Lilo & Stitch
Family FavoritePG

Lilo & Stitch

Hold on to your coconuts.

2025 • 108 min • Family · Science Fiction · Comedy

Synopsis

The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.

Our family guide

Best from age 7
90
Movie Knight Score
2235 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 5 · 65%
  • 72 Audience · 2230 · 35%

Lilo, a lonely Hawaiian girl, adopts an unusual "dog" named Stitch, who is actually an alien on the run. Their unique bond helps mend her fractured family as Stitch learns about love and belonging, despite his mischievous nature.

Violence & peril
3/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
0/10
Romance & sensuality
0/10
Scary moments
2/10

Heads up

  • Some animated sci-fi action and destruction.
  • Lilo experiences bullying from peers.
  • Grief over parental loss is a central theme.

What it models well

  • Family bonds and unconditional love
  • Acceptance of differences
  • Finding your place
  • Overcoming loneliness

Talk about it after

  • What makes a family?
  • How do we deal with loss and change?
  • The importance of forgiveness

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Top billed cast

Director: Dean Fleischer Camp • Crew: Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, Mike Van Waes

Trailers & clips

Cute and Chaotic

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Now Streaming on D+

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Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

This movie hit me in the feels. Stitch gets run over by that truck in exactly the same way as my dog. Both axels. I'd seen that scene many times in my head. Was weird to see it in this context. Never saw my dog again. Ends at 1:33 for me. The rest is good but I just wanted to hug my dog. I liked it. The kid wasn't annoying. The story is good. I never saw the original. RIP Tigra

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

well this was so much better than I expected, this was honestly so good and my kid came out the theatres as happy as ever. Very amazing and unexpectedly funny movie!

Recommended

While watching Disney’s new live-action version of Lilo & Stitch, the film felt fairly accurate to the original 2002 animated film for the first half of the film while the second half seemed insanely different in comparison. However, upon revisiting the original film, the live-action version features many unwanted modifications. Pleakley and Jumba are butchered in the new film. Now played by Billy Magnussen and...

Recommended

Hmmm! I wasn’t sure if I was watching a sentimental edition of “Hawaii Five-O” here or a collection of outtakes from a “Sonic” movie as this rather disappointingly trundles along for the guts of two hours. It’s starts off quite promisingly as we see the “Grand Councilwoman” sentence the latest creation of madcap scientist “Jumba” to exile under the supervision of himself and Earth expert “Pleakley”. It turns out t...

Recommended

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/lilo-stitch-movie-review-one-of-disneys-most-heartfelt-adorable-remakes-yet/ "Lilo & Stitch is one of Disney's most adorable, emotionally sincere live-action remakes to date. With charming performances - protect Maia Kealoha at all costs - an incredibly cute Stitch, and a heart as big as the world, Dean Fleischer Camp proves that there's room for new...

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