Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
I’m not familiar with this reviewer, but they’ve popped in today to give us a review for the direct-to-video sequel to last summer’s LILO & STITCH. My girlfriend adores the original to a degree that is almost alarming. If there’s an item out there that features the likeness of Stitch, it is a must-own for her. She plays the soundtrack... LOUD... and often.
Even though she’s a big fan, she doesn’t really care about STITCH: THE MOVIE. She’s watched one or two of the direct-to-video sequels to other classic animated films, like that horrific CINDERELLA sequel, and she’s not impressed. In order for her to want to see STITCH: THE MOVIE, she’s gonna wanna hear some pretty damn good buzz.
So? What’d you think?
I recently get to see the new direct to video sequel to Lilo And Stitch. It is called "Stitch The Movie". Why is it that Disney continues to treat its previous successful animated movie like its bastard children? They ruin the "The Lion King" with "Simba's Pride" and did the same thing to the "Beauty and the Beast", "Pocohantus", "Lost Atlantis", and countless others. This is again like the previous sequels to the animated movies, a very substandard movie to cash on in the last (I want to say great but i think good will do) animated movie Disney came up with. Everything that was good about the Lilo and Stitch is gone, the lush full animated backgrounds, great music (except for one little ditty of Elvis Presley), and a good storyline.
This time the story goes some thing like this, Stitch is feeling left out cause everyone thinks he is a freak, meanwhile an evil partner "Dr. Hamsterville" of Jamba has hired the shark DM2 investigator to find the remaining 225 experiments which he and Jamba created together. DM2 kidnaps Jamba and takes him to Dr. Hamsterville meanwhile Lilo and Stitch tries to rescue him by going after them. That’s the story in a nutshell. There is one more Stitch like character on the loose on the island, experiment no 225, which is causing mayhem wherever he goes.
Enough about the story cause it plainly sucks; the message of the movie is that everyone is all one big family. Animation this time is a big disappointment, gone are all those beautiful watercolor painted backgrounds and replaced by some pick from the backyard shop backgrounds. Humor is non-existent, cause I laughed only once the whole movie. Music is non-existent except for the Elvis song during the starting credits, do not know what song that was, as I am not a big Elvis fan (Yeah sue me for saying that but its true).
My one big complaint about the whole movie was the cultural aspect of the movie. They draw the characters Hawaiian, they develop the substandard backgrounds to try to look like Hawaii but when the characters speak they speak like every day normal Americans. Except for 2 whole words in Hawaiian they speak fluent English. If you are going to put an effort in making the movie to look like it was in Hawaii, do some thing about the accents; it takes you out of the magic of the movie. One word, which was used, was Ohana.
Would I recommend this movie, No, only if your kids have seen every single animated movie 100 times already, even then I would say take your kids to the park instead.
Bye, Call me Mak Bruno.
Okay... maybe not.
"Moriarty" out.
