Lilo & Stitch

No spoilers. This one is a classic. (At least in my opinion it is.)

Lilo & Stitch was released in 2002 and got a staggering 7.2/10 on IMDB as well as a 86% Rotten Tomatoes which I find to be quite a high review considering that this is a children's animation and they usually do not score very high with the critics.

The story begins with Lilo (Voiced by Daveigh Chase) who is late for a dance class because she had to go and feed Pudge the fish whom she believes controls the weather.

Fun fact: The reason that this was important to Lilo is because her parents died in a car crash while it was raining and she therefore desires blue skies.

We are then shown how Lilo stands out from the other girls her age and how she feels rather lonely, due to this she tries to pull away from her sister, Nani (Tia Carrere), who is trying to impress the social worker who is assigned to their case so that she doesn't have to give up her little sister.

Meanwhile, Jumba, an alien evil scientist (David Ogden Stiers) is being imprisoned for creating a living experiment that is purely built for destruction. When the experiment escapes Jumba and Pleakley (Kevin McDonald) are sent to retrieve him in order to keep the humans safe from the alien weapon.

The experiment is bought by Lilo and her sister who believed him to be a dog and named him Stitch (Chris Sanders).

A lot, and I do mean a lot, of drama ensues as Nani tries her best to keep her sister safe from aliens that she cannot even see and keep a full time job while still looking after her and stopping their crazy dog from destroying the entire town. Needless to say it becomes tough.

I adore this movie not just for the story and animation but also because it gave us one of the first ethnic families in the Disney movies and it also touched on tough issues like social workers and death in ones close family.

I love what this movie taught young children and the amazing way that they showed us how family works and that it isn't always the family that we are born into, sometimes it can be the family that we choose.

"Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

Thanks for reading xx