When Lilo, the lonely and frustrated human lead, and her frazzled sister, Nani, go to the animal shelter to help ease Lilo’s solitude, they see Stitch and the clerk freaks out only that some weird breed got into her shelter, not that Stitch is clearly not of this planet.įrankly, I was underwhelmed by Lilo and Stitch. Also, one of the major reasons why no one realizes Stitch is an alien from the beginning is that all of the humans who come in contact with him assume he’s dog. While I appreciate that the overall scope of this movie isn’t conducive to bringing in the government or alien enthusiasts, it just makes no sense for no one to care or even be aware of this intrusion. Jumba, his slightly mad creator, and Agent Pleakley-no one freaks out that two alien spacecraft have just landed on Earth. When Stitch crash-lands on the island, and is quickly followed by two aliens-Dr. Even if we’re meant to find the disconnect between the reputation Stitch has versus Stitch himself funny, it’s a joke that plays out almost immediately.Īnother major problem is that, all things considered, no one seems to bat an eyelash at the literally alien presence in Kauai. Having Stitch in the house is like having a very bad dog in the house, not like having a giant catastrophe. And the destruction he gets up to isn’t massive or epic, it’s all minor. See, Stitch being a monster is hard to buy not because he’s a genetic experiment, but because he’s small. But there are some questions this movie doesn’t feel the need to answer, if only to maintain a slight fairy-tale air to the proceedings. So a movie about a little Hawaiian girl who adopts a dog who’s actually an alien that’s known as a destructive force/genetic splice isn’t going to be wholly realistic. You probably need at least twice the dosage when watching family movies, too. Obviously, watching any movie requires a dose of suspending one’s disbelief. Writers/directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, who have since moved onto DreamWorks Animation and already helmed How to Train Your Dragon, don’t really care to explain why Stitch is thought of as such a monster on his planet, where he’s known as Experiment 626, an illegal genetic experiment gone wacky. It’s one thing for a storyteller to avoid telling the audience about key elements of a story for a reason it’s another for said storyteller to avoid telling the audience about those elements, just because they don’t care what the answers are. The story of how two outsiders befriend each other and become more integrated with their familial community, Lilo and Stitch is cute, but lacks an internal logic. If you’re not the right age, you’re left in the cold. While there’s nothing wrong with these movies-they are family movies, after all-movies like 2002’s Lilo and Stitch end up being unsuccessful to me, because you have to be a very specific age to like it. Some Disney movies have no appeal to anyone, but then there are the Disney movies that appeal only to children. Sure, Cinderella may have talking mice and a nefarious cat, but it’s got enough appeal whether you’re 5, 50, 80, or somewhere in between. But Disney movies-really, family movies-need to be universal if they want to be classics. There Will Be Blood isn’t a classic because it appeals to kids as it does to adults. I would say that the best movies, in general, have universal appeal, but that’s not true. The best Disney movies have universal appeal.
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