The Lilo & Stitch Remake Makes A Big (And Welcome) Change To Nani

The spoilers of the new “Lilo & Stitch” follow.

Here is another Disney remake live. This time, the wonderful animated function of 2002 “Lilo & Stitch” obtains live treatment, and in all honesty, the results are not half bad. As always, the original animated version is higher, but with regard to these remakes, the “Lilo & Stitch” of 2025 is quite charming, Even if it plays a little too safe. One thing that this remake has for him is an attempt not to tell the same exact beat for beat. More often than not, live remakes seem to adopt a style of remake shot-for-shot which seems rather useless-why do the same thing exactly when we already have this in animated form?

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To be clear, the new “Lilo & Stitch” recreated the majority of the original film, to the dialogue. The story again concerns a lonely girl named Lilo (played fairly well by Maia Kealoha) who befriends an extraterrestrial excitement that is wreaking havoc, she names Stitch (expressed by Chris Sanders, who co-wrote and directed the original film and expressed Stitch there, too). Just like in the original film, the new “Lilo & Stitch” concerns the way Stitch learns the true meaning of the family, and just like the original film, the new “Lilo & Stitch” will probably make you cry the moment when it is finished (I torn a little in the theater when I saw it this week? Do you prefer that I did it).

But again, the new “Lilo & Stitch” makes changes, adding new characters, removing others and modifying certain details (there is Much less concentrated on Elvis In this film, for example). One of the biggest changes concerns the eldest protector of Lilo, Nani, played here by Sydney Agudong. As in the original film, the parents of Lilo and Nani have recently died, leaving the teenager Nani as a guardian of Lilo. Although the age of Nani is never specified in one or the other film (she is obviously more than 18 years old to give a guardianship, but that’s all we really know), she is always very young, and suddenly to be responsible for taking care of her little sister is naturally a little burden for Nani, who fights to do the good thing and earn enough money to support herself and her sister.

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In the original film, we do not get much information about Nani. The film is mainly focused on Lilo (and Stitch), and the whole arc of Nani in this film revolves around the care of Lilo. In the new film, the script gives Nani a different background frame. We learn that she obtained a full scholarship to go to university to become a marine biologist, but these dreams were destroyed when her parents’ died.

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The two films imply that Nani has difficulty maintaining the tutelage of Lilo – a task that becomes difficult after Nani loses his job thanks to the singeries of Stitch. But the final of the new film changes things for the future of Nani. In the original film, Nani can maintain the supervision of Lilo and they all live happy forever, with Stitch remaining on earth. In the new film, however, Nani has the opportunity to return to university when the helpful neighbor Tūtū (Amy Hill), a new character added for this film, agrees to watch Lilo.

There are two ways to look at this change. One is positive, in that it gives Nani a chance to live the life she always wanted while remaining in the life of Lilo (a post-creredit scene reveals that Nani uses a science fiction portal pistol to transport to the university house to go out with Lilo and Stitch when she wants). However, there is also a negative way of looking at this: in the end, after all his difficulties, Nani simply tends to Lilo to be treated by someone else. Shouldn’t sisters stay together?

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In the end, I think this change works. Of course, it’s more pleasant than Nani and Lilo stay together as a large family (with point). But it is more hope of giving Nani a chance to live his dreams. But as I said above, the original film (and its original end) is always better. But I can always appreciate what the filmmakers were looking for here.

“Lilo & Stitch” is now in theaters.