_Stitch! the Movie_ follows logically from _Lilo and Stitch_, and the characters are true to their personalities. Sharp-eyed children will notice a point at which Stitch could have extricated himself from a fix unaided, but didn't, but on the whole, it flows nicely...
****SPOILER FOLLOWS!!!!***** ...to a semi-conclusion that sets up the forthcoming _Lilo and Stitch_ cartoon series in exactly the way I feared it would, so that it will be a clone of certain Japanese cartoon series in which many creatures with varying powers get collected. I guess the committees and marketing types finally got their claws into L&S, and couldn't resist the thought of hordes of children collecting 626 plushes, figures, cards, and so on. I'm highly disappointed.
****SPOILER FOLLOWS!!!!***** ...to a semi-conclusion that sets up the forthcoming _Lilo and Stitch_ cartoon series in exactly the way I feared it would, so that it will be a clone of certain Japanese cartoon series in which many creatures with varying powers get collected. I guess the committees and marketing types finally got their claws into L&S, and couldn't resist the thought of hordes of children collecting 626 plushes, figures, cards, and so on. I'm highly disappointed.