Lilo & Stitch (2025) review

Disney, apparently needing cash to pay all their lawyers, decided to "remake" its popular animated 2002 release, except this time mixing live-action with CGI: a blue dog-like creature named Experiment 626 (voiced by Chris Sanders) escapes his home planet of Turo and lands in Hawaii where he's "adopted" (and named Stitch) by friendless Lilo (Maia Kealoha) - who's being "raised" by her sister Nani (Sydney Elizebeth Agudong) since both their parents passed away - but Dr. Jumba (Zach Galifianakis) and Agent Wendell (Billy Magnussen) are looking to recapture the small beast.  This is made exclusively for the kiddie crowd, who should love the rambunctious and fuzzy little fellow, but for the Mouse, it's yet another sign of artistic bankruptcy, as they really lean into "The Trauma," even going so far as to change the ending of the original so that Stitch nearly perishes from drowning, and there's so much talk of "family" it's like they studied The Fast and the Furious franchise.  Every moment in which Stitch isn't breaking something or scrambling around frantically it tends to stall out ... maybe if they sell enough plushies they can afford to hire some innovative interns.