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The voice cast of Lilo & Stitch 2 is almost completely comprised of actors who lent their vocals to the original film. These returning personalities all fall comfortably back into character, handling both colorful (Stiers, McDonald, and the impressively monstrous Sanders) and down-to-earth (Carrere, Lee) roles with clear respect and care for the project. The lone new addition is a major and somewhat surprising one; Lilo, voiced by the now-15-year-old Daveigh Chase in the first film and TV series, is now played by fellow "creepy child o' cinema" Dakota Fanning of I Am Sam and War of the Worlds fame. While Fanning performs the role dutifully, her vocals clearly don't match Chase's, so this is an inconsistency you have to accept from the beginning.
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With the release of Lilo & Stitch, it's official: the "second Golden Age" of Disney animation, which began promisingly with 1989's The Little Mermaid, is over. Of course, some of Disney's recent efforts - Atlantis and The Emperor's New Groove come to mind - have been uneven, but they haven't been as lackluster as this movie. In terms of storytelling, voice characterization, and visual appeal, Lilo & Stitch seems more like a wannabe production than an actual Disney effort. Lilo & Stitch hails back to the Disney films of the late-'70s and early-'80s, when the craft and creativity had been leeched from the process, turning motion picture animation into an assembly-line approach.
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Deceased parents notwithstanding, Lilo & Stitch puts forth pro-family themes with relatively few unpleasant surprises. The film has raised some eyebrows for sporting a PG rating. Not to worry. Unlike Atlantis, there are no fatalities. And unlike other studios’ PG-tagged animated fare (Shrek, The Iron Giant, Titan A.E., The Road to El Dorado, etc.), language, off-color humor and subtle sexual references aren’t problems either. The extra caution is mainly for intense shoot-em-ups in outer space and some potentially frightening moments of peril.
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Lilo & Stitch 2 unwinds briskly and entertainingly, and in true Disney DTV fashion, the end credits begin rolling just after the one hour mark. Its attentions are chiefly divided among Stitch's moral dilemma -- as he seeks redemption after disastrously wrecking Lilo's hula rehearsal and disappointing his closest friend -- and Jumba's race against the clock. Both paths enable the film to consistently engage and occasionally be funny too. This sequel even manages to deliver surprising amounts of drama in the face of viewers' expectations for a happy ending, and like last time, there are E.T. overtones, a trait that conjures up mostly favorable movie memories. Another feature of the first film is upheld by the continued musical presence of Elvis Presley.
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Lilo & Stitch draws largely from Hawaiian culture and makes extensive use of typical features of Hawaiian music such as the slack-key guitar and hula dancing. Because of Lilo's infatuation with Elvis Presley, some of the songs used in the movie (such as "Hound Dog" and "Suspicious Minds") were ... included on the soundtrack, as well as covers of Presley's "Burning Love" performed by Wynonna and "Can't Help Falling in Love" performed by Swedish pop group A-Teens, which were both played over the film's closing credits. Hawaiian hula teacher and chanter Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu wrote and sang two songs especially for this film, "Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride" and "He Mele No Lilo", which he performed together with The Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus.That was under the direction of Lynell Bright."Their voices are beautiful, I'm glad that we get this type of opportunity," says Lynell. Broadway producer(2007) says, "If everyone on the planet had a choir that sang as beautiful as you guys there would be no wars."
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Four of this year's nominees -- "Lilo & Stitch," "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," "Spirited Away" and "Treasure Planet" -- returned to traditional 2D cel animation styles, while "Ice Age" was a fully computer-animated production. more
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