An orphaned Hawaiian girl unknowingly adopts a genetically engineered alien that’s disguised as what she thinks is a dog. The aliens then attempt to get back the lost subject known as Stitch in this Disney animated tale.
As with all recent cel –animated Disney films Lilo and Stitch is effective in the animation department. The film has a wide array of colors on its palette that makes the film easy on the eyes. The characters are all appropriately designed for a child-oriented film with Stitch, the alien character, looking basically a large-size koosh ball. That design will almost assuredly be fun for young children. Overall, the character design is unique and stylish with the varied imaginations of the animators running wild to an effective degree of success. The various environments are gorgeous and the alien landscapes occasionally seen are a joy ! to behold because they are so inventively designed. The animation is top-notch in this Disney film.
The voice acting by a cast of relative unknowns is good but not great. They show the appropriate enthusiasm but they suffer from the purely juvenile script that takes every possible opportunity to throw in a bodily fluids related joke when they could have taken the high road and incorporated some witty jokes that would have been much more entertaining. Luckily, the film does include a few of the witty style jokes and when these jokes are being told the film shines because they are really funny but in short supply. Of course, the film also spirals into sappiness in the last half of the film when the signature Disney conclusion comes into fruition complete with trite and simplistic dialog.&n! bsp; The film misses some opportunities to explore some deeper themes than “everyone is different” but the filmmakers seem content to just slide by on the tired theme that has already been told in countless films before this one. Also, the film includes a few musical interludes in which events flash by as some pop song plays on the soundtrack. Thankfully, the music that’s featured isn’t too unbearably cheesy that it detracts from the film. The background music is good in moving the film beyond what’s on screen and succeeds in making the various scenes better than normal.
Overall, Lilo and Stitch is strictly a film for kids that features too many cheap and juvenile jokes and tends to preach its theme a little too much that will tire most older persons of its sappiness.
Rating: 80
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