funny cartoon about serious real life situation

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2002)

Okay, this movie has child-care service, broken home, parents death, problem child, fugitive on the loose... and it's a cartoon comedy made by Disney. I know that Disney is capable of being violent. After watching Mufasa died, ocean of corpses in Mulan, and Clayton from Tarzan got lynched, Disney no longer have to prove itself. But it's not that Lilo and Stitch is violent. It just deals with too serious subject matter to be a cartoon show. This is the kind of movie parents and adult would enjoy. But other than few physical humor, I do not see how kids can appreciate this movie. The movie may depress them even more. I felt very depress with the story. Dont' get me wrong, it's a well crafted, complicated domestic drama. But usually when i pick up Disney like The Emperor's New Groove or Little Mermaid, I want to relax and enjoy myself. With Lilo and Stitch... I just feel depress. It used to be that Disney film let us see through the eyes of kids looking up at the adult world. Now it's reverse. Even though there are children in the movie, Nani(the older sister) seems to be the central character and the one that the viewer can relate to the most, not Lilo (the problem child) and Stitch. So if you are a kid... you can't relate to anybody in the movie (well, if you are wild, may be Stitch). As serious as it is, you got to hand it to Disney though. When it meant to be funny, it is EXTREMELY funny. I give this movie 10/10.