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From The New YorkerChris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, two of the natural abilities and qualities behind Disney’s staid Chinese-maiden movie, “Mulan,” shake things up with a raucous tale of a lonely Hawaiian girl, Lilo, who befriends a mischievous critter from another planet, Stitch. With painted watercolor backgrounds and a Looney Tunes-like atmosphere, the animation has a sweet familiarity. The ugly-duckling story is laced with a delightful, frenzied humor, and the dialog reaches beyond the frequent tart pop-culture references-there are a good deal of lovely shadings to the characters. When Lilo teaches Stitch to impersonate the King, it’s Elvis in Hawaii all over again. -Bruce Diones Most helpful customer reviews 43 of 47 people found the following review helpful. 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. The film did indeed take on a weighty subject as the reviewer says, but I don’t agree it was handled lightly – grief is implied, not ignored. We don’t need to be shown in a Disney film how people react to grief, and to expect Disney to explain the concept of the death of a parent to children is unfair… Disney is in the business of giving us and our children entertainment. Penny in “The Rescuers” was an orphan, but I don’t remember anyone expecting a detailed study of how being an orphan affected her present or future life!
The true theme of the story is, in my view, isolation and loneliness, feelings probably experienced and understood by many children at some point in their lives. Stitch was supplied as a different perspective to the same pain – where Lilo and Nani have lost their family, Stitch never had one. Bringing Lilo and Stitch together combines two characters who are natural companions because they both understand what it is to be lonely and isolated, and almost by definition only have each other as true companions, even if they don’t realise it.
The film is light in places – it couldn’t be “sad” all the way through otherwise it would grind on and on, either sending children to sleep or into tears. The characters relieve the tension with plenty of fun moments, such as training Stitch to be more like Elvis, or “frolicking on the beach”. Who cares where the little Elvis costume came from! I’ve seen kids on television impersonating Elvis… maybe Lilo bought it from the same place as they did! The fun and companionship in the surfing scene is also a necessary element for Stitch to witness, not just an excuse for a surfing scene, as it shows him what he is rejecting when he fights Lilo’s attempts to make him part of her family.
As for meanness in the story or jokes in the film being mean-spirited – well, part of the theme of the film is the redemption of Stitch, just as it is for Ebeneezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol”, a character who is similarly mean-spirited, and also a parody of himself. As with Scrooge, Stitch’s redemption would have no value if he weren’t really bad to begin with! The greater the bad, the greater the value of the change to good at the end, and also the greater the goodness of the good characters for putting up with and persisting with the bad one!
“Lilo and Stitch” is one of the best animated films I’ve seen in many a long year. It isn’t out to force-feed anyone’s view of family morality, but is instead a true-to-modern-life story that many, many children will identify with, and also a nice redemption story in it’s own right… if it has a fault, it’s that the Disney mould for running time is too short for such an original and therefore valuable story, and perhaps it also ends a little too suddenly at the end, as if a better idea for an ending was abandoned at the last minute in favour of a more compact ending.
Chris Sanders, the voice of Stitch, is the person who came up with the idea of the story, did the original design drawings, contributed to the writing of the story, and also co-directed it along with Dean DeBlois. It is my hope that here is another great like Don Bluth in the making (and perhaps a Gary Goldman in Dean DeBlois). I will be watching out for their names in the future.
Well done Disney… I’m only sorry I wasn’t able to see this film when I was 8, and had it to enjoy as a childhood memory throughout my life. I’ll bet it’s a while before we see the like of this film from Disney again. “Lilo and Stitch”‘s unexpected popularity will probably cause it to be seen as a ‘winning formula’, and see it milked for all its worth, but I hope this first film of any future series manages to stay looking as fresh and original as it is now forever! Disney Lilo Stitch Plush Adult Pic Disney Lilo Stitch Plush Adult Picture Disney Lilo Stitch Plush Adult Photo Disney Lilo Stitch Plush Adult Picture Disney Lilo Stitch Plush Adult Picture Disney Lilo Stitch Plush Adult Picture |
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