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‘Lilo & Stitch’ Review: ‘Ohana’ Means Familiar in a Disney Live-Action Redo That Barely Strays From Its Source
Director Dean Fleischer Camp delivers the same laughs and heart as 2002's 'Lilo & Stitch,' though his leads were more appealing in animated form.
Conceived by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the irreverent original story wasn’t based on a beloved classic like “Pinocchio” or “Aladdin,” and offered nothing even remotely resembling a princess: just a lonely Hawaiian orphan and the unruly addition to her family. For all intents and purposes, it could be a Hawaii-set sitcom, displaying less in common with such opulent Disney reimaginings as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” than it does the unabashedly hokey live-action movies the studio once churned out (e.g., “The Shaggy Dog” and “That Darn Cat!”). Except, where this troublemaker is concerned, Stitch remains animated, while practically all the other characters are played by real people — including Zach Galifianakis and Billy Magnussen, in a pair of great physical comedy performances, as two bumbling aliens in human disguise.
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