An ugly alien and a orphaned girl. Who knew it would be so good?

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2002)

A tall blue alien is walking toward a podium, surrounded by a stadium of aliens. One chubby purple alien with a strange accent and 4 eyes stands in front of her on a high, floating platform. A giant alien is told to read the charges, and he announces that the chubby purple alien has been accused of experimentation on a genetic level. It is announced that they believe he had created something, and a covered floating platform rises a few feet to the chubby alien's side. It is revealed under the covering a blue, 2-armed alien with large blue eyes, huge ears, and a smirk on his face.

Lilo & Stitch follows the adventures of two beings who meet up. Lilo is a 6-year-old depressed Hawaiian girl who listens to Elvis. Indeed, after the action-oriented introductory first 10-minutes, we do feel more than a little heartbroken for a while. She has no parents, and her sister, although good at taking care of her, does have some bad luck with a certain day and a certain man sent to check in on them.
Stitch is the experiment. Made to be destructive, he lands on Earth after a daring escape(or a lucky escape, whatever your look)and starts going through some tough times when he finds Hawaii has no large cities.
After an hour, Stitch is in Lilo's care in a last ditch effort for Lilo to stop being depressed in front of the service man, named Cobra Bubbles. With nothing to destroy, Stitch must look for the next greatest meaning he can find. That, is the center of this story: family.
Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind, or forgotten.
Stitch turns to a very short version of The Ugly Duckling in a Nursury Rhymes book, and starts relating to the lost bird.
Finally, many aliens sent to capture Stitch, or Experiment 626, meet up, in a grand explosion, a serious time, and a slightly confusing action battle.
Stitch, who had brought in his alien features to slightly resemble a dog, does eventually grow on you, he's super cute by the end, and you're happy to know a second movie, more of a prequel, is being made probably featuring the little guy. And you gotta love his voice. It is forgotten in a 50 minute period of growling, but you won't not be able to hear it enough eventually.
Lilo, though amusing, seems to be missing something, yet she is enough for one movie.
The first exclusively water-colour background Disney movie since Dumbo looks amazing, if you are slightly put off by the cartoonish look. The emotion and story is far beyond anything expected, especially for a Disney movie. And, though some seems trailed, the actual execution of the plot is almost up to it's fullest, with a few tweaks here and there. And I do want to see Stitch again, if not Lilo.