Since its release, Stitch's habit of sneaking into other shows and platforms resulted not just in the movie's teaser trailers, but also in a short cameo in The Lion King 1 ½, an appearance in the "outtakes" of Brother Bear, four crossover episodes in the second season of Lilo & Stitch: The Series, a role in the Kingdom Hearts video game series, an appearance as a meet-and-greet character in Kinect: Disneyland Adventures, his and Lilo's appearances in Disney Magical World, that game's sequel adding a world based on their universe along with Jumba and Pleakley, and Stitch made into a playable character in the late Disney Infinity series starting with its second game, with that game receiving a "Toy Box Expansion Game" based on Lilo & Stitch with Pleakley making an appearance. Head to this page to read more about the sequels and spin-offs. The idea of 625 other experiments by Jumba was inevitably too tempting for Disney to ignore, and they quickly developed a franchise out of this film's success. He wrote the entire draft along with his directing partner Dean DeBlois and even voiced the protagonist Stitch - a character he originally created back in 1985 for a failed children's book pitch - himself. Unlike other Disney animated films, Disney was hands-off the creative development and did not interfere with the story: director Chris Sanders wanted the film to reflect his own drawing style. This movie was a significant breakaway for Disney on many counts, including an unconventional protagonist, crossover "Inter-Stitch-al" trailers, the lack of either romance troubles or a real villain, and the score drawn from home-grown Hawaiian songs and artists - and, of course, Elvis Presley. Family means nobody gets left behind - or forgotten." As this mutualistic partnership develops, Stitch inadvertently learns the meaning of ʻohana: " ʻOhana means family. Jumba, who has been released from his sentence to capture 626, and is now hot on his trail with the help of the neurotic Earth "expert" Agent Pleakley ( Kevin McDonald). However, while Lilo wants a companion, Stitch, as she named the alien, wants a human shield to deter Dr. Happily, he adopts Lilo as readily as Lilo adopts him. An unfortunate encounter with three Earth trucks led to him getting taken to a dog shelter, where by coincidence, Lilo and Nani have come to adopt. For this crime against nature, both Jumba and 626 are sentenced to, respectively, imprisonment and exile.Įscaping from the United Galactic Federation and the clutches of Captain Gantu ( Kevin Michael Richardson), 626 takes a hyperdrive-fueled shortcut to the closest planet, which is 70% water (important because he is too dense to swim or float) - and miraculously lands on the bitty Hawaiian archipelago in the middle of the Pacific, crashing on the island of Kauaʻi. Experiment 626 ("six-two-six") has a vast capacity for knowledge, spectacular combat abilities, and a programmed instinct to destroy anything he comes across. Jumba Jookiba ( David Ogden Stiers), the maddest scientist to splice genetics this side of the Milky Way, stands trial for illegally engineering a new life form (actually 626 life forms, but it is his latest that we're concerned with). To make matters worse, a disastrous visit from social worker Cobra Bubbles ( Ving Rhames) means that unless things shape up in the Pelekai household, the sisters will be separated for good. Nani loves her little sister, but the stress of responsibility makes her a bit short-tempered and resentful. Lilo, often lost in her own world, neither understands nor is understood by her hula classmates. Set mainly in the lush Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi, sisters Nani (voiced by Tia Carrere) and Lilo Pelekai ( Daveigh Chase), recent orphans of a car accident, are practically alone in the world except for each other. It was both critically and commercially acclaimed, a rarity for Disney's animated films during their "Experimental Era" after the Disney Renaissance. Entry #42 in the Disney Animated Canon, Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 traditionally-animated sci-fi comedy-drama film.
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