Lilo & Stitch Review

Lilo & Stitch

Release Date: 19th September 2002 – Australia

Production Companies

Walt Disney Pictures (presents)

Walt Disney Feature Animation

Distribution
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Australia

Genre: Animation/Family/

Sci-Fi/Comedy

Rating: G

Runtime: 85 minutes

Budget: $80,000,000

Box Office Gross: $273,144,151 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary
A young Hawaiian girl gets more than she bargained for when she adopts a new "pet" named Stitch, who, unbeknownst to her, is a wild genetic experiment from another planet. Despite Stitch's initial intentions, the two bond and become a formidable team in fending off alien bounty hunters, a mad scientist, Dr. Jumba Jookiba and Agent Pleakley.

Voice Cast

Daviegh Chase – Lilo

Chris Sanders – Stitch

Tia Carrere – Nani

David Ogden Stiers – Dr. Jumba Jookiba

Kevin McDonald – Agent Pleakley

Ving Rhames – Cobra Bubbles

Zoe Caldwell – Grand Councilwoman

Jason Scott Lee – David Kawena

Kevin Michael Richardson – Captain Gantu

Miranda Paige Walls – Mertle Edmonds

Kunewa Mook – Hula Teacher
Susan Hegarty – Rescue Lady

Crew

Based on an Idea/Writer/

Character Designer/
Director – Chris Sanders

Writer/Director – Dean DeBlois

Story Supervisors – Ed Gombert and Chris Williams
Additional Story Supervisors – Roger Allers and John Sanford

Producer – Clark Spencer
Production Designer – Paul A. Felix
Art Director – Ric Sluiter
Artistic Coordinator – Jeff Dutton
Character Designer – Buck Lewis
Character Designer/Supervising

Animator: "Cobra Bubbles" – Byron Howard
Visual Development Supervisors –

Jim Martin, Sue C. Nichols and

Marcelo Vignali

Layout Supervisor – Arden Chan

Background Supervisor – Robert E. Stanton

Supervising Animator: "Lilo" – Andreas Deja
Supervising Animator: "Stitch" – Alex Kupershmidt
Supervising Animator: "Nani" – Stephane Sainte-Foi
Supervising Animator: "Pleakley" and

"David Kawena" – Ruben A. Aquino
Supervising Animator: "Jumba" – Bolhem Bouchiba

Lead Animator: "Grand Councilwoman" –

James Young Jackson

Lead Animator: "Captain Gantu" – Theodore Ty

Lead Animator: "Hula Teacher"/Animator:

"Cobra Bubbles" – Dominic M. Carola

Lead Animator: "Hula Dancers" – Mark Henn
Clean-Up Supervisors/Lead Key Clean-Up

Animators: "Miscellaneous" – Philip S. Boyd

and Christine Lawrence Finney
Computer Animation Supervisor – Eric Guaglione

Digital Animation Supervisor – Rob Bekuhrs
Visual Effects Supervisor – Joseph Gilland

Editor – Darren T. Holmes

Consulting Editor – Michael Kelly

Associate Editor – Eric Dapkewicz
Sound Designer/Supervisor/Supervising Sound
Editor (Uncredited)/Re-Recording Mixer –
Christopher Boyes

Supervising Sound Editor – Frank E. Eulner

Sound Effects Editors – Scott Guitteau,

Al Nelson and Christopher Scarabosio

Foley Mixer – Tony Eckert

Foley Artists – Dennie Thorpe and

Jana Vance

Re-Recording Mixers – Mel Metcalfe,

Terry Porter and Dean A. Zupancic

Music Production Supervisor – Tom MacDougall

Music – Alan Silvestri

Executive Music Producer – Chris Montan
Choir Arranger/Composer: "Hawaiian Coaster

Ride"/Performer: "He Mele No Lilo" and

"Hawaiian Coaster Ride" – Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu
Conductor: Kamehameha Schools Children's

Chorus – Lynell K. Bright
Producer/Performer: "Burning Love" – 

Wynonna Judd

Awards

2003 Academy Awards
Best Animated Feature – Chris Sanders (Nominated)

Review

LILO & STITCH may have been a great Disney animated classic, but it's certainly not the last. This film was funny and managed to create some heartwarming themes. The story explores family issues and shows its message of true friendship. I praise its terrific watercolour backgrounds, good classic songs from Elvis Presley and quirky hand-drawn animation. The music score by Alan Silvestri is also a remarkable aspect of this movie, which fits the scenes and creates a mood of sorrow with some of the emotional drama.

LILO & STITCH is Disney's only 2D animated feature to have succeeded at the box office in the early 2000s, where other movies had failed. For many of you who have enjoyed LILO & STITCH, try the directors' next film, How to Train Your Dragon, as this feature raised the benchmark for animation.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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