Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch

68 minutes to basically give a “love conquers all, even death” message to charming characters in endearing ramshackle narrative that does nothing but dilute the brand. Welcome to more of these direct-to-video Disney exercises in making profit above all else. Don’t get me wrong, the film industry is a business above all and its commerce above art, with art being an only incidental by-product, but Disney can do better than this. Any emotive response is beamed in from your feelings about the characters from the first movie as everyone is noticeably off here, and there’s nothing generated from the narrative that builds towards an authentic emotional reaction. It’s just another run through the franchise with diminishing returns and characters/actions being entirely inappropriate for what has been previously established.