The Latest Look at Disney’s Live-Action Stitch Will Fill You With Cute Aggression

Fans of Disney’s Lilo & Stitch cognize what to expect from a definite little bluish alien familial experiment: he’s a chaotic, mischievous troublemaker, but helium tin beryllium taught; by the clip the 2002 animated movie ends, he’s learned lessons astir household bonding and the joys of Elvis euphony from Lilo, the small miss who rescues him aft his intergalactic jailbreak lands him successful Hawaii. With the live-action remake coming adjacent year, it seems apt the caller mentation of Stitch volition beryllium chopped from the aforesaid cloth—but somehow, he’s a zillion times cuter?

Check retired our latest look astatine live-action Stitch—this clip wrong the satellite of the movie itself, alternatively than that earlier promo glimpse—but don’t accidental we didn’t pass you astir the adorability overload!

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Disney knows what it’s doing here; you don’t adjacent person to ideate that plush recreations of “cute and fluffy” Stitch volition soon beryllium lining store shelves, if they haven’t already.

Stitch volition beryllium a CG instauration truthful to telephone him “live-action” is somewhat misleading—but there’ll beryllium existent humans successful the formed this time, including Maia Kealoha arsenic the six-year-old Lilo; Sydney Agudong arsenic her teenage sister and ineligible guardian Nani; Kaipo Dudoit arsenic the sisters’ surfer person David; Tia Carrere (who voiced Nani successful the animated film) arsenic the kindly Mrs. Kekoa; and Courtney B. Vance arsenic societal idiosyncratic Cobra Bubbles.

As for the non-humans, archetypal Lilo & Stitch co-writer and co-director Chris Sanders (The Wild Robot) returns to dependable Stitch; Zach Galafianakis plays Stitch’s mad-scientist creator, Dr. Jumba Jookiba, and Billy Magnussen is Agent Pleakley, an alien chasing aft an escaped Stitch connected Earth.

Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell With Shoes On) and written by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, Lilo & Stitch hits theaters May 23, 2025.

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