Spoilers for the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch follow.
Fans aren’t loving the changes made to the ending of the live-action Lilo & Stitch remake. The reactions vary from “it’s annoying they got rid of Gantu” to “Nani giving up guardianship of Lilo is a sign of encroaching fascism.” Actually, it’s a lot more of the latter. Let’s break down the objections to this new ending for Lilo & Stitch.
It’s easy to see where Disney may have been coming from with this change. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about parentification of elder siblings. Doesn’t Nani get to have a fully actualized life, with a career and stuff? Nani getting to follow her dreams, surely that’s Disney princess aspirational stuff, right? The problem, according to folks on social media, is that this girlbossification of Nani ignores the role the state has played over the decades of separating indigenous families. Some even called the film propaganda for social services, à la Marvel movies and the military or the copaganda of police procedurals.
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