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:''For the television series, see ''
'''Lilo & Stitch''' is a 2002 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 21, 2002. The film was written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, and was the second of three Disney animated features produced primarily at its animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. The film was rated PG for "mild sci-fi action".
''Lilo & Stitch'' was nominated for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which ultimately went to ''Spirited Away''.
An extra-terrestrial mad scientist named Dr. Jumba Jookiba (David Ogden Stiers) is imprisoned for illegally experimenting and creating creatures to cause chaos and destruction. His latest experiment is Number 626 (Chris Sanders): a cute, little, blue alien with four arms, two legs and antennae and three spines from his back who is deceptively strong, fast, intelligent, destructive and indestructible.
Captain Gantu (Kevin Michael Richardson), a shark-like alien, is assigned to take 626 to a penal colony, but during the trip, 626 manages to escape in a smaller spacecraft, and crash lands on the small Hawaiian island of Kauai, on Earth. Masquerading as a dog (but looking more like a koala), 626 is adopted by a little girl named Lilo Pelekai (Daveigh Chase) who is living with her 19/20-year-old sister Nani (Tia Carrere) after their parents died in a car accident. Lilo is lonely and a bit of an outcast until she finds a new friend in 626, whom she names "Stitch." Stitch initially attempts to escape the island but finds that it is impossible because he is afraid of the water and cannot swim because his body is too dense. Stitch resigns himself to stay with Lilo when he spots that he is being watched by Jumba and Galactic Agent Pleakley (Kevin McDonald), who have been assigned to recapture Stitch without being detected by humans. Lilo notes Stitch's violent tendencies and attempts to teach him to relax.
Nani and Lilo are visted by social worker Cobra Bubbles (Ving Rhames), who tells Nani that unless she finds employment and improves their living conditions, he will have to take Lilo into foster care. Nani, with the help of her boyfriend David, tries several times to find employment, but is unable to secure a position as Lilo's attempts to tame Stitch by having him behave as Elvis Presley generally lead to disaster. After one such tiring day, David offers Nani and Lilo a day of surfing at the beach. While the three of them are trying to help Stitch learn how to surf, Jumba and Pleakley attempt to capture Stitch from underwater, leading to Stitch grabbing onto Lilo and dragging her under. David manages to rescue both Lilo and Stitch, but Nani believes that Stitch was attacking Lilo, and sends him away from Lilo much to Lilo's dismay. Stitch returns to Lilo's house alone.
After Jumba and Pleakley's failure, Captain Gantu is assigned to capture Stitch. This leads Jumba, no longer bound by Galactic Code, to aggressively chase Stitch in one last effort, ending in the destruction of Lilo's home. Nani returns home just after this occurs, unfortunately timed with a check-up visit from Cobra Bubbles, causing Lilo to run off fearing that Stitch was responsible for the destruction and didn't care about her, only to be captured by Gantu. Stitch attempts to save her but is instead accused of Lilo's capture by Nani. At this point, Stitch finally speaks to her in English and shows that he is an alien and that he does understand the meaning of ''ohana'', which means "family" and "that nobody gets left behind or forgotten". Jumba is able to capture Stitch in this moment of understanding, but Nani pleads Jumba to let Stitch free and to help save Lilo from Gantu, and he reluctantly does so.
Employing Jumba's spaceship, they and Gantu give chase around the Hawaiian mountains. Stitch manages to land on Gantu's ship and attempts to free Lilo but Gantu reconfigures the angle of the afterburners to blast Stitch off the ship. In a momentary state of unconsciousness, Stitch wakes up just in time to save a frog from being run over by a gasoline truck. Hijacking the same truck, Stitch drives it straight into an active volcano. Stitch taunts Gantu and releases the fuel into the lava. The explosion launches Stitch straight into Gantu's cockpit. Gantu tries to smash Stitch but ends up getting thrown off the ship. Stitch rescues Lilo just in time before the ship explodes. When everyone lands in the ocean, David is coincidentally surfing nearby and he helps transport everyone back to shore.
Immediately, The Grand Councilwoman arrives to arrest Stitch, but becomes reluctant to do so when she sees that he has reformed into a civilized creature. Prodded by Cobra Bubbles (who is revealed to be a former CIA agent who had previously med the Grand Councilwoman at Roswell, NM), Lilo presents her certificate of adoption which makes her Stitch's legal owner, causing the Grand Councilwoman to release the little creature. Stitch's sentence to life in exile provides a loophole; he is now in Lilo and Nani's care as his warders. The movie ends with both Jumba and Pleakley staying on earth to help rebuild Nani, Lilo, and Stitch's home with some of their own alien technology, and with Stitch being fully accepted into Lilo's family.
Throughout the movie, the message provided tells the audience that family must stick together in all cases, however difficult. It also stresses the importance of Lilo and Nani's Hawaiian culture and how it must be kept alive. Furthermore, it is also meant to remind children of the importance of good behavior as well as adults that not all children are "rotten to the core", and that every child has some goodness deep inside.
★ A 1985 concept sketch of Stitch by creator Chris Sanders.The teaser trailers for this film parody trailers for other recent Disney films such as ''Beauty and the Beast'', ''The Little Mermaid'', ''Aladdin'', and ''The Lion King'' (two of these were animated by Sanders). They begin with actual scenes from the movies they parody, with Stitch disrupting the action. These are called "Inter-Stitch-als" and are featured on Disney's official site. ''The Little Mermaid'' trailer was the most difficult to parody, as it wasn't animated in the CAPS system and had to be cleaned up by hand. The original actors were brought back to reprise their roles and were shocked when asked to act negatively towards Stitch. Each trailer ends with the original characters telling Stitch to "Get your own movie.". In ''The Little Mermaid'' parody, Ariel threw a starfish at Stitch and said, "I was singing here," while ''The Lion King'' parody had Timon say, "Hey! That's not Simba!" with all the animals fleeing away from Stitch.
★ Social Worker Cobra Bubbles, formerly of the CIA, is modeled on the mysterious "Men in Black" (of urban legends and a couple of hit movies) who work to prevent an alien takeover of Earth and to persuade humans that aliens do not exist.
★ When the Grand Councilwoman finds out that most of Earth is covered in water, she says that Stitch won't survive in water as "his molecular density is too great." This means he'll sink in water.
★ Items in the backgrounds of both Lilo and Nani's room reference other Disney movies. Lilo has a stuffed Dumbo doll on her art easel while Nani has a movie poster for ''Mulan'' in her room. In addition to these items, a restaurant called "Mulan Wok" can be seen during the scene where Stitch sees ''"Earth vs. the Spider"'' in a shop-window television. The directors had worked on Mulan.
★ Famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's film ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' is given a nod by the appearance of "Kiki's Coffee House". Another reference to Miyazaki's work is the scene following Stitch's crash-landing on Earth, which is reminiscent of the bus stop scene from ''My Neighbor Totoro''.
★ At the end of the movie features snapshots of the future "family" life of Stitch with Lilo and the others, each of them variations of classic images like famous Norman Rockwell illustrations.
★ Chris Sanders, one of the directors of the film, also served as co-screenwriter, co-character designer, and provided the voice of Stitch, a character he first created in 1985.
★ Earth is referred as being in Quadrant 17, Section 005, Area "51" in the Galactic charts, one of several references to Area 51.
★ When Lilo and Stitch walk past the store selling calendars with images from around the world, the "Orlando" calendar has a picture of the Magic Kingdom.
★ There are several "hidden Mickeys" in the movie - one can be seen in the Grand Council scene, on Jumba's platform. Another can be seen as a logo on the shorts of one of Lilo's photographic subjects on the wall of her room.
★ Near the beginning of the film, during the trial, Stitch is asked by the council woman to provide some sign that he understands what's going on. He responds by licking the inside of his glass cage. The saliva trail is in the famous "D" shape in the Walt Disney logo.
★ The sign on Lilo's door is a Hawaiian word loosely translated as "keep out".
★ All of the license plates in the film (VW, Nani's car, the fire engine, and Cobra Bubbles' car) are A113, the same as the code found on Mrs. Davis's plate number in Toy Story, Mater's plate number in Cars, and also used in many other Disney and Pixar films. It is a reference to a room number at California Institute of the Arts, where many of the animators at those two companies received their educations.
★ The two hover car presents given to Lilo and Stitch make the same sounds as the flying cars in "The Jetsons".
★ According to Stitch's dog license at the shelter, the adoption official is "Susan Hegarty", the name of the actress who voiced the character. Also, according to the license, Lilo and Nani's last name is "Pelekai".
★ The words on Stitch's dog license at the shelter are part of a resolution thanking people for their support during the making of the movie. The words are difficult to make out, but the last part reads, "as well as our partners at Disney MGM Studios for their participation and support during the making of Lilo and Stitch." The viewer can see a close-up of the end of the last few lines in the scene where "Susan" stamps the Seal on the form.
★ In one scene, a pink jeep car can briefly be seen in the lower left corner of the screen. This is a reference to the Elvis movie Blue Hawaii, in which he drove such a car.
★ The scene where Stitch is walking down a path after leaving Lilo is taken from the Disney film version of The Ugly Duckling. The illustrations in Lilo's storybook are also based on scenes from that film.
★ Near the end, the tracking image Captain Gantu uses to track the location of Stitch on Hawaii is the icon for the Disney theme park in Florida, EPCOT Center - Spaceship Earth.
★ Running Gag: Every time Pleakley looks at or attempts to show someone information about Earth, the device used is a "Viewmaster". Viewmasters create the illusion that the viewer is looking at a three-dimensional image that's actually created by each eye looking at a slightly different pictures. Its basic premise is that the person looking in it has two eyes to create the effect, but Pleakley is a one-eyed creature and therefore would not see the 3-D effects of the Viewmaster. Adding to the gag is when he hands the ViewMaster to Dr. Jumba - a one-eyed alien handing a four-eyed alien a viewing device intended for two-eyed humans.
★ When Stitch awakes at the dog pound, there are a number of dogs shaking in fear in the corner of his cell. They are all the same breed of dogs that Lady encounters in her trip to the dog pound in Lady and the Tramp (1955).
★ The grocery store Nani tries to get a job at is owned by a "Mrs. Hasegawa", a reference to the famous "Hasegawa's General Store" in the town of Hana on Maui.
★ After Stitch breaks the water gun apart, Cobra is shown looking on disappointed, as a crowd of people run by in terror. The last two people to run by are cartoon versions of Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. Chris is the individual with blond hair and sunglasses. Dean is the big man with a beard.
★ In the subtitles for the Chinese version, a line spoken by Stitch in his alien language is translated into Chinese despite it having no corresponding English meaning. The reason for this is thought to be because Stitch's line sounded a lot like Ni Qu De (Go to your place) an offensive Chinese phrase used to tell somebody to go away. The actual Chinese translation was a lot more family-friendly. This line is a placed at an earlier point than the first understandable dialog spoken by Stitch in the English version of the film.
★ The voice of Stitch was a difficult one to dub for other languages and that's why Dutch voice artist Bob van der Houven does the voice of Stitch in the Dutch, German, Flemish and Italian version of the film.
★ The original version of the flying chase scene at the end movie included the space craft flying through Honolulu, crashing into buildings. The sequence was already animated with voices added early in production, but the whole chase was cut following the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001. The chase had to be re-written and drawn again.
★ Producer Clark Spencer has revealed the story was originally placed in an isolated town in Kansas rather than on Kauai.
★ When Jumba is ripping up the newspaper, about him the viewer can see pictures of what look like past experiments next to the bed one resembled Sprout (509), another Woops (600) and one looked like a white Loch Ness Monster.
★ When the film was released it was praised as an accurate portrayal of Hawaii, its people and their lives, not only from the dialogue using accurate Hawaiian slang (using advice from Jason Scott Lee and Tia Carrere), but also from the realistic animation of the characters (i.e., realistic body shapes, noses, skin tones, etc.) and other touches in the film.
★ First Disney animated movie to fall under the science fiction genre, rather than the typical fantasy.
★ when the council woman and pleekly board the elivater to jumba's prison cell, one of the cells apears to contain dr. hamstewheal from Stich the movie and the following tv series.
''Lilo and Stitch'' is the sixth Disney animated feature to take place in the present day, following ''Oliver & Company''. The movie was originally intended to take place in rural Kansas so that Stitch could interact with other characters while still being isolated from wreaking greater havoc. A decision to change the film's setting to the Hawaiian island of Kauai was an important choice in defining the plot more clearly. No other feature-length animated movie had ever taken place on any of the Hawaiian islands before. In Sanders' words:
:"Animation has been set so much in ancient, medieval Europe—so many fairy tales find their roots there, that to place it in Hawaii was kind of a big leap. But that choice went to color the entire movie, and rewrite the story for us."
While the animation team visited Kauai to research the locale, their tour guide explained the meaning of ''ohana'' as it applies to extended families. This concept of ohana became an important part of the movie. DeBlois recalls:
:"No matter where we went, our tour guide seemed to know somebody. He was really the one who explained to us the Hawaiian concept of ohana, a sense of family that extends far beyond your immediate relatives. That idea so influenced the story that it became the foundation theme, the thing that causes Stitch to evolve despite what he was created to do, which is destroy."
The island of Kauai had previously been featured in such films as ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and the ''Jurassic Park'' trilogy. The Disney animators faced the daunting task of meshing the film's plot, which showed the impoverished and dysfunctional life that many Hawaiians and other Westerners lived during the recent economic downturn, with the island's serene beauty. To give a brighter image to the film, the studio used watercolors to paint the backgrounds.
Jason Scott Lee, who has Hawaiian ethnicity, co-wrote the dialogues for his character.
''Lilo & Stitch'' draws largely from Hawaiian culture and makes extensive use of typical features of Hawaiian music such as the slack-key guitar and hula dancing. Because of Lilo's infatuation with Elvis Presley, some of the songs used in the movie (such as "Hound Dog" and "Suspicious Minds") were also included on the soundtrack, as well as covers of Presley's "Burning Love" performed by Wynonna and "Can't Help Falling in Love" performed by Swedish pop group A-Teens, which were both played over the film's closing credits. Hawaiian hula teacher and chanter Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu wrote and sang two songs especially for this film, "Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride" and "He Mele No Lilo", which he performed together with The Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus.That was under the direction of Lynell Bright."Their voices are beautiful, I'm glad that we get this type of opportunity," says Lynell. Broadway producer(2007) says,
"If everyone on the planet had a choir that sang as beautiful as you guys there would be no wars."
The score material was composed by Alan Silvestri, who was the directors first and second choice. The soundtrack does not include AC/DC's "Back in Black", which was used in some trailers for the film.
#Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride
#Stuck on You
#Burning Love
#Suspicious Minds
#Heartbreak Hotel
#Devil in Disguise
#He Mele No Lilo
#Hound Dog
#Can't Help Falling in Love
#Stitch to the Rescue
#You Can Never Belong
#I'm Lost
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★ , Stitch! The Movie, Leroy & Stitch
★ List of experiments from Lilo & Stitch
★ Kingdom Hearts II
★ List of Disney theatrical animated features
★ Drawn and Quartered, from Star Bulletin
★ ''Lilo & Stitch: Collected Stories From the Film's Creators'', 2002. Disney Editions. ISBN 0-7868-5382-4.
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★ This book consists of a series of essays by the film's makers, an unusual format for a book in this genre.
★ Official site
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★
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★ ''Lilo & Stitch'' at the Big Cartoon DataBase
:''For the television series, see ''
'''Lilo & Stitch''' is a 2002 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 21, 2002. The film was written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, and was the second of three Disney animated features produced primarily at its animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. The film was rated PG for "mild sci-fi action".
''Lilo & Stitch'' was nominated for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which ultimately went to ''Spirited Away''.
| Contents |
| Plot |
| Parodies, references and trivia |
| Setting |
| Soundtrack |
| Track listing |
| See also |
| References |
| External links |
Plot
An extra-terrestrial mad scientist named Dr. Jumba Jookiba (David Ogden Stiers) is imprisoned for illegally experimenting and creating creatures to cause chaos and destruction. His latest experiment is Number 626 (Chris Sanders): a cute, little, blue alien with four arms, two legs and antennae and three spines from his back who is deceptively strong, fast, intelligent, destructive and indestructible.
Captain Gantu (Kevin Michael Richardson), a shark-like alien, is assigned to take 626 to a penal colony, but during the trip, 626 manages to escape in a smaller spacecraft, and crash lands on the small Hawaiian island of Kauai, on Earth. Masquerading as a dog (but looking more like a koala), 626 is adopted by a little girl named Lilo Pelekai (Daveigh Chase) who is living with her 19/20-year-old sister Nani (Tia Carrere) after their parents died in a car accident. Lilo is lonely and a bit of an outcast until she finds a new friend in 626, whom she names "Stitch." Stitch initially attempts to escape the island but finds that it is impossible because he is afraid of the water and cannot swim because his body is too dense. Stitch resigns himself to stay with Lilo when he spots that he is being watched by Jumba and Galactic Agent Pleakley (Kevin McDonald), who have been assigned to recapture Stitch without being detected by humans. Lilo notes Stitch's violent tendencies and attempts to teach him to relax.
Nani and Lilo are visted by social worker Cobra Bubbles (Ving Rhames), who tells Nani that unless she finds employment and improves their living conditions, he will have to take Lilo into foster care. Nani, with the help of her boyfriend David, tries several times to find employment, but is unable to secure a position as Lilo's attempts to tame Stitch by having him behave as Elvis Presley generally lead to disaster. After one such tiring day, David offers Nani and Lilo a day of surfing at the beach. While the three of them are trying to help Stitch learn how to surf, Jumba and Pleakley attempt to capture Stitch from underwater, leading to Stitch grabbing onto Lilo and dragging her under. David manages to rescue both Lilo and Stitch, but Nani believes that Stitch was attacking Lilo, and sends him away from Lilo much to Lilo's dismay. Stitch returns to Lilo's house alone.
After Jumba and Pleakley's failure, Captain Gantu is assigned to capture Stitch. This leads Jumba, no longer bound by Galactic Code, to aggressively chase Stitch in one last effort, ending in the destruction of Lilo's home. Nani returns home just after this occurs, unfortunately timed with a check-up visit from Cobra Bubbles, causing Lilo to run off fearing that Stitch was responsible for the destruction and didn't care about her, only to be captured by Gantu. Stitch attempts to save her but is instead accused of Lilo's capture by Nani. At this point, Stitch finally speaks to her in English and shows that he is an alien and that he does understand the meaning of ''ohana'', which means "family" and "that nobody gets left behind or forgotten". Jumba is able to capture Stitch in this moment of understanding, but Nani pleads Jumba to let Stitch free and to help save Lilo from Gantu, and he reluctantly does so.
Employing Jumba's spaceship, they and Gantu give chase around the Hawaiian mountains. Stitch manages to land on Gantu's ship and attempts to free Lilo but Gantu reconfigures the angle of the afterburners to blast Stitch off the ship. In a momentary state of unconsciousness, Stitch wakes up just in time to save a frog from being run over by a gasoline truck. Hijacking the same truck, Stitch drives it straight into an active volcano. Stitch taunts Gantu and releases the fuel into the lava. The explosion launches Stitch straight into Gantu's cockpit. Gantu tries to smash Stitch but ends up getting thrown off the ship. Stitch rescues Lilo just in time before the ship explodes. When everyone lands in the ocean, David is coincidentally surfing nearby and he helps transport everyone back to shore.
Immediately, The Grand Councilwoman arrives to arrest Stitch, but becomes reluctant to do so when she sees that he has reformed into a civilized creature. Prodded by Cobra Bubbles (who is revealed to be a former CIA agent who had previously med the Grand Councilwoman at Roswell, NM), Lilo presents her certificate of adoption which makes her Stitch's legal owner, causing the Grand Councilwoman to release the little creature. Stitch's sentence to life in exile provides a loophole; he is now in Lilo and Nani's care as his warders. The movie ends with both Jumba and Pleakley staying on earth to help rebuild Nani, Lilo, and Stitch's home with some of their own alien technology, and with Stitch being fully accepted into Lilo's family.
Throughout the movie, the message provided tells the audience that family must stick together in all cases, however difficult. It also stresses the importance of Lilo and Nani's Hawaiian culture and how it must be kept alive. Furthermore, it is also meant to remind children of the importance of good behavior as well as adults that not all children are "rotten to the core", and that every child has some goodness deep inside.
Parodies, references and trivia
★ A 1985 concept sketch of Stitch by creator Chris Sanders.
★ Social Worker Cobra Bubbles, formerly of the CIA, is modeled on the mysterious "Men in Black" (of urban legends and a couple of hit movies) who work to prevent an alien takeover of Earth and to persuade humans that aliens do not exist.
★ When the Grand Councilwoman finds out that most of Earth is covered in water, she says that Stitch won't survive in water as "his molecular density is too great." This means he'll sink in water.
★ Items in the backgrounds of both Lilo and Nani's room reference other Disney movies. Lilo has a stuffed Dumbo doll on her art easel while Nani has a movie poster for ''Mulan'' in her room. In addition to these items, a restaurant called "Mulan Wok" can be seen during the scene where Stitch sees ''"Earth vs. the Spider"'' in a shop-window television. The directors had worked on Mulan.
★ Famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's film ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' is given a nod by the appearance of "Kiki's Coffee House". Another reference to Miyazaki's work is the scene following Stitch's crash-landing on Earth, which is reminiscent of the bus stop scene from ''My Neighbor Totoro''.
★ At the end of the movie features snapshots of the future "family" life of Stitch with Lilo and the others, each of them variations of classic images like famous Norman Rockwell illustrations.
★ Chris Sanders, one of the directors of the film, also served as co-screenwriter, co-character designer, and provided the voice of Stitch, a character he first created in 1985.
★ Earth is referred as being in Quadrant 17, Section 005, Area "51" in the Galactic charts, one of several references to Area 51.
★ When Lilo and Stitch walk past the store selling calendars with images from around the world, the "Orlando" calendar has a picture of the Magic Kingdom.
★ There are several "hidden Mickeys" in the movie - one can be seen in the Grand Council scene, on Jumba's platform. Another can be seen as a logo on the shorts of one of Lilo's photographic subjects on the wall of her room.
★ Near the beginning of the film, during the trial, Stitch is asked by the council woman to provide some sign that he understands what's going on. He responds by licking the inside of his glass cage. The saliva trail is in the famous "D" shape in the Walt Disney logo.
★ The sign on Lilo's door is a Hawaiian word loosely translated as "keep out".
★ All of the license plates in the film (VW, Nani's car, the fire engine, and Cobra Bubbles' car) are A113, the same as the code found on Mrs. Davis's plate number in Toy Story, Mater's plate number in Cars, and also used in many other Disney and Pixar films. It is a reference to a room number at California Institute of the Arts, where many of the animators at those two companies received their educations.
★ The two hover car presents given to Lilo and Stitch make the same sounds as the flying cars in "The Jetsons".
★ According to Stitch's dog license at the shelter, the adoption official is "Susan Hegarty", the name of the actress who voiced the character. Also, according to the license, Lilo and Nani's last name is "Pelekai".
★ The words on Stitch's dog license at the shelter are part of a resolution thanking people for their support during the making of the movie. The words are difficult to make out, but the last part reads, "as well as our partners at Disney MGM Studios for their participation and support during the making of Lilo and Stitch." The viewer can see a close-up of the end of the last few lines in the scene where "Susan" stamps the Seal on the form.
★ In one scene, a pink jeep car can briefly be seen in the lower left corner of the screen. This is a reference to the Elvis movie Blue Hawaii, in which he drove such a car.
★ The scene where Stitch is walking down a path after leaving Lilo is taken from the Disney film version of The Ugly Duckling. The illustrations in Lilo's storybook are also based on scenes from that film.
★ Near the end, the tracking image Captain Gantu uses to track the location of Stitch on Hawaii is the icon for the Disney theme park in Florida, EPCOT Center - Spaceship Earth.
★ Running Gag: Every time Pleakley looks at or attempts to show someone information about Earth, the device used is a "Viewmaster". Viewmasters create the illusion that the viewer is looking at a three-dimensional image that's actually created by each eye looking at a slightly different pictures. Its basic premise is that the person looking in it has two eyes to create the effect, but Pleakley is a one-eyed creature and therefore would not see the 3-D effects of the Viewmaster. Adding to the gag is when he hands the ViewMaster to Dr. Jumba - a one-eyed alien handing a four-eyed alien a viewing device intended for two-eyed humans.
★ When Stitch awakes at the dog pound, there are a number of dogs shaking in fear in the corner of his cell. They are all the same breed of dogs that Lady encounters in her trip to the dog pound in Lady and the Tramp (1955).
★ The grocery store Nani tries to get a job at is owned by a "Mrs. Hasegawa", a reference to the famous "Hasegawa's General Store" in the town of Hana on Maui.
★ After Stitch breaks the water gun apart, Cobra is shown looking on disappointed, as a crowd of people run by in terror. The last two people to run by are cartoon versions of Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. Chris is the individual with blond hair and sunglasses. Dean is the big man with a beard.
★ In the subtitles for the Chinese version, a line spoken by Stitch in his alien language is translated into Chinese despite it having no corresponding English meaning. The reason for this is thought to be because Stitch's line sounded a lot like Ni Qu De (Go to your place) an offensive Chinese phrase used to tell somebody to go away. The actual Chinese translation was a lot more family-friendly. This line is a placed at an earlier point than the first understandable dialog spoken by Stitch in the English version of the film.
★ The voice of Stitch was a difficult one to dub for other languages and that's why Dutch voice artist Bob van der Houven does the voice of Stitch in the Dutch, German, Flemish and Italian version of the film.
★ The original version of the flying chase scene at the end movie included the space craft flying through Honolulu, crashing into buildings. The sequence was already animated with voices added early in production, but the whole chase was cut following the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001. The chase had to be re-written and drawn again.
★ Producer Clark Spencer has revealed the story was originally placed in an isolated town in Kansas rather than on Kauai.
★ When Jumba is ripping up the newspaper, about him the viewer can see pictures of what look like past experiments next to the bed one resembled Sprout (509), another Woops (600) and one looked like a white Loch Ness Monster.
★ When the film was released it was praised as an accurate portrayal of Hawaii, its people and their lives, not only from the dialogue using accurate Hawaiian slang (using advice from Jason Scott Lee and Tia Carrere), but also from the realistic animation of the characters (i.e., realistic body shapes, noses, skin tones, etc.) and other touches in the film.
★ First Disney animated movie to fall under the science fiction genre, rather than the typical fantasy.
★ when the council woman and pleekly board the elivater to jumba's prison cell, one of the cells apears to contain dr. hamstewheal from Stich the movie and the following tv series.
Setting
The hula sequence in ''Lilo & Stitch'' plays a key role in establishing the movie's Hawaiian setting.
''Lilo and Stitch'' is the sixth Disney animated feature to take place in the present day, following ''Oliver & Company''. The movie was originally intended to take place in rural Kansas so that Stitch could interact with other characters while still being isolated from wreaking greater havoc. A decision to change the film's setting to the Hawaiian island of Kauai was an important choice in defining the plot more clearly. No other feature-length animated movie had ever taken place on any of the Hawaiian islands before. In Sanders' words:
:"Animation has been set so much in ancient, medieval Europe—so many fairy tales find their roots there, that to place it in Hawaii was kind of a big leap. But that choice went to color the entire movie, and rewrite the story for us."
While the animation team visited Kauai to research the locale, their tour guide explained the meaning of ''ohana'' as it applies to extended families. This concept of ohana became an important part of the movie. DeBlois recalls:
:"No matter where we went, our tour guide seemed to know somebody. He was really the one who explained to us the Hawaiian concept of ohana, a sense of family that extends far beyond your immediate relatives. That idea so influenced the story that it became the foundation theme, the thing that causes Stitch to evolve despite what he was created to do, which is destroy."
The island of Kauai had previously been featured in such films as ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and the ''Jurassic Park'' trilogy. The Disney animators faced the daunting task of meshing the film's plot, which showed the impoverished and dysfunctional life that many Hawaiians and other Westerners lived during the recent economic downturn, with the island's serene beauty. To give a brighter image to the film, the studio used watercolors to paint the backgrounds.
Jason Scott Lee, who has Hawaiian ethnicity, co-wrote the dialogues for his character.
Soundtrack
''Lilo & Stitch'' draws largely from Hawaiian culture and makes extensive use of typical features of Hawaiian music such as the slack-key guitar and hula dancing. Because of Lilo's infatuation with Elvis Presley, some of the songs used in the movie (such as "Hound Dog" and "Suspicious Minds") were also included on the soundtrack, as well as covers of Presley's "Burning Love" performed by Wynonna and "Can't Help Falling in Love" performed by Swedish pop group A-Teens, which were both played over the film's closing credits. Hawaiian hula teacher and chanter Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu wrote and sang two songs especially for this film, "Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride" and "He Mele No Lilo", which he performed together with The Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus.That was under the direction of Lynell Bright."Their voices are beautiful, I'm glad that we get this type of opportunity," says Lynell. Broadway producer(2007) says,
"If everyone on the planet had a choir that sang as beautiful as you guys there would be no wars."
The score material was composed by Alan Silvestri, who was the directors first and second choice. The soundtrack does not include AC/DC's "Back in Black", which was used in some trailers for the film.
Track listing
#Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride
#Stuck on You
#Burning Love
#Suspicious Minds
#Heartbreak Hotel
#Devil in Disguise
#He Mele No Lilo
#Hound Dog
#Can't Help Falling in Love
#Stitch to the Rescue
#You Can Never Belong
#I'm Lost
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See also
★ , Stitch! The Movie, Leroy & Stitch
★ List of experiments from Lilo & Stitch
★ Kingdom Hearts II
★ List of Disney theatrical animated features
References
★ Drawn and Quartered, from Star Bulletin
★ ''Lilo & Stitch: Collected Stories From the Film's Creators'', 2002. Disney Editions. ISBN 0-7868-5382-4.
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★ This book consists of a series of essays by the film's makers, an unusual format for a book in this genre.
External links
★ Official site
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★ ''Lilo & Stitch'' at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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