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From left to right: Cobra Bubbles, David Kawena, Nani Pelekai, Lilo Pelekai, Stitch, Dr. Jumba Jookiba, and Pleakley. Disney's Lilo & Stitch is an American science fiction media franchise that began in 2002 with the animated film of the same name written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois.
- Chris Sanders
- Maia Kealoha (live-action film)
- Lilo & Stitch (2002)
- Plot
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- Production
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Dr. Jumba Jookiba is arrested and put on trial by the Galactic Federation for "illegal genetic experimentation", evidenced by his creation Experiment 626, a small sentient creature with unparalleled intelligence and strength, but also a propensity to cause chaos. Jumba is imprisoned while Experiment 626 is sentenced to exile on a desert asteroid. 6...
Chris Sanders as StitchDaveigh Chase as Lilo PelekaiTia Carrere as Nani PelekaiDavid Ogden Stiers as Jumba JookibaDevelopment
Lilo & Stitch is one of the few Disney animated features to take place in the time period of their release date; others include Dumbo (1941), One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), The Rescuers (1977) and its sequel The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Oliver & Company (1988), Bolt (2008), and Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and one of the few to be an original story, rather than a loose adaptation of a classic tale (literature, legendary, or historical). Production of Lilo & Stitch began with then-Disney C...
Writing
Dean DeBlois, who had co-written Mulan (1998) with Sanders, was brought on to co-write and co-direct Lilo & Stitch, while Disney executive Clark Spencer was assigned to produce. Unlike several previous and concurrent Disney Feature Animation productions, the Lilo & Stitchpre-production team remained relatively small and isolated from upper management until the film went into full production. The character and set designs were based upon Chris Sanders' personal artistic style. While the animat...
Design and Animation
In a deviation from several decades' worth of Disney features, Sanders and DeBlois chose to use watercolor painted backgrounds for Lilo & Stitch, as opposed to the traditional gouache technique. While watercolors had been used for the early Disney animated shorts of the 1930s and early-1940s, as well as the early Disney features Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Dumbo (1941), the technique had been largely abandoned by the mid-1940s in favor of less complicated media such as gouache....
Box Office
The film opening at #2 with $35,260,212 in its first weekend, less than $500,000 behind the film Minority Report. In its second week, fell to #3, again behind the Steven Spielberg film at #2. The film raked in $145,794,338 in the United States and Canada, and $127,349,813 internationally, finishing with $273,144,151 in the world. It was the second Highest-Grossing animated Film of 2002 (behind Ice Age).
Critical Reception
Lilo & Stitch received highly positive reviews from critics and audiences alike. The film's success at the box office and on home video formats led to a Lilo & Stitch franchise, with four direct-to-video sequels and a television series spanning two seasons. The film has received 145 critical reviews on the site Rotten Tomatoes, 124 Fresh, and 21 Rotten, giving it a total positive rating of 86%. The film has also earned a score of 73% on Metacritic. Peter M. Nichols states that through the cha...
Home Video
1. Main article: Lilo & Stitch (video) The film was released on VHS and DVD on December 3, 2002. In 2003, a 2-disc DVD version was announced alongside special edition DVDs of Alice in Wonderland and Pocahontas, which were released in 2004 in Australia and 2005 in the UK respectively. A 2-disc special edition DVD of Lilo & Stitch was released in the UK on August 22, 2005, alongside the UK release of Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, but a release in the US suffered from continuous delays....
At the 2003 Academy Awards, Lilo & Stitch was nominated for Best Animated Feature, losing the Oscar to Spirited Away. At the Annie Awards (Animation Awards), Lilo & Stitchwas nominated for 10 Annie's, with the only winner being Daveigh Chase for her Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production.
A stuffed toy Dumboappears in Lilo's bedroom when she spots a shooting star.A Mulanposter appears in Nani's room. Also, at one point, Lilo, Nani, and Stitch pass by a restaurant called "Mulan Wok".During the credits, we see a photo parodying Norman Rockwell's Freedom from Wantpainting."Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" by Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu & The Kamehameha School's Children's Chorus"Stuck on You" by Elvis Presley"Burning Love" By Wynonna"Suspicious Minds" by Elvis PresleyTrailers
Teaser trailers for this film parody trailers for other Disney films (two of these were animated by Sanders) from recent years, particularly the first four animated films from the Disney Renaissance . These are called "Inter-Stitch-als" and are featured on Disney's official site. The original actors were brought back to reprise their roles and were shocked when asked to act negatively towards Stitch. The trailers also include the AC/DC song track "Back in Black". Most of the original actors r...
Originally, the film's climactic spaceship chase was instead an airplane chase through the city of Honolulu. This was changed and Disney had to completely re-animate the scene from the ground up be...An entire scene was cut from the final movie where Stitch checks on Pleakley to find the seat empty. It was cut from the movie due to the aforementioned 9/11 issues and the fact that the spaceship...This is the third Disney hand-drawn animated film to feature Skywalker Sound. The first two are Hercules and Atlantis: The Lost Empire.In the junior novelization, Captain Gantu's hammerhead subordinate officer is known as Lieutenant Sledge.After Stitch destroys the ship's power grid at the beginning of the movie, one of the Gantu's deckhands checks on the computer to see if a police cruiser has been taken. Evidently, the computer ter...When Stitch is first escaping the prison ship, the female pilot states, "He's loose on deck C!" and points at a moving red dot. However, the camera then shifts to Stitch, who is still locked in pla...When Lilo goes to dance class, the two drummers are seen playing the same kind of drum. When Lilo announces that Pudgecontrols the weather, one of the drummers has a different drum.When Lilo is running from the beach to dance class, she is wearing a striped bathing suit, over which she puts on her grass skirt before entering the building. When she joins the other children on...Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated science-fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (in their directorial debuts) and produced by Clark Spencer, based on an original story created by Sanders.
- Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
- Darren T. Holmes
- Chris Sanders
- Clark Spencer
The ever-quirky characters of Disney 's Lilo & Stitch franchise. Tropes for these characters can be found on these pages. The Titular Duo of Lilo Pelekai and Stitch (Experiment 626) Major Characters: Click to Expand. Nani Pelekai, Dr. Jumba Jookiba, Agent Wendy Pleakley, Captain Gantu, and Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel.
Mar 29, 2024 · The following are fictional characters from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise. Contents. Characters introduced in Lilo & Stitch. Stitch (X-626) Lilo Pelekai. Scrump. Nani Pelekai. Jumba Jookiba. Wendy Pleakley. Gantu. Mertle Edmonds. Cobra Bubbles. Grand Councilwoman. David Kawena. Mrs. Hasagawa. Other characters.
The franchise mainly focuses on the adventures of the titular eccentric and mischievous duo; an orphaned Hawaiian girl named Lilo Pelekai (voiced by Daveigh Chase in most media produced from 2002–2006) and an artificial extraterrestrial creature originally named Experiment 626, whom she adopts and names Stitch (voiced by Chris Sanders in all Wes...
This wiki strives to be a comprehensive reference for this animated sci-fi franchise that began in 2002 with the Walt Disney Animation Studios film, Lilo & Stitch, covering topics such as the feature films, the animated television series, video games, characters, experiments, and more.
