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Hawaiian universities have some of the best marine biology programs in the United States. What in the hell is this movie talking about? Also, are remote classes not a thing?
so many people (including me) dream of studying in Hawaii, and honestly it'd be awesome for her to study in her native land as an indigenous woman. That's the kind of girlboss stuff we need to see, not white scientists taking all the marine biology jobs in Hawaii while indigenous scientists are forced to go elsewhere.
Apparently native Hawaiians can also study there for next to nothing, so WHY send her to Cali??
I think it’s calling Hawaii “underprivileged”
@mei-chan1337 because "let the foster care system sort Lilo out" was the message Disney wanted to send to indigenous Hawaiians. Boy, for a company that pats itself on the back for doing research and "consulting" native peoples, you'd think some scared intern would have written a memo about that.
I agree with Froggy on this: for all the accusations against disney saying that they're "woke" and too pc just don't line up with reality. In my thirty four years of living on this planet, all ive seen is disney being interested in making money. That's it.
I can answer the latter...Its kinds finicky searching for remote marine classes...Since most of them require field work ( I would like to assume that's what you are referring too). I'm not saying theory classes dont exist but then the practical aspect requires being in person depending on the aspect of marine or ecology the person is going into
They literally erased everything culturally beautiful about the first film, it’s literally fucking propaganda
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@@MiaMontavonJr.Ty ty 🤗
Not the first time...
The 2014 godzilla movie was full of US army propaganda. Just OOF. Godzilla is a fuck you to the us military specifically. They are bad, and they deserve to feel bad.
Mhm
My father, a conservative 62 year old man, said in response to me showing him the Live action Lilo and Stitch “where the hell is my queen pleakley.”
hey, even conservatives have their favorite drag queens
Imagining this voice with a thick Southern accent and a clang as he spits into a spitoon XD
It is funny how many of these people don’t actually dislike drag and are just scared their kids might be “infected”
@@thecorsairhimself thanks for the tip 😂
I miss when people didn't care about someone being in drag. Its like, i don't think Plekley was really the butt of the joke in the original, even though he cross dressed, people didn't gawk because it wasn't an issue, the only time there was a joke, it was about his head, because it appeared swollen after stitch latched onto it.Disney is always catering to the moral outrage minority that don't even go to their parks.
Animated Nani would kick live action Nani's arse for even CONSIDERING giving up Lilo like this.
they could’ve had their nani-girl-boss-marine-biologist story line AND had her stay lilos guardian if nani just went to the university of hawaii !!! they could’ve made a story arch about nani learning she didn’t have to choose between her dreams and her sister if she asked for help. like maybe david and his grandma help take care of lilo while nani is at school during the day because they’re ohani even if they aren’t blood related
Boom and there’s the rub! It was right freaking there!!
The fact that there were so many ways to give Nani both and they still chose to make it the most convoluted resolution they could’ve possibly used shows they _really_ wanted this ending. I’ve always believed that the girlbossifying of feminism secretly promoted isolation among women (specifically from each other) which would make them more susceptible to capitalistic control, and this is quite literally trying to say “abandon your child sister, it’s good for you. Fuċk what happens to her,”. Not to mention they’ve been separating “dynamic duos of Disney” for the last decade or so (Woody/Buzz, Ralph/Vanellope, Anna/Elsa, the list goes on) and trying to frame it as a positive even though they’re saying “you can rely on no one”, which is extremely damaging to literally anyone. I may not be convinced enough to call it isolation propaganda, but I am convinced to say this is very much intentional
She could literally go study in Japan if she wanted and it wouldn't matter because she teleports back home after classes
It also expands the idea of Ohana, in the original the family is adopted along the way, but this story line would also include your neighbors as well, Ohana is community as well as family.
As an older mom who had to become a primary earner while raising 3 kids, it is completely possible, and done a lot more often than society is aware of. It's super tough, but when you have to, you get it done.
Wanna know what's even STUPIDER about Nani studying Marine Bio in California?
Marine Biology majors of Native Hawaiian ancestry get a full scholarship at the University of Hawaii on O'ahu. 😬
I just took even more psychic damage from that choice learning this
_cuz Disney couldn't buy off one of the real world Hawaiian universities._ Don't ask me why they couldn't just make one up. I still have no idea why they needed a real world college to be name dropped in a film about aliens.
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa literally leads global marine bio research! There's no reason for her to want to go to California!
stab after stab oh my word
Honestly, I think Disney was paid to include Marine Bio in the movie. I think that they even had a real flyer from that university.
I am utterly convinced that if remake Nani and Original Nani were in a room, Original Nani would beat the ever loving shit outta the remake.
"Original Nani, no! Don't do that!...... You don't wanna get blood on your knuckles. Here, take this bat."
I’ll bring the popcorn
I'd pay good money to see that, actually
It's insane that Disney keeps making these shitty remakes. They have lost 3 times in a row. Mufasa to sonic 3, Snow white to The Minecraft movie, and now Lilo and Stitch to HTTYD live action. What the hell are they doing. They just need to stop
@@GregT.Gatorr girl they’ve BEEN losing, people just have short attention spans. I officially gave up after they screwed up the Mulan remake and that’s probably close to 5-7 years ago they made it.
As a young mom, it kind of upset me that Disney couldn't show Nani succeeding as a parent, even if it was hard. I had to sacrifice a lot for my now-4yo but it was all worth it because I love her. There was an opportunity to show a young woman who values family but also worked hard to achieve her dreams. I got my nursing degree while being a parent of one and then two kids by graduation. It is possible.
I also have a 14yo and 17yo sister. If my parents died, you would have to fight me to put them in foster care. It's a fantasy story, why did it have to have such a depressing ending? (Plus there is that subtext of a native child being taken from her family, which was a reality for a lot of people). Lilo is six, we really think she wouldn't have some level of trauma by her older sister just leaving her?? I feel like no one was happy with that ending, no matter your beliefs.
As another young mum, I agree. Why is the message of this movie "looking after kids suck, tell them that to their face and then ditch them"??? Culture is getting so strange with the idea that "parenting isn't worth it" being blasted out of almost every medium.
Also why does Nani have to get a degree NOW? Is the university going to disappear into thin air? It's so unrealistic that after losing their parents, Nani would want to throw away the last person in the family she grew up with
@@Strazza-1110 I think that the video highlights so well how Nani really doesn't seem to like her sister at all in the movie vs. the original where you can see how much she cares. Like I said, I literally went to college with a 9mo baby at home. She could have done it with a 6yo but apparently that's too unrealistic for a story with aliens in it. It really made me so sad that that was the message Disney decided to push.
THIS RIGHT HERE. So many people are missing this point. It might be TOUGH, but it was done out of LOVE and RESPONSIBILITY. The new movie just throws "ohana" away. :(
“Gantu doesn’t work in live action” NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS DO
Exactly! It’s so pathetic that they use this justification when like… reality ain’t fun. Reality is not what we’re here to enjoy. What are we even doing here??
Disney needs to look at why How to Train you Dragon remake is so amazing.
@@c.b.h1151 why do you consider it good? Everything I've seen of it just looks like a 1-to-1 copy of the original or a downgrade 😅 I genuinely don't see the point of these remakes at all..
Could you explain why you liked the HTTYD movie so much? You may be able to change my mind lol
@@chattycatty3336 it isn't a strict downgrade and people are desperate lmao compare it to Lilo and Stitch and you may be able to put yourself in their shoes
I was devastated the sexy shark man wasn't in it and making jumba bad
The whole "it's just a kid's movie" schtick is so infuriating because gen z and millennials grew up on kid's movies that sdaled with themes of death,family,adoption, displacement, spirituality,friendship,class solidarity ,activism etc etc. They taught us things,they made us think. It's clear some people in those offices don't want kids to really think anymore.
really, older movies would have been condemned if they came out in our current political era for being "so wooake". I watched the Cone Heads the other day, and by god! As an adult, it went full force with immigration and illegal 'aliens' in our work force. I think the original show was a recurring SNL sketch, but they made a WHOLE DAMN MOVIE with meaning about the current political beliefs of the late 80s.
But we had some much substance, depth, characters were raw and real, complex, with complicated issues they fought through. Di$ney as an industry is shriveling up all substance and ultra sanitizing stories, generating the same one-dimensional characters they fought to distance themselves from of the original Snow White, The Little Mermaid. Characters are really challenged, they are given algorithmic plots to follow but its all... messy and lacks motivation. Its like they want characters to go from Point A to Point B, with a plot lacking meaning or connection to those characters. Its like if they decided Winnie the Pooh should visit Rabbit to get honey, but he eats out of a flower pot because he wanted to connect with rabbits vegetarian lifestyle. It makes no sense, but the director tries to defend the changes in some convoluted way that makes no sense no matter how the ChatGPT it
A good kids movie can be enjoyed by adults too. If only kids can enjoy it, then it's not good.
a good kids movies is one that can be enjoyed by people of all ages ad there's always something new to learn from it too.
"It's just a kids movie", "Just turn your brain off", "It's not for you", etc.
Funny how you never see arguments like these trotted out for media that are actually good, yeah?
I could _almost_ understand that argument if lilo and stitch wasn't like, the ONLY kids movie in theatres right now aside from bloody paw patrol. Kids media is dead and the remnants of the medium's corpse is propaganda.
I had this PIT in my stomach walking out of Lilo and Stitch after Nani gave up Lilo. The whole movie just felt like a gross misrepresentation of what foster care is like for Indigenous children, especially girls. Knowing a lot of stuff that happens to Native Hawaiian girls in foster care, it was just disgusting to me that Disney made that change. The point of Lilo and Stitch isn’t that Lilo is a “burden” to Nani or that Nani can’t look after her, it’s that she needs support in doing that, exactly like everyone else in the world trying to raise a child.
I heard that warning to not watch it for that, but family is literally the entire plot! It’s always make me tear up when stitch says Ohana and when Nani talks to Lilo in the hammock trying reassure her sister while trying her best to struggle o provide for her sister. I watched TV show and all the characters still fit and brought something to it. Pleakly is also amazing, people worried about a cgi aliens geneder is whacky
exactly! stop dumping kids in foster care and provide REAL support for their loving carers 😔
And saposably there's gonna be a sequel 😑
I don't get why the government had to basically force her to do it rather than it being their idea. Like I can agree ohana doesnt just mean nuclear family, but the original had already found a much better approach to depicting DCFS. The remake just seems like state propaganda
I truly don't understand why they would change this.
28:06 As far as I know, THIS was actually the problem Peter Dinklage spoke about. Not the fact that the Seven Dwarfs are played by little people but that while Snow White's character is getting developed, the Seven Dwarfs are still just stereotypical dwarfs in a cave.
Also, as far as I know, Disney had made the decision to make dwarfs CGI long ago but very conveniently decided to announce it after that Peter Dinklage's podcast (perhaps to earn "woke" points and pin all the blame to him at the same time) and... well, the second part worked.
The fact that people really think Peter Dinklage has that much of power and influence over fcking Disney executives is insane.
That makes a lot of sense
I don’t think it was so much that Peter Dinklage has that much influence so much as there’s a perception that Disney executives seemingly make expensive, extensive, late-game changes over misplaced social concerns.
People with dwarfism and the fantasy race of dwarves are completely different entities and always have been. Fantasy dwarves are fine to stereotype because they're mythical creatures. Just because they're short doesn't mean they're regular humans with dwarfism from the real world. It would be a great opportunity for those people to play the roles if they wanted to (not in this case since they went the weird cgi route, but overall in movies) but they are not one and the same. It's like comparing a unicorn and a horse or a human with pointy teeth and a vampire.
Ive heard ppl say that Nani’s ending is actually better in this remake cuz she “gets to be her own person outside of lilo.” And I just find that… really really sad. It’s so individualist and selfish, and it’s hurtful to the kids who needed this movie the most. Kids from broken families, foster kids. The original lilo and stitch’s moral is “things will get better, all you need is support and your family loves you.” This remakes moral is “your family is broken and they would be better off without you.” And if that’s not indicative of the current world climate then idk what else is.
That's how the world is sometimes.
@@AedanBlackhearttheres a lot of the real world that would be inappropriate to put onto a kids movie
Truth
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Its okay for Nani to be a person outside of Lilo or have needs/wants of her own, but this ending was WACK. She could've waited until Lilo was older, or studied in Hawaii too.
That’s my issue with this. I personally would not want to have to deal with the pressure that Nani has to but I bet that if I were in her position, I absolutely would do my best to provide for my brothers or nieces so as to keep family together. Especially if they were such a young and vulnerable age. I get the “don’t bring her down with you, give her a fighting chance” thing but if Nani just had a babysitter, someone else to help keep an eye on Lilo, she wouldn’t have even had that whole issue with DHS
Disney OWNS National Geographic. They are able to get beautiful nature shots. this looks like it was shot by a dad with a camcorder filming his kids first surfing lesson
Part of the issue there is that it was meant to be a D+ exclusive so they put a B team on it and tried to keep it as low budget as possible.
just cause they own it doesn't mean they know how to use it.... look at lion king for example the only REAL shot they took for that entire movie was of that one tree at night time... rather then take advantage of the gorgeous scenery they chose to just use cgi for a majority of the movie
Excuse me they WHAT?? What's next, they own the chair I'm sitting on?? 😭😭
@@MarieMusics I’m pretty sure they own Hulu now
16:22 I guarantee "i tried" meant that he intended to go with the dress but Disney refused to allow it.
That's what I thought too
Was that not obvious?
Exactly. That’s pretty obvious??
@@yourcollegedebt8384yeah
Especially when he shows us the designs of the dress Pleakly could've worn in the movie. That looked so GOOD. Take me to that alt timeline
i really appreciate how upset you're getting over this because i too get very worked up over these remakes and no one else seems to share the same energy 😭 the thing that pisses me off the most is that by making these remakes they're just further discrediting animation as a valid and worthy art form - they're basically saying a film isn't good enough animated, it MUST have a live action to be "better" (which is still not fully true because, newsflash, CGI is just another form of animation...)
He just isn't jumba. Jumbs would never Flippin hurt lilo at all, dude in the original he literally picks her up and daintily puts her too the side while fighting with stitch
EXACTLY, jumba wouldn't be pleased with his live action counterpart
Jumba would make it a mission to take out the fraud Jumba
I demand a new movie with animated jumba fighting live action jumba.
@@mumenRhyder OG Jumba would wipe the floor with that impersonator
I shit you not he talks likr general chungus from the minecraft movie
The director saying “he tried” means that studio involvement prevented him from doing that plot point. Directors of big-budget movies like this have VERY little say on what actually happens in the movie.
Exactly why greedy executives should have absolutely no involvement with the creative team. They don't have any creativity.
Directors for these remakes are there less to make creative decisions and more to give a face to an executive mandate.
Listen to Peter Jackson being interviewed about how the Hobbit HAD to be three movies long, and you'll see what I mean.
Disney exercises a kind of uniform control over their IPs. Doesn't matter what directors are picked for these remakes or for marvel films, same bland uniform look and feel without any heart or artistry.
This is exactly what I said!
This is what really puzzled me about the choices made in the writing, too. They had someone in the scriptwriters who's listed as born & raised in Hawaii, and yet the cultural references in the 2025 movie as described here seem really off-base - from attitudes to wider-ohana fostering, to understanding of the spiritual world, to even what the local uni is known for.
I would love to see a no-holds-barred convo with Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and find out how much change this script went thru from development to finalization...? 🤔
The remakes aren't bad because they've been altered. They're bad because they're thoughtless and soulless. And the new Lilo and Stitch wasn't just soulless it was insulting. 'O'hana means nothing, and please don't feel any kind of way surrendering your indigenous children to the state- that has never gone bad ever. We left out Gantu because we didn't even want to remotely imply cops can be bad, even alien space cops. Also, colonialism, what colonialism? That sounds like way too heavy a topic for a kids movie, and has nothing to do with our theme park. Oo-rah.'
To me the message is partially that everyone was doing what they felt they were supposed to, and some of them needed to step back and realize what was morally right. Theres 2 parallel arcs of beuracrats realizing maybe they need to deviate from the plan and stand up for family. To lose that story NOW of all times.....feels willful
Say it louder for the folks in the back!
couldn't have said it better.
This big time
It's so painful seeing execs take these classics out of the wood works to butcher their original messaging and the original vision for a couple bucks is painful to see
I was so hoping they’d include the scenes addressing colonialism they’d cut from the original! And they just didn’t bother!
As an animator working in VFX ( not particularly on Lilo & Stitch) I can confirm the comment at 3:32 is correct
The comment about the sandwich actually IS warrented
While its easy to just assume that the opening is just Lilo being a forgetful weirdy, the things she says to her hula instructor is really revealing
She thinks that a fish controls the weather, and she needs to appease it with a specific sandwich. Why is that?
Its because her parents died in a car accient because of a storm. Shes not just being excentric. She's trying to re establish control over her life. She wants to believe that there was something she could have done
Shes not just 'weird', she's a little girl coping with tragedy, despite having no control over her life. Even if you dont fully understand all this while watching, this is foundational for her character and they slip it all in with subtext and inferences
Disney movies used to be actual art
(Comment made before FF immediately mentions all the same stuff)
The animated movie also shows all of the adults in the hula school gasping while the children don't have the same sense of understanding for the situation. Lilo isn't okay.
Now granted this may take a few watch throughs but back in the day, you usually had a child who hyper fixated on this movie for a month or two so you got something out of this or your kid did. Sometimes both.
The live action has humans forgetting to be human and recognizing that Lilo has lost but we get Tutu which... I love her. I really do. But that was a waste of Amy Hill's talent.
It saddens me how far Disney has fallen from what they once made, movies like this had their heart and soul put into them, artists, actors and directors alike had passion for what they made, they actually *tried* to be more inclusive and write strong women leads, disabled or queer characters.
Nowadays we've got poorly rewritten live action garbage no one asked for, copaganda, cut diversity and inclusivity to appease an orange and his band of dense followers among so much more
not to mention after she feeds pudge you can see storm clouds receding in the background
I know it’s a trauma thing for Lilo, but she spoke to me so much as an undiagnosed autistic kid. Taking away integral parts of her personality feels like a personal attack for me (illogically lol i understand that ofc). I appreciate your well thought out comment and take
Former mouse employee. Disney is extremely “risk averse”. Basically the way they see things is, “we made several billion dollars last year and had the greatest year ever. If we don’t triple that amount of money next year, we will have to
Go out of our way to hurt more people”. So you see a lot of sequels and reboots because they think they can read the market better. They do this until they recognize “sequel fatigue” in the market (actual term). They’ve done this cycle several times now and always take it too far. This applies to their subsidiaries like Pixar too (notice how many originals are coming out?).
They are desperate for money. And this is just a small
Component, you should see what they do to employees to squeeze another dollar out. If you value humanity even a little, you should boycott their properties entirely.
Damn, that’s all I have to say.
But for originals, they can work. Elemental did quite well and I loved it and I’m really looking forward to Elio. And Hoppers next year.
For sequels however I have to admit though I did really enjoy Inside Out 2 and I’m actually hyped for Zootopia 2 and Toy Story 5.
Hope you’re doing okay though….
It's insane to me how enough is just never enough
This constant need for those numbers to go up and the idea even small profits are somehow a loss is a mindset that's an absolute parasite on modern society
Disney died when Walt died. Can't wait for Miley Cyrus to play Princess and the Frog let's see how the public reacts because Little Mermaid and Snow White reboot were 💩.
@@lyndasalazar184 Ah yes that's definitely the issue
Dont worry, capitalism breeds innovation ! /sarcastic
The saddest thing for me is that hundreds of new, young and talented artists with really cool ideas for new films are just sitting at home, unemployed, while big corporations produce "new" films that succeed only because of nostalgia and lack of other options...
or worse, these more indie-inclined films get *bought out* by Disney and immediately cancelled.
Can't have people trying to upstage the Rat, that'll just show the world how subpar Disney has truly become.
This really speaks to me as a young artist with a film degree collecting dust because of the industry’s “stick to the status quo” mindset.
Then stop paying to see the movies and CANCEL THE SUBSCRIPTIONS
@@totenfurwotan4478 Honestly this. Speak with your wallet, not your mouth. It's ultimately the only language big corporations understand
@@totenfurwotan4478I don’t pay to see these movies….
The government partially funded this movie, let’s not forget this
I feel like Nani giving up Lilo to the state to go to college is subtly trying to get people more desensitized to splitting up families
I mean, sometimes - actually very often - splitting up families and putting the children into state custody, but just wanting to go to college while being responsible for a kid isn't one of them.
ı would never be the same if my sister left me alone to foster care to go study somewhere else. Nor could I ever look at her the same after that.
I can see two different interpretations of your comment.
The first one is that you think that there is a secret progressive conspiracy to errode Western values and destroy nuclear families and that Disney is in on it.
The second one is that you think that there is a not-so-secret "conservative" conspiracy to errode Western values and destroy immigrant/non-white families, and that Disney is in on it.
Honestly I'm not a "both sides" guy at all, but the comment basicaly wrote itself that way. Anyways, I fully agree with you if it's the second interpretation. Though, I think Disney is just instinctively always bending over, it's not neccessarily a deliberate effort to influence people oltically. They just can't stop themselves from licking boots, it's what they do.
And to desensitize Native Hawaiians into moving to the mainland and abandoning their home and family… she could have just gone to college in Hawai’i. Hell they could have kept her a professional surfer!
I wouldn't call it subtle I think it's very clear what they're aiming for
26:57 I think something really important to mention about Zootopia is that it ISN'T just about racism. The entire point of Zootopia is how people in power use fearmongering to unite people against minorities and get rid of them. It's a lot more than just racism and I think that's important to note. It's exactly why I dread the 2nd. They won't keep the actual theme of the first
im confused on how the point you just made wasn't about racism?
Racism is the prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
If a "group of people in power" used discrimination tactics to deliberately unite people against minorities, that is the definition of racism is it not???
Zootopia is a highly sanitized and poorly constructed depiction of racism. First, it mentions that the natural instincts for predators is to hunt the prey and the prey to hide from the predators before the two species “evolved.” This could haveEASILY been revealed as propaganda to feed the masses but its not: this is a true event in Zootopia’s history, a natural part of nature. It is actually frighteningly similar to real life, with capitalists during the industrial era using evolution as a way to mistreat the working class. The fact that disney choose to deliver a false narrative like this is actually repulsive.
Second It blames the individual(s) for racism and not society or environment. Nick became a conman because a group of kids bullied him!! Not because society indoctrinated him into believing this was the only route he could take or forced him into poverty and crime OH NO it was those school bullies! Same thing with Judy, she was bullied by that fox as a kid.
Third, yes the film does go back to blaming minorities. The movie doesn’t need a villain and yet it chose a villain: Belweather. Oh and how a coincidence she is also a member of a marginalized community !! And OhHH what do you know she is framed to be an cartoonishly evil radical extremist with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Corporate media LOVES taking the oppressed and depicting them as bloodthirsty trigger happy lunatics (e.g. Legend of Korra, Black Panther, Netflix DMC, Arcane, etc).
Lastly, by the end of the movie, all the racism and oppression and issues are swept to the side in favor of a fairytale happy ending.
Zootopia is a fun movie but its attempts to handle deep issues is lackluster and surface level at best.
What you said it’s literally a key point to racism, if anything, you are downplaying racism as only that point in the movie. Racism itself much more to what you said and it IS shown in the film, literally it moves plot points in the actual thing. Like Nick having to dress Finnick to even get the popsicle, all the animals being sterotyped into their jobs (Judy, Bellweather, Nick even Mr Big) and how they break the sterotypes, or try to. All of that is not just “trying to use fearmongering to unite people against minorities to get rid of them” it’s literally building a classification so others can either benefit from it or keep them down in a ceirtain way they like. Doesn’t matter if people fear them or not, that’s another whole point of the movie
@@Feedback72 Not the person that commented so I could be wrong, but I understood that they’re saying that racism is a facet of the whole theme and they’re scared that the second one won’t be as multificated with it (probably implying that they’re scared the villain of the second will just be cartoonishly evil or obvious instead of a critic of the system) ? That’s what I understood 🤷♀️
@Feedback72
It's not exclusive to racism. Queer people or people of different religious communities experience this stuff too. Heck, the way Judy is treated by the police force is more reminiscent of sexism than anything else.
23:52 not to mention nani was ALREADY a girlboss
like you said, an accomplished surfer and an amazing caretaker in the original movie
there was no reason to add this plotline
Nani was so strong and resilient in the original movie. It seems more limiting than empowering to women to suggest that if you don't have the opportunity to get a college degree and become a well-paid corporate girlboss (or even if you choose a different life path), then that is enough to make you "weak."
literally as a very young child who didn't really understand the plot of the movie one thing that stuck with me was "nani was cool". it's also really upsetting the idea that raising a child isn't girlboss enough and women need STEM to be successful, when there are so many accomplished and brilliant mothers/caretakers out there, and it doesn't take away from their individuality at all.
#justicefornani!
30:35 the original lorax made people realize that you decide the fate of a company with your dollar
I’ve lived in Hawai'i my entire life. I was never a huge fan of the original Lilo and Stitch movie, but I knew this remake would be hundreds of times worse. Seeing how someone speaks on Hawai'i, the culture, and so forth is incredibly important to me, so I want to say thank you, Funky. I cannot express how grateful I am for you to have commented so much on how this film hurts Hawai'i’s culture. You did a fabulous job.
Bonus points for being specific with Queen Liliuokalani. Whenever she’s mentioned outside of the state, most people just credit her as “Hawai'i’s last queen/monarch.” Speaking on her imprisonment means a lot to Hawaiians and Hawaiian culture.
I took an American history class in college about... *checks year* a decade ago, and I learned that it was this massive CIA plot and I just though... holy shit, Queen Liliuokalani was basically tortured and strong-armed and it made me so goddamn sad overall. As much as I'd love to visit Hawai'i I will not because I would feel like a colonizer on lands that were recently stolen, and I feel like that on the "mainland" anyway, and I value the environment and people more than me seeing Hawai'i. I hope one day y'all become sovereign again but I feel like that isn't going to happen cause military + control. Hell, we on the "mainland" can't even get healthcare or education and aren't valued here, so I have no hope that the US govt will ever value natives, b/c well, history has proven that those in the government are absolutely psychopaths and don't even view natives as people, it's fkd up.
@@themissingsock2437 America was built on colonization, and still trying to take more land and resources today. I'm glad more are waking up to it
The similarity of Hawaiian and Tibetan history will not be forgotten. I will do my part in conveying this to the next generation here in Germany, promise.
@@themissingsock2437Unfortunately, the last part is probably true. However, Hawaiians will never stop fighting. With the help of folks like you and millions more, we will get justice, and so will all other natives who had their land stolen.
Hawai'i is a truly beautiful place, and I do actually encourage you to visit if you can. The experience is absolutely worth it. Just always remember to be respectful; wear reef-safe sunscreen, respect kapu areas, and support local businesses rather than mainland ones. I commend your will to stay off of the islands out of respect.
@@themissingsock2437 Uh... something doesn't add up there. The CIA didn't exist until 1947, when it was created by Harry Truman signing the National Security Act, which also created the Department of Defense by joining the War and Navy departments, and established the Air Force as its own branch separate from the Army. Queen Liliuokalani died in 1917, thirty years prior to the CIA being created. Are you sure it was the CIA specifically and not the US government generally?
I was expecting this movie tp be "paint by the numbers simplified nostalgia schlock" bad, not "betrays the original's message on a fundamental level and outright promotes colonialism" bad
SAME
Same!
@14:30 - Actually, the dude truly DID try! Look up his approved concept art for Pleakley. It includes him cross dressing. He then took the approved art to Disney. Disney took one look at the thing, knew the character was male & refused to touch on the cross dressing topic at all by ordering the director to scrap the entire thing. Not the character, but the very important aspect of his character. Which, as you can tell, leaves the character with some gaping holes in personality. This is one point of many that I make in regards to modern day Disney butchering its own material instead of embracing the weird like they used to.
Or just embracing acceptance, if they’re going to make pride posts they should put their money where their mouth is and let Pleakly cross-dress.
Repubtard snowflakes.
Ah so it’s the company, not its employees, good to know
As usual Disney fakes a "We're inclusive, we love everyone no matter what" persona then removes the drag queen from Pleakley, they shove people of different races, sexualities and such in a movie to fit a quota and do not care to grow... I think Walt is rolling in his grave because of what his company has become
@alxD-ayyIt’s always the company… 😔
I'm ngl, the giving up of Lilo in the end of the movie literally feels like propaganda to normalize how indigenous children are STILL being stolen from their families to this day. As well as to normalize the kidnapping of indigenous children to "civilize" them in history.
I refuse to watch the new lilo and stitch because as a native person of New Zealand (Maori), SO MUCH trauma has been placed on Maori/indigenous families because of government agencies forcibly removing babies from the care of their own family. The principle of “government agency carers are here to help you!” Just sounds like absolute garbage when so many to this day are estranged from their family and their culture because the government knows “what’s best” for indigenous families is plain outrageous and rings more like glorified kidnapping to me. Very angry rant, no apologies either. The original movie will always hold a special place in my heart for its teachings and the new one just sounds like a whole lot of cgi hogwash.
it's especially gross because the US Government is also 100% guilty of this, it's extremely well known among the US' natives, and it has been done to Native Hawai'ians & Native Americans for as long as the US has had a stake in colonializing native families. This entire movie is imperial colonial propaganda from start to finish. It's disgusting.
Quit being a "victim" of past crimes.
@@answerman9933 ??? Also wait why would you put quotation marks on the word victim but not the word crime if you're insinuating they're not actually a victim? Did you think before writing this?
@@answerman9933 no self victimizing here buddy, just stating facts. How about you quit spreading unsolicited hate and get a life.
@@answerman9933 past crimes is crazy considering the state of US rn.
I really wonder what their gonna do when they start running out of films to remake? Remake their remakes?
Probably.
Please don't
Hey arent you stormlight guy? I feel like I see you everywhere
I am imagining them remaking all of their direct to video sequels like the ones to little mermaid, Cinderella, and Peter Pan. I haven’t watched a new Disney movie in a very long time.
Probably. I mean they’ve made 3 lion kings already
I work at a movie theater. A big reason that Lilo and Stitch remake did so well is cuz it was kinda the only kids movie playing. It was either take your kid to Lilo and Stitch or Final Destination
I appreciated this insight. Who knows, maybe Final Destination would've been the more memorable family experience?
as a fellow theater worker i second this!! these remakes come out when there's literally no other competition. like of course every family is gonna take their kids to see lilo and stitch. it's summer break, they're all out of school, and theres literally nothing else they can go watch! feels like disney's taking the cowards way out to me lowkey 👀👀
@@caithenry8429truma bonding you could say.
My friends with kids complain about this all the time.
👆i’ve never made that connection before
das crazy
You make a good point about how kids can understand complex themes. When I was 10 or so, I read books about things like people struggling to choose which of the three terrible options should win the war, an abusive father, overthrowing the current ruling body to replace it with a better one, going against orders when it's morally justified, and even giving murderers convincing and believable redemption arcs. And I understood all of that just fine. It was never about the complexity of the story/message, it was only ever about how it was delivered.
“don’t you miss the sun from standing in your shadow for so long?” is one of the hardest quotes I’ve ever heard. 32:07
31:51 actually
To think all they had to do was turn around.
Giving up Lilo was NEVER an option for Nani. How dare they...😮
She literally lost her in the original movie. The ONLY reason it didn't stick was because of the space stuff.
@@luciferfaust i mean... the only reason she was going to lose lillo was also because of space stuff to... since the only reason lillo almost drowns was because of stich
@@derekmathews4839stitch was part of it, but not all of it... Lilo was acting out even before stitch and causing Nani to be late for work and not at home with her
@@luciferfaustShe didn't WANT to lose Lilo, though. In the remake it seems like Nani couldn't care less and WANTS to get rid of Lilo.
@onceuponamelody but that isnt what happened. Its fine that you dont like the change but Nani was fighting it all until the very end when Lilo told her she wanted her to pursue her dreams. She had stitch, tutu, bubbles, pleakley, and david to watch over her. And nani is allowed to have dreams outside of a little sister she didnt ask to have to raise anyway.
Also, one tiny thing about Nani’s sudden interest in marine biology, they could have so easily worked this into her relationship with Lilo. Have them go scuba diving together or bond over talking about some terrifying deep sea abomination. You can’t tell me Lilo wouldn’t want to hear about the gulper eel or the goblin shark.
Exactly! It’s one of just a few things that could have elevated the story and they fumbled it! The only other addition I like is the end when Lilo and Stitch are drowning and Stich makes the choice to let go of her hand, finally proving his change of heart. And then Nani saves him by running along the sea floor like in the real Pacific Islander sport. It reincorporates how dense Stitch is AND gives actual cultural rep!!
Like if they had just been willing to take some risks, to hold tension, to let conversations play out! Let Nani stay in Hawaii and study marine biology there! It’s not. that. hard.
There is a fantastic version of this movie hiding in here and it hurts my heart.
oh yeah, I'm still annoyed they changed Nani's interest from surfing to marine biology, but it wasn't even done *well*. Let Nani bond with Lilo over terrifying sea creatures! Instead we get ... this.
better yet bond over Pudge! they literally have something they can work with here!
I have a headcanon about this situation. when Nani got fired at the restaurant and Lilo said if its her fault, she would said to her that she discovered that the restaurant used Kraken as their food and don't want to get involve, just like when she said the manager was a vampire.
Lilo is so. Idk how to describe it. Less Lilo in the movie. In the original, her eccentricity is highlighted more and it SHOWS her strained relationships with the girls around her. Lilo and Stitch was one of my favorite films as a kid because small undiagnosed autistic girls love to see kids their age who act like they do any experience things the way they do! I’m not saying Lilo IS autistic, but she’s an outcast, and a lot of people I know including myself also felt this way as children. AND NOW. LIVE ACTION LILO ISN’T AS WEIRD AND IT HURTS MY HEART :(
this is exactly why flow, an indie animation film made by a country almost no one knows about, won at the oscars instead of a pretty disney slop movie
Disney hasn't won an Oscar in the last three years and even then no major studio won those Oscars either except for Studio Ghibli but I'll take Ghibli over Disney any day.
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pretty is a strong word in regards to any of the disney live action remakes tbh
@@MadjichenI love Ghibli. The times i cried over those movies. I don't remember much but did the creator die or something? I saw a vid about how Ghibli wasn't gonn be as good as before. 😞
@Hermite_LeaZhayao miyazaki has yet to depart from us yet (thankfully!!!). I won't be surprised though if you've heard about the fears of what will happen to Ghibli once he isn't the main creative mind behind Ghibli's creations anymore ): but considering how Miyazaki has repeatedly retired only to come back to filmmaking, I doubt he's gonna step down from his position soon
It's not a kids movie. It's a FAMILY movie. That's what people are having a difficult time understanding. You giving criticism towards it is valid. It's not cocomelon, it's a Disney movie. People think because it's animated than it's a kids movie but that's so far from the truth.
Walt Disney wanted to make FAMILY movies. He didn't believe that cartoons were only for kids and it really grinds my gears when people say "you can't give criticism as an adult. It's not made for you"
But it IS! That's the point. Your criticisms are completely valid and anyone using "it's a kids movie" to discredit you are uneducated and misunderstand what the whole point of Lilo & Stitch is.
Kids movies are made by adults.
If I sell ice cream to kids with cigarette butts in the chocolate and shards of glass in the vanilla, I get arrested. It's my responsibility as an adult to not feed children garbage.
This goes for movies too.
even then I still think the original did better as a family movie than the remake, and pointing that out *is* valid criticism. Adults watching the original Lilo and Stitch see a traumatized child in need of love and come away with a message of found family, love and acceptance. The remake was very much...not that.
Exactly! And so is Sykes
@@EmilyMcDougall-d8ttrue to this. I would also like to add since it connected with the situation my two relatives and friend underwent (being given up custody over them since due to circumstances) it was not a perfect movie but it was a realistic one that (as my friend said) she connected with but overall was such a huge wound opener since the reason why they all loved the first was as you said the familial bond, found family, and acceptance that them three didn’t get to experience until into adulthood. I personally am just neutral with the movie since it wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t great either, still a lot better than the case of snow white though in terms of getting at least a few source material right lmao
Well said
2002: Ohana means family! Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten!
2025: Ohana means nothing! Nothing means everybody gets left behind and forgotten!
Ohana means put your indigenous sister into US foster care!
the american dream right?
@@Dieclownmusic yep, and as George Carlin once said it best, “because you’ve gotta be asleep to believe it!”
@@Dieclownmusic more like the american nightmare....🎶ADRENALINE!!!!! IN MY SOUL!!!!!🎶
@@arbytv5139 I miss Carlin, despite being "stand-up comedy" I can't help but feel a lot of it was actually rather foreboding for the future to come, Carlin saw the modern day light years away
6:34 "It's impossible to avoid ads these days right guys?" And an AD shows up😭😭😭
they de-yassified pleakley 😔
ill never forgive them for this & i havent even watched the movie yet 😭
@@emery.mp3your pfp is so beautiful I need the artist please tell me you know who it is💔i really love till
I miss Kevin Mcdonald being the voice actor 😔
(Since he’s the va of tallest purple lawl)
They did try but apparently it looked awful
@@candymokkesthe artist is in my desc… i think my comments kept getting taken down or smth 💔💔
Disney has been deadass falling off for a while now, and it’s far from inclusive too. There was this one show called Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (that they cancelled after two seasons unsurprisingly) which had an episode revolving around a trans character... that they made production cut…despite the whole episode being produced, animated, voice acted, and ready to ship. It’s impossible to find now without pirating, fuck Disney at this point
This is pretty recent btw, the show ended this year
The episode’s called Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur “The Gatekeeper” btw. I think it’s still accessible on internet archive
And that show was fire too
@@marveldccool3542 I know!!!! 😭 I was so sad when I found out it got cancelled, at least it was able to create an ending for itself, even if it had to rush
Disney is trying to ride the line of being progressive and not. They want to try to appeal to as many people as possible but in doing so appeal to no one. Queer characters are often highly sanitized or are androgynous enough to be changed to an "appropriate" gender in more bigoted countries. Trans characters are too "controversial" for them as whole, which I honestly think was one of the reasons they pulled the plug on Bluesky and Nimona.
Alongside Dalmatian Street 101, and The Owl House
I'm a Native Hawaiian and grew up watching Lilo and Stitch. My great great great grandfather was a guard for Queen Liliuokalani. 2 years ago we sang and played Aloha Oe for my great grandma's funeral. I am SO upset with this movie. I pirated it because I didn't want my opinions to only be from other accounts of seeing the movie and without the background of being Kanaka Maoli. it is absolutely propaganda and my whole family has agreed to not watch this movie and try to stay away from supporting Disney.
Oh my gosh, that's so messed up that Disney took a movie which must have meant so much to your family and then warped it into something so horrific. They even removed "Aloha Oe" from it
I'm so sorry 😪
I am so sorry this happened.😢
That song is beautifully tragic
Disney making propaganda movies? Who would have thought/s
"Why don't you hop off my Mouseketool" Holy shit that was comedy gold. Bravo, well done!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So wait. Watching this video, what it looks like is that the entire PLOT of the movie was taken out. There's no Stitch existencial crisis, no Lilo being weird and thus no tension between her and her classmates; Lilo's sister is just a placeholder, no aliens learning about humans and Ohana, no David helping the sisters build their own Ohana, no nothing. So... wtf IS the movie about? Because right now it looks like Imma have to DL the original cartoon, which was one of my sister's favorite films of all time, and keep it safe from Disney until my 1 year-old nephew is old enough to watch it.
kid you not, the plot of the movie is literally: “stitch on earth, stitch run around with lilo for 45 minutes, aliens come to take stitch, stitch no wanna, stitch stays and lilo goes to foster care”
This movie is about selling more merchandise and promote their hotels in Hawaii.
The film is about "embrace our (very supremacist) ideas" and "give us your money, we deserve it more than you"
I’ve been watching the tv series and movies with my kids instead of going to see this garbage.
To put it simply, its white American propaganda
25:12 The second I remembered that they had a resort in Hawaii, I lost all faith in the remake. Why would they touch the topics that the original did (tourism, colonialism)? Cause that would make themselves look like the bad guys.
The ironic thing is I don’t think there’s much they can do that wouldn’t make them look like the bad guys…
Yeah and it really did make the changes to the family elements
@@luishp3Because they capitalized their brand without remembering the important message from their classic movies about staying away from these topic to suddenly brainwash you to like their product without remembering the message, that what makes Disney a big consumerism studio nowadays
9:44 living in Hawaii, the remake accurately shows that Hawaii is boring now, over tourist and over development to where there isn’t much natural beauty left. The animated version naturally took place in a less developed Hawaii and they even represented Hawaii as less developed than it was at the time so the movie could focus on the beautiful Hawaii that wasn’t going to be around forever. Turing this into live action 20 years later hauntingly hammers that nail
I would love to go to Hawaii, but I never will bc I know Natives are sick of tourists and don't want us to come. Understandable when you read about Hawaii's history
@@Bobobo-bo-bo-boboboit’s not being sick of tourists, it’s that Hawaii should have been preserved like Canada does for some of its native areas. The natives can live in the preserved areas in Canada, you can ask them to visit or move into their land, but it can’t be developed on except by the natives. That’s what Hawaii needed. Tourists visiting, that’s a good thing. Wealthy people buying up large amounts of land of their one house or big corporations buying up land for resorts, that’s the actual problem, what’s been strangling Hawaii. A resort brings a little too many people in areas not not necessarily big enough to accommodate that many people. It’s not too late to save Hawaii but you better visit it before there isn’t much left
BUT- it takes place on the island of Kauai, I've been there, my family lives there. Nature is still 70% of that island. Not to undermine your correct observation about literally any of the other islands (save Molokai) but Kauai isn't as touristy like Oahu and the big island.
@Bobobo-bo-bo-bobobo that's exactly where I am. I love tropical settings, beaches, the ocean, and I've always loved the idea of Hawaii.
But I couldn't go there any feel like anything more than a coloniser trampling on things i don't understand
Floridaian here, was on a job in Hawaii, natives and locals understood why I went out of my way to avoid the tourists.
I wanted something I have to look hard for at home, a dive bar or restaurant that plays to its community. A seaside beach I have to journey too. Food that wasn't "native local dish" but something a local would eat, drink, and enjoy the small piece of paradise before it was gone forever to be something you can find any place.
I built the hotels that destroyed paradise, and the irony wasn't lost that most Natives work in mainland doing the same thing I did.
Once we knew each other, we knew the respect we had. I sit at home and watch paradise being destroyed, everything unique being turned into something you can find any where. But tucked away my corner of paradise, of spring rivers on hot days, smoked mullet and peanuts, and the smell of wild oranges is something I defend and share to those that understand why it's paradise. It will be lost to build some tropical golf course, or hotel with a pool, maybe even just houses that will share the names of once was like a graveyard to paradise that eventually will grow stale.
What's depressing is that Elio which is an original didn't get enough freakin funding because Disney was mad at Pixar for making an original
LIKE WE NEED ORIGINALS
I swear Elio is the one original out there in theaters right now
"you poor ignorant chilld. mindlessly regurgitating shareholder approved catchphrases. you have no idea what they've taken from you" -FunkyFrogBait LMFAO ( im crying TT)
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Funny and sad at the same time
CHICKEN JOCKEY 1!!1!!!11!
You can definitely hear the disappointment in the director's voice when he said "I tried" to putting Pleakley in a dress. Sadly the director doesn't have the final say. Disney does. They can cut whatever they wish. And sadly they cut yassified Pleakley. Probably cuz of the rising conservatism too.
Im so disappointed that they took away our auntie Pleakley 😭
Its more about being able to sell the movie to china (why they couldnt just dub him with a lady VA for the chinese dub is beyond me)
See this is where I get frustrated when conservatives yapped about how Disney is "woke". I'm like no, they chase the dollar of whatever ideology is most "popular".
I think people are under the oppression that directors have a lot of creative power…when they don’t. Unless you’re a bigshot director like Gulimario Del Toro Christopher Nolan who can argue for creative freedom-Hollywood executives aren’t going to let you do whatever you want.
Yep. When you work for a big studio like Disney, any creative decisions are subject to the veto powers of the execs who are bankrolling the project you've been hired on. I don't doubt that the director DID try here, but is hamstrung by a risk-averse corporation who'd rather not face foreign markets and/or conservative audiences boycotting because an alien's too fabulous
As a Native Hawaiian, You talking about How Queen Liluokalani had to give up Hawaii truly made me happy. The Lilo and Stitch remake made me so sad because when I was young, it made me feel like I was noticed and being represented because I was much like Lilo. A weird, Hawaiian kid struggling to fit in. But in the remake Lilo was just a kid. A normal kid with nothing especially weird. This took away a major plot point of how she needed to fit in.
My 70 year old mom got so disappointed when I told her Pleaklay wasn't allowed to wear dresses anymore...
I never thought I’d tear up in a FunkyFrogBait video but as an Indigenous Māori/ Polynesian woman who is in STEM it really hit me that you spoke about the way this goes against Indigenous beliefs (Nāni would NEVER leave Lilo to the state as an Indigenous woman). This live action erases every important issue the original talks about. There are Indigenous kids watching these films, they deserve to see their stories reflected on screen.
That's something I'm finding really odd about analyses of the old vs new films, not having seen them as yet!
Fosterage in wider whānau/ohana is such a common & accepted thing within all Pasifika cultures I've encountered. Nani and Lilo are orphans, sure - but do they have NO loving or reliable aunts, uncles, grandparents, older family friends etc etc as the movie opens...?
It seems like there could have been some really valuable potential themes in the update re. adultification of older siblings, better systemic support for in-family care, resourcing increasing diversity in STEM, how colonisation has damaged so many community networks... The list goes on!
But making it a 'keep sibling vs state care' argument until the very end of the movie, without apparently even acknowledging any of the multiple historical reasons why that'd be such a horrific choice to face...? Sounds so weird, esp. with a Hawaii-raised person apparently present amongst the screenwriters!
I tear up at Funky’s videos all the darn time. I’m an emotional person but the way they get so invested and genuinely make such good points with heart and feeling… It’s nice to see someone talk about issues with such gusto.
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166yeah totally! in Māori whānau it’s called whāngai which also means to nourish, take care of but it’s totally different to a western framework of fostering where a child is taken from everything they know and put in with strangers. A child is looked after by the whole family, usually grandparents, aunts, going as wide as the grandparents extended family, too, as those relationships are still as important. The idea that they don’t have wider family also very much goes against the Indigenous culture they belong to. I totally agree they could have really given light to these themes but yeah the whole thing just feels so wrong and I really appreciate Funky taking the time to acknowledge that.
Also I’ve just seen in your username you’re from Aotearoa so don’t need that explanation of whāngai but I’ll keep it there for anyone else reading this comment who might not know 😅 negatives of trying to articulate my thoughts before 9am haha
As an immigrant child, who grew up in a large tourist beach town (and knew/had to deal constantly with classicism, racism, objectification from white, rich tourist in her spaces), Lilo and Nani always made me feel so seen. Having to survive in such a culture, doing your best to stand-up for yourself when they wpuld make you feel like the "other"; Once I immigrated to the US (for emergency reasons), I was so young and so scared, so I would listen to the clip of Nani singing Aloha Oe to Lilo constantly, because it made me feel like even if I was far from my country or my family, we would all meet again and we would be okay.
Ohana was THE thing that would anchor us all.
Children NEED movies with a message; compassion, grief, chosen family, restarting after tragedy-
All messages that Children deserve to see represented in their screens.
I cannot believe what they have done to the story. Disney is soulless.
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I was honestly disappointed hearing that the Lilo and Stitch remake ended up being successful
I was hoping after Snow White’s failure that Disney would finally stop with the unnecessary live action remakes
That movie deserves to burn in the trenches of the river styks. (I know I probably spelled that wrong.)
it was only successful because every adult (and child) is obsessed with stitch
i heard most wanted to support the little girl, but that is just what i hear from my circle.
@@tahtoomwhat little girl? The actor who played Lilo?.. Disney didn't pay them? Oh my
mufasa was a sucess too, and moana two, soooooo unless people stop paying to see them
Is Gantu even considered a hear me out? He’s just fine 😅
I’m so glad someone else found David underwhelming. The scene in the hospital where he tells Stitch he thought they had a chance until he came along had literally zero poignancy in the live action. He’s not a close, trusted friend that Nani reeaaaally wants to peruse a romantic relationship but can’t because of her responsibilities with Lilo. He’s just an annoying neighbor boy with a seriously one sided crush who happened to go surfing with them that day.
David is a certified Disney Cartoon Crush not because he was drawn with cool hair and abs, but for the way he steps up for Nani and Lilo. He’s happy to help with Lilo and just genuinely wants them to be happy (as happy as they can be). He EARNS a place in their family with kindness and patience. Nani falling for him as naturally and gradually as the audience does.
In the live, he’s just … kinda there. I was so frustrated.
Thank you for this write up this is exactly my thoughts
They turned him into a generic jock, I was so frustrated 😭
Also, them removing the scene where he saved Stitch when he was drowning and replaced it with Nani as well also ticked me off a bit at the end, idk why
Same! They really did the characters dirty!
@@Kidey11Me, too. It just further reduces him to the hunky-but-dumb neighbor boy that just hangs around until Nani notices him. He’s not central to the plot and he doesn’t do anything important. At that point, why even include him?
nani abandoning lilo in the new movie is appalling to me as an older sister of a girl in foster care. the premise to “trust the system” is heartbreaking, regardless of the system trying its best it fails so often and has failed me and my sister. before, the movie was a symbol of hope that i would get to be a family with my sister again. i think anyone who has dealt with the system will struggle to watch or understand the movie
Movie also dismisses the racial underpinnings of how non-white and indigenous people interact with child services. There have been a few high-profile child abuse cases of children in Hawaii CPS the past few years. Nani going away to college is such a Western individualistic ideal.
It’s a movie for 5 year olds… why tf would they add that💀
@@kaylesiapls tell me that you aren’t THAT uneducated. When I was a kid I learned about so many issues, not only because I went through them but also because I watched them. The princes and the frog taught me a little about race. Lilo and stitch taught me about family. Your privilege is showing and it’s so bad.
@@kaylesiaI can't even insult you, I just feel bad for you
@kaylesia why did Maleficent have a scene that Angelina Jolie confirmed was a metaphor for r@pe in a movie for 5 year olds? It doesn't have to be explicit but Nani's experience resonates with minorites and women, particularly the oldest daughters who are expected to be caregivers and surrogate mothers to their younger siblings. It was an opportunity to represent that struggle and they changed it to a theme that Nani should put herself first with a sci-fi work around that no one else who is living that struggle has.
Disnney remaking a movie from decades ago, and that remake still being comparatively less progressive, will never not be funny to me.
24:58 As a Black person this is so disheartening to hear. I really loved Lilo and Stich because she was a brown girl dealing with the same micro aggressions I faced. I was a little kid in an all white ballet class. That scene where Lilo beat that little girl’s ass was such a “hell yeah” moment for me as a kiddo.
Also, as a curvy kid I enjoyed seeing some characters whose body shape mirrored mine. The rise of thin being in right now and them completely rewriting Nani’s Character feels intentional. There were times she glanced at her body in the movie. Her being a surfer put her shape on display and most of the other surfers were thicker as well. The change in Nani just feels too intentional.
21:36 I watched the movie and I have to tell you this gave me history whiplash because too see the “let the state/government take your kid because it’s for your benefit” as a native is SCARY. I’m very happy you covered this because it left a bitter taste in my mouth
Yup yup yup, there's literally no other message there to me but that, and that is so so scary.
Would you care to explain the context behind the foster care of natives please?
@Star-ul9nx Nations that colonize new territory have historically preferred to take children from their native families and "raise them to be civilized" with things such as boarding schools that enforced the use of the language of the colonizers. To this day, traces still remain of the idea that "my race can raise kids better than their race can" in the form of unbalanced foster care programs. I didn’t feel like citing sources here but feel free to look it all up and check the facts.
@@Star-ul9nx Speaking as someone who's not native Hawaiian, there's a long history of the USA splitting up indigenous families saying that they can't and shouldn't be taking care of their own kids and convincing them that they can take care of them better (Basically forced kidnapping). The reality is that these children weren't living in an adequate environment like they promised and were instead subjected to abuse and disconnected from their families and culture.
Not hawaiian, just indigenous canadian. These things didn't even happen that long ago. My grandmother was kidnapped from her family when she was a child and forced into a residential school, and couldn't return home after she 'graduated' because she didn't know her own language anymore. She died when my mother was 15 from alcoholism, forcing my mother into the same system. It causes generational trauma.
I'm outraged by the ending. I didn’t watch the movie - after the Snow White disaster, I decided not to watch anything else. But what you’re describing is horrifying - blatant propaganda meant to encourage native Hawaiians to leave their land so that wealthy white people can settle there without resistance. Ugh! I despise what Disney has become. It's already dying - maybe that's why they’re churning out movies one after another, because they know these are their final moments and they want to milk the cash cow for all it's worth.
I don’t like the movie either, but admitting you didn’t watch it and then drawing conclusions about corporate propaganda based on another person’s description of what happened is… a little silly
@@Shlappz I drew my conclusions based on all the other movies I’ve watched. I referred to one specific issue and clearly explained what bothers me about the ending and why I think it's harmful. I never said that the entire film is bad.
I've only watched like 3 movie reviews for Lilo n stitch? But they all described it the same, I think a concerning amount of people came out thinking the film was propaganda..
I don't know if it is- the definition for propaganda is kinda slippery? Everytime I try n define it I need google because how I remember it is "misrepresenting truths for some weird benefit" but I always keep thinking "but that applies to everyone?" And I think it mightn't even have to be intentional to be considered propaganda?
So we'll never know the true intentions of why the ending changed, hidden motives? Dk
but knowing a little bit of Disney history of becoming popular by making propaganda and having a potiential motive of wanting more money, I don't think it's too far of a stretch
Nani teleports back home after classes
...So?
That's really not a gotcha. In real life people can't do that.
27:55 as someone with dwarfism, I couldn’t be madder that Disney morphed the dwarves into cgi instead of hiring talented actors who just so happen to be little people. The only roles little people get in movies are often the most minute background roles and children, and even then, they will always look at actual child actors before any little people. Anything would have been better than hollow cgi shell of what could have been done by a talented actor who just so happens to have dwarfism.
Edit: chat I think of started a war 😭😭🙏
From a cuting cost perspective is having cgi people even cheaper then real people? If they wanted mythical drawfs that don't look like people, they could have used make up
@daraghokane4236 Yes because unfortunately CGI artists aren't unionized like many other roles in the film industry, and thus can be paid less and overworked, making it cheap and easy to pump out these movies as fast as possible.
Honestly I can't speak on why they chose to do it, but from an outside perspective it looks reeeeaaaally bad just going with cgi after Peter Dinklage criticized the movie. Like "oh you think this is offensive? fine then we'll do it anyways but without giving jobs to anyone in the community!" Basically saying y'all are replaceable and your perspectives are unimportant to the portrayal in the film.
There must be plenty of talented people with dwarfism, if Disney only took the effort. But 'effort' is a taboo word there, it may even cost them some of their precious profit!
@@Vax-fg2ksThey were able to find an entire village's worth of actors with dwarfism in the fucking 1930s for The Wizard of Oz, there is no excuse whatsoever for this bullshit
Giving up custody of the child was brutal.
23:15 and yet they forget to mention that there are so many programs to provide free marine biology education to Hawaiian natives. There are so many colleges that offer free education to Hawaiian natives. Nani did not need to leave, because there were so many free opportunities where she already was
Even worse? You can’t even say it’s because she wanted the best of the best for education in California, the university of Hawaii has the best leading global marine biology program! There is literally no reason for her to want to go to college in California 😭
Its all about the money and the resources and the talent. The mainland want those things. The island can be a tourist attraction.
Tourist attraction workers dont need free tuition, they need mandatory company acting classes, the cost which is deducted from their pay. Again, with the money going back to the mainland.
Shameful, really.
@@Argonautsv2Maybe they didn’t want people to think about how unaffordable Honolulu is 😅 jk
Got into a good school they could’ve brought it up and had the whole thing of Lilo wanting to let Nonie go to the better school but no
21:51 I get that Nani wants to go to college and all but in California? For marine biology? Disney clearly didn't do their research. Native Hawaiians get first dibs on scholarships out there. AND they have some of the best marine biology programs as a consequence of being a yk ISLAND. I get that there was no way Disney could have known, but it's not a good look.
The original movie also comments a little about American tourists and how they negatively affect Hawaii. It's not like super prevalent, but it was definitely in the movie, and the live action didn't get that. Instead, it's like Lilo and Stitch: the colonizer version.
There are plenty of ways Disney could have known. If you're writing anything based even slightly on the real world, you can always do research. Doesn't matter if it's a novel, a short story, a play, a movie script--you do your research. Unless Nani can't afford to remain in Hawaii (which is something that should be brought up if that's the case), it doesn't make sense for her to go to California. In fact California's cost of living is outrageously expensive in some areas, so unless she got a full ride there and not in Hawaii, it makes zero sense for her to move.
Nono, they could've fucking known if they just did any research at all. It's really not that hard. My first college pick in highschool as a person who was dead set on becoming a marine biologist, was literally a university in Hawai'i. But that was unrealistic I couldn't afford that. But literally you can just talk to any fucking person with an interest in Marine Biology in the U.S and a lot of them will literally be like "Yeah Hawaii is fuckin great for that"
They didn't even talk to a marine biologist. It's so clear.
And they clearly didn't talk to any of the natives because, again, you would know about that scholarship shit. Hell, I know. Because when I was looking at scholarships to the school I wanted to go to, it was like one of the first things that came up!!!
LITERALLY, IT'S LIKE TWO GOOGLE SEARCHES.
They did not have to do extensive research to know that.
Nah, disney 100% could have known especially since they have resorts there and have tons of ppl working there.
They did this on purpose
I dunno... It seems like common sense that a school of marine biology would be, you know, on a F***ing island! Why the hell would Nani move to California to study marine biology?
Nah, they knew, which makes it even worse. They literally lived long enough to see themselves turn into the villain 💀
"It's a kid's movie" So was the original. We watched it when we were children. Me and my siblings watched it over and over again. It didn't need to be remade and it certainly didn't need to be changed.
"It's a kids' movie" Yeah so was The Lion King. I saw it when I was 3. It introduced me to the concept of DEATH. The Lion King taught me that my parents could DIE. I was 3 when I learned that, and it was hard and scary, but it was important. Because if one of my parents had died, I would have at least understood it. Kids need deeper messages and complex story telling because it teaches them and they pick up on it as they go. Not everything is suitable for children, obviously, but kids have to learn about the world around them and they have to learn about life because it sure is going to teach them the hard way otherwise.
@@HiddenDarkHMexactly. The world is shielding Gen Alpha way too much. We're setting these kids up for failure by acting like they can't handle complex emotions or difficult topics until they're teenagers. Not to mention how they're being raised by ipads and not parents-
@@HiddenDarkHMYou know The Lion King is just a lazy ass copy?
@@miskatonic6210the remake, maybe, but I think the person who commented above meant the OG pulled no punches when it came to Mufasa's death
Avatar the Last Airbender was a kids' show... And the characters are dealing with the psychological damage of an imperialist forever war and the aftermath of genocide...
IMO, kid's media can be as complex as adult media. It's basically the same but with no sex, no gore, no swearing, no obvious drugs and the violence is off screen or not that graphic. Were there things I wasn't ready for? Yes. Did they help me get ready for those things? YES!
quick thing, did anyone else get an add when she talked about the adds? she was like "you cant get around adds am i right? "then an add played and she was like. "am i right?'
24:20 on that note, rest in peace David Hekili Kenui Bell, who played the Hawaiian man who dropped his shaved ice in the live action version, and who passed away just a couple of days ago.
I dont remember that scene...which one its been a few days since i watched it also RIP hope his family is ok
We lost a diva, shark baddie, everyone’s personality AND they are trying to desensitize colonization 💔💔💔💔 IM SICK
real 💔
The anime movie never talk about colonisation so NO need ?
Pocahontas is already doing that pretty well
No need to talk always ABOUT that one subject 😂
@@voca-voca9469 Just because it wasn't front and center of the narrative doesn't mean it wasn't there or that it wasn't impactful. If you watch the original again, you'll notice that all of Nani's jobs and the jobs that she tries to get throughout the film are all tied to the tourist industry. I think the movie makes it's opinions on colonialism pretty clear by showing us a native islander only being able to find work parading herself around for tourists.
19:32 I'm legitimately tearing up hearing this. They destroyed her character without understanding her character while thinking they did her justice. Worse yet, they hide these moronic or plain evil decisions behind "virtue" and I'm honestly sick of it.
Nani's dream was to keep their family together.
“its impossible to escape ads these days” *ad immediately plays*
Might I add that live action stitch knows how to speak fluent English now. In the original he could only speak in a few phrases or sentences while still sort of struggling. That’s what showed that he was an alien. But now they have forgotten that and treat him like a funny anime sidekick with no backstory. In the movie he was shown speaking an alien language that the audience could interpret as whatever they wanted which made it funny. Now they show ads where stitch is discussing with adults how Hollywood has made him a better person
No way, they colonized Stitch, too?
Considering the councilwoman's horrified and disgusted reaction in the original, I always interpreted Stitch's speech as "unbelievably violent and graphic cursing".
I always thought that the reason Stitch didn't speak fluent English wasn't because of him being an alien, since Jumba, Pleakley, Gantu, and the Councilwoman all spoke it fluently, but rather because he's a new creation. He's effectively a hyper-mobile, hyper-intelligent baby, complete with outbursts and tantrums.
@@AlextheEverymanomg this actually makes so much since!!!
bro please it's not an alien language, it's tagalong (not meant in a mean way but an "i'm already sad about this whole situation and i'm trying to be informative but holy hell i'm so sad" kinda way) EDIT: fucking hell i need new glasses, tagalog and tantalog are two different languages, the first being a real one and the other, according to what i could find: "Tantalog was created by Jumba Jookiba, an evil genius professor at Galaxy Defense Industries and the creator of 629 illegal genetic experiments. It is a cross between native Hawaiian, Chinese, and Chezcreekian, which is a local language spoken by only a few people in the rural parts of Chesterfield which is in North Derbyshire England." apologies for the confusion and accidental misinfo!
As someone whose favorite Disney movie is from 13 years ago, it’s so sad to see Disney’s downfall. They can redeem themselves, but they just don’t care anymore.
Random time stamp 2:14
My favourite movie from them is from 1969 [101 dalmatians], I miss that type of animation
Princess and the frog?
The first time I saw this comment I was like "huh, I wonder if it's WIR" and then I just saw that your profile picture is Turbo lol
@Krys-kittycatI love wreck it Ralph, definitely one of my favourite Disney movies (we don’t talk about the sequel).
Me not noticing the “UPCOMING” in the corner of the video before I clicked, and I now have to wait in agony for thirty more freaking minutes.
no because literallyyyyyy
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Thats real
"Ohana means family" then giving your kid up to the state is wild
It's not her kid. She's a young adult herself and had to give up a lot of her childhood to lilo. Let's not hold older sisters to incredibly high standards. Most boys never care for their siblings that much.
Though they could have written her better where she is her own person and draws boundaries, but seeks help and helps her sister. Like a daycare or sth like that
My little six-year-old brain thought that CPS was the villain in Lilo & Stitch; not sexy shark man
Your six-year-old brain was what we like to call... correct.
@@HiddenDarkHM thats a half and half situation. my friend was taken from her home because of her abusive mother that would hurt her. she said she is so thankful for it. my mother and father wish someone came for them but didnt. not saying cps isn’t the best but not the worst
@@Clovetee CPS doesn't have a good track record in general, but thank you for sharing I guess
@@Clovetee I was abused both mentally and physically by my father and CPS was called dozens of times but it took me nearly killing myself to finally convince a bunch of fancy suit-wearing lawyers to send me away to my mothers house for good, so what was that about CPS doing the right thing? Yes CPS is a wonderful thing as a concept but so many things are gone unnoticed if you don’t meet a certain criteria.
@SunnyBoi-du8mjhi I just realized I had been auto corrected and it says “is” instead of “isn’t” I just edited it now
(I wrote this comment before i got to the part where you mentioned it) The fact that lilo says you should "join the marines" and then the grandma says "she means a marine biologist!" That means they were literally paid to say that by the marines. They cant say that without the marines giving them permission. Meaning that they had to pay the marines, or the marines asked them to do it. They put propaganda in the children's movie about joining the military. Disney is a nightmare.
I didnt know that and its so fcking disgusting
I hate this trash with a burning passion because I love the original movie with all my heart
How fcking dare they
That is... So upsetting. For more reasons than I can possibly list
Disney does propaganda all the time...This is nothing new.
Proof?
Google it @@addison_v_ertisement1678
Solution for this. Stop giving Disney money. The only thing soul less corporations understand. Give up on seeing real art from any large company. I've seen movies with a budget of 5k that are leagues better than big budget films. Story telling is inherently human so it shouldn't be a surprise to see Disney can't do it well.
I was immediately disgusted by the admission of going to theaters to see this.
Local art! ✊🏽
Also... best solution to avoiding ai cash grab "art":
Don't go on the internet. Irl is ai proof
The "Its for kids" argument is one of the saddest excuses ever.
When I was young, one of my favorite movies was Star Wars: the empire strikes back. I may not have been able to read what the movie title was, but I watched that thing daily for a while. Because everything about it was fascinating to me.
While having a movie that was a fun simple "good guy beats bad guy," the movies with more complex themes always fascinated me more. I may not have been able to understand them, but the wear on some of our vhs's says all that needs to be said.
Kids may not fully understand complex themes, but they are drawn to them. And at some point, they do understand that complex theme.
Also I think that the reason people are relatively okay with these live action remakes is because they haven't seen the original in a while and forgotten parts of it.
Yeah... It's hella depressing how much Disney has gone down hill. Like them pumping out crap like this while cancelling actually good shows like The Owl House and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
ugh I miss the owl house so much
people get so mad that disney is woke and yet they cancelled a show for being too gay
owl house mentioned, but at what cost 😞
You mentioned the owl house I’m still mad that they cancelled it
I felt that what was left of Disney's creativity went to the shows until they cancelled all of them. The Owl House and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur were better than the majority of Disney and Marvel projects we've gotten currently (With a few exceptions of course)
Same! I’m still mad that Disney cancelled The Owl House and Moongirl and Devil Dinosaur!
why is it that the same people who say: "we shouldn't be exposing kids to [x] in media" are the same people who say: "kids gotta learn the hard way, life isn't fair."
um no ma'am? id rather kids be explained about the harmful parts of life in age-appropriate ways so that they know to talk about/ deal with them irl in healthy, communicative manners.
Why do you think those are the same people? Or by "[x]" do you mean porn?
We should be exposin' kids to it AND they need to learn the hard way
@@SugarBunny119when they said x they most likely meant a number of possible topics that people tend to complain about
@@SugarBunny119 What kind of wack situation has a kid learn about P/S the hard way?
Also "life isn't fair" and you're defending the people and companies that exploit that? They benefit off of your monthly payments of insurance to make sure they're there for you when something goes wrong, then deny, depose and defend when the day comes time that life was unfair and they make it worse? Or raise prices of basic needs to make sure they still have a big cushion of money under the three billion piles of money they already have? Create policies to protect share holders and not customers? Life is unfair enough already, why are you so sure capitalism isn't part of what makes it worse?
14:18 what I think he means by “I tried” isn’t it was too hard cause that design looks fine, I think Disney exec’s refused to let him do it
Crazy considering the other things they allow into their lives actions🤨
I agree with this, he seems so... Defeated, when he says it.
Im sure "i tried" stands for "i wanted to do it but i got the order to not to and will get destroied when i talk freely about it"
yeah, the director doesn’t have the kind of power to just put whatever they want in the movie. he approved the design, he presented it to disney, the execs vetoed it. what is he supposed to do, put it in anyway only to get replaced as the director while the team is forced to edit it back out?
My heart breaks at the sight of what could’ve been
What infuriates me is several creative talents are inherently squashed by the proverbial boot of studio executives. A good example? Craig McCracken - the creator behind Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Kid Cosmic and had worked side-bye-side with Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky - pitched SIXTEEN original ideas for shows with Netflix executives and every single one was rejected.
Studios don't want new or original. New is different, new can't lean on previous material, new can't blame source material for any flaws.
To put it bluntly, new is a risk; risks don't guarantee money.
So even though the original creations these studios are rehashing had massive success, they aren't willing to gamble on new/original ideas despite the fact that there's far less risk involved since the studios are cemented by billions and audiences are practically begging for something different.
They're playing it safe- because as long as film goers shrug and say "its good enough" while sporting their freshest pair of rose colored glasses, the studios are making easy money.
And they aren't going to trade safe, marketable and easy for something risky, different and challenging.
"He tried" (to cross dress Pleakley) You correctly pointed out how tough things are on the animators/artist. But try to remember that currently directors are also considered replicable, and sometimes they just have to listen to the higher ups. The industry is a nightmare landscape for creatives of all levels.
Ps, Disney (higher ups) are in fact cowards because Pleakley is an alien, he doesn't need to fit in gender normative boxes.
Also I like your videos. Love you bye.
There was that no so secret meeting where Trump brought all the heads of the major companies and told them the rules and the severe consequences they would face if they disobeyed.
Also it's not like he hasn't always been wearing dresses. The same kind of people having a problem with that are the ones claiming star trek is too woke now although it has always been
I would not be surprised if Disney shot down Pleakley wearing drag because of the conservative crowd screaming about Disney being “woke”
Same with removing the space cop antagonist
whichis crazy bc many people find it to be a negative trans stereotype so its also very much not woke
No, it was definitely removed because pleakley would offend the trannies because of how ugly he was.
Then why hire a columbian to play snow white?
@@AedanBlackheart clearly to piss off bitter losers like you specifically
Oahu native here 👋 The Aulani Resort has been opened in Koolina since 2011. There were a couple other resorts that have existed there long before Disney's Aulani, but I feel the Aulani is the one that pushed those man-made beach lagoons to be as shitty as they are today. Most of the lagoons are covered in resort furniture and all the beaches smell like sun screen and tanning lotion. It's a double-edge sword, an Ouroboros - Hawaii depends on tourism, but the tourism is what's killing Hawaii 😔
I gave up on movies years ago when it became glaringly obvious that no one had any fun original ideas anymore and everything was just comic book remakes and movie remakes.
You say Lilo and Stitch didn’t have a true villain, which is partially true. But the real villain was stitch. This wasn’t a typical Disney story with a big bad villain, this was a villain redemption arc story. 626 was so bad, so malicious and off the rails that he was going to be exterminated. The story is all about him and his arc, learning how to not be so destructive and how to love. That’s why that line from David hits so hard. That’s the turning point in the film. This is… unforgivable. Gonna go watch the original now.
The REAL villain is Disney absolutely butching the new movie :(
I just watched the original a couple weeks ago and this video made me want to watch it again
Interesting take. I think i stull disagree, but i do like that angle
interesting take, but the real villain is the USA and its imperialist control of Hawai'i
The true villain... is Sykes.
Wait wait wait wait wait. They removed the ugly duckling storyline‽ You mean the part of the movie that makes me weep every time I see it‽ The part of the movie where I, for the first time in my, at the time, short life felt understood as a neuroqueer person‽ They took that out‽
Yup. They gutted its soul entirely
WE LUV THE INTERROBANGGG‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽
FRRR- the ugly duckling story was literally a parallel for both Lilo and Stitch, and the whole point is that ugly ducklings can find family with each other. The fact that they left it out just made the whole movie feel so much less… comfy? Like home? Like Ohana?
also I love that term ‘neuroqueer’ and I’m gonna steal that mwheheheheee >:3
i love your funky little characters ‽
Apparently Keith David isn't in the original princess mononoke
I grew up with my dad raising me by himself and even at the age of six felt guilty that he had to join the military to provide for me. I also felt ostracized from other kids around me who had both parents and weren’t labeled as weird.
Lilo and Stitch was a great movie that taught me that my family didn’t have to be nuclear, and that I didn’t have to be normal to be loved. It also felt cathartic watching Midge get pummeled as a black girl who got called weird ALOT.
The live action gutted the original, which gutted the messaging. And it saddens me that that is what they’re giving kids nowadays 😞
Honestly I think we should get back into buying CDs again so we can actually own our own property instead of subscriptions that can take away the things that we love anytime they wish
I appreciate the always sunny reference 😂 I’m going BALD?!
"Trust the system?" The system took me away from my entire family for MONTHS. I was living with my bio mom and her bf when me and my little sister got taken away. We were only supposed to be there for a weekend while my dad and my step mom got the house prepared to take on two more kids (i had step siblings that lived with them who was never taken away.) the first home was abusive. They hit my sister and bragged about how they were good foster parents because they fucking fed us actually food and not canned greens. Wow, how touching. Everytime we'd have a visitation, they'd find something to conplain about and the time would get pushed back longer and longer. We were at weekend visits, and suddenly they took that away because 'they found evidence.' they never explained what evidence. Eventually we were moved to a different foster home which was better, but still bs. What was supposed to be a weekend housing, turned into a 6 month hold. After they found out my step siblings were stable and healthy, we were moved into my dads the following weekend. But sure, trust the system👌
My best friend is in the foster system. I’ve seen how rough it is. While not all foster families are abusive and negligent and cruel, that doesn’t mean the process is easy. The feeling of never knowing what your bio parents are doing probably eats away at fostered children. I’m sorry you had to go through the same.
'Trust the system' and the system decides the solution to an autistic kid who has separation anxiety after the First stay in a psych ward (at 8y) was to put me in 3 other psych wards because somehow my problems just kept getting worse and they 'didnt know why' and they 'wanted to help me for my own safety' (they ruined my abillitybto go to school and i was self isolating during quarantine (and... self isolation is bad? During quarantine? (Where i was isolating because they made me germaphobic (and i didnt cooperate when they put me in a ward to share a building with 30 strangers (during quarantine))))
The system that has caused children to be taken away from people who actually do care for them and place them in the hands of abusers. There have been too many cases of kids getting abused/murderer because the foster system sucks. So yeah, forgive the masses for not 'trusting the system'
Your experience is pretty common, it's so frustrating. I have family and friends who are/were foster parents, and some of the things I've seen are truly outrageous. In one instance, they were begging a judge not to return a white girl to her dangerous family. They did it anyways, and she was badly abused there and ended up back in foster a year later, completely traumatized. In another instance, they had a little native girl who had competent bio family who wanted her, my friend felt moving her to this bio family would be a great decision for her, but it took social services MONTHS to finally decide the bio family had "proven" themselves enough to take her. The system is so incredibly broken. They trust people who should never be trusted, and make good people jump through hoops, and so much of it is motivated by racism and colonialism. Having grown up around foster care, and with native foster siblings, I knew EXACTLY why Nani was fighting so hard to keep Lilo no matter how stressful it got. The remake ending is disgusting.
@mikado_mmy family member was placed with a foster and, instead of addressing her support needs that were causing her to pull on her hair... They simply shaved her head.
30:39 that 98% rating has to be fake.
My guess is it's a mix of bots (probably paid by Disney or something), Disney adults, and Nostalgia-Baited Parents.
Sadly, it might be genuine. My parents took my brother and I to see this movie, and he and I recognized that it was an atrocity. After the movie, my dad was asking us what we thought about it, and I had to say it nicely but I told him it was worse than the animated one in many ways, but my dad said he really liked it. He supposedly hasn't seen the animated one, and in his mind, the corrupted plot and characters of the live action one are now "canon." He actually has a positive opinion of the movie. Knowing him, I don't think he would prefer the animated one even if he had seen it.
I feel like this is another example of echo chambers. All of us here in the comment section recognize just how terrible of a statement this movie makes while hurting the original (well, almost all of us), but the sad reality is that the majority of people are perfectly content to just consume slop. They don't care.
@@grantcooper5799 I just don’t understand how someone can see Disney remaking a movie that someone hasn’t seen and then that person will go. Yeah, let’s go watch it. Why are you watching it if you haven’t even seen the original? I’m sorry your father lacks critical thinking skills. That genuinely makes me so upset because why would people sit there watching a movie that is a remake when they haven’t even seen the original like for me Disney is just like so different to other companies because of how integral of a role their original movies from their renaissance era had on so many people’s lives. Like those movies meant so much to so many people and they’re just butchering them and so many people haven’t even seen the originals and they’re just going and watching these movies consuming it not knowing what trash it is. It’s so upsetting and I hope you don’t think at all that I’m upset with you from this comment because I’m not I’m upset about what’s happening. I didn’t mean to go on this rant.
It’s probably fake.
But this movie still made bank and it’s a crying shame.
I feel like it’s just default! Honestly there’s nothing at the box office really
The most unfortunate part of Disney’s soullessness is people continue to enable them by mindlessly handing over their money.
Yeah, it sucks man. Just look at how successful that garbage Lion King remake was, utterly embarrassing. Develop some standards, good lord.
I've been thinking of cancelling my Disney+ membership because of this- I don't wanna give more of my money to a hungry company...
@@DizzyNEasy finding things online gets increasingly easier the more you do it. I haven't given Disney a single cent since I was a teenager over a decade ago.
Sadly there’s barely any pieces of media for kids than Disney, they bought almost every other studios and small independent studios just can’t stand next to them.
Disney is monopolizing the children’s media industry so they don’t care about making good content anymore because they know that parents will bring their kids to see their movies in theatre because that’s all there is now.
(Huge rant incoming)
I feel for kids in this generation they’re victims of capitalistic greed and are treated as just dumb little humans who don’t need quality in movies because ‘it’s made for kids’.
Like no! You should put in efforts because it’s made for kids and childhood is a big step in life on how to form a critical mind and tons of other things. Children need good quality, get your kids used to garbage and that’s all they’ll know not ever knowing they could get so much better, they deserve so much better. Maybe it’s part of their plan, that way when they’ll be adults they won’t complain about receiving mindless garbage.
Kids deserve art made with love, intentions and passion by people who do it out of love for children and the art not those money-making stuff made by money-hungry people who couldn’t care less about artistry.
(Sorry for the rant but I’m mad on the behalf of this generation of kids whose only mistake was to be born in an era where people/society couldn’t care less about them.)
Disney is literally becoming Jack Horner