#lilo & stitch 2025

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Lilo & Stitch (2002)

[disneyadaptations]

Lilo & Stitch (2025), dir. Dean Fleischer Camp

[demifiendrsa]

The live-action Lilo & Stitch movie is slated to hit theaters in Summer 2025.

[capturingdisney]

[artist-issues]

It sounds like Stitch but it just doesn’t have the Stitchiness of Stitch. His mouth is too small. His nose is too small and too low down.

His ears are too furry. There’s too much teddy-bear-bunny, not enough insect-shark.

His ears should look almost-translucent, with fine fuzz, like bat ears! His nose should look stamped onto his face with gigantic nostrils, like a bulldog’s. His eyes should look bigger and blanker.

His mouth should make you think shark, like his whole head is resting on the hinge of his jaw. And the fur around his eyes should be much thinner and more peach fuzz like so that you can see the wrinkles in his flesh when he squints or makes snarly faces.

Why

Why is that so hard

he’s not cutesy and only-pretending-to-be-fierce. he’s not a kitten. He’s not made to appeal to the Minions and Toothless-but-only-Toothless-in-HTTYD-3 crowd.

There are NO BLACK LIPS. He’s not a dog. There are NO CAT-MUZZLE-UPPER-LIP-MUSCLES. He’s not a kitty. OR a bunny. Why are those two-front-teeth so so much smaller than the rest of his teeth? Why are all of the teeth so small??

Don’t you guys understand why he’s supposed to look more than just cute-but-acting-naughty?

He has to be able to look convincingly disgusting, and genuinely fearsome.

Look how whip-thin his eyes and eyebrows are. Look at how, like a snake mid-eat, you can see some of Pleakley’s head swelling Stitch’s throat. It is important that he look like a monster when he needs to because he is a monster.

If Stitch doesn’t look like the kind of small monster that can take big disgusting bites out of you, with jerky, spider-like movements and tiger-scrunched eyes then the whole emotional weight of the movie looks flimsy. We’ll forgive a cat for scratching us and giving us cat-scratch fever because it’s cute. If Stitch looks too cute, then the human brain goes, yeah, he pushed that little girl down and laughed at her pain, but look at his wittle face, he’s a babydoll, who could stay mad at him

We can easily see why Lilo puts up with him.

When the point is, we shouldn’t be able to see why Lilo puts up with him—not in and of himself. Stitch does nothing to deserve Lilo’s love, including being cute— actually, he’s gross and unsettling. He’s not even cute enough to want around as a snuggle-buddy. He’s certainly not cute enough to look unthreatening. Nobody in the movie runs up and asks to pet him. Nobody even looks like they want to. He’s not appealing in that way. The dogcatcher screams at him on sight. The tourists just stare when he walks up dressed as Elvis. Her friends immediately think he’s the ugliest thing in the world and don’t want him anywhere near them. David is sure it’s not a dog. Even the aliens in an intergalactic council find him not-appealing, on sight. They take him, as a threat, seriously, even before Jumba lists his powers.

All of that is not because Stitch really looks outrageously ugly.

⬆️ THAT is ugly. Can we all agree? That’s ugly. Whereas this:

Less ugly. Obviously I know that. But there are a couple things about Stitch that are not traditionally appealing, when the filmmakers could have made him traditionally appealing. If they wanted his nose to look muzzle-y, they could’ve. If they wanted his spine to bend at the hips like a human toddler’s they could’ve. If they wanted his mouth smaller and more cartoon-y, with kitty-cat lips, they could have done that. They chose to do the slightly more ugly thing instead. He’s still appealing. But he can look and be convincingly threatening, unattractive, and disgusting when he needs to be for the story.

The cuteness was a by-product. It was an artfully-done side. It was not the main course of what he’s supposed to look like. Again I say to you—he is not your Minions-loving Facebook Mom’s bumper sticker. He is supposed to walk the line between most-disgusting-pet-you-could-have and Gremlin-meets-E.T.

These teasers are totally catering to the people who like Stitch T-Shirts from WalMart but probably couldn’t explain the first thing about him as a character. And whatever, that’s fine. But the design affects the story, and the original story was so good.

This does not bode well.

[cursed-by-anemoia]

He’s so cute, I love Stitch so so much 💙.

[i-am-trans-gwender]

I feel really bad for Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois. Together they wrote and directed both Lilo and Stitch as well as How to Train Your Dragon. Now both films are getting live action remakes despite not being that old.

[romancemedia]

New Movies Coming in 2025

[thejdblog]

He's so adorable.

He's practically accurate and perfectly done without big changes, literally doesn't look out of place.

[callmefirefly]

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Lilo & Stitch (2002)

[disneyadaptations]

cute and fluffy 🥹

Lilo & Stitch arrives only in theaters May 23, 2025!

[tornrose24]

I have to admit, if you had to make me watch either the upcoming live action Snow White or Lilo and Stitch, I'd pick Stitch even with that little teaser featuring him.

The Snow White trailer has officially taken the cake for not giving me much confidence upon seeing a Disney live action movie trailer (besides Mufasa for OTHER reasons). Sure, some things look cool, but she's not even singing in her soprano voice? They didn't pick a more iconic song? Also, the forest scene is too bright–that scene scared the crap out of me as a kid, and now it just looks like a let down. DID YOU GUYS LEARN NOTHING FROM WHEN YOU MESSED UP THE DONKEY SCENE IN PINOCCHIO?! GIVE ME MY OLD SCHOOL NIGHTMARE FUEL!

I'm sure live action Lilo and Stitch might not be much better (I doubt they will let Pleakley cross-dress once more), but seeing Stitch actually look cute and fluffy AND ACCURATE in cgi form gives me more confidence.

[mikyapixie]

First poster for the live-action Lilo & Stitch remake!!!

The film will release in theaters on May 23, 2025!!!

[leoisbabygirl]

LIVE ACTION LILO & STITCH???????

[trendfilmsetter]

First look at Stitch in the live action adaptation of LILO & STITCH.

Expected to release May 23rd, 2025