Like any good millennial, I grew up loving Stitch. The original Lilo & Stitch came out in the summer of 2002 when I was 10 years old. Now, as a 33 year old adult, I went into the live-action remake with an open heart and was rewarded.
Dean Fleischer Camp, director of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, used the sweetness in his catalog to his advantage with Stitch (voiced again by Chris Sanders). Our beloved Experiment 626 is cute and fluffy and what makes the live-action remake worth it boils down to Stitch’s relationship with Lilo (Maia Kealoha). Kealoha’s performance as the rambunctious 6 year-old who just wants friends is so adorable that you want nothing more than for Lilo and Stitch to run around Hawai’i together the entire movie.
