Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
DVD cover
Directed by	Michael LaBash Tony Leondis
Produced by	Christopher Chase Angi Dyste
Written by	Tony Leondis Eddie Guzelian Alexa Junge Michael LaBash
Starring	Chris Sanders Dakota Fanning Tia Carrere Kevin McDonald David Ogden Stiers Jason Scott Lee
Music by	Joel McNeely
Editing by	William J. Caparella
Studio	Walt Disney Pictures DisneyToon Studios
Distributed by	Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Release dates	August 30, 2005 (2005-08-30)
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (credited as just Lilo & Stitch 2 at the start credits) is a 2005 direct-to-video animated film produced by DisneyToon Studios. The film is regarded as the "true" sequel to the 2002 Disney feature film Lilo & Stitch and taking place before the events of Stitch! The Movie and subsequent additions to the franchise. Like the original film, Lilo & Stitch 2 features the music of Elvis Presley and the original film's animation style. Despite always being labeled with the subtitle "Stitch Has a Glitch", this does not actually appear in the title card. However, a modified title card featuring it did show up in the preview for the film's Disney Channel airing.

Production

This is the only film in the series without actress Daveigh Chase who voices Lilo in all other Lilo & Stitch movies. According to Disney Animation Studios, Chase was so busy working on Lilo & Stitch: The Series that she was replaced by renowned child actress and good friend Dakota Fanning.^[1] Chris Sanders, the writer/director of the first film did not participate.^[2]

Plot

At the start of the movie, Stitch is having a nightmare about turning bad again and causing destruction to Earth. After Stitch wakes up, Lilo tests his goodness level by having him do a few good deeds. Discovering that they are late for hula class, they use their hovercraft to get there.

While at the hula class, Kumu announces that Lilo and her classmates have to prepare to perform at the local May Day festival. Each student is required to create an original dance. After the hula class ends, Mertle insults Lilo, causing them to have a fight, but after taking pictures of the brawl, Stitch forgets to flush the evidence. Kumu thinks that Lilo is not ready for the competition because of the fight with Mertle, but Lilo says that she is ready and "triple promises" to be good.

While preparing for the competition, Lilo and Stitch have a hard time coming up with ideas and Nani wants them to enjoy their family fun night. While watching Them! (film clip courtesy of Warner Bros.) on family fun night, Stitch's past comes back to haunt him and he goes berserk in the house. It seems that after Stitch was created, Jumba did not get a chance to fully charge Stitch's molecules as he was arrested by the intergalactic police. At first, this glitch causes Stitch to revert back to his old destructive programming, but it will ultimately destroy him if Jumba cannot create a fusion chamber before Stitch's energy runs out for good.

Meanwhile, Stitch's uncontrollable destructive behavior is driving a wedge between him and Lilo and ruining her chances for success at the hula competition. Lilo and Stitch try getting inspiration for their hula, but Stitch keeps malfunctioning because of his molecules. Because Lilo is so concerned about winning the competition, she fails to notice Stitch's glitch and does not understand that the trouble he's causing now is not his fault. She's too busy trying to get him to help her and completely neglects helping him.

Eventually, the two devise a hula based on the legend of Hi'iaka. Lilo gets increasingly mad at Stitch as he ruins their practice sessions. To make matters worse, Jumba is having problems creating the fusion chamber due to the fact that he doesn't have the proper alien technology to build it and has to try building it using ordinary household objects. However, just before the competition, Lilo and Stitch make up and Jumba finally completes the fusion chamber. Then, Stitch has another one of his fits and accidentally scratches Lilo's face; this upsets him so much that he decides to leave Earth, believing himself to be "too dangerous". Lilo finally realizes that something is terribly wrong with Stitch, and in the middle of her performance, she runs away to help him.

As Stitch attempts to leave Earth, Lilo and the rest of the family desperately try to get him back so that they could re-charge him. But Stitch has another outburst, which causes him to crash the spaceship in the Hawaiian mountains. Lilo rides over to the crash site in a mini space scooter, she finds Stitch close to death and struggles to get him into Jumba's fusion chamber. Sadly, she's too late by the time she places him in the machine and Stitch dies. Then Lilo tells him she kept saying how she needed him but he needed her more, and that he's her ohana, and that she will always love him, and then cries, but with her (and everyone else's) love for him, Stitch is revived, leading to a happy ending and the family (along with David who was completely neglected by Nani throughout the film) performs Lilo's hula dance together on the empty stage of the competition. Nani then tells her their mother should be proud of her and a star twinkles in the sky to prove it.

Cast

• Chris Sanders as Stitch
• Dakota Fanning as Lilo Pelekai
• Tia Carrere as Nani Pelekai
• Kevin McDonald as Agent Pleakley
• David Ogden Stiers as Dr. Jumba Jookiba
• Jason Scott Lee as David Kawena
• Jillian Henry as Elena
• Lili Ishida as Yuki
• Kali Whitehurst as Teresa
• Holliston Coleman as Aleka
• Liliana Mumy as Mertle Edmonds
• Emily Osment as Additional Voices
• Jennifer Hale as Additional Voices
• Paul Vogt as Gator Guard and Various Voices

"The Origin of Stitch" short

Included on the DVD release of the film is the animated short "The Origin of Stitch". The short has a total running time of 4:35 minutes and serves as a bridge between Stitch has a Glitch and Stitch! The Movie (and Lilo & Stitch: The Series). In the short, Stitch discovers Jumba's secret computer that reveals what creatures Jumba had used to create Stitch, and also hints at his other 625 experiments. Stitch is scared to find out what a monster he is, only for Jumba to come and explain how he found love when he met Lilo. The short was directed by Mike Disa and co-directed by Tony Bancroft.

Soundtrack

Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	August 30, 2005
Recorded	2004-2005
Genre	Rock, country rock, pop
Label	Walt Disney
Lilo & Stitch music chronology
Lilo & Stitch (2002) Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites (2005) Lilo & Stitch Hawaiian Album (2006)

Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites is the soundtrack to Disney's 2005, home entertainment sequel film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. The song "He Mele No Lilo" had been included in the first film, Lilo & Stitch. It was released by Walt Disney Records on August 30, 2005.

Track listing

Charts

Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews.

CommonSenseMedia gave the film a rating of 4 stars out of 5, saying the film has "a good script, excellent animation and fine work by the actors". It added that "this is a lovely tale of friendship and family, with some refreshingly realistic scenes...reminding us of the sometimes crazy bonds that hold us together."^[3] 7M Pictures gave 3.5 stars out of 5, saying "The story is somewhat crumbly, but the real charm of “Lilo & Stitch” are the characters and their interactions...The best parts of this film are when Lilo and Stitch interact."^[4]

Hi-Def Digest said "The humor in the second movie is juvenile, and lacking in the wit that makes the first so distinctive. The characterizations are heavily simplified, to the point where some of the characters feel dumbed down. Also, a lame subplot involving one of Lilo's peers feels silly and has a poor resolution. Even worse is the false sentimentality of the climax, which feels like cheap heartstring tugging".^[5] ReelFilm gave a 2.5 out of 5 stra rating, saying "Lilo & Stitch 2 is cute enough - there are a few genuinely funny moments here, while the voice acting is surprisingly effective - although the film does eventually wear out its welcome"^[6]

On imdb, the film received a rating of 6.2/10 from 4,024 users.^[7] On Rotten Tomatos, the film has a rating of 40% , and an average score of 5.5 out of 10 based on 10 reviews.^[8]

DVD and VHS release

Although originally slated for a theatrical release (like Return to Never Land), it was released to DVD and VHS on August 30, 2005. This is the last Lilo & Stitch feature to have a VHS issue; the final film, Leroy & Stitch, would later be only released on DVD.

The DVD extras include a short cartoon called “The Origin of Stitch” which features a newly redesigned Stitch, a music video for the theme song “Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride” by Jump5, two games ("Jumba’s Experiment Profiler" and "Where’s Pleakley?" - similar to "Where’s Waldo").^[9]

References

External links

• Official website
• Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch at the Internet Movie Database
• Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch at the Big Cartoon DataBase