LILO & STITCH Remake Gets An Expanded Runtime As Fun New TV Spot Reveals Jumba And Pleakley

LILO & STITCH Remake Gets An Expanded Runtime As Fun New TV Spot Reveals Jumba And Pleakley

The upcoming Lilo & Stitch remake will be quite a bit longer than its 2002 animated predecessor, based on a new listing. A new TV spot, meanwhile, shows more of Experiment 626 causing chaos in Hawaii...

By JoshWilding - Apr 26, 2025 10:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Disney
Source: Toonado.com

Disney's live-action remakes have been far from consistent in terms of quality, but all signs point to Lilo & Stitch being more akin to The Jungle Book or Cinderella than disappointing efforts like Snow White and Pinocchio

Based on the trailers, Lilo & Stitch will be another very faithful adaptation, but this version of the 2002 animated classic will seemingly expand the story.

Thanks to the AMC Theaters website (via Toonado.com), we now know that Lilo & Stitch will have a runtime of 1 hour and 48 minutes. That's 25% longer than the original movie's 85-minute runtime, and while it's yet to be officially confirmed, this change is what we've come to expect from these remakes. 

Early box office tracking points to Lilo & Stitch grossing over $100 million over Memorial Day weekend. That means it will earn more than Snow White's entire domestic haul in just three days. 

Making this feat even more impressive is the fact that Lilo & Stitch will go head-to-head with Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Still, that's eyeing a franchise-best debut, topping 2018's Mission: Impossible - Fallout ($61 million). 

"If you re-watch the original, he is literally just using Lilo as a human meat-shield for the first half," Lilo & Stitch director Dean Fleischer Camp recently said. The filmmaker compared him to "a toddler putting something in their mouth," adding, "He’s leading with curiosity, and all he knows is destruction."

Addressing the CG Stitch's dynamic with newcomer Maia Kealoha, Camp said, "Even on days when we weren’t shooting them in the same scene together, she would insist on giving him a kiss goodnight."

You can watch a fun new TV spot for Lilo & Stitch in the players below. 

Lilo & Stitch is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.

The movie is directed by award-winning filmmaker Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), with a screenplay by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes, and stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Hannah Waddingham, Chris Sanders, with Courtney B. Vance, Zach Galifianakis, and introduces Maia Kealoha.

Lilo & Stitch is produced by Jonathan Eirich, p.g.a. and Dan Lin, with Tom Peitzman, Ryan Halprin, Louie Provost, Thomas Schumacher serving as executive producers.

After originally being developed as a Disney+ Original, Lilo & Stitch now arrives in theaters on May 23, 2025.

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Wahhvacado
Wahhvacado - 4/26/2025, 10:44 AM
They are super lame for changing the aliens into humans instead of having them in drag like the original

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dragon316
dragon316 - 4/26/2025, 11:51 AM
@Wahhvacado - then people who are non paid critics who don’t work on Hollywood not pick movies will say was good movie but aliens in human clothes no humans can identify them as aliens what human walks around with green skin and three fingers one eye in middle of face will say movie is to kiddish childish humor
Wahhvacado
Wahhvacado - 4/26/2025, 11:52 AM
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MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/26/2025, 11:45 PM
@Wahhvacado -

You are completely right.

This comes from the same people who gave Mulan superpowers and removed Mushu and added a witch who can turn into a bird.
MikeyL
MikeyL - 4/26/2025, 10:47 AM
Disney being so scared of having a fictional male presenting alien dressing as women that they had to remove all traces of it is hilarious. [frick]ing pussies. There was never a problem with the original, don’t pussy foot around it now
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/26/2025, 5:54 PM
@MikeyL - These are different times. The internet has convinced them to not be the least bit woke or they might go broke.
MikeyL
MikeyL - 4/26/2025, 7:44 PM
@ObserverIO - irony is, it’s probably less woke to have a male not dress in women’s clothing if the source material says they do. I get Disney is probably stuck between a rock and a hard place, but at least if they stick to the original then they can say “That’s what was done then, this is a live version of it. Deal with it”
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/26/2025, 11:48 PM
@MikeyL -

Disney lefty loonies would never allow a new product with viewers laughing at males pretending to be females.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 4/26/2025, 12:34 PM
That looks adorable!!.

I like the idea of giving Jumba & Pleakley in this “holographic” disguises for them to better fit in with humans…

It pays homage to the animation where they don disguises while doing its own thing by giving the actors voicing them in this (Zach Galifanakis & Billy Magnussen) screen time.

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StSteven
StSteven - 4/26/2025, 8:15 PM
My 2 little girls (who are currently working their way through the entire "L&S" animated series on D+ after having watched the original movie for the first time month or 2 ago) SO want to see this, so we'll be there opening weekend. In fact, the other day when I told them that the movie wasn't going to be out for another month, my older one (9) was like "What?!?" then declared that she was going to Disney HQ and demand that they release the movie right now. When I explained that the movie probably isn't even completely done yet, as a lot of effects-heavy movies tend to work on them right up until release, I think her brain kinda melted a bit.

Then I showed them the newest trailer for "FF:FS" the other day and told them that after "L&S" we're going to see that in the theater and I was met with a resounding, "Eh, okay, sure, whatever." So I think I'm making some ground there, and if I throw in some Haagen Dazs ice cream bars at the theater that might seal the deal. 😉
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/27/2025, 12:08 AM
@StSteven -

This is why we can't have nice things.

We must endlessly suffer because too many people keep supporting bad things.
StSteven
StSteven - 4/27/2025, 2:29 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - I understand that you are trying to bait me, so I won't bite. But I'll just say that you do you, and my family and I will do us. Cheers! 🍻
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/26/2025, 11:43 PM
Why watch a non canon inferior watered down remake when you can watch the superior original with the canon events?

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