Jumba did nothing wrong.
Also I remember the TV show being fun.
I didn’t see it until my mid 20s and gotta say, it’s such a fucking good movie. End of Renaissance Disney gave us easily their best 3 movies, Lilo and Stich, Emperor’s New Groove and Treasure Planet. Lilo and Stich has fucking LAYERS to it. Deep but understated characters, anti colonial themes, being a weird lil guy (all the protagonists are their own kind of weird lil guy). It rules. Fucking love Lilo and Stitch.
Emperor’s new groove is 10/10
Something that went over my head as a kid is that it’s literally about colonialism. It would have been more blatant about it but my now-favorite scene got cut. I agree it’s a good movie.
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I bet I would’ve picked up on the colonialism subtext if Nani wasn’t distractingly hot.
There’s a deleted scene that turns the subtext into a blinking neon sign that I wish made it in, where like ten white people all ask Lilo where the beach is when she’s tryna walk home.
Chris Sanders is incredibly horny. The fact they let him make a movie is uh, surprising.
His art is very blatant (CW horny pinups)
Wait, I remember this scene. It was in the movie.
Maybe it was only not in the US release?
They changed the building to hills for the final release. The scene is there but it looks less like 9/11
Ooooh yeah that makes sense
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What’s not to like about a story of a colonizer who realizes how fucked up his societies practice is and joins the defense forces to help protect against future colonization attempts? Besides the minor subtext being the targeted society was defenseless without a blue savior.
I think the fact that Stitch is a lab experiment who would otherwise face life imprisonment simply for existing means that he can credibly claim not to be a colonizer. His arc struck me as more of a personal growth “caring about others” thing.
There’s also a lot of meaning re: colonialism in the scene where Nani sings Aloha ‘Oe to Lilo
I’ve actually never seen it because it came out when I was already aged out of Disney movies. 2002 I was in junior high school and on that dark medieval fantasy world shit of Diablo and Everquest.
It’s a genuinely fantastic movie
Ugh, I am not looking forward to that live-action remake
They’re doing WHAT?!?! Oh no, nooooooo
Noooo they’re going to remove all the anti-colonial themes aren’t they?
I’m sorry you had to find out this way
They’re going to shove in an advertisement for the Disney Hawaiian Resort ™
It’s coming very soon. I think there’s a trailer. I will do large dangerous things if I am exposed to it.
It’s a really damn good movie
it’s so good, my favourite animated disney flick along with treasure planet. people have already mentioned the colonialism themes but what I also love is how it’s a beautiful outsider story. even has queer aspects.
I really liked it and loved the tv show when i was a kid
It’s really one of the best
If the Disney movie has good songs I’m in so I’m a fan of a lot of the recent ones too, though.
One of the best no doubt
