Lilo & Stitch (film series)

Lilo & Stitch film series
2009 Japanese DVD Box Set for the 4 films
Directed by	Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch) Tony Craig & Bobs Gannaway (Stich! The Movie) Mike LaBash & Anthony Leondis (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch) Tony Craig & Rob Gannaway (Leroy & Stitch)
Produced by	Clark Spencer (Lilo & Stitch) Tony Craig & Jess Winfield (Stitch! The Movie) Christopher Chase & Angi Dyste (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch) Igor Khait & Jess Winfield (Leroy & Stitch)
Written by	Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch) Robert Gannaway & Jess Winfield (Stitch! The Movie, Leroy & Stitch) Anthony Leondis (screenplay) & Eddie Guzelian & Alexa Junge (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch)
Music by	Alan Silvestri (Lilo & Stitch) Steven Gizicki (Supervisor) & Scott Erickson (Arranger) (Stitch! The Movie, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Leroy & Stitch)
Editing by	Darren T. Holmes (Lilo & Stitch) William J. Caparella (Stitch! The Movie, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Leroy & Stitch)
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures (Lilo & Stitch) Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Stitch! The Movie, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Leroy & Stitch)
Release date(s)	2002-2006
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	(Lilo & Stitch: $80,000,000) (Stitch! The Movie: $10,000,000 estimated) (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch: $10,000,000 estimated) (Leroy & Stitch: $10,000,000 estimated)

The Lilo & Stitch films series consists of four films, created by Walt Disney Studios. The series was conceived in 2002 under directors Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders. Between these and other producers, four films were made as of 2006.

Beyond the four films, a television series entitled (Lilo & Stitch: The Series) was made between 2003 and 2006. A Japanese anime version of the series entitled (Stitch!) was launched in 2008. A short-film (The Origin of Stitch), was seen on the Lilo & Stitch 2 DVD.

Films

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Main article: Lilo & Stitch

An extraterrestrial mad scientist named Dr. Jumba Jookiba (David Ogden Stiers) is put on trial by a galactic governing body, headed by a Grand Councilwoman, for illegally creating creatures to cause chaos and destruction. His latest experiment is Number 626 (Chris Sanders): a cute little blue alien with four arms, two legs and antennae who is deceptively strong, fast, intelligent, destructive and indestructible. 626 is judged impossible to redeem, and sentenced to exile, while Jumba himself is jailed.

Captain Gantu (Kevin Michael Richardson), a huge fish-like alien, is assigned to take 626 to a penal colony. However, during the trip 626 manages to escape in a smaller spacecraft, and crash lands on the small Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi, on Earth.

Masquerading as a dog, 626 is adopted by a little girl named Lilo Pelekai (Daveigh Chase) who is living with her 19-year-old sister Nani (Tia Carrere) after their parents died in a car accident. Lilo is lonely and a bit of an outcast until she finds a new friend in 626 – she thinks it's a dog – whom she names "Stitch." She identifies with Stitch's strong antisocial tendencies, and the two form a bond immediately. Stitch initially attempts to escape the island but finds that it is impossible because he is afraid of the water, and cannot swim since his body is too dense. Stitch resigns himself to stay with Lilo when he spots that he is being watched by Jumba and Galactic Agent Pleakley (Kevin McDonald), who have been assigned to recapture Stitch without being detected by humans in exchange for Jumba's freedom. Pleakley is both a guide and Jumba's supervisor, to ensure Jumba does not escape should he fail to recapture Stitch. Lilo notes Stitch's violent tendencies and attempts to teach him to relax, holding up her favorite musician Elvis Presley as a model example of behavior.

Nani and Lilo are visited by social worker Cobra Bubbles (Ving Rhames), who tells Nani that unless she finds employment and improves their living conditions, he will have to take Lilo into foster care. She has three days to change his mind. Nani, with the help of her boyfriend David, tries several times to find employment, but is unable to secure a position, as Lilo's attempts to tame Stitch by having him behave as Elvis Presley generally lead to disaster during Nani's job interviews. After one such tiring day, David offers Nani and Lilo a day of surfing at the beach. While the three of them are trying to help Stitch learn how to surf, Jumba and Pleakley capture Stitch from underwater, leading Stitch to grab onto Lilo, dragging her under. David manages to rescue both Lilo and Stitch, but Nani believes that Stitch was attacking Lilo. Unfortunately, Cobra Bubbles saw the entire event, and tells Nani (not without sympathy) that it's time to separate Lilo from her and that he will return the next morning. Stitch realizes that it was his fault and returns to Lilo's house alone. After seeing Lilo and Nani express affection as sisters, and discuss the importance of their culture and being together as a family, he experiences an identity crisis and decides to leave, hiding in the woods feeling completely lost.

The following morning, Jumba and Pleakley are fired for not capturing Stitch. The Grand Councilwoman assigns Captain Gantu to capture Stitch. This leads Jumba, no longer bound by Galactic Code, to aggressively chase Stitch in one last effort. He finds Stitch in the woods and finds out that Stitch is waiting for "family" to arrive. Jumba says that Stitch, being an experimental creation, does not have one and that he can never belong. Stitch runs from Jumba and a chase ensues. Meanwhile, Lilo discovers that Stitch left, while David arrives with a job offer for Nani. Nani tells Lilo to stay at home and not to answer the door. Stitch comes back to Lilo's home, followed by Jumba, and the two begin to fight while Lilo calls Cobra Bubbles for help. The house is ultimately demolished, with Nani and Agent Bubbles arriving just after. Seeing Nani and Cobra arguing, Lilo runs off into the woods and encounters Stitch. He reveals his true alien form, and Lilo is furious that he had deceived her. Before Lilo can say any more, Gantu captures both of them. Stitch manages to escape the pod they are both placed in but is then confronted by Nani. At this point, Stitch finally speaks to her in (pidgin) English and shows that he is an alien and does understand the meaning of ohana, meaning "family" and "that nobody gets left behind or forgotten". Jumba is able to capture Stitch during this moment of understanding, but Nani pleads with him to help save Lilo from Gantu, and he reluctantly agrees.

Employing Jumba's spaceship, they and Gantu give chase around the Hawaiian mountains. Stitch manages to land on Gantu's ship and attempts to free Lilo, but Gantu reconfigures the angle of the afterburners to blast Stitch off the ship. After a moment of unconsciousness, Stitch wakes up just in time to save a frog from being run over by a gasoline truck. Hijacking the same truck, Stitch drives it straight into an active volcano, taunting Gantu and releasing the fuel into the lava. The explosion launches Stitch like a rocket straight into Gantu's cockpit. Gantu tries to smash Stitch but ends up getting thrown off the ship. Stitch rescues Lilo moments before the ship explodes. When everyone lands in the ocean, David is coincidentally surfing nearby and helps transport everyone to shore.

Just as they arrive to the shore, it is suddenly revealed that the Grand Councilwoman herself has come to arrest Stitch. Stitch, using his new name and broken English, asks to say good-bye to Lilo and Nani, telling the Grand Councilwoman: "This my family. I found it all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good." Lilo presents the certificate of adoption from the dog pound which, as a legally binding document, makes her responsible for Stitch. The Grand Councilwoman sees that Stitch has reformed into a civilized creature under Lilo's care, and so Stitch's sentence of life in exile is altered: he's now considered a ward of Lilo and Nani's. Cobra Bubbles is revealed to be a former CIA agent who previously met the Grand Councilwoman at Roswell, and he promises to keep an eye on the family. The movie ends with both Jumba and Pleakley assigned to Earth (they help rebuild the demolished home with some of their alien technology), and with Stitch being fully accepted into Lilo's family.

Stitch! The Movie (2003)

Main article: Stitch! The Movie

The film starts out with ex-Captain Gantu on his new spaceship (his original got destroyed in the first film), being hired by Hämsterviel to retrieve the experiments. Meanwhile, on Earth, Stitch is still not fitting in. Lilo tries to encourage him by saying he's one-of-a-kind, comparing him to Frankenstein. Naturally, that just makes him feel worse. Suddenly, a crash is heard from below. Running downstairs, the pair encounters Gantu, breaking into their home. In the ensuing chaos, Gantu finds and takes a blue ball with the number "625" on it before abducting Jumba for interrogation. Lilo and Stitch manage take Jumba's ship to chase Gantu into space and engage him in battle, before being defeated and falling back towards Earth.

Back at the house, Lilo, Stitch and Pleakley talk and find the container Jumba was hiding. Pleakley decides that these are the other experiments, in dehydrated form. He warns them not to tell anyone or put the experiments in water. Deliberately disobeying Pleakley, Stitch and Lilo retrieve the container and hydrate Experiment 221, who promptly escapes.

Meanwhile, Jumba is being held captive on the ship of Dr. Hämsterviel, who makes his appearance and is surprisingly a small gerbil/poodle/rabbit-like alien. Unable to intimidate Jumba, Hämsterviel activates Experiment 625 to attack him. Fortunately for Jumba, while 625 has all of Stitch's powers, he is incredibly lazy, a terrible coward, and prioritizes sandwiches above all else.

Meanwhile, Pleakley is able to come into contact with Hämsterviel's ship via telephone. Hämsterviel tells Pleakley that he wants a ransom of the 624 experiments in return for Jumba. When Pleakley informs the other family members what the ransom is, Nani proceeds to call Cobra Bubbles while Lilo and Stitch go out to find 221. When Cobra arrives the next morning, he seems to already know about what happened. Meanwhile, Lilo and Stitch finally catch a troublesome Experiment 221 at a hotel.

The rendezvous time arrives and Pleakley and Cobra show up with the container, not knowing that it contains only 623 experiments. Pleakley hands the container over to Hämsterviel, who is shocked to find that one is missing. Lilo then shows up with Experiment 221 trapped in a glass vase. Announcing that she has named it "Sparky", she says that Sparky is part of Stitch's, and thus her, ohana. Hämsterviel tells her to give him the experiment or Jumba dies.

After several moments of thinking and hearing Cobra, Pleakley, Jumba and Hämsterviel persuading them, Lilo and Stitch set Sparky free and break Jumba from his bonds. On Cobra's signal, the Grand Councilwoman's ship rises out of the nearby ocean and aims several guns at Hämsterviel. Lilo protests, saying that Hämsterviel has the other experiments and Sparky overhears.

Sparky proceeds to use his electrical abilities to blow the power on the Councilwoman's ship, while Hämsterviel and Gantu climb back aboard their own ship with the experiments. In a last attempt to stop Hämsterviel, Lilo and Stitch stow away on it as it leaves, with Sparky following.

Lilo and Stitch manage to swipe the container with the other experiments in it. The struggle for the container between Lilo, Stitch and Gantu results in the releasing the dehydrated pods to rain down on Hawaii. Having captured the heroes, Hämsterviel tells his plans to clone Stitch a thousand times over and orders Gantu to do what he wants with Lilo. While Gantu puts Lilo in a teleportation pod to send to an intergalactic zoo, Stitch is strapped to a weight just heavier than he can lift.

Watching as Stitch tries to avoid being vivisected by a laser for the cloning process, Sparky thinks and shows that he has reformed by causing the cloning machine to short-circuit. He then breaks Stich free and the two strap Hämsterviel to the device before rescuing Lilo.

Having locked Hämsterviel in handcuffs, Lilo, Stitch, and Sparky short-circuit Gantu's ship, causing it to crash near a waterfall on Kauai. Landing Hämsterviel's ship back at the rendezvous point, they give Sparky a new home powering an old lighthouse, which has not been running in years because powering it was very expensive. They then persuade the Grand Councilwoman to let them rehabilitate the other 623. The Councilwoman places Hämsterviel under arrest and Jumba whispers to Pleakley that he has plans for making Experiment 627.

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)

Main article: Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch

In this movie (set before Stitch the Movie) Lilo and her classmates are preparing for a hula competition where the winner gets to perform at the local May Day festival. Each student is required to create an original dance. While preparing for the competition, Stitch's past comes back to haunt him. It seems that after Stitch was created, Jumba did not get a chance to fully charge Stitch's molecules before they were both arrested. At first this glitch causes Stitch to revert to his old destructive programming, but it will ultimately destroy him if Jumba cannot create a charging pod before Stitch's energy runs out.

Meanwhile, Stitch's uncontrollable destructive behavior is driving a wedge between him and Lilo and ruining her chances for success at the hula competition. Eventually, the two devise a hula based on the legend of Hi'iaka. Lilo gets mad at Stitch and he sends himself away so he will not hurt anyone he loves. Ultimately, Lilo forfeits the competition to help Stitch. Unfortunately, Lilo and the Ohana arrive too late, Stitch dies at the end. However Lilo's love revives him when Jumba's machine cannot.

Leroy & Stitch (2006)

Main article: Leroy & Stitch

Their mission to capture all 624 experiments and repurpose them on Earth has been completed, so Lilo and her family are honored as heroes by the Galactic Alliance. Jumba is given the confiscated key to his laboratory again, Pleakley is offered a post as chairman of Earth Studies at G.A.C.C. (Galactic Alliance Community College) and Stitch (experiment 626) is made a Captain of the Galactic Armada and commander of the BRB-9000 (BRB stands for "Big Red Battleship"). Lilo is made Ambassador to Earth and sole guardian of Stitch's "cousins". At first, the others refuse their rewards because they see how sad Lilo is when she finds out they would leave. But at the end of the day, Lilo accepts it and gets ready to say goodbye to her extended family from outer space. Before they leave, Lilo gives Jumba an Elvis record, Pleakley a paperweight (which is actually an Earth rock) and Stitch a necklace with a Tiki Ku (the Hawaiian god of strength), then says her goodbyes.

Meanwhile, Gantu has decided that since he failed in capturing all of the experiments except for 625, he would break Dr. Hämsterviel out of prison. He takes the two-man shuttle, leaving 625 alone.

At Galactic Alliance HQ on Planet Turo, Stitch is given his first assignment - recapture Hämsterviel. Pleakley is first overjoyed at his new position at G.A.C.C., until his assistant tells him that he is merely a supervisory professor—he will teach no classes. Jumba is also happy at first returning to many of his "evil genius" ways, but soon discovers that without anyone to show his accomplishments to, he is as unhappy as the others.

Jumba's sadness is short-lived when Hämsterviel and Gantu burst in. Hämsterviel demands a new and better experiment to defeat the Galactic Alliance. When Jumba refuses, he is forced to do it at laser-point. This new creation has all of Stitch's powers and then some, with some doubled fur. After running through several names and one number (Experiment 627, which Gantu reminds Jumba he already created), Hämsterviel names this new monstrosity: Leroy (which is the name everyone except Lilo laughs at).

Stitch blasts through the door, seeking to capture Hämsterviel. After a fight that destroys Jumba's lab, Stitch is defeated when Pleakley appears at an unfortunate moment, distracting Stitch long enough for Leroy to lock him in a container. Hämsterviel then reveals his master plan: to clone an army of Leroys to take over the Galactic Alliance. Before leaving for Turo, Hämsterviel locks Jumba, Pleakley and Stitch in Pleakley's G.A.C.C. space vehicle, with its autopilot set to send the ship into a black hole.

Back on Earth, Lilo makes the rounds to ensure that all of the "cousins" are still happy in their "one true place". After a confrontation with Mertle (who tells Lilo that she thinks Stitch ran away because she was too weird), Lilo decides to contact Stitch. After calling Cobra Bubbles (and getting his answering machine), Lilo realizes that there is still one inter-galactic videophone on the planet: Gantu's ship. She makes her way there and finds Experiment 625, who is bitter about being left behind by Gantu and has plans to convert the ship into a sandwich shop. Lilo offers him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 625 is touched since no one has ever made him a sandwich before, but still remains suspicious of Lilo. When she asks about the videophone, 625 says it is broken and he will not fix it. It occurs to Lilo that 625 is the one experiment who still does not have a name and, after several bad sandwich puns, settles on "Reuben" (as in the Reuben sandwich). Reuben likes his name very much and consents to help Lilo.

Once the videophone is fixed, Lilo contacts the BRB-9000. Leroy tries to pass himself off as Stitch, but only manages to fool 625. Lilo knows that Leroy is not Stitch because he does not have the tiki necklace. Leroy blasts the communication screen. Hämsterviel decides on a new task for Leroy: go to Earth and capture all of the other experiments so that he may destroy them.

Lilo, sensing Stitch is in trouble, asks Reuben for help fixing Gantu's ship because he has almost all the same powers as Stitch. After some reluctance, he agrees and uses his powers for the only time in the entire series. Soon, Gantu's ship is space-worthy, but as they leave, Leroy crashes on Earth in Mertle's backyard (in much the same manner as Stitch in the original film).

As Jumba, Pleakley, and Stitch head towards the black hole, Stitch escapes confinement and quickly frees the others. However, the navigational computer is locked on course for the black hole. Jumba says that the black hole will teleport them to a volcanic planet where they will be instantly vaporized, but if they can disrupt the event horizon, it will send them somewhere else. Pleakley pulls out the rock that Lilo gave him and asks if this will work. After Jumba says it is too heavy, Stitch takes a bite out of it, then crawls out the front of the vehicle and throws it at the black hole. There is a flash and the vehicle is sucked in.

On Earth, Leroy obtains Lilo's scrapbook of "cousins" and quickly captures all of them (along with Mertle).

Lilo and Reuben have arrived at Turo, but they are too late. Hämsterviel has taken over using Leroy and he orders Gantu to lock them up, then turn in his I.D. card and cape. Gantu captures Lilo and Reuben, but a few minutes later, Gantu decides to release them because Hämsterviel fired him. After a close call with several Leroy clones, they are trapped. All looks lost until the G.A.C.C. van suddenly appears (from the black hole). With no time to explain, Lilo, Reuben and Gantu all climb in and head for Earth.

On Earth, the original Leroy has herded all the experiments into a large stadium, which appears to be based on real Aloha Stadium (where "Alohapalooza," a fictional event clearly parodying Lollapalooza, was scheduled to take place). The BRB-9000 appears and Hämsterviel prepares to obliterate all of the experiments, until a timely appearance by Lilo, Stitch and the others destroys the BRB's primary cannon. Hämsterviel is unfazed and reveals that he brought along his Leroy army as backup. Stitch rallies his "cousins", and the experiments begin to battle. It soon becomes apparent that the Leroys are more than a match for the good guys. In the nick of time, Jumba remembers that he programmed a secret shut-down command into Leroy. When the original Leroy was created, Jumba was playing Lilo's record, which had a copy of Elvis Presley's performance of "Aloha 'Oe". If Leroy hears that song again, it will cause him, theoretically, to deactivate. Lilo, seeing the equipment set up for the concert, devises a plan.

With Jumba controlling the sound, Pleakley on lights, and Gantu providing fireworks, Stitch pops out on-stage in full Elvis attire. He begins to play "Aloha 'Oe" and, sure enough, the Leroys shut down. His plan foiled, Hämsterviel is recaptured. Back at Galactic Alliance HQ, the Grand Councilwoman calls Lilo and the others "heroes of the Alliance." Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley ask to be allowed to return to Earth with Lilo. The Grand Councilwoman accepts this, then asks Gantu if he would like to be reinstated as a Captain of the Armada. Gantu agrees, on the condition that Reuben be assigned to his ship as its Galley Officer.

Back on Earth, Lilo sets up for one last picture. Mertle arrives with Gigi (during the battle, Mertle learned that Gigi could talk and was one of Jumba's experiments). Though Mertle still thinks Lilo is weird, she says that Gigi wants to be part of the "ohana." Lilo's last picture in the cousins album is of all of the experiments still on Earth, plus herself, Mertle, Jumba, Pleakley, Nani, and Nani's boyfriend David.

Meanwhile, Lilo has already found out where Leroy and his clones belong — in jail. Before the ending credits, the clones of Leroy happily dance to Elvis Presley's song, "Jailhouse Rock", with an angry Dr. Hämsterviel tapping his feet. As the credits roll, a full list of Jumba's experiments 001 through 626, and the names they were given by Lilo, scrolls along the left side of the screen.

Series

Lilo & Stitch: The Series (2003-2006)

Main article: Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Continuing where Stitch! The Movie left off, Lilo and Stitch are given the task of collecting the rest of Jumba's missing experiments, changing them from bad to good, and finding the one place where they truly belong. Meanwhile, the former Captain Gantu and his reluctant partner, experiment 625, try to capture the experiments for the imprisoned Dr. Hämsterviel.

Running for two seasons and a total of 65 episodes, the series (and the franchise) ended with the direct-to-DVD movie Leroy & Stitch. The series has been adapted into an anime series, Stitch! in Japan, taking place a few decades after Leroy and Stitch. The series had low quotes in the USA, but it was also a great hit in Europe. On May 29, 2007, Lilo and Stitch moved from its daily 12 p.m. time slot to its new daily time slot at 5 and 5:30 a.m.

Stitch! (2008-2011)

Main article: Stitch!

The show features a Japanese girl named Yuna in place of Lilo, and is be set on a fictional island off the shore of Okinawa instead of Hawaii. It is animated and co-produced by the Japanese animation house Madhouse LTD.^[1][2][3] Many of the past characters, such as Jumba Jookiba and Pleakley, appear, as well as five villains; Captain Gantu, Dr. Jacques von Hamsterviel, Reuben, Experiment 627, and Leroy. It also features new experiments exclusive to this series. Although the series is doing very well in Japan, it has received only moderate appraise everywhere else.

Cast and characters

Character	Appearences
	Lilo & Stitch	Stitch! The Movie	The Series	Stitch Has a Glitch	Leroy & Stitch	Stitch!
Stitch (626)	Chris Sanders					Ben Diskin
Lilo Pelekai	Daveigh Chase			Dakota Fanning	Daveigh Chase
Nani Pelekai	Tia Carrere
Mertle Edmonds	Miranda Paige Walls	Liliana Mumy
Dr. Jumba Jookiba	David Ogden Stiers
Agent Pleakley	Kevin McDonald
Captain Gantu	Kevin Michael Richardson				Kevin Michael Richardson
Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel		Jeff Bennett			Jeff Bennett
Cobra Bubbles	Ving Rhames		Kevin Michael Richardson		Ving Rhames
Grand Councilwoman	Zoe Caldwell			Zoe Caldwell
David Kawena	Jason Scott Lee
Reuben (625)		Rob Paulsen			Rob Paulsen
Angel (624)			Tara Strong		Tara Strong
Yuna						Eden Riegel
Experiments		?			?	?

Video games

Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626

Cover of Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 for PlayStation 2.

Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is a platform game for the PlayStation 2. It also serves as a prequel to the original film Lilo & Stitch. In the game the player plays Experiment 626 as he battles robots, mutated monsters (called Greemas), Experiment 621, and causes mass destruction. Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is about finding DNA for Jumba's illegal genetic mutations. The game is set as a prequel to the first movie, describing 626's destructive rampage around the galaxy until his capture by the Galactic Federation.

Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is a basic platformer, with an environment for exploring, item finding and fighting enemies. Plasma guns are the standard armaments. With his four arms, Stitch can equip up to 4 at once, but only 2 when climbing or holding an object. There are 2 special weapons: a "Big Gun" that fires guided rockets which do massive damage and a Freeze Ray which coats enemies in ice. Platformers commonly include collectables that the player must equip and find to progress throughout the game. Stitch is under the control of Jumba at the time of the game, and he orders Stitch to find DNA samples, which assist him in performing more experiments. Squid bots allow the player to try and garner a "movie reel", these reels are used to buy various scenes from the movie. Stitch also can find gadgets to assist him in navigating the environment. Grapple guns are provided to allow Stitch to swing over hazardous substances or to reach difficult spots. A jet pack is also featured which can allow Stitch limited flight time. In the game, there are 900 DNA and 105 movie reels.

Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 has many enemies in his dangerous and deadly quest for DNA. These include UGF soldiers, frogbots, heavy soldiers, Gantu's elite frogbots, mutant greemas and buzzers. Bosses include Dr. Habbitrale in his giant robot, 621 (after being mutated), and Gantu

Stitch! video games

Cover of Disney's Stitch Jam for Nintendo DS.

Disney's Stitch Jam, known in Japan as Stitch! DS: Ohana to Rhythm de Daibouken (スティッチ！DS オハナとリズムで大冒険^?, Stitch! DS: A Great Adventure of Ohana and Rhythm), is a musical rhythm video game and the first video game in Stitch! series. It was released in Japan on December 3, 2009, in North America on March 23, 2010 and in Europe on March 26, 2010. Different from past Lilo & Stitch adaptations, Disney's Stitch Jam is a rhythm game. Players can take control of Stitch and friends in variety of missions set in space, out on the seas, and in a variety of areas by touching the notes and exclamation marks. The story happened when Angel was kidnapped by Gantu and Hamsterviel. Stitch has to rescue her by travelling into 10 worlds. Stitch is the main playable character. Angel, Reuben and Felix are unlockable.

Cover of Motto! Stitch! DS: Rhythm de Rakugaki Daisakusen for Nintendo DS.

Motto! Stitch! DS: Rhythm de Rakugaki Daisakusen ♪ (もっと！スティッチ！DS　リズムでラクガキ大作戦♪^?) is a rhythm video game and a sequel of Disney's Stitch Jam. It was released in Japan on November 18, 2010. It will be unknown whether this game will be released in North America and Europe.

This game will be the same gameplay as its prequel, Disney's Stitch Jam, and has more new features, characters, and experiments. This game will be a modified engine of its prequel. Players can enjoy the rhythmic action of Stitch, who has a magic microphone that can draw his drawings on the air for decorations and travelling (which resembles and is a parody of Doraemon's secret tool, "Air Crayon"). Players can also dress up characters like Stitch and Angel.

Reception

Box office performance

Film	Release date	Box Office
		United States	Outside US	Worldwide
Lilo & Stitch	July 16, 2002	$145,794,338	$127,349,813	$273,144,151
Stitch! The Movie	August 26, 2003	Direct-to-Video	Direct-to-Video	Direct-to-Video
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch	August 30, 2005	Direct-to-Video	Direct-to-Video	Direct-to-Video
Leroy & Stitch	June 26, 2006	Direct-to-Video	Direct-to-Video	Direct-to-Video
Lilo & Stitch (film series)		$145,794,338	$127,349,813	$273,144,151

Critical reaction

Film	Rotten Tomatoes [4]		Metacritic [5]	Yahoo! Movies [6]
	Overall	Cream of the Crop
Lilo & Stitch	85% (145 reviews)	76% (29 reviews)	73% (30 reviews)	B (14 reviews)
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch	38% (8 reviews)
Stitch! The Movie
Leroy & Stitch

References

1. ^ Disney seals Japan anime and "Lilo and Stich" deal, International business times, 2008-03-06
2. ^ Disney says to produce Anime 'made in Japan' (2008-03-08)
3. ^ Disney plans Japan animation effort, International Herald Tribune, 2008-03-06
4. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/full_search.php?search=stitch
5. ^ http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/liloandstitch?q=stitch
6. ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1807776058/info

External links

• Official site
• Lilo & Stitch at the Internet Movie Database
• Lilo & Stitch at Rotten Tomatoes
• Lilo & Stitch at Box Office Mojo
• Lilo & Stitch at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Stitch! The Movie at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Lilo & Stitch (film series) at the Internet Movie Database
• Lilo & Stitch 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• Lilo & Stitch 2 at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Lilo & Stitch 2's official Disney animated films website
• Ultimate Disney DVD Review
• Official website
• Leroy & Stitch at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Leroy & Stitch at the Internet Movie Database
• Leroy & Stitch at Keyframe - the Animation Resource
• Leroy and Stitch at Disney DVD and Video
• Clips & Trailers of Leroy & Stitch plus bonus episode