Lilo & Stitch live-action remake cut out one of the most poignant scenes from the animated classic and its worse because of it.
Credits: DisneyLilo & Stitch is the latest live-action adaptation of a beloved Disney classic, which was released worldwide last week. The new take on the iconic animated movie is delivering impressive box office numbers while receiving mixed reactions from critics and fans.
Several commentators have expressed a dislike for some of its creative liberties taken with the source material. However, the movie made arguably the most devastating change to the original by cutting out an important scene. The crucial moment was the soul of the original, and I’m still fuming that it was cut out of the live-action movie.
Lilo & Stitch live-action movie cut one of the most crucial moments from the original
Lilo & Stitch is a live-action remake of the 2002 animated comedy of the same name. Both iterations are backed by Disney. The remake was directed by Dean Fleischer Camp and released in theaters last week.
The film received mostly mixed reviews from critics, especially because of its deviation from the original. Despite several changes, one of the remake’s most baffling and infuriating choices was to omit the iconic Ugly Duckling scene from the 2002 movie.
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In the original movie, the scene serves as a poignant moment of self-discovery and growth for Stitch. The alien character reads a version of a fairy tale when he learns that he has no family. Instead, he was created in a lab by Dr. Jumba Jookiba to spread chaos across the galaxy.
The scene from the original was essential to Stitch’s character development and the movie’s overall theme of found family. As a result, cutting it out was an extremely poor choice, resulting in Stitch being reduced to a comic relief character without much agency.
Lilo & Stitch fans are unhappy with the live-action movie’s changes to the original
The poignant scene being cut from the Lilo & Stitch remake has me fuming, and no explanation can suffice for the decision. Its omission is emblematic of the larger issue with the live-action remake, which has made several unnecessary changes that resulted in the core story losing its soul.
After watching the movie, several fans agreed that it was inferior to the original because of these changes. Most fans agreed that the Ugly Duckling scene should have been included in the remake, given its importance to the original.
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Here is what some fans had to say about the scene’s omission and other changes on Reddit:
As the comments suggest, most fans were unhappy with the movie making several changes to the original. Therefore, fans felt that the remake was in many ways inferior to the 2002 classic animated film that they have come to love over the years.
Despite this, the remake is performing well at the box office, considering Disney’s previous live-action remake of Snow White bombed hard critically and commercially. As of this writing, the movie has grossed over $421.4 million at the global box office (via The Numbers), emerging as a commercial success.
Lilo & Stitch is currently playing in theaters across the United States.
