Director: Dean Fleischer Camp

Cast: Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Tia Carrere

Synopsis:

A live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, “Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, the Oscar®-nominated filmmaker behind the animated feature film “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” the film stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Hannah Waddingham, Chris Sanders, with Courtney B. Vance, and Zach Galifianakis, introducing Maia Kealoha. “Lilo & Stitch” is produced by Jonathan Eirich, p.g.a. and Dan Lin, with Louie Provost, Tom Peitzman and Ryan Halprin serving as executive producers.

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Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind. That seems to be Disney's motto when it comes to adapting their animated hits into new live-action vehicles (though they do appear to be pumping the brakes) to varying degrees of success. Blissfully, the 2002 film Lilo & Stitch gets an adaptation that is vibrant, whimsical, and earnest (and also cute and fluffy!).

Perhaps it's the fact that Lilo & Stitch has always been an outlier in the world of Disney animation, coming as it did with the last gasp of the studio's Renaissance. Mashing up Hawaiian culture and sci-fi lore, it tells the story of Experiment 626, a dangerous and chaotic alien who crash-lands on Earth. It's not a Disney princess movie or even a mythos-steeped tale like The Lion King, Mulan, or Hercules.

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