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[Hrk69]

Stitch CRASHES into theaters May 23, 2025! #LiloAndStitch

A live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, “Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, the Oscar®-nominated filmmaker behind the animated feature film “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” the film stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Hannah Waddingham, Chris Sanders, with Courtney B. Vance, and Zach Galifianakis, introducing Maia Kealoha. “Lilo & Stitch” is produced by Jonathan Eirich, p.g.a. and Dan Lin, with Louie Provost, Tom Peitzman and Ryan Halprin serving as executive producers.

 

[RagnarokIV]

No way. Why?

They are still going all in on these?

 

[Hookshot]

Tia Carrere? Goes to google...... hmm, why not, still would.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[jason10mm]

Good grief, we are gonna get a live action Snow White, Lilo and Stitch, AND How To Train Your Dragon all in just a few months, aren't we?

Why can't I get a live action Heavy Metal, Ninja Scroll, or Macross if we got all this $$$ to blow?

At least they got good casting for Lilo's sister with Sydney Agudong. Add her to the list of hot Sydneys

 

[IDKFA]

Have we hit creative bedrock yet?

 

[jason10mm]

And Tia Carrera is in it, as well as Jason Scott Lee. If they can get Mark Dacascos they will have the trinity of 90s Asian actors

Hope they can get Tom Selleck to do a quick drive by in a vintage red Ferrari, might as well go all out with Hawaiian nostalgia

 

[John Bilbo]

Money making super disco breaking

 

[AJUMP23]

I never saw the original, I don't know that I want to see this version.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The original movie is pretty and very popular in Mexico, but I'm afraid of the current Disney.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I never saw the original, I don't know that I want to see this version.

see it, it's worth it.

 

[AJUMP23]

see it, it's worth it.

I will consider it.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Someone should have just continued with more animated Lilo and Stitch movies. Haven't most of these CGI redos flopped, and shouldn't peak Millennial nostalgia cash grabs also be for that peak 90s-early 2000s era of animation?

We really had something special in western animation in that era and then just...Gave up?

 

[jason10mm]

The original movie is pretty and very popular in Mexico, but I'm afraid of the current Disney.

I'm curious how they will depict the rather flamboyant cross dressing alien voiced by Kevin MacDonald. The new voice actor is a chisled jawed cishet white guy so I imagine the character may be quite different.

Anyway, Stitch was the one "live action" remake I thought had real promise, so I'm tenatively excited for it.

As opposed to live action Moana, which does feel like a cash grab and "too soon" from the animated version and on the heels of the CG sequel.

 

[rm082e]

 

[SJRB]

 

[chromhound]

Good grief, we are gonna get a live action Snow White, Lilo and Stitch, AND How To Train Your Dragon all in just a few months, aren't we?

Why can't I get a live action Heavy Metal, Ninja Scroll, or Macross if we got all this $$$ to blow?

At least they got good casting for Lilo's sister with Sydney Agudong. Add her to the list of hot Sydneys

Not thick enough

 

[kruis]

Good grief, we are gonna get a live action Snow White, Lilo and Stitch, AND How To Train Your Dragon all in just a few months, aren't we?

You forgot about the Lion King prequel Mufasa. Next year there's the Moana live action remake and Disney is already planning live action versions of Bambi, The Aristocats and Hercules. And that's on top of a bunch of sequel and remakes. Hollywood is creatively dead.

 

[jason10mm]

You forgot about the Lion King prequel Mufasa. Next year there's the Moana live action remake and Disney is already planning live action versions of Bambi, The Aristocats and Hercules. And that's on top of a bunch of sequel and remakes. Hollywood is creatively dead.

That shit is all CG though, it isn't live action anything. Same with Bambi.

Hercules, huh? That could be fun. Gonna be tough topping James Woods as a bad guy though.

Give me a live action Black Cauldron and I'll get excited.

 

[LordCBH]

It will likely be fine. But holy crap is Disney just creatively bankrupt at this point?

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Come on, guys. In these turbulent times, people turn to the familiar for comfort, with just enough of a change in presentation to make the old feel new again. To kick-start that joy they felt originally. It's beautiful, actually.

Just kidding, it's slop.

 

[Audiophile]

The obsession with live-action versions of animated stuff is getting out of hand.

 

[Decal4]

Someone should have just continued with more animated Lilo and Stitch movies. Haven't most of these CGI redos flopped, and shouldn't peak Millennial nostalgia cash grabs also be for that peak 90s-early 2000s era of animation?

We really had something special in western animation in that era and then just...Gave up?

That's interesting how the perspective has shifted over the years. I remember at the time there were lots of people complaining that this was still 2D and not 3D animation, and how 2D was a dying medium. Home on the range, Atlantis, treasure planet where other Disney films at the time that did not do well before Disney closed its 2D animation studio for a time (John Lassiter of Pixar made them start doing 2D again using toon boom as the software, where before they were using a custom in-house animation program called Caps. I don't remember if Lilo and Stitch was done with caps or not).

Everyone was talking about how the golden era was finished with Tarzan, now it is starting to bleed forward.

But, I will say this is the very first live-action remake film they are doing that still feels like a contemporary film to me, whereas the rest were arguably old enough that it was time to introduce them to a new generation.

 

[LordOfChaos]

That's interesting how the perspective has shifted over the years. I remember at the time there were lots of people complaining that this was still 2D and not 3D animation, and how 2D was a dying medium. Home on the range, Atlantis, treasure planet where other Disney films at the time that did not do well before Disney closed its 2D animation studio for a time (John Lassiter of Pixar made them start doing 2D again using toon boom as the software, where before they were using a custom in-house animation program called Caps. I don't remember if Lilo and Stitch was done with caps or not).

Everyone was talking about how the golden era was finished with Tarzan, now it is starting to bleed forward.

But, I will say this is the very first live-action remake film they are doing that still feels like a contemporary film to me, whereas the rest were arguably old enough that it was time to introduce them to a new generation.

That's an interesting perspective on what happened. I guess that's why Titan AE promos had those weird part realistic, part animation Matt Daemon faces, and had CGI clips throughout the movie?

In retrospect it's the CGI parts that definitely age the worse, while it seems like western animation really could have had something special. Even going further than that and beyond disney, what have we had that was animation styled that had more soul than Avatar TLA since.

 

[Sonik]

Have we hit creative bedrock yet?

Hollywood hit creative bedrock 3-4 years ago and now it's inventing new technologies to dig underneath it

 

[jason10mm]

That's interesting how the perspective has shifted over the years. I remember at the time there were lots of people complaining that this was still 2D and not 3D animation, and how 2D was a dying medium. Home on the range, Atlantis, treasure planet where other Disney films at the time that did not do well before Disney closed its 2D animation studio for a time (John Lassiter of Pixar made them start doing 2D again using toon boom as the software, where before they were using a custom in-house animation program called Caps. I don't remember if Lilo and Stitch was done with caps or not).

Everyone was talking about how the golden era was finished with Tarzan, now it is starting to bleed forward.

I thought it was the underperformance of "Princess and the Frog" (which got its share of pre-"woke" criticisms) along with the dominance of Pixar that really put the nail in the coffin of Disney handdrawn animation. "Tangled" was originally supposed to look kinda watercolory (much like what "The Wild Robot" did, I think) to bridge the space between CG and 2D but ended up more CG and that was it.

 

[kunonabi]

The original movie is pretty and very popular in Mexico, but I'm afraid of the current Disney.

It's extremely popular in Japan too.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

It's extremely popular in Japan too.

You are from Japan?

 

[Lambogenie]

He looks slow and lethargic in CG (and segment should be more skittish).

I'll probably watch it. Not excited at all, though and still find this all so very pointless. But it does have some of the original voices as cast so that's cool.

 

[kunonabi]

You are from Japan?

Nah, I vacationed there and the tv show was playing like all the time, merch was all over the place, and it was really big at Tokyo Disney when I went. This was some years back so it might have cooled off but it definitely seemed extremely well liked at the time.

 

[MayauMiao]

I have no problem with Stitch design, pretty accurate to the animated version.

 

[Decal4]

I thought it was the underperformance of "Princess and the Frog" (which got its share of pre-"woke" criticisms) along with the dominance of Pixar that really put the nail in the coffin of Disney handdrawn animation. "Tangled" was originally supposed to look kinda watercolory (much like what "The Wild Robot" did, I think) to bridge the space between CG and 2D but ended up more CG and that was it.

As I understood that film, since Disney was re learning how to do 2D animation at all, that was a lot of the source of the criticism, but yes the intention was to keep 2D animation as a 1st class citizen and PATF did poorly enough that they keep 2D going as a decoration set piece, used for times when they want to re edit existing content (100th anniversary video) or do shorts or TV shows, but yes 3D has become the table stakes. Luca with its Miyazaki style watercolor effects seems to be the future art style there.

 

[BlackTron]

I will consider it.

You will be hooked in the first few minutes. The story starts in space with bureaucratic aliens. I probably never would have gone out of my way to see it till some kids were watching it and I was like wow...I was sleeping on this movie for a LONG time

 

[jason10mm]

You will be hooked in the first few minutes. The story starts in space with bureaucratic aliens. I probably never would have gone out of my way to see it till some kids were watching it and I was like wow...I was sleeping on this movie for a LONG time

And there are a couple of sequels that are decent, as well as a TV show. Quite a bit of content overall. My kids ran through it a few years back and it's all tolerable stuff.