Lilo & Stitch is Disney's live-action and CGI reimagining of its beloved 2002 animated classic, directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-nominated Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. The remake brings the studio's most unruly little alien back to the screen with a blend of live-action performances and photoreal animation, aimed squarely at both nostalgic adults and a new generation of children.

Set on the islands of Hawaii, the film follows Lilo, a lonely and imaginative little girl being raised by her overwhelmed older sister Nani after the loss of their parents. When Lilo adopts what she believes is a scruffy blue dog, she has no idea she has taken in Experiment 626 — a fugitive alien engineered for destruction. Newcomer Maia Kealoha stars as Lilo in her screen debut, Sydney Agudong plays Nani, and Chris Sanders returns to voice Stitch, the character he originated more than two decades earlier.

Lilo & Stitch became a box-office juggernaut, sailing past the billion-dollar mark worldwide to rank among the biggest films of 2025 and one of Disney's most successful live-action remakes ever. While reviews were mixed-to-positive, audiences embraced the film's warmth and its central message of ohana — the idea that family means nobody gets left behind — and it topped the Disney+ charts the moment it began streaming.