Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 animated movie, released by Walt Disney Pictures and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. on June 21, 2002. The 42nd animated movie in the Disney animated features canon, it was written by and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. It was the 2nd of 3 Disney animated movies produced mainly at the Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida studio in Walt Disney World's Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. The movie was rated PG for "mild sci-fi action". Lilo & Stitch was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which went to Hayao Miyazaki's movie, Spirited Away which also was released by Walt Disney Pictures and starred Daveigh Chase (in the English version). This and Treasure Planet were Disney's first PG-rated animated movies released in the same year as each other and Disney's last hand drawn movies released in the same year as each other.

The movie was so popular that it started a franchise. A direct-to-video sequel, Stitch! The Movie, was made. It launched a television series, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and a second direct-to-video sequel, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, was released in August 2005. A third and final television sequel, Leroy & Stitch, was released in June 2006 and ended the TV series. Another television series, an anime called Stitch!, aired in Japan from 2008 to 2011, later gaining two post-series specials in 2012 and 2015. A third TV series, a Chinese animated series called Stitch & Ai, began airing in 2017. Both the later two series took out Lilo as a main character, separating Stitch from her and putting him into different countries on Earth where he makes new friends with other human girls and becomes part of their families.

The movie was released on VHS and DVD on December 3, 2002. In 2003, a 2-disc DVD version was announced to come out along with Alice in Wonderland and Pocahontas, which were released in 2004 and 2005. A 2-Disc Special Edition DVD of Lilo & Stitch was released in the UK on August 22, 2005, along with the UK release of Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, but a release in the US was affected by many delays. On March 24, 2009, Disney finally released the special edition DVD, which is called a 2-Disc "Big Wave Edition". This new DVD has everything that the original DVD had and adds an audio commentary, a 2-hour documentary, more deleted scenes, a number of behind-the-scenes featurettes, and some games. The original DVD is no longer available, with the new one having the same list price.

 Plot 
An evil Alien scientist named Dr. Jumba Jookiba creates "Experiment 626", a koala-like creature named Stitch built to cause chaos and destruction. This is against the law of his planet, and he is arrested. 626 escapes the planet, flying a spaceship to Earth.

On Earth, a little human girl named Lilo adopts 626 (thinking he is a koala-like dog) and names him "Stitch". Lilo lives in Hawaii, a series of islands in the United States of America. Lilo's mother and father have died in a car crash, so her older sister Nani takes care of her.

Stitch at first uses Lilo to avoid being captured by the alien officials, but they become friends when Lilo teaches Stitch how to be good. She uses music by Elvis Presley in her lessons. Stitch also learns a new phrase: "'Ohana" means family. Family means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten." Because of this, Stitch decides to go against his original purpose in order to keep his family together. The alien officials manages to find Stitch on Earth and prepare take him away, but they decide to let Stitch stay with Lilo in Hawaii after she explains that she legally purchased Stitch. Jumba and Pleakley become members of Nani, Lilo, and Stitch's family, and the movie ends with various footage and pictures of Stitch and his new family's life together.

 Cast 
 Daveigh Chase as Lilo Pelekai.
 Christopher Michael Sanders as Stitch, a blue koala-like creature with the ability to create untold chaos.
 Paul Winchell provided Stitch's roars. (uncredited)
 Tia Carrere as Nani Pelekai.
 David Ogden Stiers as Dr. Jumba Jookiba, a purple ogre-hippo-like alien.
 Kevin McDonald as Agent Pleakley, a cyclops-like alien. 
 Ving Rhames as Cobra Bubbles.
 Zoe Caldwell as Grand Councilwoman, a Grey alien and leader of the United Galactic Federation.
 Jason Scott Lee as David Kawena.
 Kevin Michael Richardson as Captain Gantu, a shark-like alien.
 Susan Hegarty as Rescue Lady.
 Composer Hans Zimmer as Male Officer. (uncredited)
 Amy Hill as Mrs. Hasagawa.
 Additional voices are provided by Steve Alterman, Emily Anderson, Jack Angel, Bill Asing, Erica Beck, Robert Bergen, Steven Jay Blum, Rodger Bumpass, Catherine Cavadini, Jennifer Darling, Alexandra Deary, John DeMita, Judi Durand, Greg Finley, Jeff Fischer, Valerie Flueger, Jess Harnell, T. Aszur Hill, Barbara Iley, Daamen Krall, Todd Kurosawa, Chloe Looper, Mickie McGowan, Kunewa Mook, Courtney Mun, Mary-Linda Phillips, Patrick Pinney, Paige Pollack, David Randolph, Noreen Reardon, Debra Jean Rogers, Susan Silo, Kath Soucie, Melanie Spore, Doug Stone, Drew Lexi Thomas, Miranda Walls, Karle Warren and Ruth Zalduondo.

 Production 
With its hand-drawn characters and its use of watercolors for backgrounds, it is the first time that Disney has done that since the 1940s.

 Reception 
The movie opened at #2 with $35,260,212 in its first weekend, less than $500,000 behind the movie Minority Report. In its second week, fell to #3, again behind the Steven Spielberg movie at #2. The movie made $145,794,338 in the United States and Canada, and $127,349,813 internationally, finishing with $273,144,151 in the world.

Lilo & Stitch received very positive reviews from critics and movie-goers alike, and it was the most successful Walt Disney Pictures movie after the Disney Renaissance of 1989 to 1999 until Bolt a few years later. The movie's success at the box office and on DVD led to a franchise, with three direct-to-video and televisions sequels and three television series. The movie has received 139 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, 119 positive and 20 negative, giving it a positive total rating of 86%.

 Soundtrack 

The soundtrack of the movie was released by Walt Disney Records on June 21, 2002.
It, along with the movie, has more Elvis Presley songs than any of Elvis' own movies.

 # Title Singing by1"Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride"Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu,The Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus2"Stuck on You"Elvis Presley3"Burning Love"Wynonna4"Suspicious Minds"Elvis Presley5"Heartbreak Hotel"Elvis Presley6"Devil in Disguise"Elvis Presley7"He Mele No Lilo"Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu8"Hound Dog"Elvis Presley9"Can't Help Falling in Love"A-Teens10"Stitch to the Rescue"Score11"You Can Never Belong"Score12"I'm Lost"Score

 Spin-offs 
On August 26, 2003, Disney released a direct-to-video sequel, Stitch! The Movie, which was made as the pilot to a TV series titled Lilo & Stitch: The Series. This series ran for 65 episodes between on September 20, 2003 and July 29, 2006. The series carried on where the movie left off and showed Lilo's efforts to capture and re-home Jumba's remaining experiments. This series ended with TV movie Leroy & Stitch, which was released on June 27, 2006.

In August 2005, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, another direct-to-video sequel to the movie, was released. In this movie, Stitch has a glitch because his molecules were never fully charged (this is different than a deleted opening, "Stitch's trial", which was seen on the DVD release of Lilo & Stitch). Lilo wants to win the May Day hula contest like her mother did in the 1970s, but Stitch continues to have problems. Lilo thinks Stitch is not behaving right, until she finds out that Stitch is dying.

In March 2008, Disney announced that it is to produce a remade version of Lilo & Stitch, called Stitch!, for the Japanese market. The show, which began in October 2008, features a Japanese girl named Yuna (formerly referred to as Hanako) in place of Lilo, and is set on a fictional island in Okinawa prefecture instead of Hawaii. The series is produced by the Japanese animation house Madhouse LTD.Disney seals Japan anime and "Lilo and Stich" deal, International business times, 2008-03-06Disney says to produce Anime 'made in Japan' (2008-03-08)Disney plans Japan animation effort, International Herald Tribune, 2008-03-06

On October 4, 2018, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Disney would be making a live action remake.

 References 

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