dancing, garlands, surfing, the music-all done up the right way too. I applaud the way 'Cobra Bubbles/Ving Rhames/Marcellus Wallace Jr.' was Not made to be either the Bad Guy or the Fool-just a hard guy trying to do a hard job.
Bravo to the animators who gave us the Laurel and Hardy twins-Big 'Russki Science' Alien and the skinny proper 3PO Envrironmentalist-they were a hoot. Very funny drag/Stranger in a strange land type gags. David Ogden Stiers(Winchester on MASH) has made himself a second career by doing all these Disney voices-the clock in 'Beast', for example-and here does another great job as the Russki Scientist.
*2009 Update* This was also the last really good, classic Disney tunes in the 'Disney Rennaissance from '89-02, it was the first big one since '99's Tarzan, it holds up rather well today in '09 too. Odd that Disney didn't keep w/ this same crew, this had potential for more.
I think that they overdid the 'Hani means family...' line a couple times too much, and yeah the 'taking aliens for granted' by everyone involved was a wee questionable-but beyond that, not a problem.
***1/2, really worth yer time.