Lilo & Stitch
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Directed by | |
Produced by | Clark Spencer |
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Story by | Chris Sanders |
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Music by | Alan Silvestri |
Edited by | Darren T. Holmes |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $80 million |
Box office | $273.1 million |
Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 animated movie, released by Walt Disney Pictures and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. on June 21, 2002. The 41st animated movie in the Disney animated features canon, it was written by and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. It was the second of three Disney animated movies produced mainly at the Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida studio in Walt Disney World's Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. The movie was rated PG for "mild sci-fi action". Lilo & Stitch was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which went to Hayao Miyazaki's movie, Spirited Away which also was released by Walt Disney Pictures and starred Daveigh Chase (in the English version).
The movie was so popular that it started a franchise. A direct-to-video sequel, Stitch! The Movie, was made. It launched a television series, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and a second direct-to-video sequel, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, was released in August 2005. A third and final television sequel, Leroy & Stitch, was released in June 2006 and ended the TV series. Another television series, an anime called Stitch!, aired in Japan from 2008 to 2011, later gaining two post-series specials in 2012 and 2015. A third TV series, a Chinese animated series called Stitch & Ai, began airing in 2017. Both the later two series took out Lilo as a main character, separating Stitch from her and putting him into different countries on Earth where he makes new friends with other human girls and becomes part of their families.
The movie was released on VHS and DVD on December 3, 2002. In 2003, a 2-disc DVD version was announced to come out along with Alice in Wonderland and Pocahontas, which were released in 2004 and 2005. A 2-Disc Special Edition DVD of Lilo & Stitch was released in the UK on August 22, 2005, along with the UK release of Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, but a release in the US was affected by many delays. On March 24, 2009, Disney finally released the special edition DVD, which is called a 2-Disc "Big Wave Edition". This new DVD has everything that the original DVD had and adds an audio commentary, a 2-hour documentary, more deleted scenes, a number of behind-the-scenes featurettes, and some games. The original DVD is no longer available, with the new one having the same list price.[1]
Plot[change | change source]
An evil alien scientist named Dr. Jumba Jookiba creates "Experiment 626", a creature built to cause chaos and destruction. This is against the law of his planet, and he is arrested. 626 escapes the planet, flying a spaceship to Earth.
On Earth, a little human girl named Lilo adopts 626 (thinking he is a dog) and names him "Stitch". Lilo lives in Hawaii, a series of islands in the United States of America. Lilo's mother and father have died in a car crash, so her older sister Nani takes care of her.
Stitch at first uses Lilo to avoid being captured by the alien officials, but the they become friends when Lilo teaches Stitch how to be good. She uses music by Elvis Presley in her lessons. Stitch also learns a new phrase: "'Ohana" means family. Family means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten." Because of this, Stitch decides to go against his original purpose in order to keep his family together. The alien officials manages to find Stitch on Earth and prepare take him away, but they decide to let Stitch stay with Lilo in Hawaii after she explains that she legally purchased Stitch. Jumba and Pleakley become members of Nani, Lilo, and Stitch's family, and the movie ends with various footage and pictures of Stitch and his new family's life together.
Cast[change | change source]
- Daveigh Chase as Lilo Pelekai
- Chris Sanders as Stitch
- Tia Carrere as Nani Pelekai
- David Ogden Stiers as Dr. Jumba Jookiba
- Kevin McDonald as Agent Pleakley
- Ving Rhames as Cobra Bubbles
- Zoe Caldwell as Grand Councilwoman
- Jason Scott Lee as David Kawena
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Captain Gantu
- Susan Hegarty as Rescue Lady
Production[change | change source]
An animated scene that had to be changed due to the September 11 attacks was where Stitch hijacks a Tsunami Air Boeing 747 and follows Gantu to the city of Honolulu. In the final movie, Stitch finds Jumba's spaceship and follows Gantu to the mountains and volcanoes.
Reception[change | change source]
The movie opened at #2 with $35,260,212 in its first weekend, less than $500,000 behind the movie Minority Report. In its second week, fell to #3, again behind the Steven Spielberg movie at #2. The movie made $145,794,338 in the United States and Canada, and $127,349,813 internationally, finishing with $273,144,151 in the world.
Lilo & Stitch received very positive reviews from critics and movie-goers alike, and it was the most successful Walt Disney Pictures movie after the Disney Renaissance of 1989 to 1999 until Bolt a few years later. The movie's success at the box office and on DVD led to a franchise, with three direct-to-video and televisions sequels and three television series. The movie has received 139 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, 119 positive and 20 negative, giving it a positive total rating of 86%.[2]
Soundtrack[change | change source]
Lilo & Stitch: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack | ||||
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Soundtrack album by Various artists | ||||
Released | June 11, 2002 | |||
Recorded | 2001-2002 | |||
Genre | Rock, country rock, pop | |||
Length | 34:47 | |||
Label | Walt Disney | |||
Producer | Chris Montan (executive) | |||
Lilo & Stitch music chronology | ||||
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Singles from Lilo & Stitch | ||||
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The soundtrack of the movie was released by Walt Disney Records on June 21, 2002. It, along with the movie, has more Elvis Presley songs than any of Elvis' own movies.[3]
# | Title | Singing by |
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1 | "Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride" | Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu, The Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus |
2 | "Stuck on You" | Elvis Presley |
3 | "Burning Love" | Wynonna |
4 | "Suspicious Minds" | Elvis Presley |
5 | "Heartbreak Hotel" | Elvis Presley |
6 | "Devil in Disguise" | Elvis Presley |
7 | "He Mele No Lilo" | Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu |
8 | "Hound Dog" | Elvis Presley |
9 | "Can't Help Falling in Love" | A*Teens |
10 | "Stitch to the Rescue" | Score |
11 | "You Can Never Belong" | Score |
12 | "I'm Lost" | Score |
Spin-offs[change | change source]
On August 26, 2003, Disney released a direct-to-video sequel, Stitch! The Movie, which was made as the pilot to a TV series titled Lilo & Stitch: The Series. This series ran for 65 episodes between on September 20, 2003 and July 29, 2006. The series carried on where the movie left off and showed Lilo's efforts to capture and re-home Jumba's remaining experiments. This series ended with TV movie Leroy & Stitch, which was released on June 27, 2006.
On August 2005, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, another direct-to-video sequel to the movie, was released. In this movie, Stitch has a glitch because his molecules were never fully charged (this is different than a deleted opening, "Stitch's trial", which was seen on the DVD release of Lilo & Stitch). Lilo wants to win the May Day hula contest like her mother did in the 1970s, but Stitch continues to have problems. Lilo thinks Stitch is not behaving right, until she finds out that Stitch is dying.
In March 2008, Disney announced that it is to produce a remade version of Lilo & Stitch, called Stitch!, for the Japanese market. The show, which began in October 2008, features a Japanese girl named Yuna (formerly referred to as Hanako) in place of Lilo, and is set on a fictional island in Okinawa prefecture instead of Hawaii. The series is produced by the Japanese animation house Madhouse LTD.[4][5][6]
On October 4, 2018, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Disney would be making a live action remake.[7]
Release Dates[change | change source]
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June 21, 2002 |
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June 26, 2002 |
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June 27, 2002 (German speaking region) |
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July 4, 2002 |
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July 6, 2002 |
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July 11, 2002 |
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July 19, 2002 |
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August 7, 2002 |
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August 29, 2002 |
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August 30, 2002 |
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September 5, 2002 |
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September 6, 2002 |
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September 6, 2002 (limited) |
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September 6, 2002 |
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September 6, 2002 |
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September 6, 2002 |
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September 6, 2002 |
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September 6, 2002 |
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September 17, 2002 |
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September 17, 2002 (limited) |
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September 19, 2002 |
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September 20, 2002 |
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September 20, 2002 |
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October 4, 2002 |
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October 18, 2002 |
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October 18, 2002 |
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October 18, 2002 |
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October 25, 2002 |
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October 29, 2002 |
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November 7, 2002 |
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December 4, 2002 |
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December 26, 2002 |
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December 31, 2002 |
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January 17, 2003 |
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February 6, 2003 |
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March 8, 2003 |
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Lilo & Stitch DVD Review". www.dvdizzy.com.
- ↑ "Lilo & Stitch (2002)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
- ↑ "Lilo and Stitch Trivia". kapalama.ksbe.edu.
- ↑ Disney seals Japan anime and "Lilo and Stich" deal, International business times, 2008-03-06
- ↑ Disney says to produce Anime 'made in Japan' (2008-03-08)
- ↑ Disney plans Japan animation effort, International Herald Tribune, 2008-03-06
- ↑ "'Lilo & Stitch' Live-Action Remake in the Works at Disney (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
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