7 Ways Lilo & Stitch Remake Missed The Mark

Disney once again serves up a sanitised and unnecessary live-action remake

The new Lilo & Stitch's formula is simple: remove everything that could possibly offend anyone, replace the personalised hand-drawn animation with CGI, add in a little slapstick and a Bruno Mars song, and you've got yourself a hit.

Back up the money truck: Lilo & Stitch remake dumbs down a masterpiece

Regarded in a vacuum, 2025’s Lilo & Stitch is fine, and likely to entertain the littles. But compared to the stimulating, genre-defining, all-ages masterpiece from two decades ago, it’s nothing but demoralizing.

7 Ways Lilo & Stitch Remake Missed The Mark

The 2002 animated Lilo & Stitch remains one of Disney's most unique achievements, a watercolor daydream blending Hawaiian culture, alien chaos, and profound emotion with a distinctive visual style. Twenty-three years later, Disney's live-action/CGI hybrid remake attempts to recapture this lightning in a bottle with director Dean Fleischer-Camp at the helm and original Stitch voice actor Chris Sanders returning to his iconic role.Despite maintain…

Why the Lilo & Stitch Remake Has Sparked Controversy

Months before hitting theaters, the kids movie Lilo & Stitch, about an alien that winds up living with a Hawaiian family, has generated countless negative comments from grownups. The live-action remake of the hit 2002 movie, in theaters May 23, has drawn some scrutiny over its casting and its decisions to portray characters differently from the animated version. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Here’s what to know about the criticisms of the fil…

‘Lilo & Stitch’ Hits Theaters Today (5/23)—Will Casting Drama Carry ‘Snow White’ Impact?

Disney’s latest live action remake of Snow White faced a slew of negative PR Long before it ever hit theaters, the film most notably received backlash from the dwarfism community, where actors like Peter Dinklage felt the film reinforced “backwards” stereotypes, and Jason Acuña felt that the choice to animate characters took work away from actors with dwarfism. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures My hot take? If you can’t avoid offending a commu…

The live-action of “Lilo & Stitch”(2025) tries so much to look like the original, that it ends up diluting in a redundant plot, without brightness and lacking the wild charm of the animated remembered. And even though it is much better than several of the most recent remakes of the studio, it still does not offer a real reason to justify its existence.