Lilo & Stitch (film series)
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The Lilo & Stitch films series consists of four films, created by Walt Disney Studios
. The series was conceived in 2002 under directors Dean DeBlois
and Chris Sanders. Between these and other producers, four films were made as of 2006.
Beyond the four films, a television series entitled (Lilo & Stitch: The Series
) was made between 2003 and 2006. A Japanese anime version of the series entitled (Stitch!
) was launched in 2008. A short-film (The Origin of Stitch), was seen on the Lilo & Stitch 2
DVD.
mad scientist
named Dr. Jumba Jookiba (David Ogden Stiers
) is put on trial by a galactic governing body, headed by a Grand Councilwoman, for illegally creating creatures to cause chaos and destruction. His latest experiment is Number 626 (Chris Sanders): a cute little blue alien with four arms, two legs and antennae who is deceptively strong, fast, intelligent, destructive and indestructible. 626 is judged impossible to redeem, and sentenced to exile, while Jumba himself is jailed.
Captain Gantu (Kevin Michael Richardson
), a huge fish-like alien, is assigned to take 626 to a penal colony
. However, during the trip 626 manages to escape in a smaller spacecraft, and crash lands on the small Hawaii
an island of Kauai
, on Earth.
Masquerading as a dog, 626 is adopted by a little girl
named Lilo Pelekai (Daveigh Chase
) who is living with her 19-year-old sister Nani (Tia Carrere
) after their parents died in a car accident. Lilo is lonely and a bit of an outcast until she finds a new friend in 626 – she thinks it's a dog – whom she names "Stitch." She identifies with Stitch's strong antisocial tendencies, and the two form a bond immediately. Stitch initially attempts to escape the island but finds that it is impossible because he is afraid of the water, and cannot swim since his body is too dense. Stitch resigns himself to stay with Lilo when he spots that he is being watched by Jumba and Galactic Agent Pleakley (Kevin McDonald
), who have been assigned to recapture Stitch without being detected by humans in exchange for Jumba's freedom. Pleakley is both a guide and Jumba's supervisor, to ensure Jumba does not escape should he fail to recapture Stitch. Lilo notes Stitch's violent tendencies and attempts to teach him to relax, holding up her favorite musician Elvis Presley
as a model example of behavior.
Nani and Lilo are visited by social work
er Cobra Bubbles (Ving Rhames
), who tells Nani that unless she finds employment and improves their living conditions, he will have to take Lilo into foster care
. She has three days to change his mind. Nani, with the help of her boyfriend David, tries several times to find employment, but is unable to secure a position, as Lilo's attempts to tame Stitch by having him behave as Elvis Presley
generally lead to disaster during Nani's job interviews. After one such tiring day, David offers Nani and Lilo a day of surfing at the beach. While the three of them are trying to help Stitch learn how to surf, Jumba and Pleakley capture Stitch from underwater, leading Stitch to grab onto Lilo, dragging her under. David manages to rescue both Lilo and Stitch, but Nani believes that Stitch was attacking Lilo. Unfortunately, Cobra Bubbles saw the entire event, and tells Nani (not without sympathy) that it's time to separate Lilo from her and that he will return the next morning. Stitch realizes that it was his fault and returns to Lilo's house alone. After seeing Lilo and Nani express affection as sisters, and discuss the importance of their culture and being together as a family, he experiences an identity crisis and decides to leave, hiding in the woods feeling completely lost.
The following morning, Jumba and Pleakley are fired for not capturing Stitch. The Grand Councilwoman assigns Captain Gantu to capture Stitch. This leads Jumba, no longer bound by Galactic Code, to aggressively chase Stitch in one last effort. He finds Stitch in the woods and finds out that Stitch is waiting for "family" to arrive. Jumba says that Stitch, being an experimental creation, does not have one and that he can never belong. Stitch runs from Jumba and a chase ensues. Meanwhile, Lilo discovers that Stitch left, while David arrives with a job offer for Nani. Nani tells Lilo to stay at home and not to answer the door. Stitch comes back to Lilo's home, followed by Jumba, and the two begin to fight while Lilo calls Cobra Bubbles for help. The house is ultimately demolished, with Nani and Agent Bubbles arriving just after. Seeing Nani and Cobra arguing, Lilo runs off into the woods and encounters Stitch. He reveals his true alien form, and Lilo is furious that he had deceived her. Before Lilo can say any more, Gantu captures both of them. Stitch manages to escape the pod they are both placed in but is then confronted by Nani. At this point, Stitch finally speaks to her in (pidgin) English and shows that he is an alien and does understand the meaning of ohana, meaning "family" and "that nobody gets left behind or forgotten". Jumba is able to capture Stitch during this moment of understanding, but Nani pleads with him to help save Lilo from Gantu, and he reluctantly agrees.
Employing Jumba's spaceship, they and Gantu give chase around the Hawaiian mountains. Stitch manages to land on Gantu's ship and attempts to free Lilo, but Gantu reconfigures the angle of the afterburners to blast Stitch off the ship. After a moment of unconsciousness, Stitch wakes up just in time to save a frog from being run over by a gasoline truck. Hijacking the same truck, Stitch drives it straight into an active volcano, taunting Gantu and releasing the fuel into the lava. The explosion launches Stitch like a rocket straight into Gantu's cockpit. Gantu tries to smash Stitch but ends up getting thrown off the ship. Stitch rescues Lilo moments before the ship explodes. When everyone lands in the ocean, David is coincidentally surfing nearby and helps transport everyone to shore.
Just as they arrive to the shore, it is suddenly revealed that the Grand Councilwoman herself has come to arrest Stitch. Stitch, using his new name and broken English, asks to say good-bye to Lilo and Nani, telling the Grand Councilwoman: "This my family. I found it all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good." Lilo presents the certificate of adoption from the dog pound which, as a legally binding document, makes her responsible for Stitch. The Grand Councilwoman sees that Stitch has reformed into a civilized creature under Lilo's care, and so Stitch's sentence of life in exile is altered: he's now considered a ward of Lilo and Nani's. Cobra Bubbles is revealed to be a former CIA
agent who previously met the Grand Councilwoman at Roswell
, and he promises to keep an eye on the family. The movie ends with both Jumba and Pleakley assigned to Earth (they help rebuild the demolished home with some of their alien technology), and with Stitch being fully accepted into Lilo's family.
, Stitch is still not fitting in. Lilo tries to encourage him by saying he's one-of-a-kind, comparing him to Frankenstein
. Naturally, that just makes him feel worse. Suddenly, a crash is heard from below. Running downstairs, the pair encounters Gantu, breaking into their home. In the ensuing chaos, Gantu finds and takes a blue ball with the number "625" on it before abducting Jumba for interrogation. Lilo and Stitch manage take Jumba's ship to chase Gantu into space and engage him in battle, before being defeated and falling back towards Earth.
Back at the house, Lilo, Stitch and Pleakley talk and find the container Jumba was hiding. Pleakley decides that these are the other experiments, in dehydrated
form. He warns them not to tell anyone or put the experiments in water. Deliberately disobeying Pleakley, Stitch and Lilo retrieve the container and hydrate Experiment 221, who promptly escapes.
Meanwhile, Jumba is being held captive on the ship of Dr. Hämsterviel, who makes his appearance and is surprisingly a small gerbil
/poodle
/rabbit
-like alien. Unable to intimidate Jumba, Hämsterviel activates Experiment 625 to attack him. Fortunately for Jumba, while 625 has all of Stitch's powers, he is incredibly lazy, a terrible coward, and prioritizes sandwiches above all else.
Meanwhile, Pleakley is able to come into contact with Hämsterviel's ship via telephone.
Hämsterviel tells Pleakley that he wants a ransom
of the 624 experiments in return for Jumba. When Pleakley informs the other family members what the ransom is, Nani proceeds to call Cobra Bubbles while Lilo and Stitch go out to find 221. When Cobra arrives the next morning, he seems to already know about what happened. Meanwhile, Lilo and Stitch finally catch a troublesome Experiment 221 at a hotel.
The rendezvous time arrives and Pleakley and Cobra show up with the container, not knowing that it contains only 623 experiments. Pleakley hands the container over to Hämsterviel, who is shocked to find that one is missing. Lilo then shows up with Experiment 221 trapped in a glass vase. Announcing that she has named it "Sparky", she says that Sparky is part of Stitch's, and thus her, ohana. Hämsterviel tells her to give him the experiment or Jumba dies.
After several moments of thinking and hearing Cobra, Pleakley, Jumba and Hämsterviel persuading them, Lilo and Stitch set Sparky free and break Jumba from his bonds. On Cobra's signal, the Grand Councilwoman's ship rises out of the nearby ocean and aims several guns at Hämsterviel. Lilo protests, saying that Hämsterviel has the other experiments and Sparky overhears.
Sparky proceeds to use his electrical abilities to blow the power on the Councilwoman's ship, while Hämsterviel and Gantu climb back aboard their own ship with the experiments. In a last attempt to stop Hämsterviel, Lilo and Stitch stow away on it as it leaves, with Sparky following.
Lilo and Stitch manage to swipe the container with the other experiments in it. The struggle for the container between Lilo, Stitch and Gantu results in the releasing the dehydrated pods to rain down on Hawaii. Having captured the heroes, Hämsterviel tells his plans to clone Stitch a thousand times over and orders Gantu to do what he wants with Lilo. While Gantu puts Lilo in a teleportation pod to send to an intergalactic zoo, Stitch is strapped to a weight just heavier than he can lift.
Watching as Stitch tries to avoid being vivisected by a laser for the cloning process, Sparky thinks and shows that he has reformed by causing the cloning machine to short-circuit. He then breaks Stich free and the two strap Hämsterviel to the device before rescuing Lilo.
Having locked Hämsterviel in handcuffs, Lilo, Stitch, and Sparky short-circuit Gantu's ship, causing it to crash near a waterfall on Kauai
. Landing Hämsterviel's ship back at the rendezvous point, they give Sparky a new home powering an old lighthouse, which has not been running in years because powering it was very expensive. They then persuade the Grand Councilwoman to let them rehabilitate the other 623. The Councilwoman places Hämsterviel under arrest and Jumba whispers to Pleakley that he has plans for making Experiment 627.
competition where the winner gets to perform at the local May Day festival. Each student is required to create an original dance. While preparing for the competition, Stitch's past comes back to haunt him. It seems that after Stitch was created, Jumba did not get a chance to fully charge Stitch's molecules before they were both arrested. At first this glitch causes Stitch to revert to his old destructive programming, but it will ultimately destroy him if Jumba cannot create a charging pod before Stitch's energy runs out.
Meanwhile, Stitch's uncontrollable destructive behavior is driving a wedge between him and Lilo and ruining her chances for success at the hula competition. Eventually, the two devise a hula based on the legend of Hi'iaka
. Lilo gets mad at Stitch and he sends himself away so he will not hurt anyone he loves. Ultimately, Lilo forfeits the competition to help Stitch. Unfortunately, Lilo and the Ohana arrive too late, Stitch dies at the end. However Lilo's love revives him when Jumba's machine cannot.
has been completed, so Lilo and her family are honored as heroes by the Galactic Alliance. Jumba is given the confiscated key to his laboratory again, Pleakley is offered a post as chairman of Earth Studies at G.A.C.C. (Galactic Alliance Community College
) and Stitch (experiment 626) is made a Captain of the Galactic Armada and commander of the BRB-9000 (BRB stands for "Big Red Battleship"). Lilo is made Ambassador
to Earth and sole guardian of Stitch's "cousins". At first, the others refuse their rewards because they see how sad Lilo is when she finds out they would leave. But at the end of the day, Lilo accepts it and gets ready to say goodbye to her extended family from outer space. Before they leave, Lilo gives Jumba an Elvis record, Pleakley a paperweight (which is actually an Earth rock) and Stitch a necklace with a Tiki Ku (the Hawaiian god
of strength), then says her goodbyes.
Meanwhile, Gantu has decided that since he failed in capturing all of the experiments except for 625, he would break Dr. Hämsterviel out of prison. He takes the two-man shuttle
, leaving 625 alone.
At Galactic Alliance HQ on Planet Turo, Stitch is given his first assignment - recapture Hämsterviel. Pleakley is first overjoyed at his new position at G.A.C.C., until his assistant tells him that he is merely a supervisory professor—he will teach no classes. Jumba is also happy at first returning to many of his "evil genius
" ways, but soon discovers that without anyone to show his accomplishments to, he is as unhappy as the others.
Jumba's sadness is short-lived when Hämsterviel and Gantu burst in. Hämsterviel demands a new and better experiment to defeat the Galactic Alliance. When Jumba refuses, he is forced to do it at laser-point. This new creation has all of Stitch's powers and then some, with some doubled fur. After running through several names and one number (Experiment 627, which Gantu reminds Jumba he already created), Hämsterviel names this new monstrosity: Leroy (which is the name everyone except Lilo laughs at).
Stitch blasts through the door, seeking to capture Hämsterviel. After a fight that destroys Jumba's lab, Stitch is defeated when Pleakley appears at an unfortunate moment, distracting Stitch long enough for Leroy to lock him in a container. Hämsterviel then reveals his master plan: to clone an army of Leroys to take over the Galactic Alliance. Before leaving for Turo, Hämsterviel locks Jumba, Pleakley and Stitch in Pleakley's G.A.C.C. space vehicle, with its autopilot set to send the ship into a black hole
.
Back on Earth, Lilo makes the rounds to ensure that all of the "cousins" are still happy in their "one true place". After a confrontation with Mertle (who tells Lilo that she thinks Stitch ran away because she was too weird), Lilo decides to contact Stitch. After calling Cobra Bubbles (and getting his answering machine), Lilo realizes that there is still one inter-galactic videophone
on the planet: Gantu's ship. She makes her way there and finds Experiment 625, who is bitter about being left behind by Gantu and has plans to convert the ship into a sandwich shop. Lilo offers him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 625 is touched since no one has ever made him a sandwich before, but still remains suspicious of Lilo. When she asks about the videophone, 625 says it is broken and he will not fix it. It occurs to Lilo that 625 is the one experiment who still does not have a name and, after several bad sandwich pun
s, settles on "Reuben" (as in the Reuben sandwich
). Reuben likes his name very much and consents to help Lilo.
Once the videophone is fixed, Lilo contacts the BRB-9000. Leroy tries to pass himself off as Stitch, but only manages to fool 625. Lilo knows that Leroy is not Stitch because he does not have the tiki necklace. Leroy blasts the communication screen. Hämsterviel decides on a new task for Leroy: go to Earth and capture all of the other experiments so that he may destroy them.
Lilo, sensing Stitch is in trouble, asks Reuben for help fixing Gantu's ship because he has almost all the same powers as Stitch. After some reluctance, he agrees and uses his powers for the only time in the entire series. Soon, Gantu's ship is space-worthy, but as they leave, Leroy crashes on Earth in Mertle's backyard (in much the same manner as Stitch in the original film).
As Jumba, Pleakley, and Stitch head towards the black hole, Stitch escapes confinement and quickly frees the others. However, the navigational computer is locked on course for the black hole. Jumba says that the black hole will teleport them to a volcanic planet where they will be instantly vaporized, but if they can disrupt the event horizon
, it will send them somewhere else. Pleakley pulls out the rock that Lilo gave him and asks if this will work. After Jumba says it is too heavy, Stitch takes a bite out of it, then crawls out the front of the vehicle and throws it at the black hole. There is a flash and the vehicle is sucked in.
On Earth, Leroy obtains Lilo's scrapbook of "cousins" and quickly captures all of them (along with Mertle).
Lilo and Reuben have arrived at Turo, but they are too late. Hämsterviel has taken over using Leroy and he orders Gantu to lock them up, then turn in his I.D. card and cape.
Gantu captures Lilo and Reuben, but a few minutes later, Gantu decides to release them because Hämsterviel fired him. After a close call with several Leroy clones, they are trapped. All looks lost until the G.A.C.C. van suddenly appears (from the black hole). With no time to explain, Lilo, Reuben and Gantu all climb in and head for Earth.
On Earth, the original Leroy has herded all the experiments into a large stadium, which appears to be based on real Aloha Stadium (where "Alohapalooza," a fictional event clearly parodying Lollapalooza
, was scheduled to take place). The BRB-9000 appears and Hämsterviel prepares to obliterate all of the experiments, until a timely appearance by Lilo, Stitch and the others destroys the BRB's primary cannon. Hämsterviel is unfazed and reveals that he brought along his Leroy army as backup. Stitch rallies his "cousins", and the experiments begin to battle. It soon becomes apparent that the Leroys are more than a match for the good guys. In the nick of time, Jumba remembers that he programmed a secret shut-down command into Leroy. When the original Leroy was created, Jumba was playing Lilo's record, which had a copy of Elvis Presley
's performance of "Aloha 'Oe
". If Leroy hears that song again, it will cause him, theoretically, to deactivate. Lilo, seeing the equipment set up for the concert, devises a plan.
With Jumba controlling the sound, Pleakley on lights, and Gantu providing fireworks, Stitch pops out on-stage in full Elvis attire. He begins to play "Aloha 'Oe" and, sure enough, the Leroys shut down. His plan foiled, Hämsterviel is recaptured.
Back at Galactic Alliance HQ, the Grand Councilwoman calls Lilo and the others "heroes of the Alliance." Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley ask to be allowed to return to Earth with Lilo. The Grand Councilwoman accepts this, then asks Gantu if he would like to be reinstated as a Captain of the Armada. Gantu agrees, on the condition that Reuben be assigned to his ship as its Galley Officer.
Back on Earth, Lilo sets up for one last picture. Mertle arrives with Gigi (during the battle, Mertle learned that Gigi could talk and was one of Jumba's experiments). Though Mertle still thinks Lilo is weird, she says that Gigi wants to be part of the "ohana." Lilo's last picture in the cousins album is of all of the experiments still on Earth, plus herself, Mertle, Jumba, Pleakley, Nani, and Nani's boyfriend David.
Meanwhile, Lilo has already found out where Leroy and his clones belong — in jail. Before the ending credits, the clones of Leroy happily dance to Elvis Presley's song, "Jailhouse Rock
", with an angry Dr. Hämsterviel tapping his feet. As the credits roll, a full list of Jumba's experiments 001 through 626, and the names they were given by Lilo, scrolls along the left side of the screen.
Running for two seasons and a total of 65 episodes, the series (and the franchise) ended with the direct-to-DVD movie Leroy & Stitch
. The series has been adapted into an anime series, Stitch! in Japan, taking place a few decades after Leroy and Stitch. The series had low quotes in the USA, but it was also a great hit in Europe
.
On May 29, 2007, Lilo and Stitch moved from its daily 12 p.m. time slot to its new daily time slot at 5 and 5:30 a.m.
. It is animated and co-produced by the Japanese animation house Madhouse LTD
. Many of the past characters, such as Jumba Jookiba and Pleakley, appear, as well as five villains; Captain Gantu, Dr. Jacques von Hamsterviel, Reuben, Experiment 627, and Leroy. It also features new experiments exclusive to this series. Although the series is doing very well in Japan, it has received only moderate appraise everywhere else.
for the PlayStation 2
. It also serves as a prequel to the original film Lilo & Stitch
. In the game the player plays Experiment 626 as he battles robots, mutated monsters (called Greemas), Experiment 621, and causes mass destruction. Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is about finding DNA for Jumba's illegal genetic mutations. The game is set as a prequel to the first movie, describing 626's destructive rampage around the galaxy until his capture by the Galactic Federation.
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is a basic platformer, with an environment for exploring, item finding and fighting enemies. Plasma guns are the standard armaments. With his four arms, Stitch can equip up to 4 at once, but only 2 when climbing or holding an object. There are 2 special weapons: a "Big Gun" that fires guided rockets which do massive damage and a Freeze Ray which coats enemies in ice. Platformers commonly include collectables that the player must equip and find to progress throughout the game. Stitch is under the control of Jumba at the time of the game, and he orders Stitch to find DNA
samples, which assist him in performing more experiments. Squid bots allow the player to try and garner a "movie reel", these reels are used to buy various scenes from the movie. Stitch also can find gadgets to assist him in navigating the environment. Grapple guns are provided to allow Stitch to swing over hazardous substances or to reach difficult spots. A jet pack is also featured which can allow Stitch limited flight time.
In the game, there are 900 DNA and 105 movie reels.
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 has many enemies in his dangerous and deadly quest for DNA. These include UGF soldiers, frogbots, heavy soldiers, Gantu's elite frogbots, mutant greemas and buzzers. Bosses include Dr. Habbitrale in his giant robot, 621 (after being mutated), and Gantu
series. It was released in Japan
on December 3, 2009, in North America
on March 23, 2010 and in Europe
on March 26, 2010. Different from past Lilo & Stitch adaptations, Disney's Stitch Jam is a rhythm game. Players can take control of Stitch and friends in variety of missions set in space, out on the seas, and in a variety of areas by touching the notes and exclamation marks. The story happened when Angel was kidnapped by Gantu and Hamsterviel. Stitch has to rescue her by travelling into 10 worlds. Stitch is the main playable character. Angel, Reuben and Felix are unlockable.
is a rhythm
video game and a sequel of Disney's Stitch Jam. It was released in Japan on November 18, 2010. It will be unknown whether this game will be released in North America
and Europe
.
This game will be the same gameplay as its prequel, Disney's Stitch Jam, and has more new features, characters, and experiments. This game will be a modified engine of its prequel. Players can enjoy the rhythmic action of Stitch, who has a magic microphone that can draw his drawings on the air for decorations and travelling (which resembles and is a parody of Doraemon
's secret tool, "Air Crayon"). Players can also dress up characters like Stitch and Angel.
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Pictures and Television, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios and the main production company for live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, based at the Walt Disney...
. The series was conceived in 2002 under directors Dean DeBlois
Dean DeBlois
Dean DeBlois is a Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter, animator and editor. He is best known for co-writing and co-directing The Oscar-nominated animated films Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon , and for directing the acclaimed Sigur Rós documentary/music film...
and Chris Sanders. Between these and other producers, four films were made as of 2006.
Beyond the four films, a television series entitled (Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Lilo & Stitch: The Series is the animated television spinoff of the feature film, Lilo & Stitch and the follow-up to Stitch! The Movie.-Plot:...
) was made between 2003 and 2006. A Japanese anime version of the series entitled (Stitch!
Stitch!
is the anime adaptation of the animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the subsequent successor for the Lilo & Stitch series by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It takes place after the film and debuted in Japan on October 2008. The show features a Japanese girl named Yuna in place of Lilo, and is...
) was launched in 2008. A short-film (The Origin of Stitch), was seen on the Lilo & Stitch 2
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites is the soundtrack to Disney's 2005, home entertainment sequel film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. The song "He Mele No Lilo" had been included in the first film, Lilo & Stitch. It was released by Walt Disney Records on August 30, 2005.-Track...
DVD.
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
An extraterrestrialExtraterrestrial life in popular culture
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mad scientist
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named Dr. Jumba Jookiba (David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers is an American actor, director, vocal actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney movies, as well as his performances in the television series M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy...
) is put on trial by a galactic governing body, headed by a Grand Councilwoman, for illegally creating creatures to cause chaos and destruction. His latest experiment is Number 626 (Chris Sanders): a cute little blue alien with four arms, two legs and antennae who is deceptively strong, fast, intelligent, destructive and indestructible. 626 is judged impossible to redeem, and sentenced to exile, while Jumba himself is jailed.
Captain Gantu (Kevin Michael Richardson
Kevin Michael Richardson
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), a huge fish-like alien, is assigned to take 626 to a penal colony
Penal colony
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. However, during the trip 626 manages to escape in a smaller spacecraft, and crash lands on the small Hawaii
Hawaii
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an island of Kauai
Kauai
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, on Earth.
Masquerading as a dog, 626 is adopted by a little girl
Girl
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named Lilo Pelekai (Daveigh Chase
Daveigh Chase
Daveigh Elizabeth Chase is an American actress, singer, and voice over artist best known for playing Rhonda Volmer in the HBO series Big Love, Samara Morgan in The Ring and Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch.-Early life:Chase was born Daveigh Elizabeth Chase-Schwallier in Las Vegas, Nevada, but her...
) who is living with her 19-year-old sister Nani (Tia Carrere
Tia Carrere
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) after their parents died in a car accident. Lilo is lonely and a bit of an outcast until she finds a new friend in 626 – she thinks it's a dog – whom she names "Stitch." She identifies with Stitch's strong antisocial tendencies, and the two form a bond immediately. Stitch initially attempts to escape the island but finds that it is impossible because he is afraid of the water, and cannot swim since his body is too dense. Stitch resigns himself to stay with Lilo when he spots that he is being watched by Jumba and Galactic Agent Pleakley (Kevin McDonald
Kevin McDonald
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), who have been assigned to recapture Stitch without being detected by humans in exchange for Jumba's freedom. Pleakley is both a guide and Jumba's supervisor, to ensure Jumba does not escape should he fail to recapture Stitch. Lilo notes Stitch's violent tendencies and attempts to teach him to relax, holding up her favorite musician Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
as a model example of behavior.
Nani and Lilo are visited by social work
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er Cobra Bubbles (Ving Rhames
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), who tells Nani that unless she finds employment and improves their living conditions, he will have to take Lilo into foster care
Foster care
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. She has three days to change his mind. Nani, with the help of her boyfriend David, tries several times to find employment, but is unable to secure a position, as Lilo's attempts to tame Stitch by having him behave as Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
generally lead to disaster during Nani's job interviews. After one such tiring day, David offers Nani and Lilo a day of surfing at the beach. While the three of them are trying to help Stitch learn how to surf, Jumba and Pleakley capture Stitch from underwater, leading Stitch to grab onto Lilo, dragging her under. David manages to rescue both Lilo and Stitch, but Nani believes that Stitch was attacking Lilo. Unfortunately, Cobra Bubbles saw the entire event, and tells Nani (not without sympathy) that it's time to separate Lilo from her and that he will return the next morning. Stitch realizes that it was his fault and returns to Lilo's house alone. After seeing Lilo and Nani express affection as sisters, and discuss the importance of their culture and being together as a family, he experiences an identity crisis and decides to leave, hiding in the woods feeling completely lost.
The following morning, Jumba and Pleakley are fired for not capturing Stitch. The Grand Councilwoman assigns Captain Gantu to capture Stitch. This leads Jumba, no longer bound by Galactic Code, to aggressively chase Stitch in one last effort. He finds Stitch in the woods and finds out that Stitch is waiting for "family" to arrive. Jumba says that Stitch, being an experimental creation, does not have one and that he can never belong. Stitch runs from Jumba and a chase ensues. Meanwhile, Lilo discovers that Stitch left, while David arrives with a job offer for Nani. Nani tells Lilo to stay at home and not to answer the door. Stitch comes back to Lilo's home, followed by Jumba, and the two begin to fight while Lilo calls Cobra Bubbles for help. The house is ultimately demolished, with Nani and Agent Bubbles arriving just after. Seeing Nani and Cobra arguing, Lilo runs off into the woods and encounters Stitch. He reveals his true alien form, and Lilo is furious that he had deceived her. Before Lilo can say any more, Gantu captures both of them. Stitch manages to escape the pod they are both placed in but is then confronted by Nani. At this point, Stitch finally speaks to her in (pidgin) English and shows that he is an alien and does understand the meaning of ohana, meaning "family" and "that nobody gets left behind or forgotten". Jumba is able to capture Stitch during this moment of understanding, but Nani pleads with him to help save Lilo from Gantu, and he reluctantly agrees.
Employing Jumba's spaceship, they and Gantu give chase around the Hawaiian mountains. Stitch manages to land on Gantu's ship and attempts to free Lilo, but Gantu reconfigures the angle of the afterburners to blast Stitch off the ship. After a moment of unconsciousness, Stitch wakes up just in time to save a frog from being run over by a gasoline truck. Hijacking the same truck, Stitch drives it straight into an active volcano, taunting Gantu and releasing the fuel into the lava. The explosion launches Stitch like a rocket straight into Gantu's cockpit. Gantu tries to smash Stitch but ends up getting thrown off the ship. Stitch rescues Lilo moments before the ship explodes. When everyone lands in the ocean, David is coincidentally surfing nearby and helps transport everyone to shore.
Just as they arrive to the shore, it is suddenly revealed that the Grand Councilwoman herself has come to arrest Stitch. Stitch, using his new name and broken English, asks to say good-bye to Lilo and Nani, telling the Grand Councilwoman: "This my family. I found it all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good." Lilo presents the certificate of adoption from the dog pound which, as a legally binding document, makes her responsible for Stitch. The Grand Councilwoman sees that Stitch has reformed into a civilized creature under Lilo's care, and so Stitch's sentence of life in exile is altered: he's now considered a ward of Lilo and Nani's. Cobra Bubbles is revealed to be a former CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
agent who previously met the Grand Councilwoman at Roswell
Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell is a city in and the county seat of Chaves County in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico, United States. The population was 48,366 at the 2010 census. It is a center for irrigation farming, dairying, ranching, manufacturing, distribution, and petroleum production. It is also...
, and he promises to keep an eye on the family. The movie ends with both Jumba and Pleakley assigned to Earth (they help rebuild the demolished home with some of their alien technology), and with Stitch being fully accepted into Lilo's family.
Stitch! The Movie (2003)
The film starts out with ex-Captain Gantu on his new spaceship (his original got destroyed in the first film), being hired by Hämsterviel to retrieve the experiments. Meanwhile, on EarthEarth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
, Stitch is still not fitting in. Lilo tries to encourage him by saying he's one-of-a-kind, comparing him to Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...
. Naturally, that just makes him feel worse. Suddenly, a crash is heard from below. Running downstairs, the pair encounters Gantu, breaking into their home. In the ensuing chaos, Gantu finds and takes a blue ball with the number "625" on it before abducting Jumba for interrogation. Lilo and Stitch manage take Jumba's ship to chase Gantu into space and engage him in battle, before being defeated and falling back towards Earth.
Back at the house, Lilo, Stitch and Pleakley talk and find the container Jumba was hiding. Pleakley decides that these are the other experiments, in dehydrated
Dehydration
In physiology and medicine, dehydration is defined as the excessive loss of body fluid. It is literally the removal of water from an object; however, in physiological terms, it entails a deficiency of fluid within an organism...
form. He warns them not to tell anyone or put the experiments in water. Deliberately disobeying Pleakley, Stitch and Lilo retrieve the container and hydrate Experiment 221, who promptly escapes.
Meanwhile, Jumba is being held captive on the ship of Dr. Hämsterviel, who makes his appearance and is surprisingly a small gerbil
Gerbil
A gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. Once known simply as "desert rats", the gerbil subfamily includes about 110 species of African, Indian, and Asian rodents, including sand rats and jirds, all of which are adapted to arid habitats...
/poodle
Poodle
The Poodle is a breed of dog. The poodle breed is found officially in toy, miniature, and standard sizes, with many coat colors. Originally bred as a type of water dog, the poodle is highly intelligent and skillful in many dog sports, including agility, obedience, tracking, and even herding...
/rabbit
Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world...
-like alien. Unable to intimidate Jumba, Hämsterviel activates Experiment 625 to attack him. Fortunately for Jumba, while 625 has all of Stitch's powers, he is incredibly lazy, a terrible coward, and prioritizes sandwiches above all else.
Meanwhile, Pleakley is able to come into contact with Hämsterviel's ship via telephone.
Hämsterviel tells Pleakley that he wants a ransom
Ransom
Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or it can refer to the sum of money involved.In an early German law, a similar concept was called bad influence...
of the 624 experiments in return for Jumba. When Pleakley informs the other family members what the ransom is, Nani proceeds to call Cobra Bubbles while Lilo and Stitch go out to find 221. When Cobra arrives the next morning, he seems to already know about what happened. Meanwhile, Lilo and Stitch finally catch a troublesome Experiment 221 at a hotel.
The rendezvous time arrives and Pleakley and Cobra show up with the container, not knowing that it contains only 623 experiments. Pleakley hands the container over to Hämsterviel, who is shocked to find that one is missing. Lilo then shows up with Experiment 221 trapped in a glass vase. Announcing that she has named it "Sparky", she says that Sparky is part of Stitch's, and thus her, ohana. Hämsterviel tells her to give him the experiment or Jumba dies.
After several moments of thinking and hearing Cobra, Pleakley, Jumba and Hämsterviel persuading them, Lilo and Stitch set Sparky free and break Jumba from his bonds. On Cobra's signal, the Grand Councilwoman's ship rises out of the nearby ocean and aims several guns at Hämsterviel. Lilo protests, saying that Hämsterviel has the other experiments and Sparky overhears.
Sparky proceeds to use his electrical abilities to blow the power on the Councilwoman's ship, while Hämsterviel and Gantu climb back aboard their own ship with the experiments. In a last attempt to stop Hämsterviel, Lilo and Stitch stow away on it as it leaves, with Sparky following.
Lilo and Stitch manage to swipe the container with the other experiments in it. The struggle for the container between Lilo, Stitch and Gantu results in the releasing the dehydrated pods to rain down on Hawaii. Having captured the heroes, Hämsterviel tells his plans to clone Stitch a thousand times over and orders Gantu to do what he wants with Lilo. While Gantu puts Lilo in a teleportation pod to send to an intergalactic zoo, Stitch is strapped to a weight just heavier than he can lift.
Watching as Stitch tries to avoid being vivisected by a laser for the cloning process, Sparky thinks and shows that he has reformed by causing the cloning machine to short-circuit. He then breaks Stich free and the two strap Hämsterviel to the device before rescuing Lilo.
Having locked Hämsterviel in handcuffs, Lilo, Stitch, and Sparky short-circuit Gantu's ship, causing it to crash near a waterfall on Kauai
Kauai
Kauai or Kauai, known as Tauai in the ancient Kaua'i dialect, is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of , it is the fourth largest of the main islands in the Hawaiian archipelago, and the 21st largest island in the United States. Known also as the "Garden Isle",...
. Landing Hämsterviel's ship back at the rendezvous point, they give Sparky a new home powering an old lighthouse, which has not been running in years because powering it was very expensive. They then persuade the Grand Councilwoman to let them rehabilitate the other 623. The Councilwoman places Hämsterviel under arrest and Jumba whispers to Pleakley that he has plans for making Experiment 627.
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
In this movie (set before Stitch the Movie) Lilo and her classmates are preparing for a hulaHula
Hula is a dance form accompanied by chant or song . It was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. The hula dramatizes or portrays the words of the oli or mele in a visual dance form....
competition where the winner gets to perform at the local May Day festival. Each student is required to create an original dance. While preparing for the competition, Stitch's past comes back to haunt him. It seems that after Stitch was created, Jumba did not get a chance to fully charge Stitch's molecules before they were both arrested. At first this glitch causes Stitch to revert to his old destructive programming, but it will ultimately destroy him if Jumba cannot create a charging pod before Stitch's energy runs out.
Meanwhile, Stitch's uncontrollable destructive behavior is driving a wedge between him and Lilo and ruining her chances for success at the hula competition. Eventually, the two devise a hula based on the legend of Hi'iaka
Hi'iaka
In Hawaiian mythology, Hiiaka is a daughter of Haumea and Kāne. She was the patron goddess of Hawaii and the hula dancers, and takes on the task of bearing the clouds - variously, those of storms and those produced by her sister's volcanos, and lived in a grove of Lehua trees which are sacred to...
. Lilo gets mad at Stitch and he sends himself away so he will not hurt anyone he loves. Ultimately, Lilo forfeits the competition to help Stitch. Unfortunately, Lilo and the Ohana arrive too late, Stitch dies at the end. However Lilo's love revives him when Jumba's machine cannot.
Leroy & Stitch (2006)
Their mission to capture all 624 experiments and repurpose them on EarthEarth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
has been completed, so Lilo and her family are honored as heroes by the Galactic Alliance. Jumba is given the confiscated key to his laboratory again, Pleakley is offered a post as chairman of Earth Studies at G.A.C.C. (Galactic Alliance Community College
Community college
A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries.-Australia:Community colleges carry on the tradition of adult education, which was established in Australia around mid 19th century when evening classes were held to help adults...
) and Stitch (experiment 626) is made a Captain of the Galactic Armada and commander of the BRB-9000 (BRB stands for "Big Red Battleship"). Lilo is made Ambassador
Ambassador
An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
to Earth and sole guardian of Stitch's "cousins". At first, the others refuse their rewards because they see how sad Lilo is when she finds out they would leave. But at the end of the day, Lilo accepts it and gets ready to say goodbye to her extended family from outer space. Before they leave, Lilo gives Jumba an Elvis record, Pleakley a paperweight (which is actually an Earth rock) and Stitch a necklace with a Tiki Ku (the Hawaiian god
Hawaiian mythology
Hawaiian mythology refers to the legends, historical tales and sayings of the ancient Hawaiian people. It is considered a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology, developing its own unique character for several centuries before about 1800. It is associated with the Hawaiian religion...
of strength), then says her goodbyes.
Meanwhile, Gantu has decided that since he failed in capturing all of the experiments except for 625, he would break Dr. Hämsterviel out of prison. He takes the two-man shuttle
Shuttle
The original meaning of the word shuttle is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres...
, leaving 625 alone.
At Galactic Alliance HQ on Planet Turo, Stitch is given his first assignment - recapture Hämsterviel. Pleakley is first overjoyed at his new position at G.A.C.C., until his assistant tells him that he is merely a supervisory professor—he will teach no classes. Jumba is also happy at first returning to many of his "evil genius
Villain
A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villain usually is the antagonist, the character who tends to have a negative effect on other characters...
" ways, but soon discovers that without anyone to show his accomplishments to, he is as unhappy as the others.
Jumba's sadness is short-lived when Hämsterviel and Gantu burst in. Hämsterviel demands a new and better experiment to defeat the Galactic Alliance. When Jumba refuses, he is forced to do it at laser-point. This new creation has all of Stitch's powers and then some, with some doubled fur. After running through several names and one number (Experiment 627, which Gantu reminds Jumba he already created), Hämsterviel names this new monstrosity: Leroy (which is the name everyone except Lilo laughs at).
Stitch blasts through the door, seeking to capture Hämsterviel. After a fight that destroys Jumba's lab, Stitch is defeated when Pleakley appears at an unfortunate moment, distracting Stitch long enough for Leroy to lock him in a container. Hämsterviel then reveals his master plan: to clone an army of Leroys to take over the Galactic Alliance. Before leaving for Turo, Hämsterviel locks Jumba, Pleakley and Stitch in Pleakley's G.A.C.C. space vehicle, with its autopilot set to send the ship into a black hole
Black hole
A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that...
.
Back on Earth, Lilo makes the rounds to ensure that all of the "cousins" are still happy in their "one true place". After a confrontation with Mertle (who tells Lilo that she thinks Stitch ran away because she was too weird), Lilo decides to contact Stitch. After calling Cobra Bubbles (and getting his answering machine), Lilo realizes that there is still one inter-galactic videophone
Videophone
A videophone is a telephone with a video screen, and is capable of full duplex video and audio transmissions for communication between people in real-time...
on the planet: Gantu's ship. She makes her way there and finds Experiment 625, who is bitter about being left behind by Gantu and has plans to convert the ship into a sandwich shop. Lilo offers him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 625 is touched since no one has ever made him a sandwich before, but still remains suspicious of Lilo. When she asks about the videophone, 625 says it is broken and he will not fix it. It occurs to Lilo that 625 is the one experiment who still does not have a name and, after several bad sandwich pun
Pun
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic,...
s, settles on "Reuben" (as in the Reuben sandwich
Reuben sandwich
The Reuben sandwich is a hot sandwich of layered meat, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese, with a dressing. These are grilled between slices of rye bread. The meat is either corned beef or pastrami, and the dressing is either Russian or Thousand Island dressing...
). Reuben likes his name very much and consents to help Lilo.
Once the videophone is fixed, Lilo contacts the BRB-9000. Leroy tries to pass himself off as Stitch, but only manages to fool 625. Lilo knows that Leroy is not Stitch because he does not have the tiki necklace. Leroy blasts the communication screen. Hämsterviel decides on a new task for Leroy: go to Earth and capture all of the other experiments so that he may destroy them.
Lilo, sensing Stitch is in trouble, asks Reuben for help fixing Gantu's ship because he has almost all the same powers as Stitch. After some reluctance, he agrees and uses his powers for the only time in the entire series. Soon, Gantu's ship is space-worthy, but as they leave, Leroy crashes on Earth in Mertle's backyard (in much the same manner as Stitch in the original film).
As Jumba, Pleakley, and Stitch head towards the black hole, Stitch escapes confinement and quickly frees the others. However, the navigational computer is locked on course for the black hole. Jumba says that the black hole will teleport them to a volcanic planet where they will be instantly vaporized, but if they can disrupt the event horizon
Event horizon
In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. In layman's terms it is defined as "the point of no return" i.e. the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible. The most common case...
, it will send them somewhere else. Pleakley pulls out the rock that Lilo gave him and asks if this will work. After Jumba says it is too heavy, Stitch takes a bite out of it, then crawls out the front of the vehicle and throws it at the black hole. There is a flash and the vehicle is sucked in.
On Earth, Leroy obtains Lilo's scrapbook of "cousins" and quickly captures all of them (along with Mertle).
Lilo and Reuben have arrived at Turo, but they are too late. Hämsterviel has taken over using Leroy and he orders Gantu to lock them up, then turn in his I.D. card and cape.
Gantu captures Lilo and Reuben, but a few minutes later, Gantu decides to release them because Hämsterviel fired him. After a close call with several Leroy clones, they are trapped. All looks lost until the G.A.C.C. van suddenly appears (from the black hole). With no time to explain, Lilo, Reuben and Gantu all climb in and head for Earth.
On Earth, the original Leroy has herded all the experiments into a large stadium, which appears to be based on real Aloha Stadium (where "Alohapalooza," a fictional event clearly parodying Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...
, was scheduled to take place). The BRB-9000 appears and Hämsterviel prepares to obliterate all of the experiments, until a timely appearance by Lilo, Stitch and the others destroys the BRB's primary cannon. Hämsterviel is unfazed and reveals that he brought along his Leroy army as backup. Stitch rallies his "cousins", and the experiments begin to battle. It soon becomes apparent that the Leroys are more than a match for the good guys. In the nick of time, Jumba remembers that he programmed a secret shut-down command into Leroy. When the original Leroy was created, Jumba was playing Lilo's record, which had a copy of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
's performance of "Aloha 'Oe
Aloha 'Oe
"Aloha ʻOe" is Liliʻuokalani's most famous song and a common cultural Leitmotif for Hawaii. The song was inspired by a horseback trip she took in 1877 to the windward side of Oʻahu...
". If Leroy hears that song again, it will cause him, theoretically, to deactivate. Lilo, seeing the equipment set up for the concert, devises a plan.
With Jumba controlling the sound, Pleakley on lights, and Gantu providing fireworks, Stitch pops out on-stage in full Elvis attire. He begins to play "Aloha 'Oe" and, sure enough, the Leroys shut down. His plan foiled, Hämsterviel is recaptured.
Back at Galactic Alliance HQ, the Grand Councilwoman calls Lilo and the others "heroes of the Alliance." Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley ask to be allowed to return to Earth with Lilo. The Grand Councilwoman accepts this, then asks Gantu if he would like to be reinstated as a Captain of the Armada. Gantu agrees, on the condition that Reuben be assigned to his ship as its Galley Officer.
Back on Earth, Lilo sets up for one last picture. Mertle arrives with Gigi (during the battle, Mertle learned that Gigi could talk and was one of Jumba's experiments). Though Mertle still thinks Lilo is weird, she says that Gigi wants to be part of the "ohana." Lilo's last picture in the cousins album is of all of the experiments still on Earth, plus herself, Mertle, Jumba, Pleakley, Nani, and Nani's boyfriend David.
Meanwhile, Lilo has already found out where Leroy and his clones belong — in jail. Before the ending credits, the clones of Leroy happily dance to Elvis Presley's song, "Jailhouse Rock
Jailhouse Rock (song)
"Jailhouse Rock" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that first became a hit for Elvis Presley. The song was released as a 45rpm single on September 24, 1957, to coincide with the release of Presley's motion picture, Jailhouse Rock...
", with an angry Dr. Hämsterviel tapping his feet. As the credits roll, a full list of Jumba's experiments 001 through 626, and the names they were given by Lilo, scrolls along the left side of the screen.
Lilo & Stitch: The Series (2003-2006)
Continuing where Stitch! The Movie left off, Lilo and Stitch are given the task of collecting the rest of Jumba's missing experiments, changing them from bad to good, and finding the one place where they truly belong. Meanwhile, the former Captain Gantu and his reluctant partner, experiment 625, try to capture the experiments for the imprisoned Dr. Hämsterviel.Running for two seasons and a total of 65 episodes, the series (and the franchise) ended with the direct-to-DVD movie Leroy & Stitch
Leroy & Stitch
Leroy & Stitch is an animated TV film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is a spin-off film of the 2002 animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the conclusion to the television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series and the franchise as well...
. The series has been adapted into an anime series, Stitch! in Japan, taking place a few decades after Leroy and Stitch. The series had low quotes in the USA, but it was also a great hit in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
On May 29, 2007, Lilo and Stitch moved from its daily 12 p.m. time slot to its new daily time slot at 5 and 5:30 a.m.
Stitch! (2008-2011)
The show features a Japanese girl named Yuna in place of Lilo, and is be set on a fictional island off the shore of Okinawa instead of HawaiiHawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
. It is animated and co-produced by the Japanese animation house Madhouse LTD
Madhouse (company)
is a Japanese animation studio, founded in 1972 by ex–Mushi Pro animators including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, Rintaro, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. It has created and helped to produce many well known shows, starting with TV anime series Ace o Nerae! in 1973, and including western favourites Ninja...
. Many of the past characters, such as Jumba Jookiba and Pleakley, appear, as well as five villains; Captain Gantu, Dr. Jacques von Hamsterviel, Reuben, Experiment 627, and Leroy. It also features new experiments exclusive to this series. Although the series is doing very well in Japan, it has received only moderate appraise everywhere else.
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| Lilo & Stitch Lilo & Stitch This article is about the movie. For the television series, see Lilo & Stitch: The Series.Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on June 21, 2002... |
Stitch The Movie | The Series Lilo & Stitch: The Series Lilo & Stitch: The Series is the animated television spinoff of the feature film, Lilo & Stitch and the follow-up to Stitch! The Movie.-Plot:... |
Stitch Has a Glitch Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites is the soundtrack to Disney's 2005, home entertainment sequel film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. The song "He Mele No Lilo" had been included in the first film, Lilo & Stitch. It was released by Walt Disney Records on August 30, 2005.-Track... |
Leroy & Stitch Leroy & Stitch Leroy & Stitch is an animated TV film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is a spin-off film of the 2002 animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the conclusion to the television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series and the franchise as well... |
Stitch Stitch Stitch may refer to:*Stitch , a single loop of thread or yarn in the textile arts**Blanket stitch, used to reinforce the edge of thick materials**Cable knitting is a style of knitting in which the order of stitches is permuted... |
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| Stitch (626) | Chris Sanders | Ben Diskin | ||||
| Lilo Pelekai | Daveigh Chase Daveigh Chase Daveigh Elizabeth Chase is an American actress, singer, and voice over artist best known for playing Rhonda Volmer in the HBO series Big Love, Samara Morgan in The Ring and Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch.-Early life:Chase was born Daveigh Elizabeth Chase-Schwallier in Las Vegas, Nevada, but her... |
Dakota Fanning Dakota Fanning Hannah Dakota Fanning , better known as Dakota Fanning, is an American actress. Fanning's breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001. As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte's Web... |
Daveigh Chase Daveigh Chase Daveigh Elizabeth Chase is an American actress, singer, and voice over artist best known for playing Rhonda Volmer in the HBO series Big Love, Samara Morgan in The Ring and Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch.-Early life:Chase was born Daveigh Elizabeth Chase-Schwallier in Las Vegas, Nevada, but her... |
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| Nani Pelekai | Tia Carrere Tia Carrere Tia Carrere is an American actress, model, voice artist, and singer, perhaps most widely known for her role as Cassandra Wong in the feature films Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2, Queen Tyr'ahnee in Duck Dodgers, and as Sydney Fox in the TV series Relic Hunter.-Early life:Carrere was born in... |
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| Mertle Edmonds | Miranda Paige Walls | Liliana Mumy Liliana Mumy Liliana Berry Davis Mumy is an American teen actress and voice actress. Her most notable roles are as Jessica Baker in the Cheaper by the Dozen movies with Steve Martin, Lucy Miller in The Santa Clause sequels with Tim Allen, Mertle Edmonds on the Disney Channel original series Lilo & Stitch: The... |
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| Dr. Jumba Jookiba | David Ogden Stiers David Ogden Stiers David Ogden Stiers is an American actor, director, vocal actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney movies, as well as his performances in the television series M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy... |
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| Agent Pleakley | Kevin McDonald Kevin McDonald Kevin Hamilton McDonald is a Canadian comedian and actor, known as a member of the Canadian sketch comedy group The Kids in the Hall.-Early life:... |
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| Captain Gantu | Kevin Michael Richardson Kevin Michael Richardson Kevin Michael Richardson is an American actor and voice actor who currently stars as Cleveland Brown, Jr. in The Cleveland Show... |
Kevin Michael Richardson Kevin Michael Richardson Kevin Michael Richardson is an American actor and voice actor who currently stars as Cleveland Brown, Jr. in The Cleveland Show... |
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| Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel | Jeff Bennett | Jeff Bennett | ||||
| Cobra Bubbles | Ving Rhames Ving Rhames Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, and the Mission: Impossible film series.-Early life and education:... |
Kevin Michael Richardson Kevin Michael Richardson Kevin Michael Richardson is an American actor and voice actor who currently stars as Cleveland Brown, Jr. in The Cleveland Show... |
Ving Rhames Ving Rhames Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, and the Mission: Impossible film series.-Early life and education:... |
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Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is a platform gamePlatform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
for the PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
. It also serves as a prequel to the original film Lilo & Stitch
Lilo & Stitch
This article is about the movie. For the television series, see Lilo & Stitch: The Series.Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on June 21, 2002...
. In the game the player plays Experiment 626 as he battles robots, mutated monsters (called Greemas), Experiment 621, and causes mass destruction. Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is about finding DNA for Jumba's illegal genetic mutations. The game is set as a prequel to the first movie, describing 626's destructive rampage around the galaxy until his capture by the Galactic Federation.
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is a basic platformer, with an environment for exploring, item finding and fighting enemies. Plasma guns are the standard armaments. With his four arms, Stitch can equip up to 4 at once, but only 2 when climbing or holding an object. There are 2 special weapons: a "Big Gun" that fires guided rockets which do massive damage and a Freeze Ray which coats enemies in ice. Platformers commonly include collectables that the player must equip and find to progress throughout the game. Stitch is under the control of Jumba at the time of the game, and he orders Stitch to find DNA
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...
samples, which assist him in performing more experiments. Squid bots allow the player to try and garner a "movie reel", these reels are used to buy various scenes from the movie. Stitch also can find gadgets to assist him in navigating the environment. Grapple guns are provided to allow Stitch to swing over hazardous substances or to reach difficult spots. A jet pack is also featured which can allow Stitch limited flight time.
In the game, there are 900 DNA and 105 movie reels.
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 has many enemies in his dangerous and deadly quest for DNA. These include UGF soldiers, frogbots, heavy soldiers, Gantu's elite frogbots, mutant greemas and buzzers. Bosses include Dr. Habbitrale in his giant robot, 621 (after being mutated), and Gantu
Stitch! video games
Disney's Stitch Jam, known in Japan as , is a musical rhythm video game and the first video game in Stitch!Stitch!
is the anime adaptation of the animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the subsequent successor for the Lilo & Stitch series by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It takes place after the film and debuted in Japan on October 2008. The show features a Japanese girl named Yuna in place of Lilo, and is...
series. It was released in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
on December 3, 2009, in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
on March 23, 2010 and in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
on March 26, 2010. Different from past Lilo & Stitch adaptations, Disney's Stitch Jam is a rhythm game. Players can take control of Stitch and friends in variety of missions set in space, out on the seas, and in a variety of areas by touching the notes and exclamation marks. The story happened when Angel was kidnapped by Gantu and Hamsterviel. Stitch has to rescue her by travelling into 10 worlds. Stitch is the main playable character. Angel, Reuben and Felix are unlockable.
is a rhythm
Rhythm game
Rhythm game or rhythm action is a genre of music-themed action video game that challenges a player's sense of rhythm. Games in the genre typically focus on dance or the simulated performance of musical instruments, and require players to press buttons in a sequence dictated on the screen...
video game and a sequel of Disney's Stitch Jam. It was released in Japan on November 18, 2010. It will be unknown whether this game will be released in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
This game will be the same gameplay as its prequel, Disney's Stitch Jam, and has more new features, characters, and experiments. This game will be a modified engine of its prequel. Players can enjoy the rhythmic action of Stitch, who has a magic microphone that can draw his drawings on the air for decorations and travelling (which resembles and is a parody of Doraemon
Doraemon
is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise...
's secret tool, "Air Crayon"). Players can also dress up characters like Stitch and Angel.
Box office performance
| Film | Release date | Box Office | ||
| United States | Outside US | Worldwide | ||
| Lilo & Stitch Lilo & Stitch This article is about the movie. For the television series, see Lilo & Stitch: The Series.Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on June 21, 2002... |
July 16, 2002 | $145,794,338 | $127,349,813 | $273,144,151 |
| Stitch! The Movie Stitch! The Movie Stitch! The Movie is a direct-to-video animated spinoff of Lilo & Stitch, released on August 26, 2003. It is often considered more of a backdoor pilot for the spinoff series Lilo & Stitch: The Series rather than a sequel to the original film. The story is an introduction to Dr. Jumba Jookiba's 625... |
August 26, 2003 | Direct-to-Video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
Direct-to-Video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
Direct-to-Video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
| Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites is the soundtrack to Disney's 2005, home entertainment sequel film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. The song "He Mele No Lilo" had been included in the first film, Lilo & Stitch. It was released by Walt Disney Records on August 30, 2005.-Track... |
August 30, 2005 | Direct-to-Video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
Direct-to-Video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
Direct-to-Video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
| Leroy & Stitch Leroy & Stitch Leroy & Stitch is an animated TV film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is a spin-off film of the 2002 animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the conclusion to the television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series and the franchise as well... |
June 26, 2006 | Direct-to-Video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
Direct-to-Video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
Direct-to-Video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
| Lilo & Stitch (film series) | $145,794,338 | $127,349,813 | $273,144,151 |
Critical reaction
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| Lilo & Stitch Lilo & Stitch This article is about the movie. For the television series, see Lilo & Stitch: The Series.Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on June 21, 2002... |
85% (145 reviews) | 76% (29 reviews) | 73% (30 reviews) | B (14 reviews) |
| Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites is the soundtrack to Disney's 2005, home entertainment sequel film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. The song "He Mele No Lilo" had been included in the first film, Lilo & Stitch. It was released by Walt Disney Records on August 30, 2005.-Track... |
38% (8 reviews) | |||
| Stitch! The Movie Stitch! The Movie Stitch! The Movie is a direct-to-video animated spinoff of Lilo & Stitch, released on August 26, 2003. It is often considered more of a backdoor pilot for the spinoff series Lilo & Stitch: The Series rather than a sequel to the original film. The story is an introduction to Dr. Jumba Jookiba's 625... |
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| Leroy & Stitch Leroy & Stitch Leroy & Stitch is an animated TV film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is a spin-off film of the 2002 animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the conclusion to the television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series and the franchise as well... |
External links
- Official site
- Lilo & Stitch at the Big Cartoon DataBaseBig Cartoon DataBaseThe Big Cartoon DataBase is an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows and cartoon shorts....
- Lilo & Stitch 2 at the Big Cartoon DataBaseBig Cartoon DataBaseThe Big Cartoon DataBase is an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows and cartoon shorts....
- Lilo & Stitch 2's official Disney animated films website
- Ultimate Disney DVD Review
- Official website
- & Stitch at Keyframe - the Animation Resource
- Leroy and Stitch at Disney DVD and Video
- Clips & Trailers of Leroy & Stitch plus bonus episode