“Did you ever surprise what Lilo & Sew would appear like if it was live-action, lots longer and never fairly nearly as good? In case you did, you’re pondering like a Disney government. The Home of Mouse has been chewing away at its personal foundations for almost twenty years now and it’s discovered one thing else to gnaw on.”
“[The original animated film] works so nicely due to its wily mixture of packaging and messaging. Nevertheless it additionally works considerably much less nicely when that packaging modifications, switched from vibrant and bubbly animation to a live-action setting that may’t assist however continually remind viewers of the supposed actuality of the scenario.”
“Whether or not by some (comparatively delicate) plot changes or simply by dint of flipping the story into the flesh-and-blood realm, Lilo & Sew has been tamed into a type of naughty-pet household comedies that used to roll off studio manufacturing traces with thud-thudding regularity, till the shape fell out of vogue someplace round 1994.”
“This [film] settles on being a advantageous retread as a substitute of a rabble-rousing romp. Sew, in his personal peculiar method, sums it up completely: This Lilo & Sew is ‘damaged however nonetheless good’. Even when it’s finally an pointless new tackle a chaotic masterpiece.”
“At its core, this new model of Lilo & Sew is identical as its animated predecessor, however most crucially (and surprisingly), it’s additionally enthusiastic about telling a deeper story that shades in a lot of Lilo and Nani’s grief with colors that imbue the undertaking with an excellent richness.”