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LILO & STITCH!!!
- Thread starter Volpone
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Pleakley is not accurate to the source material. I cannot believe how woke Disney got.
Volpone
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Saw it yesterday. They did OK. Different from the original but still mostly true to it. (I only saw the original once, when it was in theaters, so my memory is refreshed with limited Internet sources.) They stayed true to some aspects, simplified others, and expanded or changed still others. They did away with the shark alien and made the scientist/creator alien more malevolent (we'll come back to this later). They gave Nani's love interest a...I forget the...an Auntie that he lives with--it was played by the voice actress who was a similar but smaller part in the cartoon. Cobra Bubbles is now an actual CIA agent and Lilo and Nani's social worker is played by Tia Carrere, who voiced Nani in the cartoon. The actor who voiced her boyfriend is also in it, but I didn't catch who he was playing--maybe Nani's first boss? Later on Cobra Bubbles poses as Tia Carrere's boss to get closer to Stitch. Pleakley and the mad scientist alien have sort of cloaking devices that save on CGI without detracting from the story, IMO. Oh, they expanded Nani's character. She had a full ride college scholarship that she gave up to take care of Lilo and she used to be a champion surfer--but again, she had to give that up to care for Lilo. Definitely spoilers beyond this point.
Oh, there are other MacGuffins that I don't think were in he original that are important to the plot: The aliens have a kind of wormhole gun that lets them see through/walk through walls...and do other things. And Stitch has a weakness that he becomes very dense when exposed to water--so he's trapped on the island. In the end, instead of Shark Guy kidnapping Lilo to get to Stitch and then Nani, Stitch and the other aliens chasing after him in their ship, the mad scientist/creator of Stitch captures him and takes him away while Lilo stows away to save Stitch. In the end the ship crashes in the ocean, sacrifices are made by many of the characters, and Nani's conditioning training from when she was a surfer comes in handy. I enjoyed it and was happy teary-eyed much of the movie. I don't feel the need to see it a million times like I did "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" but that's a different story. If my dog had just died when this came out maybe I would. There were a few woke Disney moments in it (Lilo asking permission to kiss Stitch on the nose, for example) but they weren't overly distracting or preachy. I liked it.
Oh, there are other MacGuffins that I don't think were in he original that are important to the plot: The aliens have a kind of wormhole gun that lets them see through/walk through walls...and do other things. And Stitch has a weakness that he becomes very dense when exposed to water--so he's trapped on the island. In the end, instead of Shark Guy kidnapping Lilo to get to Stitch and then Nani, Stitch and the other aliens chasing after him in their ship, the mad scientist/creator of Stitch captures him and takes him away while Lilo stows away to save Stitch. In the end the ship crashes in the ocean, sacrifices are made by many of the characters, and Nani's conditioning training from when she was a surfer comes in handy. I enjoyed it and was happy teary-eyed much of the movie. I don't feel the need to see it a million times like I did "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" but that's a different story. If my dog had just died when this came out maybe I would. There were a few woke Disney moments in it (Lilo asking permission to kiss Stitch on the nose, for example) but they weren't overly distracting or preachy. I liked it.