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Monday, July 01, 2002I can also tell you that Lilo and Stitch is better than you would expect from the commercials. It's the first Disney cartoon I've seen with a troubled heroine rather than a heroine in trouble. Actually, it has two troubled characters. Lilo is a little girl from a dysfunctional family, or as the movie puts it, "a small and broken family," who is more prone to fistfights and biting than communing with small animals. Stitch, on the other hand, is an alien scientist's genetic experiment. Not only are genetic experiments outlawed on his planet, but the scientist has engineered him to be completely destructive. Before he is sent into intergalactic exile, the powers that be ask him if he can say just one thing to prove to them that there might be some little bit of good inside him, but he says something so vile (in their language, so we the audience can't understand it) that it makes the robot in the scene vomit nuts and bolts. He is exiled to a barren meteor, but escapes and makes his way to earth, where he lands on a Hawaiian island, is mistaken for a dog, and gets adopted by Lilo. What follows is a series of adventures as Lilo tries to dodge the social welfare system and Stitch tries to dodge his fellow aliens who have been sent to take him back into exile. In the course of their adventures, they both learn to be a little nicer, but neither of them ever reverts to the typical Disney forumula of unadulterated goodness. Come to think of it, I can't remember any of those uplifting Disney movie songs from it, either. Instead, it has a lot of Elvis music. (Specifically, Elvis music from Blue Hawaii) All in all, it was a refreshing change from the usual Disney forumula. posted by Sydney on 7/01/2002 05:29:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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