Why the Ending of Disney's Lilo & Stitch Remake Has Got Everyone Talking About 'Ohana'

The live-action remake of Disney’s classical Lilo & Stitch arrived successful theaters implicit Memorial Day play — and since it dropped, the movie has been connected the receiving extremity of astir adjacent amounts of praise and criticism. The caller mentation of the beloved communicative does marque rather a fewer glaring changes to the original, but the 1 that seems to truly beryllium firing fans up is the determination to person Nani, Lilo’s older sister and guardian, instrumentality the implicit other attack to her and Lilo’s aboriginal successful the caller ending.

Warning! Spoilers for the Lilo & Stitch live-action remake follow:

“Nani agreeing to springiness custody of Lilo to the authorities and past Lilo going to unrecorded with different radical truthful Nani could spell to California for assemblage is truthful amazingly anserine I can't judge they went with it,” 1 instrumentality enactment it bluntly successful a remark connected a treatment station astir the movie successful the r/Disney subreddit.

A fewer different fans who hadn’t rather made it to the theatre yet were shocked to work astir the changes made to the ending. “Is this real?” 1 idiosyncratic inquired successful a reply remark connected the post. “This is shockingly antithetic from the archetypal movie and consequent sequels/animated series.”

“Don’t you retrieve the iconic line? ‘Ohana means giving your orphaned sister to the authorities to survey marine biology,’” different idiosyncratic quipped sarcastically, indicting the alteration for being irreconcilable with the story’s message. But not everyone felt the movie’s tweaked finale was bad, oregon adjacent that it was straying from the archetypal intention.

“Only if you're toxic capable to judge that going to assemblage and trying to unafraid a aboriginal for yourself beyond minimum wage edifice enactment means that you near down and forgot your family,” a instrumentality wrote successful effect to the remark astir the movie’s iconic line. “The remake emphasizes that 1) household is not conscionable humor related and 2) erstwhile household moves, they're inactive your household and person not forgotten you.”

A statement was sparked astir the summation of Nani’s tendency to spell to assemblage to survey marine biology — which, according to immoderate fans, is some achievable connected precise small wealth successful Hawaii, wherever the programs are satellite people owed to the locale, and mostly unnecessary for the story.

“I don't cognize wherefore moving to Honolulu was much unrealistic than going each the mode to San Diego to survey marine biology portion giving your sister up to foster attraction wherever she tin beryllium adopted out," different idiosyncratic replied to the defence of the changes. "Like yeah, ‘oh she's going to get an acquisition to get a amended occupation to assistance instrumentality attraction of her sister,’ but the constituent successful the archetypal movie was that she does person the recovered household of Jumba, Pleakley, and Cobra to assistance her with Lilo and Stitch. She didn't adjacent speech astir assemblage successful the archetypal film. They invented an wholly caller storyline that didn't request to beryllium there.”

One idiosyncratic made it a constituent to full-on explicate wherefore it wouldn’t marque consciousness for Nani to spell retired of authorities for her education. “I don’t cognize wherefore you’re doing backflips defending a storyline that did perfectly zero probe connected Hawaii oregon however its schooling strategy works,” they wrote successful a reply. “For example: the assemblage of Hawaii astatine Mānoa allows autochthonal Hawaiians to person in-state tuition. There are besides options for immoderate of them to get tuition wholly waived if they survey marine biology. It’s an incredibly dumb storyline done to propulsion immoderate weird messaging they’re trying to push, connected apical of being wholly nonsensical.”

Ultimately, though, determination were much naysayers than defenders it seemed. “Sacrificing for household aft tragedy, losing retired connected a imaginable future, and moving hard successful the little people are NOT quality faults,” 1 Redditor replied successful statement with the folks who were against the choices. “The archetypal navigated a analyzable contented wherever a loving household sticking unneurotic was much important than idiosyncratic pursuits.” Another Redditor replied successful response: “A idiosyncratic pursuit that could amended their lives?” to which the archetypal idiosyncratic mic-dropped with: “The aforesaid idiosyncratic pursuit that could beryllium had close determination successful the aforesaid state, astatine what are virtually the globally starring schools successful her chosen major? The movie is nonsensical.”

"Ohana" was trending implicit the play connected X (Twitter), with fans taking to the societal media level to sermon changes to the live-action Lilo & Stitch ending. pic.twitter.com/qAS8tUrDzm

For galore fans, it’s the poignant and almighty themes being erased — but it’s besides the sanctity of Hawaiian civilization being erased too.

“Of each the overblown complaints successful the past respective years astir each the different live-action remakes, I cannot f—ing judge that this 1 which actually strips distant each the quality and extent and themes of the archetypal is getting praise,” a instrumentality lamented successful the comments. “I’m starting to deliberation radical did not get the messages successful the archetypal and conscionable saw it arsenic a shallow cute alien movie acceptable successful ‘exotic Hawaii.’”

Another instrumentality added: “But also, wherefore does Nani have to prosecute immoderate ‘greater’ goal? What’s incorrect with a autochthonal Hawaiian wanting to rise her sister, enactment for a living, and past vibe connected the formation until sunset? Literally thousands of autochthonal Hawaiians unrecorded perfectly happily this way. It’s besides specified a weird thought to marque Nani incapable to pursuit a imagination arsenic a caregiver erstwhile it’s done by astonishing azygous parents each the time.”

At the extremity of the day, it seems arsenic though this alteration isn’t sitting close with immoderate fans — and is adjacent making immoderate determine to beryllium it out. “I conscionable heard astir this, which is the full crushed I volition not spell spot this movie,” a instrumentality wrote connected Reddit. “You cannot alteration what the taxable of the movie is about.”

Despite the absorption to the ending, the Lilo & Stitch live-action remake is already hugely palmy for Disney, with a immense $341 cardinal planetary container bureau haul. Disney knows it's connected to a winner, and is already considering sequels.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.