Lilo & Stitch

Following Dreamworks' "traditionally animated" summer 2002 entry Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, rival studio Disney also bucks the computer-animation trend with this hand-drawn comedy. Lilo & Stitch concerns the burgeoning friendship of the two misfit outcasts from the title. Lilo (Daveigh Chase) is a lonely, orphaned youngster living in the splendor of Hawaii under the care of her older sister, Nani (Tia Carrere); Stitch is a mischevious, mildly destructive, genetically altered alien causing grief to his creators on the planet of Turo. Their paths cross when Stitch is banished from Turo, crash-landing on the far less-advanced planet Earth. Looking a little like a panda bear with bat ears, Stitch is able to pass as a dog in Hawaii, and it isn't long before Lilo takes a shine to the goofy-looking creature. Little do either of them know, however, that the errant Stitch is being tracked down by his creators -- just as he learns what it means to be a real friend to Lilo. Punctuating the action in Lilo & Stitch are a number of classic Elvis Presley tunes.