At only minutes over the one hour mark (and that includes, bizarrely, nearly 7 minutes of end credits), I don’t know if this really counts as a feature. But it doesn’t matter … this is the best sequel yet to come out of the Disney straight-to-video unit. It has everything that was so great about the original, the comedy, the emotions. My guess is that if it weren’t for the length and the absence of Alan Silvestri’s music, I’d be saying it was actually better than the first movie.

The story is, basically, prior to Professor Jamba’s arrest for the creation of Stitch, he was in the process of charging the creature, a process that was never completed. As the movie begins, Stitch begins to discharge and malfunction, causing him to revert to his original bad behaviour, destroying things etc. At the same time, Lilo is trying to win a local hula contest to please her mother in heaven. Stitch is to play a part in her performance, but of course as his malfunctions get worse and more frequent, this causes a rift in their friendship. His only hope is a machine that Jamba and Pleakley need to build from hairdryers, toasters, and the like, alien technology being unavailable to them. This is all funnier than it sounds as I describe it lol.

There are Elvis songs as in the original, cracking lines as in the original (“I can’t believe it. My butt is in the shadow of the butt of Elvis Presley.”), cute Stitch-isms as in the original (“Stitch good,” delivered much in the same way as, “I’m lost,” in the first movie), and an ending that’ll leave a lump in your throat. They even diffuse the slight, almost Rent-like corniness of the final happy moment by having a brief exchange between Jamba and Pleakley (“How is this possible?” “Is not!”) Joyous.

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