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Better than the live action Lilo & Stitch. Take notes, Dean Fleischer Camp!

A friend of mine asked me to see this with him extremely last minute so I didn’t have time to rewatch any of the previous movies before going into this.

The movie itself is fine. The plot is definitely way too bloated, there’s an overabundance of exposition, and the callbacks to other movies in the franchise weren’t integrated in a very satisfying way. But it’s still got some absolutely stellar direction and some of the best action set pieces you’ll see in theaters all year (the plane and submarine scenes are peak!!!)

If this bombs and ends up being the last of this franchise, I don’t think it’s a bad way for the series to go out.

A few lines of dialogue in this film:

“Necrophilia is a dying art.”
“You’re in luck, my boner’s back.”
“You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity.”

Not at all surprised that Universal refused to leave the How to Train Your Dragon franchise to rest and decided to jump on the bandwagon of remaking one of the best animated films of the past century to pander to people’s nostalgia. If you’ve seen a live action remake before, you know exactly what to expect here. Every plot beat is entirely predictable because next to nothing from the 2010 classic was changed here. It’s DreamWorks’ own equivalent to The Lion King (2019), a shot-for-shot, line-for-line carbon copy without the sauce that made the original so beloved, even if the final result isn’t as repugnant as that film was. And just because this movie isn’t made by Disney and has one of the original directors involved does not mean this film is immune to the same corporate cynicism and laziness that plagues all of these terrible remakes.

I’m not even mad or upset about these live action remakes anymore, I’m just genuinely jaded. I’m probably not even gonna I watched this in a week!

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Still less violent than The Squeakquel

James Cameron released Avatar a few days before this because he knew he couldn’t compete with MunkMaxing

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

The racist stereotypes aside, this was pretty fun!

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

The E.T. gag caught me off guard

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 7, 2025.

Brian, those chicken wings are really spicy, don’t eat those!!!!

Happy birthday, YINSED!

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

My Dad always told me this movie sucked growing up. 

He’s wrong!!!

Perfect, no notes!

I mean, it’s nothing special, but compared to Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks, it’s a fucking masterpiece.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 24, 2025.

You’ve been juiced!

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 20, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

One of the best theater experiences of my life. The way the audience howled in laughter over what happened to those baby rabbits is something you only get to experience once.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

The scariest fucking movie I’ve ever seen

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Way funnier watching this with friends. Martin Scorsese fish is the GOAT

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

Thanks Buster for saving me $15 on this.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

HOLY FUCK YOU GUYS IT’S BIG CHUNGUS!!!!!!!!❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰

Bitchin’ movie!

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

Doing a Q&A with this post, ask me whatever you like.

Beautiful. Mesmerizing. Epic.

If you don’t like this movie, you need to rethink your life choices.

AI will never replicate the beauty of Studio Ghibli.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

1. The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
2. Sinners
3. Mickey 17
4. Ne Zha 2
5. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
6. OBEX
7. Warfare
8. The Alto Knights
9. A Minecraft Movie
10. How to Train Your Dragon

1. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
2. Team America: World Police
3. BASEketball
4. Orgazmo
5. Cannibal! The Musical

• Toy Story
• Princess Mononoke
• The Incredibles
• Coraline
• Avatar
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Fantastic Four

  I got dragged into seeing this twice. First time because my cousin was in town and I was encouraged to see something with him and this was the next movie playing near us.
  Then my Dad wanted to see it afterwards so I was forced to see it again…
  
  I was a dumb 12 year old at the time so there ya go

• Toy Story 4
• Dune

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Hundreds of Beavers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Look Back
4. The Wild Robot
5. The Substance
6. Memoir of a Snail
7. Anora
8. Challengers
9. Inside Out 2
10. The Surfer

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Taxi Driver
• Fight Club
• Adaptation.
• Brazil
• Her
• A Clockwork Orange
• There Will Be Blood
• The Big Lebowski
• American Psycho
• The Lighthouse

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Barbie
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Inside Out 2
4. Avatar: The Way of Water
5. Spider-Man: No Way Home
6. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
7. Deadpool & Wolverine
8. Jurassic World Dominion

1. The Incredibles
2. Finding Nemo
3. WALL·E
4. Ratatouille
5. Inside Out
6. Toy Story 2
7. Toy Story 3
8. Monsters, Inc.
9. Toy Story
10. Up

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Oppenheimer
3. Poor Things
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. Barbie
6. Godzilla Minus One
7. Past Lives
8. The Zone of Interest
9. Dream Scenario
10. The Killer

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Kinds of Kindness
2. The Surfer
3. The Second Act
4. Megalopolis
5. The Invasion
6. The Damned

• Adaptation.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• The Incredibles
• Batman Begins
• Pan's Labyrinth
• There Will Be Blood
• The Dark Knight
• Inglourious Basterds
• The Social Network
• Rango

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. The Fabelmans
3. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
4. The Northman
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once
6. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
7. Top Gun: Maverick
8. The Menu
9. Nope
10. Avatar: The Way of Water

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

First three films on here are the most amount of times in theaters and the rest are in order of release because I saw all of the rest twice

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Oppenheimer
• Avatar
• Toy Story
• The Incredibles
• Toy Story 4
• Dune
• The Batman
• Turning Red
• The Northman

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Incredibles 2
• Son of the Mask

• The Happening
• The Sixth Sense
• Unbreakable
• Signs
• Knock at the Cabin
• Split
• The Village
• Old
• Glass
• The Visit

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies I find deeply flawed but derive a good chunk of unironic value from

• John Carter
• Dune
• Alien³
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Cocaine Bear
• Elemental
• Aquaman
• The Black Cauldron
• The Return of Jafar
• Leroy & Stitch

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Oppenheimer
• Barbie
• Past Lives
• Dream Scenario
• The Zone of Interest
• The Boy and the Heron
• Nimona
• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Holdovers

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A lot of these will be ranked in order from which ones I actually what happened in them

1. The Lion King 1½
2. The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
3. Kronk's New Groove
4. Leroy & Stitch
5. Aladdin and the King of Thieves
6. Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
7. The Return of Jafar
8. Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
9. Mulan II
10. Cinderella II: Dreams Come True

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. The Fabelmans
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. Avatar: The Way of Water
6. Triangle of Sadness
7. TÁR
8. Women Talking
9. Elvis
10. All Quiet on the Western Front

• Dune
• West Side Story
• Drive My Car
• Licorice Pizza
• The Power of the Dog
• Belfast
• Nightmare Alley
• CODA
• King Richard
• Don't Look Up

1. C.I.Ape
2. Dune
3. The Green Knight
4. West Side Story
5. The Last Duel
6. Drive My Car
7. The French Dispatch
8. Licorice Pizza
9. C'mon C'mon
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Halloween
2. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
3. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
4. Halloween II
5. Halloween
6. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
7. Halloween
8. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
9. Halloween Kills
10. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
5. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
6. Django Unchained
7. Reservoir Dogs
8. Death Proof
9. Jackie Brown
10. The Hateful Eight

*Theatrical films only

• The Dark Knight
• Batman
• The Batman
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
• The Lego Batman Movie
• Batman Begins
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Batman Returns
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
• Batman Forever

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of every film that got a serious emotional response out of me.

• Piglet's Big Movie