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Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American film the 42nd animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 21, 2002. The film was written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, and was the second of three Disney animated features produced primarily at its animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. The film is the 42nd animated feature in the "Official Disney animated features canon" and was rated PG for "mild sci-fi action".
An extra-terrestrial mad scientist named Dr. Jumba Jookiba (David Ogden Stiers) is put on trial by a galactic governing body, headed by a Grand Councilwoman, for illegally creating dangerous creatures. The council is showed the creature, Experiment 626. Jumba tells the council that 626 is bullet proof, fire proof, extremely intelligent, can see in the dark and posesses super strength but his only instinct is to destroy. 626 is banished to exile on a desert asteroid. However, he escapes and zooms away in a police cruiser.
His pod crashes onto Earth. On the run, he passes himself off as a dog on Earth. (He starts off with three pairs of limbs, antennae, and things on his back that resemble feathers, but hides two of the pairs of limbs, antennae, and feathers.) He finds his way to a little girl named Lilo Pelekai (Daveigh Chase) who is living with her 21-year-old sister Nani (Tia Carrere), as their parents have recently died in a car accident.
To try to help, Nani takes Lilo to an animal shelter, so she can adopt a dog, and she finds 626. He had been running from Jumba - who had arrived soon after him. She thinks it is a dog - whom she names "Stitch."
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