Lilo & Stitch (2003)

All Critics (145) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (130) | Rotten (21) | DVD (40)

Smart, poignant, and utterly beguiling.

November 16, 2009 Full Review

Ted Shen

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

It's a bright, engaging bauble with half a dozen Elvis Presley songs for Mom and Dad, and just enough sass -- Stitch sticks his tongue into his nose and eats his snot -- to keep the tweeners giggling.

September 2, 2008 Full Review

Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Regrettably, towards the end the film veers off into a mess of weird aliens and Cartoon Network silliness.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

An entertaining and (three cheers) modest bauble that eschews most of the blockbuster trappings that have been strangling animated features in the past few years.

August 9, 2002

Robert Denerstein

Denver Rocky Mountain News

Top Critic

[A] crushing disappointment.

June 25, 2002 Full Review | Comments (5)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic: two parts exhausting Men in Black mayhem to one part family values.

June 25, 2002 Full Review | Comments (2)

Ed Park

Village Voice

Top Critic

Cute story, great characters, fabulous soundtrack.

December 25, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

It is the sweetest Disney movie of its generation; but the lengthy beginning and somewhat shorter climax drag it down at the worst possible points.

December 9, 2009 Full Review

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

This is a very disappointing effort from Disney.

April 29, 2009 Full Review | Comments (4)

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

...an affable but hopelessly uneven fantasy...

March 26, 2009 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

It's offbeat, action-packed, and it has a heart as big as a Hawaiian welcome. And in keeping with the Disney philosophy, the style of drawing has its own distinctive look.

March 21, 2009 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

It's funny, it's sad and, frankly, it's a bit weird.

September 2, 2008 Full Review

Film4

Easily one of the strangest products to ever emerge from the Disney animation pipeline.

December 6, 2005 Full Review

Michael Dequina

Film Threat

The movie does manage to tug at your heartstrings with its themes of loneliness and finding a place to fit in, but it does it without ever rising too high on the sap-o-meter.

September 30, 2005 Full Review

Scott Nash

Three Movie Buffs

Similar to most contemporary American feature-length animation, the film's overall structure is frayed.

May 13, 2005 Full Review

Jon Lap

Apollo Guide

... it unapologetically affirms that love can make good things happen in a broken family.

December 6, 2004

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

This one's for all the lost sheep and ugly ducklings out there . . . a quirky nature vs. nurture experiment where nurture wins out and even the oddest duck finds a family

August 14, 2004

James Plath

Reel.com

A raucous comedy/adventure [and] easily one of the strangest products to ever emerge from the Disney animation pipeline.

January 12, 2004 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Putting aside the Pixar computer animated offerings, this is the best Disney animation in nearly a decade.

January 1, 2004 Full Review

Daniel M. Kimmel

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Make sure your kids don't get too much sugar in the cinema - the house mightn't be up to the mayhem when they get out.

March 26, 2003 Full Review

Harry Guerin

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

• 1. Nani: Watch where you're going! Stupidhead!
  – Submitted by Emelyn W (2 months ago)
• 1. Nani: You are such a pain!
  2. Lilo: So why don't you sell me and buy a rabbit instead?
  3. Nani: At least a rabbit would behave better than you!
  4. Lilo: Go ahead than you'll happy because it'll be smarter than me too!
  5. Nani: And quieter!
  6. Lilo: You'll like it because it's stinky like you!
  – Submitted by S.R. H (2 months ago)
• 1. Lilo: It's fish! If I gave Pudge tuna, I'd be an abomination! I'm late because I had to go to the store, to get peanut butter, because all we have is, is stinking tuna!!
  – Submitted by S.R. H (2 months ago)
• 1. Lilo: And you like me better as a sister than a rabbit, right?
  – Submitted by S.R. H (2 months ago)
• 1. Lilo: You know, you wreck everything you touch. Why not try and make something for a change?
  2. Stitch: [builds a city out of what he finds in Lilo's room.]
  3. Lilo: Wow. San Francisco.
  4. Stitch: [begins to destroy the city like the monster in 'Earth vs. the Spider', picking up a toy car.]
  5. Stitch: [as car passengers] Eeeeeek! Save me!
  6. Lilo: No more caffeine for you.
  – Submitted by Adam K (8 months ago)
• 1. Stitch: Yoo porma dissy!
  2. Jumba: Leave my mother out of this!
  – Submitted by cj o (8 months ago)

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