Lilo & Stitch
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Movie Reviews of Lilo & Stitch
Movie Review: Best movie of 2002!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Here we have one of the funniest, most creative and original, and genuinely emotional animated films that has EVER been created, and this pretentious "Watchman-on-the-Wall" person has the nerve to put it down for elements that don't even figure into it. "Lilo & Stitch" is the only movie I have ever seen that makes me cry literally from beginning to end; half the time because it's just that charming and funny, and the other half the time because the themes of love, loyalty, and family are SO beautifully and tenderly conveyed. Right from the film's opening credits sequence you will surely have tears in your eyes from the sheer beauty of the Hawaiian musical numbers and the open affection of the filmmakers for the Hawaiian culture. On a character note, Lilo has perhaps more depth than any animated character I've ever seen. Her eccentricities and emotional baggage make her, by turns, delightfully charming and totally heartbreaking. Stitch is, hands-down, the most original and entertaining animated character I have EVER seen, and so long as he is on the screen, I am having the BEST time with all of his fantastically wonderful random movements and noises. "Lilo & Stitch" also deserves kudos for having the courage to be so modern in its handling of such important real-life issues as broken familes and Departments of Child Welfare. This is an absolutely brilliant and deeply moving little film that deserves FAR better than the lazy, cheesy direct-to-video sequel and TV series that are already in the works, and my only wish at this point is that Disney would treat their finest properties with enough reverence and respect to give them the better-thought-out *theatrical* sequel treatment they so strongly deserve. I may not pay much attention to the forthcoming direct-to-video "Stitch: The Movie," but "Lilo & Stitch" is one movie that I personally cannot WAIT to add to my personal DVD collection... it has entertained and moved me more thoroughly than any other movie I have had the privelige of seeing this year! Happy viewing, one and all!!Movie Review: Stitch is the bomb
Summary: 5 Stars
Lilo and Stitch is a great, great movie. It harkens back to a simpler storyline about family, and suprisingly for a Disney movie, it's about a dysfunctional family. An older sister tries, with great dismay, to raise her little sister (Lilo) after their parents die in a car accident. It proves extremely difficult with the young girls outlandish behavior and rebelious attitude. She's not a bad kid, but it's obvious she is acting this way because she isn't sure how to handle her parents death. Her sister tries everything from rewards to tough love. Nothing works and the local family services agent, Cobra Bubbles (a great character voiced by Ving Rhames) threatens to take her away. Enter Stitch, a geneticlly engineered exterrestrial who, after wreaking great havoc, finds behavior beyond his genetic programming. He discovers he wants what Lilo wants; a family, even if its broken. Stitch's chaotic/intelligent/detructive and benign behavior leads to several funny moments and lends to a character development that is unexpected from something so hilariously vicious. This movie is highly recommended. It's great fun, and it will tug at the emotions in a good way.
***update*** I just read a review by what seemed to be an irrate parent about the violence in this movie. Please note the rateing; PG. Yes, there is some violence, DUH! The movie is about a destructive alien that escapes his captors. It's necessary to show this character trait so you can see his transition to a gentler being when he discovers he wants to be part of something, most notably a family. This 'irrate parent' needs to look closely at what his kids are watching. There is a reason for the PG rating and quite frankly, it's really not for children under the age of four or five...that's why it's PG.
Which stands for PARENTAL GUIDANCE, meaning the PARENT needs to guide their child to this movie, through it, or away from it. The makers of the movie & the MPAA did their job by giving it the rating, now you as a parent have to do your job.
Movie Review: Unique, fabulous and unforgettable....
Summary: 5 Stars
I was not going to write a review, having read the previous ones and found them to be excellent, until I got to "storyboarder" form the "good ol' USA". Wow. What a boring world it would be were we all to agree an everything, but this person (whatever gender) is way, way out of line. Yes, everyone is entitled to their opinions, but this review is so offbase and borders on complete lunacy. Not one word was coherent, accurate or in any way representative of what the movie was about or what the writers intended to convey; which, IMHO, they did superbly. This reviewer needs to stick to hard, accurate dramatic movies and avoid anything that even remotely smacks of fantasy, intelligence, kindness, love, heart and wildly unique adventure, all of which this movie possesses in abundance. I loathe the taciturn, negative spin this person put on this new classic and resented even more the hubris that was so evident throughout the "review." We live in a time when there is a plethora of disasters, horrors and calamities; if this movie, by virtue of it excellence, can transport us from our worlds and bring us to a beautiful place, then so much the better, and the people who worked so hard on this movie have attained their goal and brought a great deal of happiness and joy to those of us who appreciated the fine artwork and unique story presented for your pleasure, not for the censure of some lone malcontent. I make no apologies for my apparent bias and anger at this one review; I must also have my say and urge those who have not yet had the pleasure of seeing this movie, to please do so and then judge for yourselves how much validity and accuracy this "storyboarder" has...I suggest he/she stay home and watch CNN 24 hours a day 7 days a week and let us choose to escape and enjoy ourselves, if only for a brief time, and reserve his/her vituperative verbal vomit for more deserving subjects, than this gentle, kind-hearted and beautifully rendered film...we all need some fantasy and beauty in our lives.Movie Review: The best Disney movie yet!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have watched Disney movies all my life (since I was born which was about 15 years ago) and have not seen one this good. I have one complaint though about the reviewers on this review board. To Doting and Concerned Parents: LOOK ON THE BACK OF COVERS AT THE RATINGS! This movie was rated PG by the MPAA for mild sci-fi action violence. This is what you ignorant people are thinking, Hmm, I think I'll take my kids to a movie with lots of violence even though I know its not good for them. You're stupid! Just shut up and go read your mommy magazines. Sit down and shut up! Movies that are rated G are for all audiences and are not inappropriate for kids. Movies that are rated PG are for ages 6 and up due to minor objectionable content. Get the picture! Anyway, now that I got the other "PARENT" readers in their place, onto why I think "L&S" is a great movie for parents with kids 6 AND OLDER, not 5 and YOUNGER. Lilo and Stitch is a cute story because it has great family values. One of the values that I admired about this movie is the one thing that alot of people noticed and love. The phrase "Ohana means family an family mean no one gets left behind". This is a phrase to live by. If you follow that phrase, you can have a great life with your family. Now parents who are concerned about this movie: there is some minor objectionable content in the movie. There are some minor Star Wars style laser gun fights that might scare your young ones. In all the years that Disney has put out movies, you don't think that they'd start ruining their reputation by throwing in bad words is stupid. There are some rude words if that's what you meant. There are some instances of that but its all minor (words like "stupidhead" are used and that's not bad). This movie is okay for kids over 6. It's not recommended at all for kids younger than that specified age so don't try to sneak it in. Anyway, this is a really cute family movie to watch with your family on a Sunday night.
Movie Review: I laughed my head off
Summary: 5 Stars
Lord, this is the funniest Disney movie in years. And one of the most inventive. A problem in most Disney movies in recent years (well, actually, always) has been taking plots from other sources. None of the Disney animated films have been in any sense original. Contrast this with Japan's great animator Hayao Miyazaki, whose movies are almost always based upon original sources. I don't think it is an accident that the best Disney movie in a long time is based on a completely original story.Speaking of Miyazaki, Daveigh Chase, who provides the voice for Lilo, also did the voice for Chihiro in the English language dubbing for SPIRITED AWAY. Unbelievably, she dubbed the voice for major characters in the two best-animated films of the year. I have to be honest here: I was really scared that LILO AND STITCH was going to win the. It didn't. It is very, very good, but SPIRITED AWAY is not merely the best-animated film in the past couple of decades, but quite possibly the best ever. I knew that if the voters only watched both LILO AND STITCH and SPIRITED AWAY, then the latter would easily win the Oscar. Luckily, enough did, and it won a well-deserved Oscar. But LILO AND STITCH was a very strong second, and in many years would have won.
The film is the story of the accidentally pairing of two misfits. Lilo is a Hawaiian girl who is being raised by her sister Nani, and Stitch is a genetic creation of an "evil genius" mad doctor, a powerful warrior creature. Lilo has lost her family, and Stitch, or "Experiment 626," as he is otherwise known, has never had one. The movie essentially tells the story of how each helps the other find what she and he both need most.
Hopefully, this is the beginning of a new practice: instead of creating an endless number of variations of old, traditional, and familiar stories, Disney will turn their resources to original, new, and inventive stories.