In a place far, far away, illegal genetic experiment #626 is detected: Ruthless scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba has created a strong, intelligent, nearly indestructible and aggressive being with only one known weakness: The high density of his body makes it impossible for the experiment to swim in water. The scientist is sentenced to jail by the Grand Council of the Galactic Federation. The experiment is supposed to be transported to a prison asteroid, yet manages to escape Captain Gantu, who was supposed to deliver him there. With a stolen police cruiser (the red one), the destructive being races towards a little and already doomed planet: Earth. Stranded on Hawaii, experiment #626 can't actually do much harm: water all around, no big cities and two well-equipped representatives of the Galactic Federation already following close behind to catch him again. But Dr. Jookiba and the Earth expert Pleakley never could have guessed that earth girl Lilo adopts the experiment as dog...
Written by Julian Reischl <julianreischl@mac.com>
The sign on Lilo's door is the Hawaiian word "kapu". It has cognates in other Polynesian languages, including Fijian "tabu" from which English "taboo" is borrowed. In context, it could be loosely translated as "Keep Out."
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Goofs
Plot holes:
At the beginning of the film, the Grand Councilwoman seems not to know the Planet Earth (since she doesn't recognize it and doesn't know it's almost completely covered in water). However, in the end of the film, she claims she has already been on Earth in the Roswell incident, and she has met Cobra Bubbles.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Grand Councilwoman:
Read the charges. Gantu:
Doctor Jumba Jookiba, you stand before this council accused of illegal genetic experimentation! Grand Councilwoman:
How do you plead? Jumba:
Not guilty! My experiments are only theoretical, and completely within legal boundaries. Grand Councilwoman:
We believe you actually... created something. Jumba:
Created something? Hah! But that would be irresponsible and unethical. I would never, ever...
[Stitch is revealed]
Jumba:
...make... more than one. See more »
Crazy Credits
One of the photos of Nani, Lilo, Stitch, et al. displayed at the end is a
parody of (or tribute to) Norman Rockwell's painting "Freedom from Want,"
one of a set of four paintings inspired by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's January 6, 1941 address to Congress enumerating "Four
Freedoms."
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