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Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 animated film and the forty-first film in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 21, 2002. It is one of the few animated feature films to use watercolor paintings for its backgrounds. It was also the second of three Disney animated features produced primarily at its animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida.

Plot

An extra-terrestrial mad scientist, Dr. Jumba Jookiba (voiced by David Ogden Stiers) is imprisoned for illegally experimenting and creating creatures to cause chaos and destruction. His latest experiment is Number 626: a cute little blue alien who is deceptively strong, fast, intelligent and destructive. On his way to a penal colony, 626 escapes and crash lands on a small Hawaiian island on Earth. Masquerading as a dog, 626 is adopted by a little girl named Lilo (voiced by Daveigh Chase) who is living with her sister Nani (voiced by Tia Carrere) after their parents died in a car accident. Lilo is lonely and a bit of an outcast until she finds a new friend in 626, who she names "Stitch".

Lilo tries to teach Stitch to behave using Elvis Presley and his music as a model for good behavior, but Stitch's destructive tendencies make it especially difficult for everyone, especially Nani, who is attempting to provide a stable home environment for Lilo by finding steady employment. Since they are constantly being monitored by social worker Cobra Bubbles (voiced by Ving Rhames), Lilo is at risk of being placed in foster care if their living conditions do not improve.

Making matters even more difficult are Jumba and Galactic Agent Pleakley (voiced by Kevin McDonald), who have been given the task of capturing Stitch. After their failure and subsequent dismissal, a shark-like alien named Captain Gantu (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is assigned the task of Stitch's capture.

Throughout the movie, the message provided tells the audience that family must stick together in all cases, however difficult. It also stresses the importance of Lilo's Hawaiian culture and how it must be kept alive. Furthermore, it is also meant to remind children of the importance of good behavior as well as adults that not all children are "rotten to the core", and that every child has some goodness deep inside. Early in the film, it is decided that "Stitch" has absolutely no goodness in him because of his destructive tendencies, and is labeled "Public Nuisance No.1", a pun on "Public Enemy No.1" which may or may not be an exaggeration of the way some parents (and other adults) think of their or any children because of their "tendecies" to "misbehave" and "cause trouble" (like Stitch does in this movie), leading to the possibility that the film have also been conceived as a metaphor for domestic family life with the intention of presenting a moral to both child and adult viewers (previously stated).

Parodies and references

The teaser trailers for this film parody trailers for other recent Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast
, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin
, and The Lion King
(two of these were animated by Sanders). They begin like actual scenes from the movies they parody, until Stitch comes in and disrupts the action. These are called "Inter-Stitch-als" and are featured on the offical site.

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Movies - Lilo & Stitch

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