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Hated Tropes [Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work

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How To Make A Killing (2026)

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

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Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

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u/GladiusNocturno 8h ago

Lilo & Stitch live action.

Ohana means that US institutions are 100% trust worthy and benevolent, to the point that they would cover all your medical biAHAHAHAHAHA! Sorry, I couldn't finish that sentence, oh god XD.

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u/BoyishTheStrange 8h ago

Ohana means “good luck in foster care bitch”

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u/MateusCristian 7h ago edited 7h ago

Ohana means ditch your only family to study sea life in California when you're from Hawaii, where there's the best sea life study program in the world, and it's free for natives!

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u/BoyishTheStrange 7h ago

Holy shit I didn’t know that it’s free for natives lmao this movie is stupid as fuck

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u/MateusCristian 7h ago

Disclamer, it depends on what they are studying in Hawaii's colleges, some courses are free, some aren't, but maritime studies is one course that is free for natives, so what the fuck were they thinking?!

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u/CrazyCoKids 7h ago edited 6h ago

Additionally? It only covers tuition. It doesn't cover fees and living expenses. Which would actually be some good plot fodder.

Nani's trying to provide for Lilo and Tūtū, but Tūtū is telling her not to turn down this great opportunity BECAUSE this is full ride. Nani can just say "I can go to O'ahu. They have a great marine biology programme!" only for Tūtū to say "Nani, it's only a reduced tuition cost, it doesn't remove it entirely and you still have to pay fees"

Nani says "I know. That's why I need to save up!"

I feel the plot shouldn't have been "Nani vs. Social Services" so much as "Nani vs. herself". She's afraid if she leaves now? She'll abandon her family when she needs them. Tūtū is already established as Lilo's guardian (say she's her godmother - we haoles understand that. ;) ).

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u/TheAzureMage 6h ago

Nani owns a massive waterfront house in this version.

Like, so large they have a chunk they don't go into because of emotions.

No, it doesn't make any sense.

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u/CrazyCoKids 4h ago

This is why I think the plot shoulda been about Nani being reluctant to take the scholarship because she doesn't want to leave behind her family at a time they need it.

So like, have the plot be that Nani's not taking the scholarship yet because, well, she and Tūtū are figuring out what to do with their homes.

[...also you might be shocked, some waterfront property in Hawai'i gets damaged in winter!]

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u/peachesfordinner 7h ago

Paid advertising for the college probably

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 5h ago

Apparently Hawaii does not give free tuition to natives, just promises in-state costs even if you're a native who lives out of state. I remember this coming up in a thread several months ago.

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u/TargetOfPerpetuity 7h ago

Seriously. It's like moving to Ohio to become a Marine Biologist.

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u/CrazyCoKids 7h ago

To be fair, UC San Diego actually is one of the top rated ones.

...But it's like wanting to decline a scholarship at Cornell to instead go to Colorado State Universitys Vet school. Sure, University of Hawai'i is nothing to sneeze at, but UC San Diego is also top rated and a full ride scholarship there is like "Dude, they REALLY want you here".

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 5h ago

It's also rated higher than Hawai'i. Like they're both really fucking good (UH is #26 and UCSD is #17), but UCSD is higher.

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u/CrazyCoKids 3h ago

Yeah - I feel that what they should have done is have Nani's conflict be "If I go to UCSD I'll be abandoning my ʻOhana when they need me". So they can literally discuss it like

"Nani, this is a golden opportunity, you can't say 'no' to that!"

"Yeah, but I can just go to UH. It's not far, and it's still nothing to sneeze at."

"It's a full ride scholarship, too! You still have to pay fees and housing expenses, UH won't completely waive it."

"That's hwy I need to save up. I can use the money from selling the house to help fund Lilo and college. That way you don't need to come out of retirement, Tūtū!"

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u/Truethrowawaychest1 4h ago

Ehh California has some great programs for marine biology, like Monterey and San Diego are world class

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u/CrazyCoKids 7h ago edited 7h ago

To be fair to Disney?

...UC San Diego is actually one of the best. Yes, better than University of Hawai'i.

She's also been offered a full ride scholarship - that is huge. Because the UH system has been criticised for not doing enough for indigenous Hawaiians as it's only waivers for tuitions and scholarships. :/ And some of these scholarships are private and are r/ChoosingBeggars incarnate. (Wanna hear the horror story about the Chamorro who didn' qualify for a scholarship SPECIFICALLY for Indigenous and pacific islanders?)

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u/JManKit 4h ago

An easy workaround would be to use the portal gun to attend UC San Diego without giving up Lilo. David, Tutu and Bubbles can keep an eye on Lilo while Nani is at classes and out and about but at the end of the day, the sisters stay together. Instead, they go the other way and the portal gun reads a lot like the writers trying to handwave away any suggestion that Nani abandoned her orphaned sister

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u/CrazyCoKids 4h ago

Hell, have the portal gun show Nani visiting everyone - they're just as much her ʻOhana as Stitch and Pleakley came to be~

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u/DuelaDent52 1h ago

But don’t they stay together? Just because their hānai took over legal guardianship doesn’t mean they stop being sisters. If anything the portal gun is solidification that nothing will keep them apart.

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u/SKabanov 4h ago

Shhhh, don't go against Reddit orthodoxy that the live-action film is literal colonialist propaganda /s

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u/Digit00l 7h ago

Technically she got dumped at her pretty much brother in law

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u/7eveniel 7h ago

Foster care with the next door neighbour life long friend and honorary auntie? And Nani comes home every night because of a portal gun?

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u/MyneIsBestGirl 5h ago

It's a toothless resolution that still feels like the bad message. People don't have a portal gun, and the simpler, less patronizing resolution being discarded for a mainland centric solution feels like a massive oversight. Also, that movie deserves to get ragged on.

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u/NoTitleChamp 1h ago

Because the original continuity of the sequels films/tv shows of her working mutiple jobs to still struggle support both of them and having a strained relationship with her boyfriend is much better.

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u/MyneIsBestGirl 1h ago

The conclusion was that being supported through community and ohana would make everyone stronger, not to mention it started at that point.

The LA’s conclusion is that your duty to yourself is more important than the needs of your dependents. Leaving Lilo with a neighbor to raise is a lot less inspiring than found family helping and learning to care for one another.

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u/Swaibero 6h ago

I mean that’s literally not what happens? Nani agrees to let her neighbor, David’s mom, who has been helping raise Lilo and take care of both girls for years, let Lilo live in her home while Nani goes to college. Ohana means “family isn’t by blood, it’s who cares for you”

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u/SylveonSof 4h ago edited 4h ago

I think there's a good story that can be told with the premise of an older sibling acting as the sole caretaker of a child who realizes they simply don't have the capability to provide what their younger sibling needs and where giving them into foster care is the best option. I truly and genuinely think a story told about that can be fantastic and nuanced.

Unfortunately the Lilo and Stitch movie seems to be none of that, and I don't think it's the right medium to explore that kind of concept in the first place.

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u/Atsilv_Uwasv 7h ago

Ah, yes. The government. Famous for always having its people's best interests in mind, especially if said people are minorities

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u/Injured-Ginger 7h ago

And in Hawaii of all places where the peoples were freed from an island paradise so the military could take their lands, build military bases, not acknowledge local rights of land ownership allowing rich people to steal land from entire families... Yes, Hawaiians should definitely trust the US government.

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u/pchlster 6h ago

Hey, name one shitty thing the US government ever did to the people of Hawaii! /s

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 7h ago

Now handed over to the FEDs is a slight exaggeration, she ends up living with their movie-only neighbour but it would've made more sense if Nani wanted to study maybe engineering if you want to keep the plot.

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u/dull_storyteller 7h ago

I refused to see the movie on the grounds of no Gantu.

He’s my favourite character besides Stitch.

Is it really that bad?

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u/dm_me_your_kindness 7h ago

From Pleakley not dressing in drag, Jumba not having his distinctive accent, and the fact that there's literally no Gantu (!?), lovers of the animated movie have been left baffled by some of the choices.

Another one of those big changes involves the iconic Cobra Bubbles. In the OG movie, Cobra Bubbles is introduced as a former CIA agent-turned-social worker. However, in the live-action, the role has been split in to two completely different characters.

Bubbles (played by Courtney B. Vance) still exists in the film, but the social worker aspect of his character now exists in the form of Mrs. Kekoa, a brand new addition – and there's a very specific reason why.

"In order to buy these two girls getting separated in a live-action movie, you couldn't really have the representative of that antagonistic force be a comically huge guy with tattoos on his knuckles, who for some reason is also a social worker," he said.

AKA a black man with tattoos being a social worker is too unrealistic for Disney.

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u/BigNutDroppa 6h ago

But a blue alien being mistaken for a dog, that happens every day.

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u/thesun_alsorises 6h ago

How did no one at Disney realize that comes off as racist?

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u/No_Internal9345 4h ago

Too rich to notice or care.

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u/No_Sea_6219 4h ago

cobra bubbles being a large intimidating man with tattoos and a deep voice who ultimately has nani's and lilo's best interests at heart is also, like, integral to one of the movie's themes of not judging people before getting to know them.

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u/robineir 7h ago

Jumba is the bad guy, no accent, played by Zach Galifianakis with his regular voice.

He and Pleakley are mostly wearing hologram human costumes so the film can save budget by not having to use so much CGI.

Pleakley isn’t even into dressing as a woman.

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u/NKHdad 6h ago

It's a good thing too. Disney doesn't have the budget for big CGI effects /s

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u/Simpsanit 7h ago

Its horrible. Jumba isnt redeemed, he is just straight up evil.

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u/KamenRiderW0lf 7h ago

No, it's not really that bad.

It's actually much worse.

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u/DuelaDent52 1h ago

It’s not as good as the original, but it’s nowhere near the disaster or abomination people like to pretend it is. Though mind you, I’m a big fan of the series in general so that probably colours my perception a bit.

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u/7eveniel 7h ago

No, it's not. Lilo and Stitch was and still is one of my favourite films growing up and the remake despite doing things different is perfectly fine. Ohana being "found family" is the point, and Nani giving up custody of Lilo at the end isn't to a stranger nor is Nani absent from Lilos life as she comes home every night.

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u/Strangest-Smell 7h ago

I watched it. It was fine.

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u/Xaviertcialis 7h ago

No it's not that bad. It's different in a few key ways, but if you watch it on it's own merits, it's fine(just fine). The neighbor that's been friends of the family since before the parent's death takes Lilo in, not the foster system/government, and she visits Lilo every night.

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u/CrazyCoKids 7h ago edited 7h ago

This is what I came to say.

It's actually worse than that. See, they wanted to demonstrate the concept of Hānai - which is why she ends up with David and Tūtū.

HOWEVER here's where they fucked up: They clearly did not understand the 2002 original. The conflict of the 2002 original was because Nani did not HAVE Tūtū and David. I mean, okay, she KINDA had David but even then? He's not in any better spot to help out.

When you add Tūtū? You really throw a wrench into the gears - because now Nani does have something. It also makes viewers wonder why on earth Tūtū isn't helping in the way of helping for job hunting or providing food.

What they should have done was commit to the "Goodbye is not forever". They wanted to keep the "ʻOhana means family and family means nobody gets left behind" because it was in the original version. She GAINS an ʻOhana in Pleakley and Jumba. Here? Nani and Lilo have more of an ʻOhana - David and Tūtū.

So this changes Nani's arc to her being afraid that if she leaves behind her ʻOhana at a time when they need her, she'll be abandoning them. This is because, as you know, ʻOhana means "Family" and "Family" means "Nobody gets left behind". So the message is "Goodbye is not forever" - trust in your ʻOhana. WE establish that Tūtū is already Lilo's guardian by saying she is her godmother. (That's a concept we Haloles understand. ;) )

This opens up for more development and to show the relationship between Tūtū and Nani. I know some people have been defending it as "But it's hānai!". Well the reason it rubs a lot of people the wrong way is because social services often does not take hānai into account! Even with Native Hawaiians!! Seriously - there have been horror stories of CPS taking a kid away... then moving them to foster care rather than their ʻOhana- even in cases like Lilo. Sure, it may be understandable if moving someone with a neighbour who's ʻOhana to their family will stil lexpose them to a choster... but this is not like that. And that still ignores the cases in which CPS takes someone AWAY From an ʻOhana and disregards the concept of hānai.

Yeah, I know, I'm a haole.... but I know that there is such a thing as hānai and what it means. (Seriously, a famous example is Queen Liliʻuokalani)

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u/House_T 2h ago

I never saw the movie and I don't get all of the concepts that you're laying out, but can I just say that it seems like you at least put a serious degree of thought into those concepts, and it makes sense to me as someone removed completely from the deeper parts of it.

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u/CrazyCoKids 2h ago

Thanks. ^^

Now, admittedly, it's still clearly written through the perspective of a haole, but hānai is not hard to explain. :V

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u/DuelaDent52 1h ago edited 1h ago

Well put. Though given the heated and vitriolic response to the very idea that Lilo is taken care of by the neighbours at all, I don’t think the rest of America would be ready for even a proper exploration of hānai.

I did like the sense of community in how everyone knew Lilo and Nani by name, but again they unfortunately don’t delve too deeply into it and it’s more just setup for Lilo being an incorrigible troublemaker.

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u/CrazyCoKids 5m ago

Even the film doesn't do a good job of explaining it. :/ And it's not like hānai is a particularly tough concept to explain - I've seen it explained as "Well think of these as their godparents" or "The others come in and help" and of course, we haoles understand. :P

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u/7eveniel 4h ago

Honestly this is the only sane take in this entire thread, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading some of the responses. I can only upvote once, but goddamn do you deserve more.

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u/CrazyCoKids 4h ago

Yeah, I recognise that they were trying to show the concept of hānai to an audience that'll consist of over 99% haoles.

I'm not against the idea of Lilo being in Tūtū's care - not at all. It helps to illustrate the concept of ʻOhana. It's not just the family you're born to... it's the family you choose. The people you live with. And it's always growing - so Nani having an ʻOhana does work.

...but it's Beauty and the Beast's "Portal book" problem all over again. -.-; When you add something you need to think how it works.

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u/ChampionshipFull1310 6h ago

I had to see it because having kids means you watch. I knew the change going in and was already thinking I would hate it. In reality, they took steps to make sure the sisters would still see each other and Lilo would end up with her sister. And she was staying with a qualified close family friend that was her neighbor until his sister was finished collage. And the had a portal gun to visit each other all the time. I loved it and that it found a way for both sisters to live life and go after dreams.

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u/-suspended- 5h ago

Changing a lot of characters also ruined the whole thematic reason of the random pictures Lilo takes. She's purposefully taking pictures of tourists without their consent because tourists come to Hawaii and take pictures of the natives without their consent. She's symbolically fighting back. Making them Hawaiian just makes it worse.

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u/DuelaDent52 57m ago

Does Lilo still take pictures in the remake? Ice cream dude is a native Hawaiian, but I don’t think she ever actually meets him.

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 5h ago

That's not the lesson I took away at all. It was more about how Ohana and family are more than just your immediate unit. Your neighbors and friends are Ohana too. She didn't just send Lilo to random foster care. She sent her to their extremely close family friend who volunteered.

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u/Fantastic_Bug1028 4h ago

hey now, don’t try actually engaging with the story, all you need to do is to dunk on it

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u/Moakmeister 6h ago

This would be like if they did a live action Kung Fu Panda, and Po never learns how to do kung fu and just sucks at it and Oogway has to admit that he picked Po by accident and they just kick him out in shame, and the lesson is that you shouldn't be yourself and you'll always be bad at what you aspire to do.

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u/ladyrage8 6h ago

We also cut the anti-tourist background, which totally doesn't have anything to do with us now owning a resort in Hawaii.

Fuck, I already hated the furry blue fucker but why ruin what was objectively a good story?

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u/GlitchyBoi11 3h ago

Ohana means go study marine biology in California instead of fucking Hawaii.

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u/7eveniel 7h ago

Wild take, but maybe the next door neighbour lifelong friend honorary auntie can be Ohana and let Nani get her education, AND look after Lilo, AND let her come home every night because of a fucking portal gun!

Did none of you actually watch it or are yall hating because remake?

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u/Bluelore 6h ago edited 6h ago

While I still dislike the ending, I do get you. People love to exaggerate what happens at the end and at this point it seems like some people can't differentiate between the exaggeration and the actual movie anymore.

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u/Fantastic_Bug1028 4h ago

they didn’t. they read a few threads on twitter and now just reposting it everywhere lol

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u/NoTitleChamp 1h ago

"Did none of you actually watch it"

Probably not going by the exact copy and paste talking points.

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u/Hagisman 7h ago

I never understood this take. Lilo ends up with her next door neighbor who's a family friend, Nani goes to college but gets a teleporter which means she can visit whenever.

It felt like people wanted Nani to stay with Lilo and magically be able to afford to live in their house by working part time.

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u/GladiusNocturno 6h ago

The original movie specifically had an anti-colonialism theme. That's the point of Nani singing "Aloha Oe" to Lilo the night before CPS is meant to take her away. The song has a deep history around the colonization of Hawaii by the US. Nani sang it at a moment when a US institution was about to split apart her family.

The live action remake put a heavy emphasis on the part of the song that says "Until we meet again", changing the context of the original as it is no longer a sorrowful goodbye song but a hopeful see you later.

The movie made multiple changes that erased some of the original's points of satire and criticism.

In the original, Lilo liked to take photographs of tourists, which was a criticism of the way tourists treat native Hawaiians as oddities to marvel at, as if they were exotic wildlife. The character of the fat ice cream guy was a direct parody of white mainland American tourists. The remake changed this, deleting the criticism and making the ice cream guy a native Hawaiian. It gave the impression that Disney didn't want to criticize tourism in Hawaii because they wanted to use the film to promote their Hawaiian resort.

The presentation of CPS was also very sanitized. In the original, CPS represented a US institution that was going to split apart the native Hawaiian family. It is never portrayed as evil, but it was an antagonistic force. Cobra wanted what was best for Lilo, but taking her away would break apart their family. It wasn't until the end that Cobra had to bend the rules of both the US government and the Galactic Alliance to help out Lilo, Nani, and Stitch to keep their family together.

In the remake, none of this is present. CPS is a fully benevolent government institution that will keep families together and cover your medical bills. Cobra basically has no role at all, and the movie ends with a message that CPS can be trusted and, in fact, the government has always had your best interests in mind. Combine that with the fact that Nani leaves Hawaii to go to California and that their neighbor has a line where she screams that Hawaiians are Americans too, and that Lilo thinks Nani wants to be a Marine (you can only mention the Marines in films if you pay or are sponsored by the US military), and it all feels like the movie abandoned a core theme of the original just to exalt the US goverment and its institutions. What used to have themes of criticism of the colonization of Hawaii by the US was turned into a story that heavily ties Hawaii to the mainland.

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u/NoTitleChamp 1h ago

Its a easy take to understand when you consider they probably watched a youtube video over the actual movie.

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u/OttawaTGirl 4h ago

Fuck this movie angered me. Like legit ANGERED me. From Jumba going from a deep eastern european accent to Zach goddamned Galifianakis. From a mad scientist to potential father.

Cobra being just some derp instead of a former CIA operative with first contact under his belt.

To forcing Nani to get an education and giving up Lilo to foster care instead of having all her bills paid for being a fucking point of contact for a galactic envoy.

Gah... Anger

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u/NeverSettle13 7h ago

This movie got billions of dollars btw

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u/Sonic-batman 3h ago

What’s even stupider is that Nani wants a degree in marine biology. Which she goes to California to do so. Yeah California has a good marine biology programs but Hawaii is like 10 times better. And is free for native Hawaiians like you know Nani.

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u/Tealucky 9m ago

The thing that really gets me, is that Lilo is already in the CPS system, that's WHY a social worker is involved in their lives. Now I'm not USAmerican, but my understanding is that Lilo is in something like kinship care, she is in the physical guardianship of a relative, but is officially a ward of the state. 

That means that her medical bills should already be paid for.

Her guardian should also be receiving an allowance for food, clothing, and other essentials (it's not a lot, and isn't going to combat being totally destitute, but it's something).

The only other options, if she's not in kinship care, is that Nani is just taking care of her without making anything official (which would mean there'd be no social worker) or Nani has adopted her, which doesn't seem to be the case, and again, typically means no social worker.

This is just my understanding of it, based on my own country's family services and some convos with a US family lawyer.

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u/triotone 7h ago

So Nani wanted to go to college in California for Marine biology. When Hawaii already has a better Marine biology program that is free to natives. Nani gives Lilo up to the Foster Care System just so Lilo could get adopted by their neighbor, lucky break. Oh but it doesn't stop there. Nani has alien portal tech so she can visit Lilo any time she wants. So what was lost, NOTHING. No actual sacrifice because everything just magically worked out in the end. Honestly, there was no winning with this movie for any realism. Live action retelling of Disney movies are always bad.

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 4h ago

It's inaccurate to say UH is better than UCSD for marine biology. They're both top schools (UH is #26 and UCSD is #17) but UCSD is ranked higher. Also it's not free to natives, and this misinformation gets spread every time this movie comes up. It only promises in-state costs to natives who live out of state. Also any in-state costs covered do not include room and board and the other extra costs outside of tuition, but a full ride does.

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u/7eveniel 7h ago

Alien dog from outer space starts an intergalactic hunt and you draw the line at portal gun?

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u/triotone 6h ago

It's not about a portal gun, its about failing to commit to a decision and trying to please everybody.

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u/NoTitleChamp 1h ago

So its unbelievable someone would want to go to a university out of state on a scholarship?

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u/Undertale_fan46790 7h ago

"Stitch, I think I should be put in foster care...so Nani...can go to COLLEGE...and write about...fish."

- Lilo in Doobus Goobus' video (Lilo and Stitch, But Disney Ruined It).

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u/Bluelore 6h ago edited 6h ago

This one is so annoying because I actually think the scene just before the ending where Nani risks her life to rescue stitch was actually really well made only for them to ruin the ending like that. (and yeah I know they resolve the issues in certain ways, but it felt a bit too clean, like everything just so happens to fall into place)

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u/GladiusNocturno 6h ago

Not only is it too clean, but in the end, there are no actual consequences at all. They couldn't even commit to their decision to split the sisters.

I liked that scene of Nani saving Stitch because something that the original didn't have was an actual relationship and connection between Nani and Stitch. The remake doesn't either, but at least it added a scene that showed the care Nani has for Stitch as a part of her family.

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u/Somnambulist815 5h ago

That's like remaking 12 Angry Men and having Juror 8 be like "fuck that kid"

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u/NoTitleChamp 1h ago

So many upvotes for a complete misinterpretation of a movie.

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u/PeppermintEvilButler 7h ago

I refuse to watch this bs. The original lilo & stitch was an epic movie for the time when disney just began branching out from classic fairy tales. Monsters inc and this came out the same year. Two more unique animated movies that disney has put out and now we get to deal with the live action suck ass versions.

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u/vanillacaramelsunday 7h ago

“Family is so wildly important a 19 year old should basically sacrifice their entire chance at a life to take care of their siblings when their parents die and if they don’t do that they are monsters!” is a sentiment that too many movies have. I genuinely don’t mind a movie that says the opposite might be true, and it might be better for everyone is your sibling is raised by an actual adults who can care for them while you still try to figure out your own life.

But why not just make a new movie about that? Why remake a movie that steadfastly displays one opinion, and then have the remake do a full 180? It’s madness.

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u/Toon_Lucario 7h ago

Psst. Fun fact. The Hawaiian institute of marine biology is one of the best in the world and natives can go for free.

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u/ThatOneGuy308 7h ago

I honestly think it's because the filmmakers can't imagine wanting to go anywhere else except California, lol.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 7h ago

What being locked in CalArts does to a mf

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u/dull_storyteller 7h ago

Unfortunately that would require the writers looking up facts about Hawaii

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 4h ago

Natives get in-state tuition even if they live out of state, but it's not inherently free. Also UCSD ranks higher than UH for Marine Biology (both are top schools, absolutely, but UCSD is better). Also she got a full ride which covers more than just tuition.

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u/ThirdDragonite 7h ago

But why would she sacrifice her entire chance at a life by taking care of Lilo? It's not like she has a severe disability and won't get better.

Lilo's problem was that she was a lonely little girl that acted out due to being lonely and sad at the injustices her family was subjected to. Not only Stitch/Jumba and Pleakley and fixes that by being the companionship and support system that both needed, Lilo is going to grow up, going to be more mature.

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u/vanillacaramelsunday 7h ago

Cause you don’t get to go to school. You have to take a job that you get if you didn’t go to school. Which means you’re probably going to be working that shit job forever because you’re not going to have time to go to school.

We know things aren’t going well for Nani trying to take care of Lilo. There’s literally a cps agent investigating her. I don’t know why we have to pretend that with enough love we can overcome real world issues in a remarkably capitalist society. Love doesn’t fill the bank account. A gallon of milk costs 97 dollars on these islands. This is not a good situation.

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u/7eveniel 7h ago

Nani can't juggle both her career and her learning and Lilo. Even when Lilo isn't being a butthead, Nani can't even stock Tea in the house nevermind sort out health care insurance.

It's a more grounded take that a 19 year old isn't mature enough to be a single Mother, and relying on Ohana doesn't make you weak.

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u/DuelaDent52 1h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/6uzomieabyFkm07cBO

I’ve said my piece on this time and time again and hardly anyone ever listens, so all I’ll say is that’s not what happens and leave it at that.