Trying to calm down a little now been a bit of a workaholic, daughter started big school so had to c...
Trying to calm down a little now been a bit of a workaholic, daughter started big school so had to cut back to be home for her!
Zoe30
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After eating half of Tesco’s supply of Dairylea Lunchables and saved free the cinema tokens we decided to take our three-year-old daughter to our local UCI cinema to watch the newly released film from Disney, Lilo, and Stitch.
The film is a U like all Disney movies, and after recently purchasing Monsters Inc and watching it daily, I think I built up my expectation of the forth-coming movie. The animation was nowhere near M/I but more like Pocahontas, very flat visually. I was not very disappointed as the story line and the comedy aspect won me over.
The film is based on a broken family living in Hawaii, the family consists of a small girl called Lilo, who is totally scrumptious and her sister who is her guardian.
Stitch is an alien from a far away galaxy, who was made by a made professor. Stitch was made for one purpose and one purpose only destruction, his maker was sent to jail and Stitch sent to exile, but things go wrong and he escapes and takes a pod and lands on the island of Hawaii.
Lilo does not have many friends, as other children think that she is strange, mainly because their parents were killed in a car accident. She starts to feel lonely; meanwhile there is a social worker on their case to try to separate them both. As her older sister has a hard job holding down a job and looking after the mischievous Lilo on her own.
Therefore, after hearing Lilo prayers she takes her to the dog pound to get a dog, who should be there but Stitch. After adopting Stitch everything goes wrong, the mad professor and an accomplice are sent to earth to re capture Stitch. The social worker had the resemblance of someone that should have been in Men in Black, but that is all I am going to reveal, as the story comes together and to a close all the pieces fit together making this Disney film an all round feel good movie, great for all the family and all ages.
Whether I would purchase this one and add to my vast growing collection of Disney I do not know, perhaps I will wait until this is released then watch again and make my final decision. Do not be put off, give it a go, and judge for yourself and make your mind up.
There are some very funny moments in this film where Lilo teaches Stitch about The King (Elvis), he sings, and acts along to Elvis songs, which are quite amusing, even the Hawaiian dancing with grass skirts was quite funny.
This film has some touching moments, which even I must admit to make me shed a tear! The music was mainly Elvis songs, which was very different from the usual Elton John from previous Disney film.
Just remember when going to see this film, forget about super animation of recent Disney blockbusters and get back to basics with good old Disney animation and you should not be disappointed.
Cheers
Zoë
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Advantages: Kids will like it, Elvis soundtrack, ocassional funny moment, 'cute' if you like that kind of thing Disadvantages: Lazy, lazy production. Disney morals(again), no surprises, not a classic Disney movie by any stretch of the imagination
Advantages: lovely quality of drawn animation, positive messages, realistic body forms and facial feautres Disadvantages: some of the extras could have been left off without harm
Advantages: Great soundtrack from Elvis, Original characters and nice family plot line Disadvantages: Its mad that the characters actually believe Stitch is a dog when he is clearly an alien!!
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Oct 5th, 2002
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