Lilo & Stitch Live Action Teaser Trailer Dropped and Stitch is God Damn Adorable
Look at that mischievous little rascal. Some beachgoer must have spent hours upon hours, if not days, tediously constructing that enormous state-of-art sand replica of the Disney castle. He probably abandoned his post for 10 minutes to treat himself to a $20 lemonade from the boardwalk, then came back to find an adorable blue menace playing a game of Godzilla all over his beautiful masterpiece.
You can't even be mad. If that was someone's asshole kid then maybe you'd locate the neglectful parents and spend the rest of your vacation stalking their every move like a maniac until you identify something that's important to them. Then destroy the shit out of it to teach them a lesson. Maybe fist fight the dad in front of his children. But you can't be mad at a Stitch. Imagine paling around town with Stitch as a sidekick. Think of all the wacky shenanigans you could get into. Sending Stitch over to accidentally bump into a beautiful single woman.. "I'm so sorry miss, is my unfathomably adorable little monster that I adopted out of the goodness of my heart bothering you? Why yes, sex sounds great."
Overall, I'm not so sure how I feel about this new trend of making every cartoon that ever existed into a live-action movie. Seems a little lazy to me. At this point it kinda seems like they're just doing it because they have the technology. And it's far easier than coming up with any semblance of a new & creative idea. For example, I just saw a trailer for live-action How To Train Your Dragon over the weekend.
At least Lilo & Stitch is over 20 years old. How To Train Your Dragon is barely 10. Of course the live-action dragon is adorable as well, but we're barely letting movies breathe anymore. The minute somebody makes a successful cartoon, it's immediately, "Holy shit I bet that would be cute as shit with CGI"
But at least we're at a point with technology where CGI is good enough that it's at least visually appealing. Remember CGI Detective Pikachu? The surprise twist at the end that movie is that Pikachu was Ryan Reynolds the whole time. Which was kinda strange. But at least seeing all the Pokemon was pretty cool.
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Even CGI Clifford, who people seemed to shit on for some reason, but I personally found to be a delight.
I'm always a sucker for seeing how they make the cartoons into real-life characters. So I guess people like me are the reason they keep pumping these movies out. But at least we've come a long way technology-wise. A long way since the 2000 cinematic classic that was, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle.
And a long way since Chris Chan was macing GameStop employees because they made CGI Sonic's arms the wrong color.
Sorry that last one might be a deep cut for some people. Shoutout Chris Chan. Hopefully he's ok with the newest, upcoming rendition of Sonic The Hedgehog.