Lilo & Stitch (Disney film): Difference between revisions

m
no edit summary
m (Looney Toons moved page Liloand Stitch (Disney) to Lilo and Stitch (Disney): Fixing word break)
mNo edit summary
Line 9:
[[Parental Abandonment|Recent orphans of a car accident]], sisters Nani and Lilo are practically alone in the world except for each other. [[Cloudcuckoolander|Lilo, often lost in her own world]], neither understands nor is understood by her hula classmates, and [[Promotion to Parent|Nani, trying to be responsible]], wants to strangle Lilo about as often as hug her. Unbeknownst to them, Dr. Jumba Jookiba, [[Mad Scientist|the maddest scientist to splice genetics this side of the Milky Way]], stands trial for having created, illegally, a new life form (actually 626 life forms, but it is the 626th that we're concerned with). Stitch has a vast capacity for knowledge, spectacular combat abilities, and a programmed instinct to destroy anything he comes across. Escaping from the United Galactic Federation, Stitch takes a shortcut to the closest planet, which is 70% water (important because he is too dense to swim) - and miraculously lands on the bitty archipelago in the middle of the Pacific, the island of Kauai. He adopts Lilo as readily as Lilo adopts him; however, while Lilo wants a companion, Stitch wants a human shield to deter Dr. Jumba, who is hot on his trail, with the help of neurotic Agent Pleakley. However, Stitch [[Becoming the Mask|inadvertently learns]] the meaning of'' 'ohana'': "''[[No One Gets Left Behind|Ohana]]'' [[No One Gets Left Behind|means]] ''[[No One Gets Left Behind|family]]''. ''[[No One Gets Left Behind|Family]]'' [[No One Gets Left Behind|means, no one gets left behind or forgotten]]." In other words, [[True Companions]].
 
The film was both a massive critical and financial success - [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Stitch]] quickly skyrocketed into being one of the most popular characters in the [[Disney Animated Canon]], and it launched the directorial career of Chris Sanders and Dean [[De Blois]], who get a bit of [[Creator Worship]] for both this film and [[Dreamworks Animation|Dreamworks']] ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (Film)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'', as well as engendering some bitterness towards [[John Lasseter]] when he [[Executive Meddling|fired them from Disney]]. The film is well-remembered and well-loved for being almost like a [[Studio Ghibli]] film in how it deftly mixes humor, strangeness and [[Tear Jerker|tear-jerking moments]] into one cohesive whole - as a matter of fact, [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|Japan loves Stitch]]. He may even be more popular in Japan than '''[[Beyond the Impossible|Mickey Mouse himself]]'''.
 
The idea of 625 other experiments by Jumba was inevitably too tempting ''not'' to develop into ''[[Lilo and Stitch The Series]]''. A few episodes [[Crossover|crossed over]] with ''[[Kim Possible]]'', ''[[The Proud Family]]'', ''[[Recess]]'', and ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]''. This series was bookended by ''Stitch! The Movie'', a direct-to-video film which kicked it off and ''Leroy & Stitch'', another DTV film that acted as the finale for the series.