I got the irresistable urge to watch this again during Chicken Little. Love, love, love this movie – everything below applies except I don’t forget about it so easily anymore, it’s really one of my alltime faves. I love how the animators convey the weight of the characters and objects in every scene, it’s pretty incredible. Also, I can’t believe I only noticed on this viewing that last photograph on the wall at the end, where they’ve taken the family photo Lilo keeps under her pillow and crudely attached a polaroid of Stitch

30th August 2005:

This is one of those strange movies that I love while I’m watching but forget about all too easily. The two main characters are so cute – Stitch with his puppydog eyes, Lilo with her huge mouth and wacky ideas (“Pudge controls the weather.”) It’s primarily a comedy and to this end it’s hysterical, but it also draws a tear in plenty of scenes, in particular Stitch trying to mimic the ugly duckling in one of Lilo’s books as he stands alone in the woods whimpering, “I’m lost,” and his longest speech in the movie at the end, “This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yah. It’s good.”

The 2-disc special edition DVD is fantastic – this is one of those “film school in a box” DVDs, disc 2 is a real surprise. It features a 2 hour documentary about the making of the movie which is interrupted by “footnote” menus which feature clips and interviews relating to what you’ve just seen. All in all, there’s around 4 hours of material, and it doesn’t just cover this movie, it spans the whole of Disney history. If only I’d had this disc when I did my dissertation at college.

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