


For this crime against nature, both Jumba and 626 are sentenced to, respectively, imprisonment and exile.Įscaping from the United Galactic Federation and the clutches of Captain Gantu ( Kevin Michael Richardson), 626 takes a hyperdrive-fueled shortcut to the closest planet, which is 70% water (important because he is too dense to swim or float) - and miraculously lands on the bitty Hawaiian archipelago in the middle of the Pacific, crashing on the island of Kauaʻi. Experiment 626 ("six-two-six") has a vast capacity for knowledge, spectacular combat abilities, and a programmed instinct to destroy anything he comes across. Jumba Jookiba ( David Ogden Stiers), the maddest scientist to splice genetics this side of the Milky Way, stands trial for illegally engineering a new life form (actually 626 life forms, but it is his latest that we're concerned with). To make matters worse, a disastrous visit from social worker Cobra Bubbles ( Ving Rhames) means that unless things shape up in the Pelekai household, the sisters will be separated for good. Nani loves her little sister, but the stress of responsibility makes her a bit short-tempered and resentful. Lilo, often lost in her own world, neither understands nor is understood by her hula classmates. Set mainly in the lush Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi, sisters Nani (voiced by Tia Carrere) and Lilo Pelekai ( Daveigh Chase), recent orphans of a car accident, are practically alone in the world except for each other. It was both critically and commercially acclaimed, a rarity for Disney's animated films during their "Experimental Era" after the Disney Renaissance. Entry #42 in the Disney Animated Canon, Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 traditionally-animated sci-fi comedy-drama film.
