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A very entertaining tweak on Disney tradition, the House of Mouse's lost-little-alien animated comedy
Lilo & Stitch mixes standard elements (the main character is an orphaned little girl) with a funnier, edgier, but still kid-flavored sense of humor. Stitch is a super-strong, super-intelligent, razor-toothed, cute but destructive little blue monster who has escaped from a mad scientist on another planet and crash-landed in Hawaii. Mistaken for a peculiar breed of stray dog, he's taken in by little Lilo, who is something of an outcast herself, and promptly begins to wreak havoc on the household, headed by Lilo's 19-year-old struggling waitress sister Nani. Complications arise with the arrival of the mad scientist, who tries to blend in as a tourist, and with a hackneyed subplot involving a social worker wanting to break up the sisters for idiotically contrived reasons. Bad subplot aside,
Lilo & Stitch is driven by zany, well-timed, off-the-wall humor that will be welcome to both younger and older audiences. Enthusiastically recommended.
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