*HE'S HILARIOUS!!* Lilo & Stitch (2002) | First Time Watching | (reaction/commentary/review)

Sad fact, the song Nani sings to Lilo was originally composed by Her Royal Highness (HRH) Princess Liliuokalani in 1878 as a love song to her people,,, before the US locked her in her home and overthrew her land. She lost the people she loved, just as Nani was loosing Lilo

Btw, lilo’s parents died in a car accident during a storm. That’s why she brings pudge the fish a sandwich every so often. Remember, “pudge controls the weather.”

there are so many little details in the film .. for example in Nami's room you can see medals and trophies in the background indicating that she could have had a career as a surfer but after her parents died she had to give up surfing to care for Lilo .. or Pudge the fish is so important for Lilo because she believes he controls the weather and she wants to prevent it from raining/storming again so that no one has an accident like her parents did

This movie MAY be about an alien... but it's probably the REALEST animation Disney has ever made. There are whole breakdowns of this movie that will point out little details that will just BREAK YOUR SOUL. Nani giving up her highly successful surfing career to raise Lilo after the death of their parents?! I mean... just damn...

17:48 it's worth noting that Hawaii has a history of their culture in many ways being banned except for where it is being performed for turists, leaving the people there with all these "fake luaus" as Nani called it. Because of the way Hawaii was colonized, even now you can see the remains of what they did, and how for the sake of turists some places still are a more performative, fake version of hawaiian culture. For what i understand, that's why Nani says what she says; and more importantly, why the writers have her say what she says. It's a call out to a specific reality.

Pudge the fish controls the weather. The adults know what happened to Lilo's parents, which is why their expressions became hurt when she said it, and also why Lilo's reaction to a doubtful insult was so sudden and violent.

5:35 so the whole thing about lilo taking pictures of tourists is a bit of a commentary about how disrespectful tourists can be towards native Hawaiians taking pictures of them like they are some tourist attraction

Sad fact: Lilo means Lost and she named him Stitch, meaning he healed her and put her back together again as she also did for him. 💔💔

How can a little alien be so destructive yet so cute at the same time?

I understand that you appreciated the silliness of the alien hijinks, but this is a movie that actually fascinates me way more with its realistic aspects. A nineteen-year-old kid suddenly elevated to single mom, unable to pursue her own passions if she wants what's left of her family to be able to stay together, trying like crazy to care for a pretty obviously neurodivergent and very young sister but completely unequipped to do so. Of course both sisters struggle with anger—that's what happens when you're scared because you're way out of your depth. There's a lot of poignancy to Lilo's loneliness, and she's one of the best drawn and most realistic small children in media, weird interests, conflation of an elevated vocabulary with a complete lack of understanding of higher nuances, violence and vulnerability all together. She's great. But it's Nani I relate to. The way "Mom" is so far beyond her, her desperation, fury, resentment, and tenderness all together and all at once. I didn't ever actually have to raise my sisters. But I remember what it's like to be more responsible for them than I should have been before I was ready to be.

Nani is an amazing sister. She didn't tell Lilo not to give Pudge the fish a sandwich, just suggested an alternate when they didn't have peanut butter because she understands how important the ritual is for her (he controls the weather, their parents went for a drive in the rain and died). She has Lilo's photo's developed despite them being of the overweight tourists (there's a deleted scene that shows more of Lilo feeling like an outsider, how she's treated as a tourist commodity in her own home, so the taking of pictures could be seen as her taking back some of that power). Didn't let Lilo take blame for Nani getting fired. Let Lilo name Stitch Stitch, did the borrowed 2 dollars thing. The singing of Aloha 'Oe

The real villain of this movie: Pet Store Owner She put what she believed to be doggy roadkill in a cage with living dogs. What was the thought process there? Hey guys, I’m trying to cut costs here, so we’re gonna play zombie apocalypse! Here, eat your own kind! Pudge will have to eat tuna at some point!

Lilo thinks that pudge the fish controls the weather because the only day she did not feed him her parents died thats why its so important for her

I love how before the movie came out, the ads for it involved Stitch terrorizing other disney movies and getting the girls 😂

Originally Jumba's giant red ship was going to be a 747 large passanger plane, and it would be flying tightly between tall buildings, but then September 11th happened and they had to completely alter the scene to be what it is now.

Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream is the best! Lilo and Stitch shows that family can be broken, or "different", but once you are a part of a family you stick together, and no one gets left behind. And love is the tie that binds. This movie is just fun, and lovable all at the same time.

If you notice, when Stitch bites Gantu, he then asks if the bite is infected. Same thing happens with Mirtle when Lilo bit her, she asks her friends if the bite is infected. I just love the similarities both Lilo and Stitch have and the development both of them had in the movie!

I'm sure people answered but here, Lilo takes pictures of tourists because tourists are constantly taking pictures of everything else, his name is Stitch because Lilo's name essentially means mend.

Nani is the BEST big sister in the history . She loves lilo so much ❤

10:46 HOLY CRAP IT"S NOT THE DISNEY+ VERSION!?!?!? In that version the dryer was replace with a random side table with a pizza box. Which really makes no sense since the reason Nani figured out Lilo was hidden in there was because she hears the dryer door close