Many, many spoilers below. But, seriously, this movie is 21 years old. Get over yourselves.
Check it: a young girl adopts an illegal alien (killing machine from deep space) and protects him from the U.S. (and galactic) government (Military-Industrial complexes), while keeping her incredibly depressed sister (slices both ways) from giving up completely as they keep their Indigenous Hawaiian family together in their co-opted homeland. One sister works a series of dead-end tourism jobs; the other has anger issues. The hate each other and love each other fiercely, though they are about 12 years apart in age.
Oh, yeah, and their parents are dead.
Meanwhile, the alien is a political refugee and freedom fighter fleeing from his own people who want him dead for —get this— existing. A lab-grown, indestructible terrorist, he seeks asylum on an island — but he can’t swim.
He does learn to surf.
The only downside to this film is that Disney produced it. And Elvis.
“Ohana means family. Nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
Lilo being strangely obsessed with Elvis is actually period accurate.
The movie seems to be set sometime in the very late '80s to the mid to late '90s. There aren’t any cell phones, except the ones that the government agents have. The TV is a black and white TV which could indicate either the late '80s or the fact that they are extremely poor in the mid to late '90s. None of the vehicles really give anything away as they all seem to be modeled on '50s to early '80s models of cars. The technology that is actually depicted in the film definitely places it at the end of the '80s, as the earliest it could have possibly happened, and probably the mid to late '90s as a more probable timeline.
There were a lot of people obsessed with “The King” at that time, even fairly young (like 5-7 year old) fans. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Elvis’s music is generally more popular amongst certain kids and tweens from 1956 until the late '90s.
Point of further support: Hawaiians have a weird (to us haoles) love of Las Vegas, going as far as to call it “the Ninth Island”. I mean, if you live on a tropical paradise, where are you supposed to go for vacation?
And Elvis is (or at least has a rep as being) super popular and iconic in Vegas. I could definitely see some of that influence back flowing from the Ninth Island back to Hawaii.
Meanwhile, the alien is a political refugee and freedom fighter fleeing from his own people who want him dead for —get this— existing.
To be fair they did offer him a chance to see if there was good in him but he insulted them instead, and after that they sentenced him to be banished on an asteroid not death.
Lilo and Stitch is the best Disney movie.
Many, many spoilers below. But, seriously, this movie is 21 years old. Get over yourselves.
Check it: a young girl adopts an illegal alien (killing machine from deep space) and protects him from the U.S. (and galactic) government (Military-Industrial complexes), while keeping her incredibly depressed sister (slices both ways) from giving up completely as they keep their Indigenous Hawaiian family together in their co-opted homeland. One sister works a series of dead-end tourism jobs; the other has anger issues. The hate each other and love each other fiercely, though they are about 12 years apart in age.
Oh, yeah, and their parents are dead.
Meanwhile, the alien is a political refugee and freedom fighter fleeing from his own people who want him dead for —get this— existing. A lab-grown, indestructible terrorist, he seeks asylum on an island — but he can’t swim.
He does learn to surf.
The only downside to this film is that Disney produced it. And Elvis.
“Ohana means family. Nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
Lilo being strangely obsessed with Elvis is actually period accurate.
The movie seems to be set sometime in the very late '80s to the mid to late '90s. There aren’t any cell phones, except the ones that the government agents have. The TV is a black and white TV which could indicate either the late '80s or the fact that they are extremely poor in the mid to late '90s. None of the vehicles really give anything away as they all seem to be modeled on '50s to early '80s models of cars. The technology that is actually depicted in the film definitely places it at the end of the '80s, as the earliest it could have possibly happened, and probably the mid to late '90s as a more probable timeline.
There were a lot of people obsessed with “The King” at that time, even fairly young (like 5-7 year old) fans. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Elvis’s music is generally more popular amongst certain kids and tweens from 1956 until the late '90s.
Point of further support: Hawaiians have a weird (to us haoles) love of Las Vegas, going as far as to call it “the Ninth Island”. I mean, if you live on a tropical paradise, where are you supposed to go for vacation?
And Elvis is (or at least has a rep as being) super popular and iconic in Vegas. I could definitely see some of that influence back flowing from the Ninth Island back to Hawaii.
A friend of mine from Hawaii would go to Las Vegas for their class reunions. So many left Hawaii that it is t practical to hold it there.
Huh. I think I need to watch this.
To be fair they did offer him a chance to see if there was good in him but he insulted them instead, and after that they sentenced him to be banished on an asteroid not death.