It's funny, it's sad and, frankly, it's a bit weird.
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09/02/08
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
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Reviews Counted:144
Fresh:122
Rotten:22
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Edgier than traditional Disney fare, Lilo and Stitch explores issues of family while providing a fun and charming story.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: Far, far away, on an alien planet, a rogue scientist named Jumba has created a bright blue creature called Experiment 626, through illegal genetic research. This new creature loves destruction and... [More]
Starring: Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers
Director: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Reviews for Lilo & Stitch
Top CriticRegrettably, towards the end the film veers off into a mess of weird aliens and Cartoon Network silliness.
06/24/06
Top CriticAll the sentiment and charm you’d expect from a Disney movie, but easier to swallow thanks to mature themes and realistic characters.
03/02/03
Top CriticCheerful but below-par.
11/19/02
Top CriticAn enjoyably anarchic, frequently amusing slice of children’s entertainment.
10/30/02
The early and middle passages are surprising in how much they engage and even touch us. This is not a classical dramatic animated feature, nor a hip, contemporary, in-jokey one. It's sort of in-between, and it works.
10/08/02
Touching, funny and strange.
09/23/02
Top CriticOne of the most enjoyable and genuinely funny animated features [Disney's] ever made.
08/12/02
Smart, poignant, and utterly beguiling.
11/16/09
This is a very disappointing effort from Disney.
04/29/09
...an affable but hopelessly uneven fantasy...
03/26/09
It's offbeat, action-packed, and it has a heart as big as a Hawaiian welcome. And in keeping with the Disney philosophy, the style of drawing has its own distinctive look.
03/21/09
It's a bright, engaging bauble with half a dozen Elvis Presley songs for Mom and Dad, and just enough sass -- Stitch sticks his tongue into his nose and eats his snot -- to keep the tweeners giggling.
09/02/08
Top CriticEasily one of the strangest products to ever emerge from the Disney animation pipeline.
12/06/05
The movie does manage to tug at your heartstrings with its themes of loneliness and finding a place to fit in, but it does it without ever rising too high on the sap-o-meter.
09/30/05
Similar to most contemporary American feature-length animation, the film’s overall structure is frayed.
05/13/05
... it unapologetically affirms that love can make good things happen in a broken family.
12/06/04
A raucous comedy/adventure [and] easily one of the strangest products to ever emerge from the Disney animation pipeline.
01/12/04
Putting aside the Pixar computer animated offerings, this is the best Disney animation in nearly a decade.
01/01/04
Make sure your kids don't get too much sugar in the cinema - the house mightn't be up to the mayhem when they get out.
03/26/03
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