Typical Disney, but if it aint broke don't fix it..

Rating: 8/10 (30 June 2002)

This has to be one of the more simple straight forward animation movies I have seen in recent years. Gone is CGI, 3D backgrounds or the latest tricks. In an odd way, it seems refreshing. Put that to boot with a charming story, well voiced characters, and a lead that you can't help but enjoy and you have a winner.
Lilo & Stitch is about a space alien that was an experiment gone wrong, that ends up escaping and crashing to planet earth (Hawaii specifically). A ragtag of 2 aliens are out to capture the creature (dubbed experiment 622), but run into a road block when a lonley misfit girl named Lilo adopts the creature when it pretends to masquerade as a dog in an animal shelter. She names the creature Stitch and tries to teach the 'thing' about the love of family, which is difficult since Stitch is programmed to be nothing but a destructive wreck.
Stitch is absolutely HYSTERICAL.. Take a blue Koala figure with 4 arms that crawls like a bug, and has a temperment like the Tasmanian Devil and speaks like Donald Duck on hyperdrive.. Stitch is a laugh a minute, (the first scene when Lilo brings Stitch home, and he jams his hind legs into his mouth and rolls into a ball, had my dying on the floor..)
The story continues and concludes with standard Disney fare, (the good guys win, everyone goes home happy), but there is certainly more than enough entertainment for adults in this film as well as for kids.
I wish I had Stitch when I was a kid...
Rating 8 out of 10