A couple of points to add (mind you, I FINALLY saw this today)
First, on the pidgin issue:
according to the IMDb:
and as to the date:
Throughout the movie thay have a classic beetle in the carport - when the montage of photos at the end is going by you see them washing their new car - a New Beetle. So it’s pretty much present day.
Incredible movie. My date was a little concerned at the violence, especially Lilo ‘bitchslapping’ (my date’s ords) the little red haired girl in the beginning.
I am with Cranky on not being so wild for this flick.
When Lilo punched the little redheaded girl in the face, she did not get any kind of punishment. I know this is a cartoon, but the dance teacher didn’t say *a thing * about ‘hitting is bad’ or ‘say you are sorry’. ( I did think, however, that the body motion in the hula dancing was outstanding.)
Anyone notice that Lilo was swimming alone in the opening shot with her. (Crowded beaches do not count a proper supervision.) What message does that send out to kids? Yes, I know she is a cartoon character and cartoon characters cannot drown. My kids/Your Kids/Somebody else’s kids do not know or comprehend this.
Also, Lilo is left home alone…with no supervision…or even a neighbor ‘keeping an eye on her’? Uhhhhh, nope. Not a little misfit like her, no way.
When Lilo threw herself on the floor and said, " Leave me alone, I want to die." (or whatever) that really disturbed me. It’s ok to have a little girl say this *but not tell/talk how Mom and Dad crashed on on Dead Man’s Curve on a Rainy Night *. So what we are saying here folks is that it is ok to *joke * about death, but *never ever actually discuss it. * Maybe Lilo is such a spaz right now because she is all bottled up inside because no one talks about ‘it’. ( Yes, I am pyschoanalizing a cartoon character. I want Lilo to say, " Why did I do that? I am emotionally constipated, Noni.")
And, more importantly, it disturbed my four year old. " Why does she want to die, mama?" she could have said, " I Vant to be alone."
The art work was nice. I liked the music, especially Wynonna singing at the end. I did not care at all for Stitch, who sounded like he was from Japan when he spoke.
I liked how Noni was more normal looking. And David was a hottie who was a good positive male role model, which should sooth the Moral Majority. He needs to do a role with Tarzan. Hubba hubba.
The message of “This is my family. I found it. It is small, and broken, but still good. Yup - still good…” was the best line in the entire flick. (after the " He’s very persuasive…" crack by the four eyed alien.
The opening was a bit scary for littler kids. Mine are 4 and 2.5 and they were a bit bug eyed during the opening scenes.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a five.
I liked the accents, too. But, what? Couldn’t get Don Ho to pencil in an appearance? 
I finally saw this last night and just loved the hell out of it. I wish I’d seen it sooner, if only because it would give me more time to see it over and over again before it leaves the theaters.
I actually didn’t expect to like it that much, just going from the trailers. It looked too Disney-in-a-bad-way – I’m a huge Disney fan, but I cringe as much as anyone else when they get all cloying or, even worse, try to be “edgy”. I thought the movie was going to be all catch-phrases and wacky hijinks until the emotional lesson at the end.
After seeing it, it reminded me a lot more of The Iron Giant than any other Disney movie – interesting characters and extremely well-done animation instead of just formula. I really liked how they showed that Stitch wasn’t just “an unloved ugly duckling;” he really was a little bastard for most of the movie! And Lilo, at least at the beginning, was a genuinely interesting character, and her relationship with Nani was a realistic one. Real people just aren’t nice to each other all the time, but that doesn’t mean that they’re bad or that they don’t love each other.
I think my favorite scene in the whole movie is when Stitch runs into the duck and it’s all set up to be an emotional Disney moment, when the duck just gathers her children and blows him off. It’s scenes like that that made the “This is my family… It is small, and broken, but still good.” line work. I was crying all through it, which granted is not that unusual for me with Disney movies, but this is the first one where I wasn’t embarrassed to be crying.