Lilo and Stitch remake

[Anonymous]

I liked it! I felt like the message was “Family isn’t just blood, and sometimes you have to let people help you.” It was clear that Nani hadn’t abandoned Lilo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I liked it! I felt like the message was “Family isn’t just blood, and sometimes you have to let people help you.” It was clear that Nani hadn’t abandoned Lilo.

who was raising lilo then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son's friend's mom who is about a decade younger than I am (I'm 39) was psyched about this movie because she loved the original so much as a kid. She took our kids to see it and was extremely disappointed.
-At the end the older sister ditches Lilo to go to college (she is encouraged to "care for yourself") when the whole point used to be "family sticks together."
-The older sister was "beautiful and thick" (my friend's words) in the cartoon but was "skinny and light-skinned" in this one.
-No Elvis!
These things keep making money so they keep making them, and then they are immediately forgotten. No one is going back for a rewatch of any of these. They are totally sanitized to avoid any Jezebel author writing a "Why Ariel is Super Problematic" article, so they are utterly boring.
Do you think Disney will ever be creative again?

I am a native Hawaiian and many people I know were unhappy about the casting of Nani. The actress is not Hawaiian.

Understood.

I feel like the first movie really made an effort to portray the one white character as a total haole b!+ch. Like, blatantly. Peace, love, understanding, and tolerance, I guess; lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I liked it! I felt like the message was “Family isn’t just blood, and sometimes you have to let people help you.” It was clear that Nani hadn’t abandoned Lilo.

who was raising lilo then?

Their auntie / neighbor who had been in their life all along. I think that probably they got criticism from the Hawaiian community about how the original Lilo & Stitch had portrayed Nani and Lilo as all alone and without community support. This movie portrayed them as part of a loving and caring native community that saw them struggling and helped out.

[Anonymous]

As an adult watching the original I did wonder why the community doesn't seem interested in helping out Nani. No adults are picking Lilo up from class or organizing play dates or babysitting. So of course Nani can't handle all that by herself and it's ridiculous to expect her to do so. She's just a kid herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son's friend's mom who is about a decade younger than I am (I'm 39) was psyched about this movie because she loved the original so much as a kid. She took our kids to see it and was extremely disappointed.
-At the end the older sister ditches Lilo to go to college (she is encouraged to "care for yourself") when the whole point used to be "family sticks together."
-The older sister was "beautiful and thick" (my friend's words) in the cartoon but was "skinny and light-skinned" in this one.
-No Elvis!
These things keep making money so they keep making them, and then they are immediately forgotten. No one is going back for a rewatch of any of these. They are totally sanitized to avoid any Jezebel author writing a "Why Ariel is Super Problematic" article, so they are utterly boring.
Do you think Disney will ever be creative again?

I am a native Hawaiian and many people I know were unhappy about the casting of Nani. The actress is not Hawaiian.

Understood.

I feel like the first movie really made an effort to portray the one white character as a total haole b!+ch. Like, blatantly. Peace, love, understanding, and tolerance, I guess; lol.

That was impossible to miss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
All the live remakes are unwatchable, I thought everyone knew that.

Disney has gone far down the drain.

That’s true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an adult watching the original I did wonder why the community doesn't seem interested in helping out Nani. No adults are picking Lilo up from class or organizing play dates or babysitting. So of course Nani can't handle all that by herself and it's ridiculous to expect her to do so. She's just a kid herself.

Lilo was a bit of a misguided delinquent I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son's friend's mom who is about a decade younger than I am (I'm 39) was psyched about this movie because she loved the original so much as a kid. She took our kids to see it and was extremely disappointed.
-At the end the older sister ditches Lilo to go to college (she is encouraged to "care for yourself") when the whole point used to be "family sticks together."
-The older sister was "beautiful and thick" (my friend's words) in the cartoon but was "skinny and light-skinned" in this one.
-No Elvis!
These things keep making money so they keep making them, and then they are immediately forgotten. No one is going back for a rewatch of any of these. They are totally sanitized to avoid any Jezebel author writing a "Why Ariel is Super Problematic" article, so they are utterly boring.
Do you think Disney will ever be creative again?

I am a native Hawaiian and many people I know were unhappy about the casting of Nani. The actress is not Hawaiian.

Understood.

I feel like the first movie really made an effort to portray the one white character as a total haole b!+ch. Like, blatantly. Peace, love, understanding, and tolerance, I guess; lol.

That was impossible to miss.

Disney did the same with Ursula in The Little Mermaid. Fat, loud, white woman. In Lilo, it was a red-haired white girl with glasses. Both unattractive and outspoken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an adult watching the original I did wonder why the community doesn't seem interested in helping out Nani. No adults are picking Lilo up from class or organizing play dates or babysitting. So of course Nani can't handle all that by herself and it's ridiculous to expect her to do so. She's just a kid herself.

Lilo was a bit of a misguided delinquent I think.

+1. They were poor. No one is organizing playdates and babysitting when you can barely pay the bills. There are a lot of poor Hawaiians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an adult watching the original I did wonder why the community doesn't seem interested in helping out Nani. No adults are picking Lilo up from class or organizing play dates or babysitting. So of course Nani can't handle all that by herself and it's ridiculous to expect her to do so. She's just a kid herself.

Lilo was a bit of a misguided delinquent I think.

Isn't she like 5 years old? A preschooler who just lost her parents, the community members address Nani by name but no one's watching this kid so she can work.

[Anonymous]

I saw it and thought it was fine, but I barely remember the original.

It did occur to me that the older sister didn't look Hawaiian....I know Hollywood often wants to make main characters as Caucasian as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw it and thought it was fine, but I barely remember the original.

It did occur to me that the older sister didn't look Hawaiian....I know Hollywood often wants to make main characters as Caucasian as possible.

There was literally just controversy about Disney making Caucasian characters not-Caucasian in the remakes.
They don't care what race the actress is as long as she is bone-thin. Snow White's rib cage was showing through her chest in that remake. See also Zendaya in everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw it and thought it was fine, but I barely remember the original.

It did occur to me that the older sister didn't look Hawaiian....I know Hollywood often wants to make main characters as Caucasian as possible.

The actress is 1/2 Philippina, and she is as much white as is President Obama.

You are crazy and really quite racist. Being as big of a racist as you are, really is not a good look, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an adult watching the original I did wonder why the community doesn't seem interested in helping out Nani. No adults are picking Lilo up from class or organizing play dates or babysitting. So of course Nani can't handle all that by herself and it's ridiculous to expect her to do so. She's just a kid herself.

Lilo was a bit of a misguided delinquent I think.

Isn't she like 5 years old? A preschooler who just lost her parents, the community members address Nani by name but no one's watching this kid so she can work.

My point is most likely anyone who did have the time (and few did) to watch the daughter of their dead neighbor would never do it again because it would be a disaster. I know a lot of kids who I love but I would not want the be responsible for them for long stretches of time