🎥 Let’s start by showing y’all the trailer, shall we?

🕶️ Why Now?

That’s right, folks. Today we’re looking at the timeless classic Lilo & Stitch.

Why am I reviewing this all of a sudden?

Why not.

The better question is: why am I reviewing this specifically now, on Saturday, March 22nd?

It’s because in precisely 2 months from tomorrow (the 23rd), Disney is releasing the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch, so I thought—since that’s coming up, no better time than now to review this timeless classic.

🧬 What’s the Plot Rundown?

Well, after Stitch (aka Experiment 626) is created by a mad scientist named Jumba Jookiba, he’s found guilty.

Experiment 626 is sent into exile and taken away by a general named Captain Gantu.

Stitch escapes and lands on planet Earth (as the alien federation calls it)—because I guess they haven’t been to Earth before?

After that, the leader in charge, the Grand Councilwoman, sends Jumba Jookiba and Pleakly (who’s supposedly an expert on Earth—he thinks mosquitoes are an endangered species) down to Earth to retrieve Experiment 626.

Unfortunately for them, he lands on the island of Hawaii, finds his way to a dog pound, and gets adopted by a girl named Lilo, who’s a loner and gets bullied by the other girls she performs on stage with.

She and her older sister Nani live alone.
Maybe it is good that Lilo gets a pet.

By the way, she thinks this blue alien with fingers is a dog.
Don’t ask me how.
And she names him Stitch.

🕴️ Meet Cobra Bubbles (and David)

There’s also a subplot where this child service agent named Cobra Bubbles (voiced by Ving Rhames—that black guy in Mission Impossible who’s friends with Ethan)…
Also, fun fact—the design of Cobra Bubbles is based on the actor.

He tells Nani that she needs to get a job so that Lilo won’t be taken away from her.

❓ Questions, Questions…

• So will Stitch get brought back to the federation and be sent into exile?
• Will Lilo be separated from Nani?
• Will Nani find a job?
• Who’s Cobra Bubbles, really? Is there more to him than meets the eye?
• Will Nani fall in love with this guy named David, who works at a bar?
• Will Lilo be able to teach Stitch to become a good person—
  I mean dog—
  I mean alien?

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🏄‍♀️ Favorite Scenes Before Spoilers

Before we get into spoilers, I wanna show y’all my favorite scenes in the movie.

🌊 Surfing Scene

🎵 Also the soundtrack that goes with it

🍦 Ice Cream Guy Running Gag

Here’s a montage of that running gag in the first film where this chubby guy keeps having his ice cream fall on the floor and never gets a chance to try it.

🎸 Elvis Scene (Oh This Scene…)

This is the scene where Stitch is dressed up as Elvis and goes out on the beach to perform a song—after Lilo teaches him about Elvis.

Also—for some reason, this film was obsessed with Elvis.

I have no words.

✅ Rating Before Spoilers

Anyway, let’s get the rating out of the way so we can get into spoilers.

Overall: this film is getting a 10/10.

I highly recommend it.
This film still holds up to this day.

🎵 Full soundtrack playlist:.

⚠️ Warning: Spoilers Ahead Y’all Been Warned ⚠️

🛸 Spoiling the 3rd Act (And the Rest)

So after Pleakly and Jumba fail to capture Stitch— Lilo’s house gets destroyed…

Uh oh.

Also—Lilo finds out Stitch is an alien.
Wow, what a shocker.

But then Captain Gantu comes and grabs Lilo and Stitch, and Stitch escapes.

Nani asks Stitch and Jumba for help.

Jumba agrees to help out, and Pleakly reluctantly joins.

The four of them make it to their giant red ship to catch up to Captain Gantu—who’s already in his black alien spaceship with Lilo in the back.

He thinks he’s got Stitch and doesn’t realize he kidnapped a human girl!

Anyway, Jumba and Pleakly agree to help, so now this has turned from a detain mission to a rescue mission.

✈️ A Note About What Got Cut

Fun fact:
There was gonna be this footage where they are flying to catch up to Lilo and we would have seen the gang fly a hijacked plane between 2 towers.

Yeah—yikes.

This was made and released around 9/11, so they altered the town and the two towers and replaced the plane with an alien ship.

Smart move.

🏖️ Final Rescue + Ending

So they eventually catch up to Gantu and knock his ship into the ocean.

Luckily, David is on his surfboard in the ocean, and they ask him for a lift back to shore.

There, the federation meets them, along with Bubbles.

Gantu gets demoted—and so do Jumba and Pleakly.

As Stitch is about to be taken away, Stitch goes to say bye to his new family and Lilo shows the councilwoman the certificate of her buying Stitch.

So if she takes Stitch away—she’s robbing Lilo.
And that’s against federal laws.

The councilwoman recognizes Bubbles, and he says:

“Roswell, 1978.”

Ohhhhhh—he was an agent at the Roswell site!

So she hands over Stitch to Lilo.

The councilwoman says they’ll come and keep an eye on y’all now and then.

So—happy ending.

Also, Jumba and Pleakly get left behind with them, so now Bubbles helps the gang rebuild their home. They’re making it bigger so Stitch, Pleakly, and Jumba can all stay there.

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🎉 The End (Almost)

In the end, overall I hope y’all enjoyed this review.

Also, here’s the trailer for the upcoming live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch:

See y’all in 2 weeks for that review. Also, today they just released a clip from the upcoming remake, it’s the remake’s version of the Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride song montage.

Also, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at talking about the soundtrack of the film. I really think they’ve nailed down this adaptation perfectly; now all that’s left is to see the film. Again see y’all roughly in 2 weeks for the review.

They keep blessing us, they also released this 2 min video of the full remake of the Hawaiian Rollercoaster song, and I’m just astonished.