Lilo & Stitch

Lilo & Stitch is a live-action take on the story of a lonely young girl living in Hawaii with her older sister, who is raising her and fighting to keep their family together. Lilo adopts a strange blue creature she believes is a dog and names him Stitch, unaware that he is an escaped alien experiment built to cause destruction. A scientist named Jumba, his companion Pleakley and the authorities close in on the fugitive, while life with Lilo gradually teaches Stitch what family means.

Dean Fleischer Camp directs, following his 2022 feature Marcel the Shell with Shoes On; this is the second film he has directed. The screenplay is by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes, and Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich produce. Maia Kealoha plays Lilo and Sydney Agudong plays Nani, with Chris Sanders voicing Stitch and Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen and Courtney B. Vance among the cast. The production, from Walt Disney Pictures and Rideback, cost about 100 million dollars and returned roughly 1.04 billion dollars worldwide.

Audience scores sit at 6.7 on IMDb from 93,000 votes and 7.2 on TMDB from 2,291 votes, while critics gave it 6.2 from 218 reviews, so viewers have been a little warmer toward it than reviewers.