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TIP OF THE WEEK
Lilo & Stitch

Ray Pride

It was a disappointment when the lights went up after "Lilo & Stitch" and I realized all the giddy elements didn't quite cohere. While I had an insanely grand time watching it, it's not the coherent classic you wish it were. Lilo is a lonely, trouble-prone Hawaiian girl who dreams of the perfect friend, who arrives in the form of Stitch, a designed-for-destruction genetics experiment she adopts as a dog. Like a one-man "Gremlins," little blue Stitch snarls, garbles, spits, coos, and generally enforces havoc on Lilo's peaceful village until the sentimental power of a small girl's love turns him cute as well as still a little naughty. The expressive characters suggest the influence of illustrator Rick Meyerowitz, and the young women characters would delight R. Crumb with the depiction of their frankly powerful haunches. Another treat is that the entire picture (written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois) uses gorgeously colored watercolor backdrops, the first in a Disney feature in sixty years. Voices by Daviegh Chase, Tia Carrere, Ving Rhames, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald. Music by Elvis Aaron Presley. 89m.

"Lilo & Stitch" opens June 21.

(2002-06-20)

Also by Ray Pride

TIP OF THE WEEK
"Windtalkers," the new World War II epic from John Woo, is a broadscale depiction of hand-to-hand combat but also mano-a-mano conflict. (Yes, the love of man for his fellow man once more. If your best friend can't kill you, why die?)
(2002-06-13)

HAPPINESS REDUX
Jill Sprecher's touching ensemble drama formally resembles a Kubrick film, incorporating his questing intelligence and a great deal more warmth.
(2002-06-13)

TIP OF THE WEEK
Roberto Rossellini's groundbreaking gem of neorealism, shot at the end of World War II, began as a documentary about a priest in the Resistance, and became a portrait of how the Resistance survived the turmoil of everyday life during the war.
(2002-06-06)

SHUT THE HELL UP!
Consider the city. It is glory. Man's gift to himself. But it revenges. It cries out at all hours, a machine bleating its distress as it's torn stem to stern. Our stress is its stress, returned tenfold. It lives, thrives, dies, aloud. Those goddamn buses! Are they designed to sound that way, like beasts being torn from a primordial swamp?
(2002-06-06)

TIP OF THE WEEK
(2002-05-30)

MORAL FEAR
(2002-05-30)

MOVIE LOVE
(2002-05-30)

TIP OF THE WEEK
(2002-05-23)

TOUGH "ENOUGH"
(2002-05-23)

SUMMER FILM PREVIEW 2002: June
(2002-05-23)

SUMMER FILM PREVIEW 2002: July
(2002-05-23)

SUMMER FILM PREVIEW 2002: August
(2002-05-23)



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