Fast, funny, touching, and beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2002)

If you love the old-fashioned hand drawn movies of Disney's animation heyday, this is the movie for you. There are some computer animated "assists" with the extra-terrestrial world and their spacecraft, but the human characters and Hawaiian backdrop are drawn and painted with loving attention and immense skill.
I especially appreciated the fact that the main human characters don't resemble Barbie dolls and GI Joes. They have sturdy legs, well-fed bellies and big noses. Imagine that: cartoon characters that look like real people! And they come in all shades of Human, from the sunburnt mainlanders to the African-American social worker. See this movie! You will laugh, you will cry (well, I did) and you will witness an instant classic that isn't cookie-cutter Mouse House.