It made its debut on DVD one month prior to the television premiere of Lilo & Stitch: The Series.ĭirectors Tom Craig and Roberts Gannaway were no strangers to adapting famous Disney characters for further exploration, both having credits for Timon & Pumbaa, 101 Dalmatians: The Series, and House of Mouse. Both continued to contribute to the franchise as executive producers on Lilo & Stitch: The Series. As such, it was produced by Disney Television Animation, a studio that typically sticks to half-hour programming rather than full-length features. No matter what you call it, this 64-minute story served as the pilot episode of the succeeding Disney Channel series.
BROTHER BEAR AND LILO AND STITCH MOVIE
Instead, the show was abridged into Lilo & Stitch: The Series, though Stitch! The Movie kept its initial formatting. This film’s title would’ve made a lot more sense if its accompanying television show had stuck with its original title, Stitch! The Series. We’ll also attempt to answer a question: Is there a Lilo & Stitch universe with a single narrative thread? Or do these films contradict each other?ĭirected by: Tony Craig and Roberts Gannaway As we discuss each movie, we’ll delve into how these competing interpretations led to a lack of a consistent vision. Like I said, everyone wanted in on the Lilo & Stitch craze. It’s important to note that while all four Lilo & Stitch films are officially sanctioned “Disney” movies, they’re actually produced by three separate entities within the corporation: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disneytoon Studios, and Disney Television Animation. The result was several years of Stitch mania. With little to use as a starting point for other arms of Disney’s synergy machine, the company’s various television, theme park, and live production divisions all latched on simultaneously to the one thing that was successful and fully owned by Disney: Lilo & Stitch. While Pixar was producing hits for Disney, the Disney/Pixar connection was strained and the studios’ future together was uncertain at the time. Walt Disney Animation Studios (at the time known as Walt Disney Feature Animation) wasn’t pumping out classic after classic like they had in the ’90s. In a decade marked with underperforming box-office receipts and murky studio relationships, this was the Disney animated film that stood out as an uncontested hit. Lilo & Stitch was the anomaly of the early 2000s.
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Though still under the official banner of Walt Disney Animation Studios, the film was entirely created at Walt Disney World in Florida (as were 1998’s Mulan and 2003’s Brother Bear). Lilo & Stitch‘s existence even feels inherently misfit-ish, having been made at Disney’s satellite campus.
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True to some of their stylistic tropes (which would later be seen in DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon in 2010), directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois craft the ultimate misfit story about two outcasts who find friendship in one another and together build a broken ‘ohana. Studio: Walt Disney Animation Studios (formerly Walt Disney Feature Animation)ĭirected by: Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois Here’s a breakdown of each movie, some things you may not know about their origins, and what I was surprised to remember. Now in my mid-20s, the summertime seemed an appropriate season to revisit some of those memories, so I recently viewed all four Lilo & Stitch films.
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His franchise was, at once and out of the blue, our everything. My brothers and I were in peak childhood when Stitch became a superstar.