What is Lilo & Stitch’s live action remake worth? (critical)
Dean Fleischer Camp, the director of Marcel Le Coquillage, managed to keep the soul of the original Disney, despite a few lengths.
After the fairly massive rejection of the latest, Snow whiteit is therefore the turn of Lilo & Stitch to join the large live-action family. In this formatted industrial landscape, where these adaptations often struggle to convince, the company seemed risky.
It was more necessary to discourage Dean Fleischer Camp – the director of the tender and poetic Marcel the shell (named to the Oscars). He brilliantly takes up the challenge by celebrating Hawaiian culture through breathtaking images and an authentic cast. From the first minutes, Lilo built a world just for her; This lonely child, a little excluded, finds refuge in his passion for animals, until the arrival of Stitch, a small uncontrollable blue extraterrestrial which will change his life.
Dean Fleischer Camp took care here to preserve the essence of the cartoon: a childish sweetness, very colorful, tinged with a certain brutality. Loneliness, the founding theme of the original film, always occupies a central place in this new story, slightly altered to be more “current”. By releasing Nani – Lilo’s big sister – from the improvised maternal burden to allow him to continue his studies, the film brings a contemporary nuance Bienvenue. If the traditional family dynamics are erased, the tenderness between the two sisters remains intact, accurately revealing the identity upheavals that generates a sudden family reconfiguration.
Consequently, the friendship relationship between the little Hawaiian and her blue companion is too quickly evacuated and the new docility of the alien too rushed …
There remains the visual power of the film. The Hawaiian landscapes with flamboyant colors are literally hypnotic, and the small extraterrestrial in synthetic image goes perfectly with paradisiac decorations. Despite some small lengths, Lilo & Stitch is a real success.
De Dean Fleischer Camp. Duration: 1h48. Released May 21, 2025
