The adaptation in live action of the adventures of the adorable Alien was released in the cinema on May 21, 2025. The first trailer lifts the veil on the project.
After Snow White and before Dragonsanother cartoon is entitled to its adaptation in real shots for this year 2025: May 21, Lilo & Stitch comes back to the big screen. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, the adapted film of the cult cartoon of Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois takes up the original intrigue: an alien arrives on earth and will change the life of an orphan and lonely little girl. Thanks to her, he will discover the meaning of the word “family”.
In the casting, fans of Lilo & Stitch will discover the young Maia Kealoha in the role of the little girl, while Chris Sanders lends his voice to the adorable and mischievous extraterrestrial. Sydney AGUDONG (West Michigan), Zach Galifianakis (Very bad trip), Billy Magnussen (In full flight) and Courtney B. Vance (Grotesque) Also appear within the distribution, as you can discover in the trailer unveiled on March 12, 2025:
Many Internet users were seduced by the first images of the live action of Lilo & Stitch : “It looks funny”, notes a user of the social network X, “it seems phenomenal”, writes another, while a third comments: “the trailer was really good”. “I was not convinced at the start, but they assured. I am excited!”, We also read on the Elon Musk network.
For our part, this trailer makes us more skeptical. These first images show that the spirit and the humor of the brilliant and moving Lilo & Stitch are respected, nearly, and announce a family entertainment of good performance. But we can’t help but fear a pale copy of the original film, the spirit, the artistic aesthetics and the vitality conferred by less animation (Stitch seems to be less functioning in synthetic images, immersed in a realistic setting).
In fact, the question that arises for many adaptations in real shots remains: financial aspect set aside (they can generate significant profit with remakes that have exceeded one billion dollars in revenue), what is the creative interest of this new adaptation? We will see this in the cinemas at the end of the film, on May 21, 2025.
Synopsis – The touching and funny story of a lonely Hawaiian little girl and a fugitive alien who helps her to reconnect with his family. Adaptation in real shots of the Disney cartoon Lilo and Stitch.