Stitch! The Movie (2003)
The continuing adventures of Lilo, a little Hawaiian girl, and Stitch, the galaxy's most-wanted extraterrestrial. Stitch, Pleakley, and Dr. Jumba are all part of the household now, but what Lilo and Stitch don't know is that Dr. Jumba brought his other alien "experiments" to Hawaiʻi as well.
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Great Film overall
Fantastic!
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
The first "Lilo and Stitch" was a warm and entertaining animated feature, compensated fully by beautiful animation, a nice soundtrack and a superb script that was not only funny but taught morals without feeling slushy. "Stitch! The Movie" was merely okay, but it doesn't have the magic or the sense of fun the first film had. I will give some credit the voice work is very good, Daveigh Chase is very sweet as Lilo and David Ogden Stiers just as he did in the original was marvellous as Jumbaa. Hamsterviel is a good villain, sweet on the outside but quite dangerous really. I liked it that Gantu had more to do here, and there are some decent laughs mostly from Experiment 625. However, the film is too short, at merely an hour there isn't much character development consequently the characters and the relationships between them (Lilo and Stitch's especially) weren't as engaging or as poignant. In both this and the TV series Nani's personality seems somewhat distorted. Also the animation isn't as vibrant, colourful or as detailed as it was in the original, not helped by rushed editing, and the script felt rather shallow. By all means, this movie isn't bad, but it pales in comparison to the original. 5/10 for trying. Bethany Cox
I really adored the original. This one was not as good -- just a pale echo. It was not as creative. The character development was missing. The music wasn't as moving. I also don't think you can understand it if you haven't seen the first one.Vague spoiler:The ending of the thing just turned into a Pokemon rip off, which was very disappointing for something that started out as such an original movie the first time around. Warning to parents of video game addicts: the DVD has a trial version of the video game. The video game, by the way, appears to be the sort that would appeal to the pre-school set. I was surprised by this. I thought the original movie was sophisticated enough to appeal to a broad range of ages. My 13 year old loves it -- granted he loved this movie, too, even though I thought it was pretty flat.
Sequels are always bad, so I guess I just shouldn't have even bothered watching this one. It's VERY boring and everything that happens in this movie is just a lame thing to try to get the audience to have fun.Nice try, movie makers, but please don't make a sequel as bad as this one again.
_Stitch! the Movie_ follows logically from _Lilo and Stitch_, and the characters are true to their personalities. Sharp-eyed children will notice a point at which Stitch could have extricated himself from a fix unaided, but didn't, but on the whole, it flows nicely...****SPOILER FOLLOWS!!!!***** ...to a semi-conclusion that sets up the forthcoming _Lilo and Stitch_ cartoon series in exactly the way I feared it would, so that it will be a clone of certain Japanese cartoon series in which many creatures with varying powers get collected. I guess the committees and marketing types finally got their claws into L&S, and couldn't resist the thought of hordes of children collecting 626 plushes, figures, cards, and so on. I'm highly disappointed.