Entertaining, but I was disappointed.

Rating: Null/10 (7 July 2002)

Lovely drawings, sweet message about family, and I liked the fact that the characters were so unlikeable. Lilo is lonely and aggressive; her sister is frazzled and aggressive; Stitch starts out as destructive and aggressive....you get the idea. They all bite or hit or punch or kick. Is this Disney? By the end, of course, it is. But could they have spent just a little extra time to have the story make sense? The ugly duckling motif, for example. They use this as an important theme in the story, but no one in the story seems to have remembered that the whole point is that the ugly duckling is NOT a duck. And then the CIA wanders in at the end. What??? Suddenly the social worker (out of the blue) is an agent? ex-agent? Was at "Roswell" in 1973?? How hard would it be to make these bits fit together. You don't find this kind of slack in the best of Disney animation. Because it isn't just about the cool graphics or the Elvis music - in the best Disney movies, it's also about a really well-written story. That's what missing here.