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Lilo & Stitch

  • Title: Lilo & Stitch (2025)
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“This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good.”

Disney’s latest live-action remake gives us a story of friendship and family that would make Dominic Toretto proud. With a few notable exceptions, most in the final act of the film, the new Lilo & Stitch follows the events of the original faithfully starting with the exiled Experiment 626 (Chris Sanders) crashlanding on Earth. The early sequences involving the United Galactic Federation are all CGI, but to limit the amount of effects needed on Earth, outside of the alien “dog” whom Lilo (Maia Kealoha) adopts, we get Dr. Jumba Jookiba (Zach Galifianakis) and Agent Wendy Pleakley (Billy Magnussen) holographically disguised as humans for the majority of the film.

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Lilo & Stich

  • Title: Lilo & Stitch
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While its themes fit quite easily into the Disney canon, from a story perspective Lilo & Stitch was a major departure from your typical Disney film during the studio’s more experimental period of the early 2000s. The film focuses on an escaped alien creation of mass destruction who finds acceptance and family on Earth. Renamed Stitch (Chris Sanders) by a lonely young Hawaiian girl named Lilo (Daveigh Chase) who mistakes him for a dog, the concept by co-writer/co-director Chris Sanders explores friendship and family through their unlikely pairing.

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Moana 2

  • Title: Moana 2
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Offering more of what was delivered in Moana, albeit without a memorable musical number, Moana 2 delivers more adventure for the titular character in continuing her journey into the wider world. After bringing her people out of isolation and back to the ocean, Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) continues to search for other people leading to her next quest following the footsteps of her ancestors’ greatest wayfinder Tautai Vasa in searching for the lost island capable of reuniting the people of the ocean.

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The Lion King

  • Title: The Lion King
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The Lion King

It’s the circle of life. Returning to theaters for the film’s 30th anniversary, The Lion King tells the story of young Simba (Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Matthew Broderick) and his journey following the death of his father (James Earl Jones) and the pride being taken over by Simba’s villainous uncle Scar (Jeremy Irons) and his hyenas (Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and Jim Cummings) responsible for Mufasa‘s death and Simba’s exile.

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