Lilo and Stitch remake

[Anonymous]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Agudong is very pretty but seems to have a relatively normal body by Hollywood standards

[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.

Who is supposed to do that? People from Hawaii oftenwork two or three jobs just to make ends meet with the insane COL and low wages.

[Anonymous]

I prefer the live actions ending to the animations one.

Nani will complete undergrad when Lilo is 10 and by the time she starts high school Nani could have her masters and/or be established in a middle class career and be in a much better position to be Lilos gardian should they both want that.

Should we really be advocating for 18 year olds Nani and David to be raising Lilo as full time waiters/ exotic Hawaiian dancers/fire throwers? Come on! That’s a terrible message to send!

[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.

I also found the original so upsetting. This family needed help and instead everyone was out to get them it felt like. And I didn’t like how they were always fighting with each other. The music was good, and some of the messaging was good, but the original movie stresses me out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I prefer the live actions ending to the animations one.

Nani will complete undergrad when Lilo is 10 and by the time she starts high school Nani could have her masters and/or be established in a middle class career and be in a much better position to be Lilos gardian should they both want that.

Should we really be advocating for 18 year olds Nani and David to be raising Lilo as full time waiters/ exotic Hawaiian dancers/fire throwers? Come on! That’s a terrible message to send!

Why is Nani going to Nebraska to study MARINE BIOLOGY when the UH Manoa has one the best in the nation?