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When Will ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Be Streaming on Disney+? Here's Who Plays Who
- Disney released a theatrical live-action remake of its 2002 animated film Lilo & Stitch ahead of Memorial Day weekend 2025, featuring Maia Kealoha as Lilo and Sydney Agudong in the role of her elder sister Nani.
- The remake follows an illegal genetic experiment gone wrong in a distant galaxy, with Stitch escaping to Earth, while Nani struggles to care for Lilo amid social services scrutiny.
- Dean Fleischer Camp directed the film, mixing live-action with digital effects to bring Stitch and other characters to life, while Courtney B. Vance appears as a CIA officer investigating alien activity.
- The movie features original voice actor Chris Sanders as Stitch, highlights family dysfunction tempered by love, and includes supporting cast members like Hannah Waddingham and Billy Magnussen as alien agents.
- Critics describe the film as adequate fan service with rushed pacing and excess violence, suggesting it may mark a modest reconciliation with audiences after previous poorly received Disney remakes.
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‘Lilo & Stitch’ Cast Guide: Meet the Characters Behind the Live-Action Lilo, Stitch, Nani, David and More
“Lilo & Stitch,” Disney’s latest live-action remake, is crash-landing in theaters this weekend. It arrives 23 years after the original 2002 animated movie stole the hearts of many fans with its chaotic blue alien Stitch and the lovable young girl Lilo who looks after him. The new film is Disney’s first movie from the 2000s […]
The Paradise Island Where 'Lilo & Stitch' and Other Great Film Hits Like 'Jurassic Park' and 'Indiana Jones' Have Been Shot
Lilo & Stitch has been Disney's latest project in having a live action film, as has already happened with King Lion, Mulán or Aladin, among others. The film is based on the successful Disney Channel animation series that marked a whole generation in Spain, and like the original fiction, it is set in one of the most paradisiacal places on the planet, full of idyllic beaches and sublime natural environments: it is the island of Kauai, in the Hawai…
‘Lilo & Stitch’ loses magic in live-action remake
The roughhouse charmer “Lilo & Stitch” from 2002, one of Disney’s more freewheeling animated 21st century mashups of slapstick and heartstring-plucking, has already spun off TV and sequel iterations and a lot of merchandise. The film presented a rollicking friendship between a six-legged (six-armed? never could tell) koala-like alien being, new to our planet, and an exuberant Hawaiian Island preteen who has wished, ardently, for a true friend an…
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