Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated science fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 42nd Disney animated feature film, it was written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois in their directorial debuts. It features Daveigh Chase and Sanders as the voices of the title characters, and also features the voices of Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames, Jason Scott Lee, and Kevin Michael Richardson. It was also the second of three Disney animated feature films (the first being Mulan, and followed by Brother Bear) that were produced primarily at the Florida animation studio in Disney's Hollywood Studios (then named "Disney-MGM Studios" during its production) at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida. It was officially released on June 21, 2002, to positive reviews and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards.
The film's story revolves around two eccentric and mischievous individuals: a six (later seven)-year-old Hawaiian girl named Lilo Pelekai, who is raised by her older, young adult-aged sister Nani after their parents died in a car accident, and a blue extraterrestrial animal-like creature called Experiment 626, who is adopted by Lilo as her "dog" and renamed "Stitch". Stitch, who is genetically engineered by his mad scientist creator to cause chaos and destruction, initially uses Lilo to avoid being captured by an intergalactic federation, but the two individuals develop a close bond through the Hawaiian concept of ʻohana, or extended family. This bond causes Stitch to reconsider and later defy his intended destructive purpose in order to keep his family together.
The success of the film spawned a franchise. A direct-to-video sequel called Stitch! The Movie was released on August 26, 2003. That film served as a pilot to a television series, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, which ran from September 20, 2003 to July 29, 2006. A second direct-to-video sequel, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, was released on August 30, 2005 as a direct sequel to Lilo & Stitch set before Stitch! The Movie. A third sequel, a television film titled Leroy & Stitch, was released on June 23, 2006, serving as the conclusion to the TV series and the original continuity set in Hawaii. Since Leroy & Stitch, at least three spin-offs in which Stitch ends up in other locations on Earth with humans other than Lilo have been produced; an anime series, Stitch!, which takes place in Okinawa, ran in Japan from October 8, 2008 to June 19, 2011, with two additional TV specials in 2012 and 2015. A Chinese animated series set in Huangshan, Stitch & Ai, ran from March 27 to April 6, 2017. A manga set in feudal Japan, Stitch & the Samurai, was published digitally from January 13 to December 28, 2020. A live-action remake of the film was reported to be in development in October 2018, and is reported to be released direct-to-streaming on Disney+.
Category:Films
Category:2002 Films