It's a Disney film that finds an acceptable tone with its traditional animation style, but unfortunately often treads on familiar clichés that take away the charm of its tropical fable about sisterhood, family, and aliens. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 19, 2025

There is no doubt that Lilo & Stitch is a masterpiece. With some of the best character work ever seen in animation, a fantastic cast, and a real emotional core, the film is everything one could want in a film.

| Jan 23, 2023

Beneath its absurdity, Lilo & Stitch captures what it feels like to yearn for belonging and to struggle to be understood.

| Original Score: A | Jul 29, 2022

One of the most insanely creative things Disney has ever put out, hand-stitched with so much love that it’s nearly bursting at the seams.

| Jun 25, 2022

Like Nani and Lilo, this movie is obviously not perfect. In fact, it can be dysfunctional at times. However, its heart is true and has a strong genuine feeling that it cares about family, and that’s what makes this a beloved fan-favorite.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 6, 2022

...a great moral, fun gags, and a slew of Elvis songs to keep the mood sky high from soup to nuts...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2021

Overall, at 18 years old, 'Lilo & Stitch' is still an underrated Disney film that deserves more attention.

| Oct 7, 2020

The BEST production supported by the animation studio during the first decade of the 21st century. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 7, 2020

It is not only refreshing to see a little girl in a Disney movie, but a unique little girl.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 6, 2019

Ohana means family, and family in this fun and feisty 2002 animated Disney feature means a little Hawaiian girl, her caretaker sister, the sister's boyfriend, and a mutated monster of an alien that little Lilo adopts, thinking he's a dog.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 30, 2016

Cute story, great characters, fabulous soundtrack.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 25, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 9, 2009

Smart, poignant, and utterly beguiling.

| Nov 16, 2009

This is a very disappointing effort from Disney.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 29, 2009

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 26, 2009

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.

| Sep 2, 2008

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

| Sep 2, 2008

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

| Jun 24, 2006

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 30, 2005