{"id":15338,"date":"2025-05-31T01:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15338"},"modified":"2025-05-31T01:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:20:51","slug":"lilo-stitch-live-action-remake-draws-controversy-over-ending-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15338","title":{"rendered":"Lilo & Stitch Live-Action Remake Draws Controversy Over Ending Change"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Lilo & Stitch<\/a> live-action remake<\/strong> is drawing tons of debates and controversy online after the new film changed the original\u2019s ending in a few ways. <\/p>\n

What is the controversy with Lilo & Stitch\u2019s ending? <\/h2>\n
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The live-action version of Lilo & Stitch ends with Nani (played by Sydney Elizabeth Agudong) moving to California to go to college for marine biology. As for Lilo (Maia Kealoha), she and Stitch remain in Hawaii to live with a neighbor, with Nani giving up her sister to the state as a result. This is a change from the original, which sees Nani remaining Lilo\u2019s legal guardian and living with Jumba and Pleakley.<\/p>\n

The ending has led many fans of the original film to criticize the live-action. Specifically on platforms like X, posts about the film completely missing the point of the original have garnered a ton of reactions. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, author Mariah Rigg notes that the new ending seems to overlook the original film\u2019s messages of family and the colonial system in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe original movie was so much about being against the carceral system in terms of foster care, Stitch\u2019s imprisonment and the colonial system as a whole in Hawaii,\u201d Rigg said. \u201cI was fully surprised at the remake\u2019s ending, in terms of Nani leaving the state altogether, because I feel like that really contributes to the narrative of displacement of Hawaiians from their ancestral lands. Obviously, there is all this discourse on how \u2018ohana means family\u2019 is not really represented in that ending, but in an even larger way, it\u2019s harmful on how it contributes to that narrative of the displacement of Hawaiians from Hawaiian lands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Director Dean Fleischer Camp has also addressed the controversy in a way. He\u2019s previously talked about the original film\u2019s ending, noting that he believes it painted Nani with \u201ca little too rose-colored glasses,\u201d considering she is still a young woman in the movie. He also has responded subtly via social media, reposting various users\u2019 posts about the new movie\u2019s ending being a bit more realistic.<\/p>\n

Despite the controversy, Lilo & Stitch\u2019s live-action remake has been a big success for Disney. The film received strong ratings from critics and audiences alike and has already earned double the money that the original film did at the box office in its first week in theaters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n