The live-action adaptation of Lilo and Stitch, featuring Maia Kealoha and Chris Sanders, debuted on May 23, 2025. Audience reactions are polarized, and while some are praising the visuals, others are criticising significant plot changes that alter the original's heartfelt themes.

Why are we doing this again? The latest is a hybrid live-action retelling of 2002’s “Lilo & Stitch,” about a lovably unruly Native Hawaiian girl and the alien “dog” that crash-lands in her life. Give it this: It makes the eponymous creature of cuddly mass destruction more adorable than ever,

The larger conflict is interstellar. Later nicknamed Stitch by Lilo, once he crash-lands his getaway spaceship near the sisters’ house, the small blue maniac from somewhere Out There is an “illegal g...

With a film budget of $80 million, the film grossed a total of $273 million worldwide, according to IMDb.