Day 185: Lilo & Stitch

An alien built to destroy crashes on Earth. He’s adopted by an orphaned little girl who is about to be taken away from her sister. Cry-fest.

Stitch just wants to belong somewhere. Lilo looks after him and won’t give him up and he realises that he belongs with her. He wants to have a family and now he has one. The film manages to be depressing, lovely and funny all at the same time and I love when films can do that. I’m really glad I finally watched it and I will definitely watch it again.

8/10

Day 129: Hoodwinked!

All is not well in the world of bakery. Someone has been stealing the recipes from each of the cake shops in the woods and the only one left belongs to Grandma Puckett. Her granddaughter, Red Riding Hood, decides that the only way to ensure nobody steals the recipes is if she takes them up the mountain to her Gran’s house. But the situation gets messy and the police are called in to investigate what really happened, meaning we get taken through four different stories.

It’s always interesting to see the experiences each person had that led them to the same point. I like when films and books do this, you never really get enough of the picture from just one person. The film is funny in places and I liked the crime angle but overall it’s nothing special. I’m not a fan of the animation itself, it seems really clunky and badly done. But I do realise it’s a children’s movie so the things I’d usually look for aren’t really going to be there.

6/10