When it comes to Disney's live-action remakes of its own animated films, my position is firmly "against." Aside from being nostalgia-baiting cash grabs, films like 2017's Beauty and the Beast and 2025 ...

It’s possible that, more than twenty years since its initial release, many movie-goers have forgotten just how high the stakes are in Chris Sanders and Dean DeBois’ animated charmer “Lilo & Stitch.” ...

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Making a huge step up from ‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,’ director Dean Fleischer Camp delivers the same laughs and heart as the 2002 toon, though his leads were more appealing in animated form. To ...

Lilo & Stitch starts off okay, but some baffling creative decision that mess up the stakes and jumping the shark in the third act you're left with a film that somehow sucks the emotion out of this ...

It’s hard to say how differently Disney should approach the live-action updates of movies from its huge catalogue of animated features. Do anything but a largely faithful adaptation and the company ...

While most of Lilo & Stitch’s changes make for a more heartfelt story, others work to sour the original’s prowess. As Nani receives some new story beats, Lilo’s signature weirdness has been softened ...

Lilo & Stitch (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, written by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes and starring Maia Kealoha, Sydney Agudong, Chris Sanders, Zach ...

It’s hard to say how differently Disney should approach the live-action updates of movies from its huge catalogue of animated features. Do anything but a largely faithful adaptation and the company ...

With the live-action adaptation hitting theaters this summer, some people would be tempted to say that Lilo and Stitch are making a comeback, but I’d argue they never really left. Released in 2002, ...

Stitch and Maia Kealoha in "Lilo & Stitch." When it comes to Disney's live-action remakes of its own animated films, my position is firmly "against." Disney isn't even reaching that far back into its ...

When “Lilo & Stitch” opened in 2002, the Disney marketing department cheekily treated its title character — a shape-shifting alien bioweapon — as the studio’s redheaded stepchild. Conceived by Chris ...