Good, but - but good

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2002)

Finally Disney has seen the utility of appealing also to the huge audience of overgrown kids (re: 40ish, re: me) who like some nastiness amongst all the syrupy stuff. This is a pretty good movie, as cartoons go. Stitch is great, Lilo (finally) is a bad girl with no excuses save a raging temper (inherited along with her sister's). The side characters are good, if a flinch underdeveloped, even if the chief inspector looks a bit "Men In Black" (willingly, i hope). And most of all - NO BAD GUYS! Finally Disney grasped the idea that everyone is good and bad at times or - as they say - everyone has his moments. The humor is good and, i suspect, heavily inspired by Calvin & Hobbes - the "San Francisco" scene appears IDENTICAL in a strip and the temper and drawing tastes of Lilo are very much alike to Calvin's. The weak point is the hurriedness of plot in the very end - make it 10 minutes instead of 2 and it would still have been fresh, maybe with some flashback. Oh, and stay for the credits - worth it.