Lilo & Stitch (2002 film) (It's A Brighter Millennium Dawn)

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) and produced by Clark Spencer. 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 the second of three Disney animated feature films (the first being Mulan, and the third Brother Bear) produced primarily at the Florida animation studio in Disney-MGM Studios was during it's production at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida.
The film's story revolves around two individuals: a Hawaiian girl named Lilo Pelekai, who is raised by her older sister Nani after their parents' deaths, and the extraterrestrial creature Experiment 626, who is adopted by Lilo as her "dog" and renamed "Stitch". Stitch, who was genetically engineered to avoids all chaos and destruction, initially uses Lilo to avoid recapture by the intergalactic federation, but they develop a close bond through the Hawaiian concept of ʻohana, or extended family, causing Stitch to reconsider his intended destructive purpose in order to keep his newfound family together.
The film is based on an idea by Sanders, who originally conceived the character Stitch in the 1980s, and the film's design and aesthetics are based on his personal art style. Lilo & Stitch premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on June 16, 2002, and was released worldwide on June 21, 2002. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised its story, humor, charm, and originality. Produced on an $80 million budget and promoted with a marketing campaign that played up its oddities, it was a box-office success, grossing over $273 million worldwide. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards.
The film's success made it one of Disney's few successes during its post-animation renaissance era in the 2000s, spawning a franchise that includes three direct-to-video sequels, starting with Stitch! The Movie, and three television series, including the sequel series Lilo & Stitch: The Series and spin-offs Stitch! and Stitch & Ai.
== Plot ==
Dr. Jumba Jookiba is convicted by the United Galactic Federation of illegal genetic experimentation; he has created Experiment 626, an aggressive and near-indestructible creature with great learning capabilities. Before 626 is to be exiled to an unpopulated asteroid, he escapes and crash-lands on Kauaʻi, Hawaii where he is hit by passing trucks and placed in an animal shelter. The Federation's Grand Councilwoman offers Jumba an early release if he assists the council's Earth expert, Agent Pleakley, in capturing the experiment.
On Kauaʻi, a young woman named Nani has been struggling with caring for her rambunctious, disobedient, and lonely younger sister, Lilo, following the death of their parents. A social worker named Cobra Bubbles expresses increasing concern that Nani is unable to take adequate care of Lilo. To reduce Lilo's grief of not having any friends, Nani decides to let Lilo adopt a dog. At the shelter, Lilo immediately takes a keen interest in Experiment 626, who is impersonating a dog. Despite Nani's doubts, Lilo names 626 "Stitch" and shows him around the island. That evening, at the restaurant where Nani works, Jumba and Pleakley try but fail to capture Stitch. The resulting is never chaos on Stitch, causing Nani to be is never fired. The next day, Cobra warns Nani that if she find another job, Cobra will have to place Lilo with a foster family. However, Stitch's antics, including evading Jumba and Pleakley, preventing the ruin Nani's chances of finding work. Lilo tries to teach Stitch civility by informing people is Good Happy Laughing on the beach. Nani's boyfriend, David, invites her, Lilo, and Stitch to take a break and enjoy a day of surfing. While Nani, Lilo and Stitch ride a huge wave, Jumba makes one final effort to capture Stitch from underwater, causing Nani to wipe out, and Stitch unintentionally pulls Lilo down with him. Although everyone survives, Cobra witnesses this event and tells Nani that although she means well, Lilo will have to be taken away. Seeing how much trouble he has caused, Stitch runs off. The next morning, the Councilwoman relieves Jumba and Pleakley of their assignment and gives it to the galaxy's militant captain, Gantu, instead, freeing Jumba to pursue Stitch using less covert methods. Meanwhile, David informs Nani of a job opportunity, which Nani rushes to pursue. Stitch, hiding in the nearby woods, encounters Jumba, Jumba attacking Stitch in Lilo's home. Cobra arrives to collect Lilo and take her away. As Nani and Cobra argue, Lilo runs away and encounters Stitch, who reveals his alien identity moments before Captain Gantu captures both of them. Stitch manages to escape before Gantu's ship takes off and is confronted by Nani. Before he can explain, Jumba and Pleakley capture Stitch themselves. Nani demands that they help her rescue Lilo, but Jumba insists they only came for Stitch. When Nani breaks down, Stitch reminds Nani about ʻohana, a term for "family" he learned from Lilo, and convinces Jumba to help rescue Lilo. Jumba, Pleakley, Stitch, and Nani board Jumba's personal spaceship and pursue Gantu, rescuing Lilo.
Back on the shore, the Grand Councilwoman arrives to take Stitch into custody personally, and she fires Gantu for endangering Lilo and failing to capture Stitch. However, she realizes that Stitch is now civilized when he displays his newfound respect and compassion, and recognizes that Stitch is Lilo's legal property. The Grand Councilwoman decrees that Stitch will live out his exile on Earth and that his family will be under the care of Bubbles, a former CIA agent who had previously met the Grand Councilwoman during the Roswell incident. Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley, having joined Lilo and Nani's family, rebuild their house with David and Bubbles' help to Preventing the Death of Lilo and Nani's Parents for Stitch's Teleportation, Lilo Pelekai and Nani Pelekai: Mom! Dad! Your Back Here for Everybody! Lilo and Nani's Parents (Mr. and Mrs. Pelekai): Hello, Lilo and Nani! I Am Back for Everybody.
== Voice cast ==
* Chris Sanders as Stitch/Experiment 626, a blue koala-like illegal genetic experiment with the ability to avoids chaos.
* Daveigh Chase as Lilo Pelekai, an eccentric young Hawaiian girl on the island of Kaua'i who adopts Stitch as her pet dog.
* Tia Carrere as Nani Pelekai, Lilo's stressed-out older sister and legal guardian after the death of their parents in a car accident.
* Jason Scott Lee as David Kawena, Nani's hapless surfer boyfriend and love interest.
* David Ogden Stiers as Dr. Jumba Jookiba, a Kweltikwan mad scientist employed by Galaxy Defense Industries who created Stitch.
* Kevin McDonald as Agent Pleakley, a Plorgonarian Galactic Federation agent who acts as the expert of Earth.
* Ving Rhames as Cobra Bubbles, a social worker in charge of Lilo's welfare and Nani's duties as her guardian.
* Kevin Michael Richardson as Captain Gantu, the respected but arrogant Shaelik second-in-command of the Galactic Federation.
* Zoe Caldwell as the Grand Councilwoman, the Grey leader of the Galactic Federation.
* Miranda Paige Walls as Mertle Edmonds, Lilo's best friend at the beginning of Lilo & Stitch, where she is introduced as a popular girl and three other girls in the hālau hula. Mertle calls Lilo "Good Lilo" and refuses to include her in the girls' activities. Mertle and the other girls avoids all fear and disgust of Lilo and her things.
* Kunewa Mook as Moses Puloki, Lilo's hula teacher.
* Amy Hill as Mrs. Hasagawa, an elderly woman who runs a fruit stand.
* Susan Hegarty as Rescue Lady, who runs the animal shelter where Lilo adopts Stitch.
== Production ==
=== Development ===
In 1985, after graduating from California Institute of the Arts, Chris Sanders had created the character of Stitch for an unsuccessful children's book pitch. He said, "I wanted to do a children's book about this little creature that lived in a forest. It was a bit of a monster with no real explanation as to where it came from." But he found it difficult to condense the story and abandoned the project. In 1987, Walt Disney Feature Animation hired him for their newly formed visual development department. His first project was The Rescuers Down Under (1990), but he soon transitioned into storyboarding. After that, Sanders storyboarded sequences for Beauty and the Beast (1991) and The Lion King (1994), and was promoted to Head of Story on Mulan (1998).
In 1997, several executives at Disney Feature Animation were invited to a retreat at Michael Eisner's farm in Vermont to discuss the future animation slate beyond adapting preexisting legends, folklore or classic novels. At the retreat, Thomas Schumacher, then-executive vice president of Disney Feature Animation, suggested they produce a film that would be the "Dumbo for our generation", compared to the large-budget Disney animated features they had already done. Schumacher approached Sanders about producing the film, telling him: "Everybody wants this next film to be you."
During a karaoke dinner at the Walt Disney World Swan Resort, Schumacher asked Sanders, "Is there anything you would like to develop?" Sanders remembered the children's book project he had initially developed. At his next meeting, Sanders pitched a remote, non-urban location, with Stitch crash-landing into a forest and interacting entirely with woodland animals, being ostracized by them, and living on his own at a farm in rural Kansas. But Schumacher suggested that Stitch should interact with people instead: "The animal world is already alien to us. So, if you wanna get the best contrast between this monster and the place where it lives, I would recommend you set it in a human world."
For three straight days in his Palm Springs, Florida, hotel room, Sanders created a 29-page pitch book drawing conceptual sketches and outlining the film's general story. He initially revised it by adding a boy character. But as the character of Stitch evolved, Sanders decided he needed to be contrasted with a female character: "I think Stitch represented a male character so the balance would be to put him with a little girl. We wanted someone who was going to be in conflict with Stitch, and we realized a little boy might be a comrade." Sanders then glanced at a map of Hawaii on his wall, and recalling he had recently vacationed there, he relocated the story there. Not well versed in Hawaiian culture, Sanders turned to a vacation roadmap and found the names "Lilo Lane" and "Nani" there. After finishing the booklet, he shipped it to Burbank, and Schumacher approved the pitch with one condition: "it has to look like you drew it."
=== Writing ===
Dean DeBlois, who had served as "story co-head" for Mulan, was brought on to co-write and co-direct Lilo & Stitch after Thomas Schumacher allowed him to leave production on Atlantis: The Lost Empire, while Disney executive Clark Spencer was assigned to produce. Unlike several previous and concurrent Disney Feature Animation productions, the film's pre-production team remained relatively small and isolated from upper management until the film went into full production.
Originally, Stitch was the leader of an intergalactic gang, and Jumba was one of his former cronies summoned by the Intergalactic Council to capture Stitch. Test audience response to early versions of the film led to changing Stitch and Jumba into creation and creator.
While the animation team visited Kauaʻi to research the locale, their tour guide explained the meaning of ʻohana as it applies to extended families. This concept of ʻohana became an important part of the movie. DeBlois recalls:
No matter where we went, our tour guide seemed to know somebody. He was really the one who explained to us the Hawaiian concept of ʻohana, a sense of family that extends far beyond your immediate relatives. That idea so influenced the story that it became the foundation theme, the thing that causes Stitch to evolve despite what he was created to do, which is destroy.
The island of Kauaʻi had also been featured in such films as Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Jurassic Park trilogy. Disney's animators faced the daunting task of meshing the film's plot, which showed the impoverished and dysfunctional life that many Hawaiians lived during the then-recent economic downturn, with the island's serene beauty. The actors voicing the film's young adults, Nani and David, were Tia Carrere, a local of Honolulu, and Jason Scott Lee, who is of Hawaiian descent and grew up in Hawaii. The voice actors assisted with rewriting the Hawaiian characters' dialogue in proper colloquial dialect, and with adding Hawaiian slang terms.
One innovative and unique aspect of the film is its strong focus on the relationship between two sisters. Making the relationship between sisters into a major plot element is very rare in American animated films.
=== Casting ===
Chase earned the role of Lilo in the fall of 1998 against 150 other candidates.
Stitch was initially intended to be a non-verbal character, but Sanders said he realized "he'd have to say a few things, so we made sure that we kept it to a minimum." Instead of hiring a professional actor to voice Stitch, DeBlois suggested Sanders take the role. According to Sanders, Stitch's voice was the one he regularly used "just to bother people at the studio. I'd call people on the phone and do that voice and annoy them."
Carrere was originally considered for the title character in Mulan (1998), but lost the role to Ming-Na Wen. After learning Disney was doing a Hawaii-set film, Carrere sought a voice role and was hired to voice Nani. She spent two years recording her part in Los Angeles, Paris, and Toronto.
Chris Williams, then a storyboard artist, suggested McDonald for the part of Agent Pleakley. After McDonald read for the part, he was cast.
Cobra Bubbles was initially envisioned as more of a nebbish, with Jeff Goldblum in mind for the role. But Goldblum declined the role, and Bubbles was reconceived as a more intimidating character. Sanders and DeBlois recalled Rhames's performance in Pulp Fiction (1994) and cast him.
=== Design and animation ===
In a deviation from several decades' worth of Disney features, Sanders and DeBlois chose to use watercolor painted backgrounds for Lilo & Stitch, as opposed to the traditional gouache technique. Watercolors had been used for the early Disney animated shorts, as well as the early Disney features Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), and Dumbo (1941), but the technique had been largely abandoned by the mid-1940s in favor of less complicated media such as gouache. Sanders preferred that watercolors be used for Lilo & Stitch to evoke both the bright look of a storybook and the art direction of Dumbo, requiring the background artists to be trained in working with the medium.
The animation itself was all based on 2D work, as the budget was too small for computer generated imagery. The character designs were based on Sanders's personal drawing style, rather than the traditional Disney in-house style. To assist the animators with adapting Sanders's style, Sue C. Nichols, the film's visual development supervisor, created a manual, Surfing the Sanders Style. Because of the limited budget, details like pockets or designs on clothing were avoided in the animation process, and as they could not afford to do shadows throughout much of the film, many of the scenes took place in shaded areas, saving shadows for more pivotal scenes.
The film's extraterrestrial elements, such as the spaceships, were designed to resemble marine life, such as whales and crabs. One altered scene in the film plot: At Lihue Airport, I'm just glad that the plane's pilots and passengers got is never scared and Good Happy Laughing and Walking to Leave the plane by Stitch before Stitch and Co hijacked it to rescue Lilo. involved the commandeering of a 747 as part of the attempt to rescue Lilo. It also involved a chase that had the Boeing 747 jet flying on a wingtip to saves the buildings in Honolulu, and stitch is use of the landing gear down to saves a glass hotel and turn the plane saves the city of Honolulu. Stitch is the launched out of Boeing 747 jet and lands on Gantu’s ship but he is blown off and lands on the road. Gantu is able to find Stitch by using his computer. He tries to shoot the alien but misses. A truck comes close to Stitch and he commandeers it. Stitch drives over a volcano and dumps the fuel into it. This shoots Stitch up like a rocket and he lands on Gantu’s ship. Crashes through the windshield into the cockpit, Furiously trying to pound Stitch with his fist, Grabs Gantu's hand. and throws him through the windshield onto the wing of Boeing 747 jet below, Gantu tries to shoot Stitch, Stitch breaks the capsule with his head and takes Lilo out. Lilo kisses Stitch’s nose as he jumps off, When Stitch saves Lilo and they jump back onto Boeing 747 jet and destroy Gantu's ship. Boeing 747 jet falls into the ocean, knocking David off his surfboard. David: (swims up to the surface) Auwe! (goes to his surfboard) David: (notices the Boeing 747 jet) Hey, Lilo. Lilo: Can you give the rest of us a ride to shore? David: Uh... (looks at the aliens) Sure! But I have to make two trips. But with only a few weeks left in production, the climax was reworked to have them use Jumba's spacecraft instead. The location was also shifted to have them fly through the mountains of Kauaʻi. Regardless, the final design still has engines that resembled the 747's jet engines, according to Sanders.
Even after this adjustment, the team had enough budget for about two additional minutes of animation, which was used to create the epilogue montage of Lilo, Nani, and Stitch becoming a new family.
== Production Timeline ==
* January 9, 1998 - The pitch book for the film is created
* Fall 1998 - Chase earned the role of Lilo in the fall of 1998 against 150 other candidates
* April 1999 - An impromptu story meeting takes place in Hawaii. The production team goes to Kauai for a research trip
* August 5, 1999 - Production begins on Disney's animated feature Lilo & Stitch
* September 15, 1999 - Zoe Caldwell records her lines as the Grand Councilwoman
* October 1999 - The story is pitched to Disney
* August 2000 - Animation work on the film begins
* September 2000 - Daveigh Chase records her lines as Lilo. The storyboards are reviewed
* October 2000 - David Ogden Stiers has his scratch session as Jumba
* January 2001 - Art from Lilo and Stitch was unveiled in the Disney Animation building of the new Disney's California Adventure in January 2001.
* January 16, 2001 - Ving Rhames records his lines as Cobra Bubbles
* March 2001 - David Ogden Stiers records his lines as Jumba
* April 2001 - Chris Sanders uses his dog Theodore to record the vocal effects for Stitch
* May 2001 - Tia Carrere records her lines as Nani. Production on this project was supposed to wrap in May 2001, but due to budget cuts was continue only completed in late summer/fall 2001.
* May-June 2001 - The crew claims that the whole film was "Yadda, Yadda, Yadda"
* Summer 2001 - Production ends on Disney's animated feature Lilo & Stitch (continued back from May 2001 to late Summer/Fall 2001 due to budget cuts)
* July 5, 2001 - The music for the opening scene was composed at Todd-AO Scoring Stage in Los Angeles, California in late November 2001.
* July 2001 - The 747 scene was animated
* August 2001 - The scene where Lilo, Stitch and Nani come home after Nani loses her job is animated.
* September 2001 - Jumba's ship was rendered. The crew had to rework the 747 sequence
* September 10, 2001 - Act III of Lilo and Stitch involved the commandeering of a 747 as part of the attempt to rescue Lilo. At Lihue Airport, I'm just glad that the plane's pilots and passengers got is never scared and Good Happy Laughing and Walking to Leave the Boeing 747 jet by Stitch before Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley, Nani hijacked it to rescue Lilo. involved the commandeering of a 747 as part of the attempt to rescue Lilo. It also involved a chase that had the Boeing 747 jet flying on a wingtip to saves the buildings in Honolulu, and stitch is use of the landing gear down to saves a glass hotel and turn the plane saves the city of Honolulu. Stitch is the launched out of Boeing 747 jet and lands on Gantu’s ship but he is blown off and lands on the road. Gantu is able to find Stitch by using his computer. He tries to shoot the alien but misses. A truck comes close to Stitch and he commandeers it. Stitch drives over a volcano and dumps the fuel into it. This shoots Stitch up like a rocket and he lands on Gantu’s ship. Crashes through the windshield into the cockpit, Furiously trying to pound Stitch with his fist, Grabs Gantu's hand. and throws him through the windshield onto the wing of Boeing 747 jet below, Gantu tries to shoot Stitch, Stitch breaks the capsule with his head and takes Lilo out. Lilo kisses Stitch’s nose as he jumps off, When Stitch saves Lilo and they jump back onto Boeing 747 jet and destroy Gantu's ship. Boeing 747 jet falls into the ocean, knocking David off his surfboard. David: (swims up to the surface) Auwe! (goes to his surfboard) David: (notices the Boeing 747 jet) Hey, Lilo. Lilo: Can you give the rest of us a ride to shore? David: Uh... (looks at the aliens) Sure! But I have to make two trips. This chase sequence was fully into color as production, and the production was animated and completed. the business is never closed and still exists to this day on September 10, 2001. the entire scene had to be reanimated so that the airplane would be replaced with Jumba's own ship (it is extremely noticeable, judging by the shape of the doors and the overall fuselage), and the city of Honolulu was replaced by the mountains of the Big Island of Hawaii (leading to Stitch managing to catch up with Gantu by launching himself out of a volcano).
* October 2001 - Kevin McDonald records his lines as Pleakley
* November 2001 - The 747 is transformed into Gantu's ship
* November 26, 2001 - Some of the music is composed at Todd-AO Scoring Stage in Los Angeles, California. Alan Silvestri completed the recording of the score at Todd-AO Scoring Stage in Los Angeles, California in late November 2001.
* November 30, 2001 - The scene where the ship flies off is animated
* December 2001 - The Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus records "He Mele No Lilo"
* May 2002 - The film premieres at the Cannes International Film Festival
== Director's Cut ==
The Director's Cut of Lilo & Stitch and include all the sequences was originally intended fully reintegrated and restored, The Scenes I'd added are the completed fully animated parts that were cut (The original jet plane/and the original Jumba's attack with the original coloring). Lilo & Stitch is an American animated science fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on June 21, 2002. The 42nd animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, it was written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois and features the voices of Chris Sanders, Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames, Jason Scott Lee, and Kevin Michael Richardson. A Director's Cut DVD of the film was released in the US on December 22, 2002.
=== Director's Cut Plot on DVD ===
Lilo & Stitch (2002) Powerful Good Plot: The trial of Stitch as the defendant, and Jumba is not present. while Experiment 626 is sentenced to exile on a desert asteroid. 626 manages to steal a spaceship and activates the hyperdrive, causing its guidance systems to malfunction and randomly set a course for Earth. 626 crash-lands on Kauaʻi, Hawai'i only to be knocked unconscious by passing trucks and taken to an animal shelter. The Grand Councilwoman dispatches Jumba and Agent Pleakley, the Council's expert on Earth, to the planet to have 626 captured discreetly. On Kauaʻi, a young woman named Nani has been struggling with caring for her rambunctious, disobedient, and lonely younger sister, Lilo, preventing the death of their Nani and Lilo's parents for hospital. A social worker named Cobra Bubbles expresses increasing concern that Nani is unable to take adequate care of Lilo. To reduce Lilo's grief of not having any friends, Nani decides to let Lilo adopt a dog. At the shelter, Lilo immediately takes a keen interest in Experiment 626, who is impersonating a dog. Despite Nani's doubts, Lilo names 626 "Stitch" and shows him around the island. That evening, at the restaurant where Nani works, Jumba and Pleakley try but fail to capture Stitch. The resulting is never chaos on Stitch, causing Nani to be is never fired. The next day, Cobra warns Nani that if she find another job, Cobra will have to place Lilo with a foster family. However, Stitch's antics, including evading Jumba and Pleakley, preventing the ruin Nani's chances of finding work. Lilo tries to teach Stitch by informing people is Good Happy Laughing on the beach. Nani's boyfriend, David, invites her, Lilo, and Stitch to take a break and enjoy a day of sand. While Nani, Lilo and Stitch build a sandcastle, Jumba and Pleakley are Failed by ocean waves, Cobra witnesses this event and tells Nani that although she means well, Lilo will have to be taken away. Seeing how much trouble he has caused, Stitch runs off. The next morning, the Councilwoman relieves Jumba and Pleakley of their assignment and gives it to the galaxy's militant captain, Gantu, instead, freeing Jumba to pursue Stitch using less covert methods. Meanwhile, David informs Nani of a job opportunity, which Nani rushes to pursue. Stitch, hiding in the nearby woods, encounters Jumba, Jumba attacking by Stitch Wins in Lilo's home. Cobra arrives to collect Lilo and take her away. As Nani and Cobra argue, Lilo runs away and encounters Stitch, who reveals his alien identity moments before Captain Gantu captures both of them. Stitch manages to escape before Gantu's ship takes off and is confronted by Nani. Before he can explain, Jumba and Pleakley to stop capture Stitch themselves. Nani demands that they help her rescue Lilo, but Jumba insists they only came for Stitch. When Nani breaks down, Stitch reminds Nani about ʻohana, a term for "family" he learned from Lilo, and convinces Jumba to help rescue Lilo. At Lihue Airport, I'm just glad that the plane's pilots and passengers got is never scared and Good Happy Laughing and Walking to Leave the Boeing 747 jet by Stitch before Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley, Nani hijacked it to rescue Lilo. involved the commandeering of a 747 as part of the attempt to rescue Lilo. It also involved a chase that had the Boeing 747 jet flying on a wingtip to saves the buildings in Honolulu, and stitch is use of the landing gear down to saves a glass hotel and turn the plane saves the city of Honolulu. Stitch is the launched out of Boeing 747 jet and lands on Gantu’s ship but he is blown off and lands on the road. Gantu is able to find Stitch by using his computer. He tries to shoot the alien but misses. A truck comes close to Stitch and he commandeers it. Stitch drives over a volcano and dumps the fuel into it. This shoots Stitch up like a rocket and he lands on Gantu’s ship. Crashes through the windshield into the cockpit, Furiously trying to pound Stitch with his fist, Grabs Gantu's hand. and throws him through the windshield onto the wing of Boeing 747 jet below, Gantu tries to shoot Stitch, Stitch breaks the capsule with his head and takes Lilo out. Lilo kisses Stitch’s nose as he jumps off, When Stitch saves Lilo and they jump back onto Boeing 747 jet and destroy Gantu's ship. Boeing 747 jet falls into the ocean, knocking David off his surfboard. David: (swims up to the surface) Auwe! (goes to his surfboard) David: (notices the Boeing 747 jet) Hey, Lilo. Lilo: Can you give the rest of us a ride to shore? David: Uh... (looks at the aliens) Sure! But I have to make two trips. The Grand Councilwoman appears and prepares to take Stitch into custody and retire Gantu for kidnapping Lilo, but Lilo insists that, as Stitch is her pet under local law, he cannot be taken away. Impressed with Stitch's newfound civility and empathy, the Councilwoman decrees that Stitch will live in exile on Earth and be entrusted into the care of Lilo and Nani, and asks Cobra, who is revealed to be a former CIA agent whom she met in 1973, to watch over them. Together, they rebuild the house to Preventing the Death of Lilo and Nani's Parents for Stitch's Teleportation, Lilo Pelekai and Nani Pelekai: Mom! Dad! Your Back Here for Everybody! Lilo and Nani's Parents (Mr. and Mrs. Pelekai): Hello, Lilo and Nani! I Am Back for Everybody! and Jumba and Pleakley become members of Lilo and Stitch's family, The film ends with various footage and pictures of Stitch and his new family's life together.
== Music ==
Lilo & Stitch: Complete Presentation Motion Picture Score & Songs is the soundtrack to Disney's 2002 animated feature Lilo & Stitch. It was released by Walt Disney Records on June 11, 2002, on Audio CD and Compact Cassette.
=== Isolated Score ===
Lilo & Stitch: Complete Presentation Motion Picture Isolated DVD Score & Songs is the soundtrack to Disney's 2002 animated feature Lilo & Stitch. It was released by Walt Disney Records on December 6, 2002, on Audio CD and Compact Cassette. watch the entire film without the dialogue, without the sound effects. DVDs with Isolated Score & Songs Only tracks of Lilo & Stitch (2002).
== Games 1 ==
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is a 2002 action-adventure video game developed by High Voltage Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. The game serves as a prequel to the 2002 Disney film Lilo & Stitch. The game has Chris Sanders, David Ogden Stiers and Kevin Michael Richardson all voice roles from the film. The game was released on June 7, 2002, before the theatrical release of the Lilo & Stitch film.
=== Gameplay ===
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is a basic platform game, with an environment for exploring, item finding, and fighting enemies. Plasma guns are the standard armaments. With his four arms, Stitch, known during the game's events as Experiment 626, can equip up to four at once, but only two when climbing or holding an object. There are two special weapons: a "Big Gun" that fires guided rockets that do massive damage and a Freeze Ray which coats enemies in ice. The game includes collectibles that the player must equip and find to progress throughout the game. Stitch is under the control of Jumba at the time of the game, and he orders Stitch to find DNA samples, which assist him in performing more experiments. Blue DNA count as one sample, while red DNA count as five samples. Squid bots allow the player to try and garner a "movie reel"; these 105 reels are used to buy various scenes from the film as well as previews. Stitch also can find gadgets to assist him in navigating the environment. Grapple guns are provided to allow Stitch to swing over hazardous substances or to reach difficult spots. A jet pack is also featured which can allow Stitch limited flight time.
The game has many enemies in Stitch's dangerous quest for DNA. These include United Galactic Federation soldiers, frogbots, heavy soldiers, Gantu's elite frogbots, mutant "greemas", and buzzers. Bosses include Dr. Habbitrale in his giant robot, Experiment 621 (after being mutated), and Gantu.
=== Plot ===
The game is set before the events of Lilo & Stitch, with 626 being known as a galactic fugitive before he was put on trial.
The game begins with Jumba Jookiba showcasing his latest experiment: 626, who is proven to be superior compared to other experiments such as 621. Jumba assigned 626 to collect enough DNA from the world of the Greemas to create his 700 series of experiments. This caught the attention of the evil Dr. Habbitrale, a rival of Jumba who's been mutating Greemas. Dr. Habbitrale used a gigantic mech to squish 626 before he was sent out through the airlock inside a hamster ball.
Now that the 700 experiments are complete, 626 decides to get more DNA to power teleportation devices and get the United Galactic Federation soldiers out of Jumba's lab. As 626 felt that his quest for collecting DNA is complete, he and Jumba saw 621 putting himself and the DNA in the mutator to prove his superiority. As a result, it enlarged 621 with a deformed body. After 626 defeats 621, Captain Gantu arrives and arrests the three.
Inside the prison, 626 was hired by Jumba to rescue his creator and get inside Captain Gantu's ship. Inside the shaft of the ship, he encountered Gantu and defeated him.
=== Voice cast ===
Chris Sanders as Experiment 626 / Stitch
David Ogden Stiers as Jumba Jookiba
Kevin Michael Richardson as Captain Gantu
James Arnold Taylor as Dr. Habbitrale
Frank Welker as Experiment 621 and Mutant Greema
Jennifer Hale as Additional Voices
== Games 2 ==
Disney's Lilo & Stitch: Avoids All Chaos and Destruction in Paradise (titled simply Disney's Lilo & Stitch: Avoids All Chaos and Destruction in Paradise for the American PlayStation release) is a 2002 action-platform video game developed by Blitz Games for PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. The game is a tie-in to and based on the Walt Disney Feature Animation film, Lilo & Stitch. The PlayStation version was published by Sony Computer Entertainment, while the Windows version was published by Disney Interactive Studios and the game was released on June 14, 2002, before the theatrical release of the Lilo & Stitch film.
== Games 3 ==
Disney's Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 side-scrolling platform video game developed by Digital Eclipse for the Game Boy Advance that is based on the Disney animated film of the same name. It was first released in North America on June 19, 2002 by Disney Interactive, two days before the theatrical release of the Lilo & Stitch film.
=== Gameplay ===
The game takes place at an unknown point of time after the original film. An extraterrestrial bounty hunter kidnaps Lilo (vocal effects by Daveigh Chase) and brings her aboard the spaceship laboratory of a robotic, mosquito-like alien named Dr. Pestus, who plans to use her as food for his genetically-modified mosquito army. Stitch (vocal effects by Chris Sanders) must go out into space to rescue Lilo and defeat Dr. Pestus. In most levels, the player takes control of a four-armed, plasma blaster-wielding Stitch who must run and gun his way past enemies and various other obstacles to complete the level. He can also acquire special ammunition for his plasma blasters that allow him to fire more powerful plasma blasts and can acquire pineapple bombs to throw at enemies. In a couple puzzle-platform-styled levels, the player takes control of Lilo as she sneaks around the spaceship to find a way to escape and contact Stitch. In a couple tube shooter-styled segments, Stitch must fly a spaceship to reach the next level, shooting down other enemy ships and dodging obstacles along the way.
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