Lilo & Stitch's creative team had to change their original ending in wake of 9/11 — it was one of many films to change due to the national tragedy.
The Big Picture There are few films that offer as much nostalgic serotonin as Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois’ Lilo & Stitch which, released in 2002, had to make some very urgent revisions to its climactic chase scene as a result of the September 11 attack of 2001.
An alien council in deep space dubbed the United Galactic Federation have just been made aware of Experiment 626, a monstrous creature that’s near-indestructible with a supercomputer for a mind. Ordered to be destroyed, Experiment 626 hijacks a spacecraft and crash lands on Earth. Miraculously, he doesn’t hit the water , but beautiful Hawaii, where he disguises himself as a dog adopted by Lilo in order to evade recapture by his creator Jumba.
You can, however, watch both the extended hijacking sequence on YouTube and a handy side-by-side comparison from Vox of both the original and final theatrical version of the sequence. In the original, you can see Stitch jumping aboard a moving plane through its landing wheels and frightening the pilots with an “Aloha!” before it cuts to a flurry of fleeing passengers screaming for their very lives as they descend the inflatable emergency ramp.
Seeing a Boeing 747 crash into a city, the skyscrapers of which are far less idiosyncratic than the beachy environment we’d seen in the film thus far, just don’t scream the juxtaposing combination of village-like rurality and galaxy-spanning sci-fi that made Lilo & Stitch such a hit.
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