Anonymous
Post 05/30/2025 08:00     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
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
Post 05/30/2025 07:58     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
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
Post 05/30/2025 07:56     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
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
Post 05/30/2025 07:14     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
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
Post 05/29/2025 21:13     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
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
Post 05/29/2025 21:08     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
I went to see it and vastly prefer the original animated classic.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 20:34     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I loved it. So much better than the original!!

Why should an 18 year old have to sacrifice herself?! I always wondered that. I'm too american to think everyone should sacrifice themselves for their family they didn't create themselves. I'll sacrifice for my husband kids, not so much siblings, parents or cousins. It just is, my culture - the American culture.


Speak for yourself. That is not my American culture.


I do speak for myself. We (Americans) are a very individualistic culture. There are many studies on this. It is changing and that's why we have Trump....


Americans are more individualistic than people from other nations but we value family and community. You're the one who is off.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 20:26     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I loved it. So much better than the original!!

Why should an 18 year old have to sacrifice herself?! I always wondered that. I'm too american to think everyone should sacrifice themselves for their family they didn't create themselves. I'll sacrifice for my husband kids, not so much siblings, parents or cousins. It just is, my culture - the American culture.


Speak for yourself. That is not my American culture.


I do speak for myself. We (Americans) are a very individualistic culture. There are many studies on this. It is changing and that's why we have Trump....
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 20:25     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
Disney ruined another classic!
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 20:11     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
Anonymous wrote:
All the live remakes are unwatchable, I thought everyone knew that.

Disney has gone far down the drain.



I found Cinderella and Little Mermaid watchable but agree with you on the rest.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 20:07     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
Anonymous wrote:I loved it. So much better than the original!!

Why should an 18 year old have to sacrifice herself?! I always wondered that. I'm too american to think everyone should sacrifice themselves for their family they didn't create themselves. I'll sacrifice for my husband kids, not so much siblings, parents or cousins. It just is, my culture - the American culture.


Speak for yourself. That is not my American culture.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 19:56     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
Anonymous wrote:I loved it. So much better than the original!!

Why should an 18 year old have to sacrifice herself?! I always wondered that. I'm too american to think everyone should sacrifice themselves for their family they didn't create themselves. I'll sacrifice for my husband kids, not so much siblings, parents or cousins. It just is, my culture - the American culture.


She was Lilo's guardian by her own choice (in the original).
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 19:51     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
All the live remakes are unwatchable, I thought everyone knew that.

Disney has gone far down the drain.




None of these studios are willing to simultaneously spend a lot of money and risk take at the same time. The top ten grossing movies so far this year are Minecraft, Sinners, lilo and stitch, captain America brave new world, thunderbolts, Mufasa, Final Destination, Dogman, mission impossible, and Snow White. The only movie on that list that isn’t a Franchise, Sequel, or pulls from outside source material (Minecraft and Dogman), is Sinners. The studios want guaranteed returns.


This is true. They did well with MI and L&S.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 19:42     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
Anonymous wrote:Why did you feel the need to specify ages here, OP?


Because I had no connection to the original since I was a teenager when it came out. She was a kid so had really good memories of it.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 19:32     Subject: Lilo and Stitch remake
I loved it. So much better than the original!!

Why should an 18 year old have to sacrifice herself?! I always wondered that. I'm too american to think everyone should sacrifice themselves for their family they didn't create themselves. I'll sacrifice for my husband kids, not so much siblings, parents or cousins. It just is, my culture - the American culture.