After Lilo & Sew turned one of many largest 2025 film releases, anybody may have guessed Walt Disney Studios might need a sequel on their minds, and a pair months after its record-breaking opening weekend, the Home of Mouse introduced Lilo & Sew 2 is in improvement. As somebody who actually loved the film (as written in my Lilo & Sew assessment), I’m excited to see what’s subsequent for Lilo, Nani and the little blue alien with a dangerously excessive badness stage. However, I even have some ideas about what I don’t need that could possibly be seen as a spicy take.
I mainly grew up on all issues Lilo & Sew. Together with the unique animated film nonetheless being certainly one of my favourite films ever, I’ve a variety of good recollections concerning the direct-to-video sequels and the TV collection. Now that the film has established its live-action model of the origin story, I hope it veers off into new territory. Let me get into it.
What’s Taking place With Lilo & Sew 2
So, what do we all know thus far? Walt Disney Footage greenlit a sequel in late June, and a month later it was reported that the unique creator of Sew/the voice of the character, Chris Sanders, is being lined as much as write the script. Sanders is the only option I can consider to tackle the sequel, as a result of Sew is virtually his little one, and he’s made so many nice family-oriented films, like The Lion King, Mulan, How To Practice Your Dragon and most lately, The Wild Robotic.
If there are two individuals who know Sew one of the best, it’s Sanders and Dean DeBlois, who wrote and directed the animated Lilo & Sew with him, however DeBlois can also be exhausting at work on the second How To Practice Your Dragon live-action film. There’s no launch date or story particulars out on this planet for Sew 2 but, however I think about as soon as Sanders has a script prepared and accepted, manufacturing will occur shortly after. Particularly since Lilo’s younger actress is rising by the minute.
There Are A number of Sequels And A TV Present The Sequel May Pull From
When you’ve seen the animated sequels and TV present there’s a reasonably easy path for what may occur subsequent. Mainly, we be taught that Jumba has a ton extra experiments like Sew, however every of them have their very own personalities and superpowers to a level. After the occasions of the primary film, a bunch of them hatch on Earth, and it turns into Lilo and Sew’s job to seek out them, and make them a part of their household, which simply retains rising and rising.
Wanting again, it was a very candy solution to proceed to inform the “Ohana” story on the middle, and later spin the narrative into an episodic collection the place, in every episode, they discover a new experiment. Then, there’s the primary sequel, which is about Sew having a “glitch” the place he reverts to his former programming randomly and begins performing out much more than earlier than.
I do assume it will be enjoyable for Lilo and Sew to fulfill extra of the experiments, however I’m additionally apprehensive, from a sensible standpoint, how that will look in reside motion. I believed they nailed Sew, however I believe it will look so much wackier and random in live-action than it did in animation, and that makes me apprehensive. Plus, there’s the problem of Gantu not being within the unique film and the way that would pose an issue within the sequels, visually. Ought to I additionally remind you the entire bunny-like alien, Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, from the sequels and TV present?
However, I Do not Essentially Need To See An Adaptation Of Them
There was a variety of backlash over the live-action film, particularly for the way it had some notable adjustments, not solely with Gantu, however with a extra villainous Jumba, Nani going to varsity in San Diego, and the brand new character of Tutu taking Lilo in on the finish. However, I really appreciated the adjustments as a result of I felt they (principally) performed into it being a live-action film reasonably than merely treating it like each choice made in animation could possibly be completed the identical, with the identical impact.
As you go deeper into the Lilo & Sew franchise, I believe there was a variety of leaning on the animation medium over narrative, and it simply received’t work as nicely in live-action. So, that’s my scorching take. I actually don’t wish to see the unique sequels be retold, I would like one thing new.
Dwell-Motion Lilo & Sew Was At It is Finest When It Centered On The Human Storylines
I believe one of the best half concerning the live-action Lilo & Sew that had a leg up from the animated films was the human tales between Lilo and Nani. I felt like having human actors actually deepened their storyline of being sisters who had been orphaned and dealing by way of a very emotional time as their household is restructured. Nani thought she may increase Lilo herself, but it surely proved to be tough for the 18-year-old.
I believe the film ended on one thing that could possibly be explored additional. With Nani attempting to start out her life as a school pupil in San Diego, and Lilo and Sew again in Hawaii and with a portal gun, some kind of hijinks have to come back out of that, proper? I like the concept of there being more room/alien journey within the sequel, however I believe there must be that gooey middle targeted on their relationship, and not one of the direct sequels actually had something to do with Lilo and Nani’s sisterhood story.
I hope that Disney stays on the observe of what made Lilo & Sew good reasonably than listening an excessive amount of to the indignant followers who needed to see a retread of the animated model. However, hey, perhaps that’s a scorching take, contemplating the response I’ve seen concerning the film because it got here out.