Lilo & Stitch (2025)
First screened in June 2025
Director: Dean Fleischer Camp. Cast: Maia Kealoha, Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Tia Carrere, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Amy Hill, Courtney B. Vance, Kaipo Dudoit, Jason Scott Lee, Celia Kenney, Chris Sanders. Screenplay: Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes (based on the 2002 animated feature Lilo & Stitch and its screenplay by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois).
In Brief:
That Lilo survives a live-action conversion better than most is a very relative claim. Animation is its home planet.
VOR:②
Sustains the first Lilo's comic anarchism: frequent in childhood but all too rare in Disney. More than token gestures to Hawaiian culture. But...
