I'm not kidding, I'm not kidding, if I see ONE MORE REEL with podcasters explaining Lilo & Stitch and telling me what was wrong with the live action, talking in their stilted "I'm just now thinking about this and you should tooo" inflection, about how allegedly shocking it is that "Nani gives up her sister and so I guess Ohana means nothinggg", I'm GOING to throw up
Do you know why?
Because everyone could've easily seen that this movie was going to be trash and actively smear the original right down to its core from the first trailer. We don't NEED YOU INFLUENCERS. We've all SEEN the original. Nobody NEEDS YOU to create "buzz" around the corpse, even if it's to explain what's wrong with it. It makes me want to roll my eyes until they're curling around my brain stem to watch people try to tell me "did you know that in the original Lilo & Stitch Jumba was NOT the villain, but turned into LILO's uncllleee?" Or "so I Saw The Live Action Lilo & Stitch and appARENTLY Ohana DOESN'T mean family, let me break it down for you in my spoiler-heavy review--" no. Shut up. You're part of the problem. Nobody needed you to go purchase a displayed corpse and then explain to everyone why it smells bad. Now you know what? They're going to kill more good stories because they don't care why you bought the corpse, just that your money proves it'll sell. And in the meantime you have no problem with that because just like Disney, you're making the Original Lilo & Stitch "trending" just as long as it serves you, just as long as you can profit off of "creating content" from something that ultimately tries to erase the original.
And do you know what else, I repeat: NOBODY NEEDS YOU to explain the original lilo & stitch. we have seen it. Everybody's seen it. It's a classic. Its iconic. It's that good of a movie. And it's a simple movie. It is not complex, it is not a Game of Thrones episode you need to deep-dive into, it is a plain-good story about something universally true. I like to talk about its details and the craft of storytelling that went into it, but that doesn't mean the average person needs it explained to be able to see why it's perfect. and that's the point. you all didn't need to go see it, you knew it would be bad.
Quit scrambling to be "part of the moment" by scrounging around and unearthing "Stitch & Ai" and "Stitch & the Samurai" so you can have SOMETHING Lilo & Stitch-related to say. 90% of yall didn't care AT ALL about Lilo & Stitch beyond how a Facebook Karen cares about Minions. And then this movie came out. And you're buying a ticket and jumping aboard the rampage-clickbait-bus and making a scene like you care, while the festering corpse of one of the greatest animated films of all time rots in the background. And they make money off of it. Your money. Next time if you got something to say, say it when the putrid trailer comes out. And then DON'T go see it, don't TALK about it, let it die in the dark where it belongs.