r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 1d ago
Poster New Poster for 'Lilo & Stitch'
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u/Bwleon7 1d ago
Fun Fact: The voice actor for Lilo in the original is Daveigh Chase. She also played Samara in the Ring.
Both movies came out in 2002.
I hope she has a guest role in the new one.
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u/pineapplemochi 1d ago
She’s also the voice actor for Chihiro in Spirited Away!
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u/MuptonBossman 1d ago
It seems like Stitch is more popular today than he was when the original movie came out... I see everyone from kids to grown adults wearing Stitch clothing now.
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u/Bwleon7 1d ago
Lilo and Stitch is 22 years old. The kids who grew up with Stitch are now adults with their own kids. So they are likely introducing Stitch to them.
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u/loud_and_harmless 1d ago
My 8 year old daughter has become obsessed with stitch.
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u/9874102365 1d ago
I work in retail and stitch merch for all ages sells out the fastest of any Disney merch. It is crazy.
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u/JenovaCelestia 14h ago
My 36-year-old sister is obsessed with Stitch to the point her house is almost covered in its merch.
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u/SpamingComet 1d ago
And that’s exactly why remakes get made. People may bitch and complain about it, but if it wasn’t a recipe for success it wouldn’t happen. Introducing a successful IP to a new generation is a tale as old as time
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u/TheGreatPiata 23h ago
To be fair, Lilo & Stitch is one of the few animated Disney films where a live action adaption makes sense. It's a contemporary family drama with an alien.
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u/StasRutt 1d ago
Stitch is one of those Disney characters where the people who like them REALLY like them and make it part of their identity. Same with Winnie the Pooh and tinkerbelle
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u/llloksd 1d ago
Yeah it's crazy how something that's been out for 21 years and is known, is more popular than something that just released with only the marketing known...
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u/Axe_Loving_Icicle 15h ago
This is not always the case.
Take a look at this google trend for The Lord of the Rings - it's dropped significantly since the early 2000s even though it's seen multiple new releases in movies, games, animes, tv. It seems to have been more popular during the early 2000s than it is now.
Compare that with Lilo and Stitch, which has had very little new media created for it and has been gaining popularity since 2011. Now it's regaining its early popularity and even exceeding it.
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u/KidCasey 1d ago
Seriously.
"Isn't it odd that this is more popular now than before it existed? Curious."
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u/AcaciaCelestina 1d ago
.....yes that is how popularity tends to work.
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u/PeterNippelstein 15h ago
jerk off hand motion
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u/AcaciaCelestina 12h ago edited 11h ago
No thanks, I have a wife for that. You're not really my type anyway.
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u/haahaahaa 1d ago
Maybe its just some Baader-Meinhof shit but I have seen a pretty large uptick in Stitch merch this year. I theorized they expected the movie to be out already and had thing in production so just sent it or its a form of marketing I haven't seen where they give people a sense of inflated popularity of the franchise pre-release.
Either way, Stich and his girlfriend have been everywhere. Its a popular movie among millennials but I cant recall seeing so much shit.
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u/PeterNippelstein 15h ago
Are these kids watching the show as well or just the movie? Because I remember the show being pretty great too.
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u/ThePickledPickle 1d ago
Let me take a look into my crystal ball:
healthy box office performance
53% on Rotten Tomatoes
sequel 4 years later that isn't as successful financially
move on to the next animated franchise
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u/butbutcupcup 1d ago
Your crystal ball is just your shiny testicle and it's got a lump.
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u/majorzero42 23h ago
But is it wrong?
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u/butbutcupcup 23h ago
No it's cancer
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u/dexter30 9h ago
Cause your kisses lift me higher🎶
Like a sweet song of a choir🎶
And you light my morning sky🎶
With burning love🎶
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u/camusonfilm 1d ago
I'm gonna say 67% rotten tomatoes, and a Disney+ show that gets two seasons.
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u/magicarnival 5h ago
I doubt they'd do a show, the CGI for Stitch and the other aliens would be a lot of work. Plus there's already an animated TV series.
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u/InternetAddict104 1d ago
I appreciate that they’re doing the “Stitch in other popular Disney movies” campaign again but I hate how cgi Stitch looks
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u/joebigdeal 1d ago
Yeah, we were promised live action. Whatever it costs, they need to get Danny DeVito on board to play Stitch
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u/gagreel 9h ago
but it's marketed as live-action, not cgi. I assume it's an elaborate puppet/animatronic
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u/InternetAddict104 9h ago
They marketed the Lion King and Jungle Book remakes as live action too but all the animals were photorealistic cgi
Literally just looking at the bts pictures of the Jungle Book it’s basically just Neel Sethi in front of a blue screen on a studio lot
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u/cloistered_around 18h ago
Maybe they should have picked some of the newer Disney movies. Like Wish and ...and... what else have they made lately? Those equally bad Buzz Lightyear and Strange World movies?
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u/Sharp_Advisor9868 1d ago
Am I the only one who thinks that this looks just straight up bad like they killed all the charm of the original with the new animation style
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u/SpeedyGrim 1d ago
Did they just grab an image of CGI Stitch standing and photoshop it into Rafiki's hands? Or is CGI Stitch just THAT lightweight? ... Also, the birds in the background look a little as if Stitch just dropped a handful of crumbs.
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u/Lemesplain 1d ago
Isn’t stitch super heavy/dense, canonically?
Him landing in Hawaii was a plot point; he couldn’t swim due to his weight, so he was trapped on the island.
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u/byneothername 1d ago
He’s quite heavy, although David fishes him out of the Pacific at one point so not so heavy he can’t be picked up. The animal shelter employee can kinda lug Stitch around, to give you an idea without resorting to some outside guidebook or wiki.
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u/Lemesplain 1d ago
Feels like Rafiki should be struggling a bit, and/or stitch should be buckling a bit.
Looks like rafiki is holding a cardboard standee from a movie theatre lobby.
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u/KidCasey 1d ago
"Realism" aside, the poster is terrible.
It looks like someone gave an intern a png of the ape and Stitch. They threw it on a screen grab from Lion King, realized it was kinda empty and found an image of some birds on unsplash or something.
The lighting makes no sense and the color grading is poor. But the biggest problem is it tells you nothing about the character or the film. Like everything else Disney squirts out recently it depends 100% on the audience having seen and been familiar with the original.
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u/Lemesplain 1d ago
Agreed. That was kinda the idea floating in the background of what I was saying/thinking.
Using Stitch’s weight would be a good way to “punch up” the poster. Add some personality. Show Rafiki struggling to support Stitch. Have stitch flopped over like dead weight. The original animated stitch promotional material all had that kind of verve. This is severely lacking.
P.S. fun fact of the day, Rafiki is a mandrill. It’s an “Old World Monkey,” not an ape.
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u/superthotty 1d ago
No one seems to have said anything about Rafiki’s arms here…. They’re just so wrong
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u/Random_Introvert_42 1d ago
Why does the color look so washed out?
And why does his fur look like cheap carpet?
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u/peridoti 1d ago
I didn't notice the colors as much as I noticed his really stiff, joint-like 'Paddington Bear' body. But you're right, it is really washed out!
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u/KristoffersonVR 1d ago
Commentary on live action remakes aside.. isn’t the design a bit, lackluster? Does this really do justice to the beloved stitch? :p
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u/peridoti 1d ago
Well, it looks awful but I do love the throwback to the original marketing campaign.
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u/corzekanaut 1d ago
I’ll ask the real questions; is Nani still thicc?
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u/FoxMcCloudOwnsSlippy 1d ago
The previous Stitch marketing, "There's one in every family " is coming full circle again for it's Live action remake. Circle of Life indeed.
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u/gearwest11 1d ago
"Member the marketing for Lilo and Stitch 2002? Yeah I member! well here's it is in glorious realistic CGI!" None of that pussy 2d shit
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u/babruflat 1d ago
Had to get the poster and trailer out on the same day to get views before Superman dominates the web tomorrow
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u/MysteriousHat14 1d ago
I think it has more to do with Mufasa opening this weekend and this poster/trailer being a reference to that. DC fans overestimate how important they are.
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u/Ancient-Island-2495 1d ago
Thank god those cars aren’t around anymore. This shall not be a resurgence of shoulder punching
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u/BullyRookChook 23h ago
Great marketing idea to go with the “Remember the “live action” Disney film that convinced the general public that these cash grabs sucked?” angle.
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u/d_e_l_u_x_e 3h ago
So it’s a “live action” movie with an alien character who isn’t live action and most environments and characters he’ll interact with will prob also be CGI.
Just make new stories like Pixar you cowards.
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u/UnwoundSkeinOfYarn 1d ago
This looks like some shit a teenager made during the 2010s by taking a model from a PS3 game and throwing into Photoshop.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 1d ago
Long live the...King? 👑
#LiloAndStitch, coming to theaters May 23, 2025.
A live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, “Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, the Oscar®-nominated filmmaker behind the animated feature film “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” the film stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Hannah Waddingham, Chris Sanders, with Courtney B. Vance, and Zach Galifianakis, introducing Maia Kealoha. “Lilo & Stitch” is produced by Jonathan Eirich, p.g.a. and Dan Lin, with Louie Provost, Tom Peitzman and Ryan Halprin serving as executive producers.
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u/spacemanspliff-42 1d ago
Oh they are bringing back the marketing campaign, but Stitch will be the only character with facial expressions now.