Lilo and Stitch is a fun family movie that you can watch with your kids. This animated science fiction film is really all about acceptance and chosen family. The film does a good job of making you identify with both Lilo and Stitch, and under the comedy both of their stories are a little sad. I really like the fact that this can be seen as either a girl and her alien or as an alien and his little girl movie because it becomes very obvious through the film that the are good for each other.
What I didn't like about this movie is the Galactic Federation. The movie manages to portray the society as extremely rule-bound and formal, and sort of wild west at the same time. The reasoning behind why they would want to imprison stitch are flimsy and don't make a lot of sense for a cosmopolitan society.
Basically the story follows the life and meeting of Lilo and Stitch. Lilo is a little girl who lives with her sister because their parents died. she has trouble fitting in with the other kids in her town, and acts out violently at times. Stitch is a genetic experiment made by a mad scientist in the galactic federation. He is basically made to be a force of chaos and destruction. He is very hard to hurt, and highly intelligent. When Stitch's creator is put on trial he is used as evidence against him, and stitch's behavior at trial end up getting him banished to a remote asteroid. Rightly seeking to avoid this horrible fate stitch escapes confinement, steals a ship, and crash lands in Hawaii. Looking like a dog he is picked up and taken to the animal shelter where Lilo adopts him. Lilo is very understanding of his violent tendencies and tries, largely successfully, to help him overcome them. In the course of doing this Lilo comes to terms with her own situation, and deals with her own issues as well. Eventually Stitch is pursued, and ends up dragging Lilo into his problems. In the end they save each other. Stitch saves Lilo from being abducted by the Galactic Federation. Lilo saves Stitch by claiming him as a member of her family, and not letting the Galactic Federation take him away.
This movie makes a great family movie because it shows that anyone can be good, and that everyone has a place where they belong. It says that even someone who was made to be bad can overcome that with the right family, and an understanding environment.
This movie can be found at www.amazon.com on disk or as a streaming rental or purchase. It is also available on Netflix if you have a subscription.
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