Stitch! The Movie

Plot synopsis:
The film starts out with ex-Captain Gantu on his new spaceship (his original got destroyed in the first film), being hired by Hämsterviel to retrieve the other 625 experiments.
Meanwhile on Earth, Stitch is still not fitting in and causes another disaster. Lilo Pelekai tries to encourage him by saying he's one-of-a-kind, comparing him to Frankenstein's monster. Naturally, that just makes him feel worse. Suddenly, a crash is heard from below. Running downstairs, the pair encounters Gantu, breaking into their home. In the ensuing chaos, Stitch thrusts his belly out at Gantu, only to be blasted into a net. Gantu finds and takes a blue pod with the number 625 on it before abducting Jumba for interrogation. Lilo and Stitch manage to take Jumba's ship to chase Gantu into space and engage him in battle, before being defeated and falling back towards Earth.
Back at the house, Lilo, Stitch and Pleakley find the container Jumba was hiding. Pleakley realizes that these are the other 625 experiments, in dehydrated form. He warns them not to tell anyone or put the experiments in water. Deliberately disobeying Pleakley, Stitch and Lilo retrieve the container and hydrate Experiment 221, who promptly escapes.
Meanwhile, Jumba is being held captive on the ship of Dr. Hämsterviel, who is surprisingly a small gerbil/poodle/rabbit-like alien. Unable to intimidate Jumba, Hämsterviel activates Experiment 625, who has all of Stitch's powers, to attack him. Fortunately for Jumba, while 625 has all of Stitch's powers, he's an incredibly lazy coward who prioritizes sandwiches above all else.
Meanwhile, Pleakley is able to come into contact with Hämsterviel's ship via telephone. Hämsterviel tells Pleakley that he wants a ransom of the other 624 experiments in return for Jumba. When Pleakley informs the other family members what the ransom is, Nani proceeds to call Cobra Bubbles while Lilo and Stitch go out to find 221. When Cobra arrives the next morning, he seems to already know about what happened. Meanwhile, Lilo and Stitch finally catch a troublesome Experiment 221 at a hotel.
The rendezvous time arrives and Pleakley and Cobra show up with the container, not knowing that it contains only 623 experiments. Pleakley hands the container over to Hämsterviel, who is shocked to find that one is missing. Lilo then shows up with Experiment 221 trapped in a glass vase. Announcing that she has named it "Sparky", she says that Sparky is part of Stitch's, and thus her, ohana. Hämsterviel tells her to give him the experiment or Jumba will be shot dead.
After several moments of thinking and hearing Cobra, Pleakley, Jumba and Hämsterviel persuading them, Lilo and Stitch set Sparky free and break Jumba from his bonds. On Cobra's signal, the Grand Councilwoman's ship rises out of the nearby ocean and aims several guns at Hämsterviel. Lilo protests, saying that Hämsterviel has the other experiments and Sparky overhears.
Sparky proceeds to use his electrical abilities to blow the power on the Councilwoman's ship, while Hämsterviel and Gantu climb back aboard their own ship with the experiments. In a last attempt to stop Hämsterviel, Lilo and Stitch stow away on it as it leaves, with Sparky following.
Lilo and Stitch manage to swipe the container with the other experiments in it. The struggle for the container between Lilo, Stitch and Gantu results in releasing the dehydrated pods to rain down and scatter throughout Hawaii. Having captured the heroes, Hämsterviel tells his plans to clone Stitch a thousand times over and orders Gantu to do what he wants with Lilo. While Gantu puts Lilo in a teleportation pod to send her to an intergalactic zoo, Stitch is strapped to a weight just heavier than he can lift.
Watching as Stitch tries to avoid being vivisected by a laser for the cloning process, Sparky shows that he has reformed by causing the cloning machine to short-circuit. He then breaks Stitch free and the two strap Hämsterviel to the device before rescuing Lilo.
Having locked Hämsterviel in handcuffs, Lilo, Stitch, and Sparky short-circuit Gantu's ship, causing it to crash near a waterfall on Kauai. Landing Hämsterviel's ship back at the rendezvous point, they give Sparky a new home powering the Kilauea Lighthouse, which hasn't been running in years because powering it was very expensive. They then persuade the Grand Councilwoman to let them rehabilitate the other 623 experiments. The Councilwoman places Hämsterviel under arrest, and Jumba whispers to Pleakley that he has plans for making 627. At the end of the movie, Experiments 202, 529, 455, 489, and 390 are activated.

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Review:
It also had a great villain in what is the French Taunter from Holy Grail in hamster form.The plot, which is more like a hope than a real plot has Gantu being hired by the hamster to get the previous experiments and what happens as a result.
There's a bit more to it then that but since its not much more I feel I have to leave something for you to find out on your own.As I said this is a movie of moments which is what you'll take away from this attack on your wallet by Disney.
Its annoying since its as if they had ideas but no idea how to string them into a viable plot...(then again its TV episodes) Allowing that the animation is by turns good, garbage or passable, one wonders if they had three levels of animators working on this each doing a different shot in turn.This is, on the whole, nowhere near as good as the real movie, who's ending it wipes away completely with talk that the sister and her boyfriend haven't dated, or that some of the events alluded to couldn't have happened in the stills simply because there are now the new creatures.
Its as if a few weeks have passed since the end of the theatrical movie, not the year or so that is implied by the end stills.In pieces and on a level for unstained silliness this is the equal of the first film, but only in the quick moments that never gel.(This is not a ringing endorsement of the movie only that it should be seen in what ever way puts as little money in the coffers of the Disney company) and.
Let's be frank, Disney always tends to create a franchise by releasing a movie and making sequels with new characters and adventures.
When Lilo & Stitch came out, it was in all honesty the very first Disney movie in my life I came to love.
When i heard of a sequel and a TV series, the first thing popping into my head was "there goes the magic" well i wasn't at all wrong.
Maintaining the dysfunctional bunch from the original, the 'straight-to-video' presentation of new adventures and characters is not as exaggerated as before.
The movie is a new deliverance to every Lilo & Stitch fan..
While Lilo & Stich is an endearing saga, the Stich: the Movie isn't.
The first "Lilo and Stitch" was a warm and entertaining animated feature, compensated fully by beautiful animation, a nice soundtrack and a superb script that was not only funny but taught morals without feeling slushy.
The Movie" was merely okay, but it doesn't have the magic or the sense of fun the first film had.
I will give some credit the voice work is very good, Daveigh Chase is very sweet as Lilo and David Ogden Stiers just as he did in the original was marvellous as Jumbaa.
However, the film is too short, at merely an hour there isn't much character development consequently the characters and the relationships between them (Lilo and Stitch's especially) weren't as engaging or as poignant.
By all means, this movie isn't bad, but it pales in comparison to the original.
I've never been too impressed with the Disney video sequels.
And while "Stitch, the Movie" isn't as good as the original, it's still very good.
Also, it sets up the Lilo and Stitch TV series which is even better than the movie!
Both "Stitch" and the TV series share the same duel level of humor that make it attractive to both kids and adults.
I haven't enjoyed a cartoon like this since Animaniacs, and it's no wonder since some of the same voices (and maybe writers) are used.I've seen some negative references in reviews made to Pokemon.
On the plus side, the characters of Pleakley, Jumba, Gantu and the new Hamsterviel are much improved.So, watch the movie, and then watch the TV show!.
The first Lilo and Stitch movie was amusing and entertaining and held my 2 year old's interest easily with the Elvis songs running throughout.
This movie was okay, but I feel that it lacks in comparison to the original Lilo & Stitch Movie.
I also love the first one better becuase the movie seems to incorporate Stitch's awkwardess on earth.
Stitch The Movie is a good effort, but it does not have the magic that the first has.
Plus, the fact that this movie is only one hour seems to make one believe that there is money lost in buying the DVD.
I gave Lilo and Stitch a 10, but I have to give Stitch The Movie a 5..
While Lilo & Stitch is an endearing saga, the Stitch: the Movie isn't.
Almost all the bits of the original is back, but it is so much flatter, so much less artistic, so much less well-paced.My wife, who loved L & S, fell asleep while watching it and for anyone that has not seen the first L & S-film it must be utterly incomprehensible.And even the animation feels rougher, and it sure lacks the deep feelings and suspense of the original, in short a typical low-budget follow-up, that supposedly links the real film with the TV-series (which I have not seen)..
Almost all the bits of the original is back, but it is so much flatter, so much less artistic, so much less well-paced.My wife, who loved L & S, fell asleep while watching it and for anyone that has not seen the first L & S-film it must be utterly incomprehensible.And even the animation feels rougher, and it sure lacks the deep feelings and suspense of the original, in short a typical low-budget follow-up, that supposedly links the real film with the TV-series (which I have not seen)..
I have to say I really enjoyed the sequel to 'Lilo and Stitch' it was just as much fun to watch.
Stitch is as adorable as ever and Lilo is as cute, sassy and clever as ever!
Lilo and Stitch is my favourite Disney movie as all time as well...I think it is fun fresh and sassy.
What caught my attention with Stitch is that he so totally different for a Disney charachter.
It says "Movie" in the title, but it plays more like a children's animated TV show.
Released the year after Disney's 2002 animated feature, "Lilo & Stitch", this was the first of the direct-to-video sequels to that film, but it takes place after the third installment in the movie franchise, 2005's "Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch".
The Movie" also came out just before the beginning of the spin off TV series, "Lilo & Stitch: The Series", which I haven't seen any episodes of (I've only seen a clip of one episode, featuring a guest voice provided by "Weird Al" Yankovic).
I finally saw "Stitch Has a Glitch" just this month and it was basically a mixed blessing to me, unsurprisingly not as good as the original, which I thought was great when I first saw it and pretty good the second time.
After seeing this 2003 "Lilo & Stitch" movie (the second one in order of release), I would say it is slightly weaker than the 2005 one.Dr. Jumba Jookiba, Agent Pleakley, and Stitch are all extraterrestrials now living on Earth with Lilo and Nani in Hawaii.
Gantu has been sent to Earth by Dr. Jacques Von Hämsterviel, Jookiba's quick-tempered former lab partner who is very rodent-like in appearance, to capture the experiments, so the ex-captain arrives in Hawaii, abducts Jookiba from the planet, and takes him to Von Hämsterviel for interrogation, so he will tell them where these experiments are!
On Earth, Lilo and Stitch activate Experiment 221 in their attempts to save the captured scientist, but this creature escapes and starts going around Hawaii and causing power surges!
He proves to be a lot like 626, but is lazier and loves sandwiches.Even though I've never watched the "Lilo & Stitch" TV show, it appears some consider this direct-to-video release to be more like a pilot to that series, and I can believe that.
Even though it has the word "movie" in the title, it feels more like a long episode of a children's cartoon show, and not very effective to me.
There's lots of humour in this first "Lilo & Stitch" sequel, but I didn't usually find it very funny, and that includes the antics of Agent Pleakley for the most part, even though he certainly did make me laugh at times in the first film.
The Movie" that touching.As another direct-to-video sequel to a Disney animated feature (one of the many which have been made since 1994's "The Return of Jafar", the first sequel to 1992's "Aladdin" and the first of Disney's direct-to-video sequel releases), it probably shouldn't surprise viewers if they find it to be bland compared to the theatrical original.
Many fans of the 2002 traditionally animated Disney film could easily be disappointed by this first sequel to it, which can probably also be said about "Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch", even if it is a bit better than this middle film of the three.
I haven't seen 2006's "Leroy & Stitch", so I don't know how that film compares, but I can certainly believe that it's also inferior to the original "Lilo & Stitch", just like the two films that came in between.
The Movie" is basically harmless fluff which many kids could enjoy, but probably not as many adult Disney fans would like it..
It's VERY boring and everything that happens in this movie is just a lame thing to try to get the audience to have fun.Nice try, movie makers, but please don't make a sequel as bad as this one again..
Pure Family Fun. This movie is not really like a sequel.
It is like a continuation of Lilo and Stitch.
It is better than some of Disney's other "sequels".
I don't know how the TV series will be like but it seems to be like a continuation to Stitch!
See this movie and see the preview of the tv series(on the DVD) and see what you think.
Another Bad Disney Sequel!.
Why did they have to make a sequel to Lilo and Stitch?
This movie looked like the people spent a lot of time working on this.
I liked the evil little hamster that looked like a rabbit in this movie.
I am still waiting for the day when Disney make a sequel that is better than the original movie!.
I was please with it to the fact that it was cute and funny like the first movie, however I was disappointed that it was only an hour long.
I know they are bringing in the T.V. series with finding all 625 of the experiments but I was upset with the way it ended and how short it was.
I did like it though and I enjoy very much, I would recommend others to see it as well but the little fact that it was short and the ending upset me..
Watching "Lilo and Stitch" was like watching water boil: It was a long, tedious bore that finally started to heat up, only to evaporate.
Watching Disney's latest straight-to-video cash-in sequel, "Stitch!
The overweight Russian-voiced creature is repsonsible for Stitch; he was a mad scientist who created some 600 ill-fated experiments.
Perhaps Experiment 666 will be delved into in the next installment, "Disney's Lilo and Stitch III: Apocalypse Now."The Russian alien is kidnapped from Lilo's home and held captive by another fearful creature, who is in search of the other experiments, all of which are dehydrated and being stored in Lilo's Hawaiin beachside resort, something hardly affordable for a low-salary working-class young adult such as Lilo's sister.
With a sharp wit like that, it's any wonder the kidnapper alien knows how to fly a complex lightspeed ship through space.)New creatures are unleashed in "Stitch!
"Stitch" takes more than a few creative liberties--the entire premise is that of "E.T." (particularly the first film); Stitch rolls himself into a ball and travels across land (done by the similar-looking nibblers in "Critters"); and the dehydrated experiments are restored by adding water--something seen in "Gremlins." Of course, this is an animated film, so we are supposed to forgive Disney for totally cashing in on a money-making franchise, ripping off other films and their ideas, and so on and so forth.What we viewers put up with!To be honest, I come from a prejudiced standpoint--I didn't like the first film at all, as I have clearly stated above.
With that in mind, fans of the first film will love "Stitch!
The Movie," primarily because it stays very true to the original, both in story and animation -- the latter of which is usually ruined in straight-to-video sequels.
In the end, that's the really sad thing about "Stitch!"--whereas most worthwhile straight-to-video Disney sequels lack everything that made the first a good film, including decent animation, "Stitch!" actually feels like a theatrical sequel.
Lilo & Stitch was wonderful!
I put down my thoughts on that movie at Amazon, but as much as I enjoyed that movie & anticipated the sequel & series I knew were coming, I didn't hold out much hope.
The music is the greatest disappointment; while 'not bad', it lacks the spunk & pizazz of the original.
All in all, this is not unlike the second Back to the future movie; feels like a stopgap fulfilment of a contractual obligation; the quality of the work is adequate to as remarkable as the archetype, but there is something lacking.
Let's hope that like Bttf, the next installment meets or exceeds the expectations set by the original..
Seriously, this movie is like watching a hangover.
This is the worst bomb ever to come out of Disney's cheapo sequel bomb factory.
EVERY animated character from Lilo & Stitch (even the frog) makes an appearance, not in any sort of way that adds to the plot, or even does anything aside from desperately trying to convince you that this mercifully short 64 minute atrocity is really in fact supposed to be somehow based on the most enjoyable film Disney ever made.
After watching this movie, it feels as if there is something in your brain that your body KNOWS doesn't belong there.
It's like the part in Alien where the guy comes in and says "I feel like s***." and then the alien explodes out of his stomach, just replacing "stomach" with "brain."This movie made me actually kind of glad that Disney just fired their 2-D animators, THEY SHOULD BE FIRED!
Sure it doesn't EXACTLY have as much of the warmth of the first movie, but it sure is funny!Stitch, Peakley, and Jumba are now living with Lilo and Nani.
(wouldn't people wonder why Stitch was named 626?)Jumba's ex-partner, Dr. Hamsterveil (Not Hamsterwheel, not Gerbal-like) and his hireling the ex-Captain Gantu know that.
They're dehydrated for storage)Hamsterveil demands to the rest of the gang that they bring the other 624 as ransom for Jumba, though, awhile ago, Lilo and Stitch had activated expiriment 221, which they dubbed "Sparky".One of my favorite characters was 625.
Hamsterveil thought that 625 would tourture Jumba into telling where the others are, because he has all the powers of Stitch...
But, on the other hand, he makes good sandwiches![END SPOILER]Oh, and another thing, Stitch doesn't want to give up his 625 "cousins".
"Family" means "Nobody gets left behind or forgotten."Okay, the series is going to be KIND OF like Pokiemon (sp?), but, actually, I hardly thought of it.
Whenever it was going to the end of the movie, I thought, "Hm, gotta chatch 'em all?
Sounds kind of like that show Pokemon." but then I forgot about it.[ANOTHER SPOILER (same instructions as before)]And I LOVE in the end when Peakley gets his hopes up that the Grand Councilwoman would take them home, then, like, a second later the ship takes off without them.
HA![END SPOILER]Overall, I loved the movie, and can't wait to see what the TV show's like, it has the same basic idea as Pokemon, so I hear, but I know enough of Lilo and Stitch to know it has a WAY DIFFERENT additute about it.DanMat6288, the cartoon lover.
I also don't think you can understand it if you haven't seen the first one.Vague spoiler:The ending of the thing just turned into a Pokemon rip off, which was very disappointing for something that started out as such an original movie the first time around.
I thought the original movie was sophisticated enough to appeal to a broad range of ages.
the Movie_ follows logically from _Lilo and Stitch_, and the characters are true to their personalities.
This movie was about the worst of the Disney sequels.
It lost every inch of the charm the original had, and really was a monumental waste of my time and money in purchasing this lamoid piece of garbage.Stitch was as badly drawn as anything on a 5 year old's mother's refrigerator; worse even, as were the other characters, scenery, architecture and backdrops in this "animation." (when they bothered to ADD backdrops)This was such a disappointment, I was too mad at it to rate it until this late hour.
I loved Lilo and Stitch.
I loved Lilo and Stitch.
Personally, I think the movie could've been A LOT better.
Oh, yeah, and Lilo is a little witch with a capital B in the series!
This movie could've been a LOT better and it could've had WAY better animation.
I just hope Lilo and Stitch 2 is better than this movie was.
If it is, I'll be jumping around acting like a maniac even more obsessed with Lilo and Stitch as I am right now!!