121 Fun Facts About Lilo and Stitch

What is Lilo's homemade rag doll called?

Lilo's rag doll is Scrump, which she sewed herself and keeps patching up; she pretends a bug laid eggs in its ear to explain its lumpy head.

What was Stitch's original designation number before Lilo named him?

Experiment 626 was the name Jumba gave his blue, koala-like creation, an illegal genetic experiment built to create untold chaos.

Who is Lilo Pelekai's older sister and legal guardian?

Nani Pelekai is Lilo's older sister and legal guardian, taking care of her after their parents' deaths.

In Lilo & Stitch, which social worker gives Nani three days to prove she can care for her little sister Lilo?

Cobra Bubbles, the social worker voiced by Ving Rhames, tells Nani she has three days to change his mind or Lilo goes into foster care.

On which Hawaiian island is the story of Lilo & Stitch primarily set?

The film takes place on the island of Kauaʻi, providing a vibrant and unique backdrop for the story.

On which planet is Dr. Jumba Jookiba convicted of illegal genetic experimentation?

Jumba is tried on Planet Turo, seat of the United Galactic Federation, where the Grand Councilwoman convicts him of illegal genetic experimentation for creating Experiment 626.

What is Agent Pleakley's primary role within the United Galactic Federation?

Pleakley is a Galactic Federation agent who considers himself the expert on Earth, despite often showing a lack of accurate knowledge about the planet.

In Lilo & Stitch, the tall, slender alien known as the Grand Councilwoman holds what position?

Leader of the United Galactic Federation, she is the one charged with upholding galactic law; the spin-off series renames her body the Galactic Alliance.

Which iconic American singer's music is Lilo Pelekai a big fan of in the film?

Lilo is a devoted fan of Elvis Presley, and his songs are prominently featured throughout the film's soundtrack.

In the original film, what job does Nani lose because of Stitch's antics?

Nani is waiting tables at a tourist lūʻau when Stitch attacks a disguised Pleakley, and she is fired on the spot. She later seems to land a job at a shop near the house, though she is never shown working there.

What is the well-known Hawaiian phrase central to the film's theme, often quoted by Lilo?

The phrase 'Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten' is a core theme in the film, taught by Lilo's father.

Which duo wrote and directed the original 2002 'Lilo & Stitch'?

Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois shared writing and directing, and the story was Sanders's own idea. The pair later reunited on How to Train Your Dragon.

What does Lilo declare is 'unusually high for someone his size' about Stitch?

Lilo tells Nani 'his badness level is unusually high for someone his size,' then sets out to rehabilitate Stitch using Elvis Presley as her example.

What did Cobra Bubbles do before he became a social worker?

Cobra Bubbles was a CIA agent: when the Grand Councilwoman finds him familiar he answers 'CIA. Roswell, 1973,' and she recalls he had hair then.

What does Experiment 626 disguise himself as in order to hide from his captors?

Stitch passes himself off as a dog after crashing on Kauaʻi; Lilo adopts him from the animal shelter and names him Stitch, while Jumba and Pleakley pose as tourists to catch him.

In Lilo & Stitch, how many arms does Stitch fight with once he drops the act of being a dog?

Four arms come out when Stitch stops pretending to be a dog. He is dexterous enough to fight with all four, or with just two while keeping up the act.

Who wrote the 2002 film's score, around its heavy use of Elvis Presley recordings?

Silvestri wrote the score around the film's heavy use of existing Elvis Presley recordings.

Who has voiced Stitch in most of the character's appearances?

Chris Sanders, who created Stitch, has voiced him since the 2002 film, through the TV series, the sequels and the 2025 live-action remake.

Which Disney park's Tomorrowland opened the attraction Stitch's Great Escape! in 2004?

Stitch's Great Escape! opened in Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland at Walt Disney World in November 2004, taking over the theater that had housed The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.

Which offbeat hobby does Lilo pursue in the franchise?

She also attends hula school and is fond of horror and sci-fi creatures.

Which character is assigned to escort Experiment 626 into exile at the start of the film?

Captain Gantu is ordered to ship Experiment 626 to a desert asteroid; 626 breaks out of his cell, steals a police cruiser and crash-lands on Kauaʻi.

What was the 2002 film's production budget?

Lilo & Stitch cost about $80 million, well under the budgets of Disney's recent features such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire, after the studio asked for a smaller, cheaper film.

Roughly how long is Disney's original 2002 animated Lilo & Stitch film?

About 85 minutes, or 1 hour 25 minutes, makes it one of the leaner entries in the Disney animated canon.

Who directed the 2025 live-action remake?

Dean Fleischer Camp directed the 2025 remake, announced in 2022, from a screenplay by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes.

Which young actress played Lilo in the 2025 remake, in her first film role?

Kealoha was cast as the six-year-old Native Hawaiian lead in her screen debut.

Roughly how much did the original 2002 film gross worldwide?

Lilo & Stitch grossed about $275 million worldwide — $273 million in all, roughly $146 million domestic and $127 million abroad — more than tripling its production budget.

How much did the 2025 remake take worldwide?

The 2025 remake took about $1.038 billion worldwide, finishing as the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2025.

For Lilo & Stitch's backgrounds, directors Sanders and DeBlois broke with decades of Disney practice by choosing which painting technique?

Watercolour replaced the studio's standard gouache for the backgrounds, a deviation from several decades' worth of Disney features.

Which record did the 2025 remake set?

It became the highest-grossing live-action/animated hybrid ever made, and the first such film past a billion dollars.

Lilo & Stitch lost the Best Animated Feature Oscar to which film?

Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki's film, won Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards over Lilo & Stitch, Ice Age, Treasure Planet and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.

What does Jumba claim about Stitch's mind?

Alongside immense strength and durability, Stitch is billed as faster-thinking than a supercomputer.

According to Jumba, Stitch can move objects how many times his own size?

At his trial Jumba boasts that Experiment 626 is bulletproof, fireproof, can see in the dark and can move objects 3,000 times his size.

In the climax as originally animated before 9/11, what did Stitch hijack?

Originally Stitch hijacked a Boeing 747 and flew it between Honolulu's skyscrapers; after the September 11 attacks the sequence was redone with Jumba's spaceship weaving through Kauaʻi's mountains.

What does Lilo give Stitch for strength before he departs with Jumba and Pleakley?

In Leroy & Stitch, Lilo gives Stitch a Ku Tiki necklace, Kū being the Hawaiian god of war and strength, as he leaves Earth with Jumba and Pleakley.

Stitch was first drawn in 1985 for what unrealised project?

Sanders first drew Stitch in 1985 for a children's book pitch that went nowhere; the creature sat unused until he revived it for a film pitch in the late 1990s.

Which chorus performs the film's two original Hawaiian-language songs?

The Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus performs both Hawaiian-language songs with Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu, who co-wrote them with composer Alan Silvestri.

For UK trailers, Pop Idol runner-up Gareth Gates recorded a cover of which Elvis song?

Gareth Gates's 2002 cover of 'Suspicious Minds' fronted Lilo & Stitch's British trailers and TV spots as a promotional tie-in.

Which Hawaiian-language song plays over the opening as Lilo swims and races to hula class?

'He Mele No Lilo' ('A Song for Lilo') opens the film as Lilo swims and runs to hula class; Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu wrote its Hawaiian lyrics and leads the chant.

Where in Los Angeles did the 2002 film premiere on 16 June 2002?

Lilo & Stitch premiered at Disney's El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard on June 16, 2002, five days before its general release on June 21.

How does Experiment 626 end up in an animal shelter shortly after crash-landing?

Experiment 626 wanders onto a road and is run over by three trucks; knocked out, he is taken to the Kauaʻi animal shelter, where he passes himself off as a dog.

What song does Nani sing to Lilo in the hammock the night before Cobra's deadline?

Nani sings 'Aloha ʻOe', the Hawaiian farewell song, to Lilo in the backyard hammock after Cobra Bubbles says he will take Lilo away the next morning.

What does Cobra Bubbles instruct Lilo to teach Stitch to become?

Cobra Bubbles tells Lilo her new 'dog' must become a model citizen, so she sets about teaching Stitch manners with Elvis Presley as her example.

Who rescues Stitch when he is pulled underwater during the surfing scene?

David dives down and hauls Stitch out after Jumba drags him under, while Nani pulls Lilo to safety; Cobra Bubbles watches from the beach.

How much does Lilo pay the animal shelter to adopt Stitch?

Lilo puts two dollars ($2) on the shelter counter for Stitch, a receipt she later waves at the Grand Councilwoman to prove he is legally hers.

Who voices Captain Gantu in the 2002 film?

Kevin Michael Richardson, a prolific voice actor (the Joker in The Batman, Cleveland Jr.), voices the hulking Captain Gantu in the film and its spin-offs.

Which Australian actress voices the Grand Councilwoman in the 2002 film?

Zoe Caldwell, the Australian stage actress and four-time Tony winner, voiced the Grand Councilwoman in the 2002 film.

What is the name of Lilo's classmate who derides her at hula class?

Mertle Edmonds, the bossy redhead in Lilo's hula class, was voiced by Miranda Paige Walls in the 2002 film; her clique later nicknames Lilo 'Weirdlo'.

Who is Lilo's hula teacher?

Moses Puloki is Lilo's kumu hula, voiced by Kunewa Mook; in Lilo & Stitch 2 he leads the class's preparation for the May Day hula competition.

Which elderly fruit-stand owner is voiced by Amy Hill in the original film?

Amy Hill voiced Mrs. Hasagawa, the elderly fruit-stand owner Stitch pesters, in the 2002 film and again in Lilo & Stitch: The Series.

Chris Sanders' first project at Disney after joining in 1987 was which film?

The Rescuers Down Under (1990) was Sanders's first Disney credit, in story and visual development; he went on to story work on Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin before heading story on Mulan.

At whose Vermont farm did the 1997 Disney retreat that led to Lilo & Stitch take place?

The 1997 retreat was held at Michael Eisner's Vermont farm, where Disney executives asked for original ideas beyond legends, folklore and classic novels.

Sanders's original pitch set Stitch in the countryside of which US state?

Sanders first set Stitch in rural Kansas, lost among forest animals; Schumacher pushed him toward a human setting, and Sanders relocated the story to Hawaii.

Sanders later revisited his creature-among-forest-animals concept in which film he directed?

The Wild Robot (2024), which Sanders directed, strands a robot among forest animals, echoing his first Stitch idea; it earned him a Best Animated Feature nomination, as Lilo & Stitch had.

Stitch tells the Grand Councilwoman his family is 'little, and broken, but still' what?

Stitch's plea at the climax is 'This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.'

In early drafts, what was Stitch's role before he became Jumba's creation?

Early drafts made Stitch the leader of an alien gang, with Jumba one of his former gang members sent to bring him in; reworking Jumba into his creator gave the pair a stronger bond.

Who explained the concept of ʻohana to the animators visiting Kauaʻi?

DeBlois said the idea became the film's foundation theme.

What was the title of the manual created to help animators copy the director's drawing look?

'Surfing the Sanders Style', written by visual development supervisor Sue C. Nichols, taught the crew to reproduce Chris Sanders's rounded drawing style.

In which year did Lilo & Stitch: The Series premiere on Disney Channel?

Lilo & Stitch: The Series premiered in September 2003, set up by the direct-to-video Stitch! The Movie released that August, and ran until 2006.

Which AC/DC song featured in the 'Inter-stitch-als' teaser trailers?

AC/DC's 'Back in Black' scored the 'Inter-stitch-als' teasers, in which Stitch barged into scenes from four Disney Renaissance films while the original voice casts reprised their roles.

What was the 2009 US special DVD release nicknamed?

The two-disc 'Big Wave Edition' DVD, released in March 2009, added a making-of documentary and more deleted scenes.

For the UK release, where Lilo hides was changed from a clothes dryer to what?

Lilo's hiding place became a cupboard with a pizza-box door, removing a scene of a child climbing into a clothes dryer; the altered version later appeared on Disney+ and home releases worldwide.

Which Steven Spielberg film beat Lilo & Stitch to first place on its opening weekend?

Minority Report opened to $35.7 million that weekend, June 21–23, 2002, narrowly ahead of Lilo & Stitch's $35.3 million.

Which animated film out-grossed Lilo & Stitch at the 2002 US box office?

Ice Age took about $176 million domestically in 2002 to Lilo & Stitch's $146 million; no other animated film passed $100 million in the US that year.

What grade did CinemaScore audiences give the 2002 film?

The 2025 remake earned the same grade.

Which Swedish group re-recorded 'Can't Help Falling in Love' for the soundtrack?

A-Teens, the Swedish pop group that started as an ABBA tribute act, recorded the soundtrack's cover of 'Can't Help Falling in Love'.

How many episodes did Lilo & Stitch: The Series run for?

Lilo & Stitch: The Series ran for 65 episodes over two seasons from 2003 to 2006, following Lilo and Stitch as they catch and rehabilitate Jumba's other experiments.

Which television film ended the Hawaii-set continuity in 2006?

Hämsterviel clones an army of Leroys to conquer the Galactic Alliance in it.

In Stitch Has a Glitch, why does Stitch keep having outbursts?

In Stitch Has a Glitch, Jumba realises Stitch's molecules were never fully charged at his creation, so he glitches into destructive fits; Lilo meanwhile trains for the May Day hula contest her mother once won.

Which studio produced Stitch Has a Glitch?

Stitch Has a Glitch was made by Disneytoon Studios Australia in Sydney, the unit behind Disney's direct-to-video sequels; its DVD also carried the short The Origin of Stitch.

The Japanese anime Stitch! is set on a fictional island in which prefecture?

The anime Stitch! moves the action to Izayoi, a fictional island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan's southernmost prefecture, with a new human friend in Lilo's place.

Which studio produced the first two seasons of the Stitch! anime?

Madhouse animated the first two seasons of Stitch! (2008–2010); Shin-Ei Animation took over for the third season, Stitch! ~Zutto Saikō no Tomodachi~.

The Chinese series Stitch & Ai is set in which mountain range?

Stitch & Ai, a 2017 Chinese-produced series, is set among the Huangshan (Yellow Mountains) of Anhui province, where Stitch befriends a girl named Wang Ai Ling.

Yuna, Stitch's friend in the anime, practises which martial art?

Yuna Kamihara, the tomboyish girl who befriends Stitch on Izayoi Island, practises karate and lives with her grandmother while her father works away.

In the anime, how many good deeds must be performed to have a wish granted by the Chitama Spiritual Stone?

The Chitama Spiritual Stone in Izayoi's Chitama Forest grants a wish after 43 good deeds, and Stitch spends the anime chasing that count so he can become the strongest in the universe.

Who voices Stitch in the English versions of the Asian-produced spin-offs?

Ben Diskin voices Stitch in the English dubs of the Stitch! anime and Stitch & Ai; Chris Sanders voices him in nearly everything else.

Which of Stitch's features are retractable?

Stitch can retract his antennae, his lower arms and the three spines on his back to pass as a dog; he also has razor-sharp claws and bulging eyes.

What is Experiment 625 notably fond of making instead of using his powers?

Experiment 625, later named Reuben, has all of Stitch's powers but prefers making sandwiches; he speaks fluent English with a Brooklyn accent.

What colour is Angel, Experiment 624?

Angel, Experiment 624, is pink with a slimmer build and long antennae; she is Stitch's love interest and closely resembles him.

What happens when Angel sings her siren song backwards?

Angel's siren song turns reformed experiments evil when sung forwards; sung backwards it turns evil experiments good again, which is how the damage is undone in her episode.

What colour is Leroy, Experiment 629?

Leroy, Experiment 629, is a red, Stitch-shaped clone that Jumba builds on Hämsterviel's orders in Leroy & Stitch, and Hämsterviel mass-produces an army of them.

What colour is Dr. Jumba Jookiba?

Jumba is purple, a stout four-eyed alien from the planet Kweltikwan whose pink belly and face patches set him apart from his blue creation.

Which voice actor plays Hämsterviel in Lilo & Stitch: The Series?

Jeff Bennett voices Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, Jumba's old lab partner and the franchise's recurring villain, in Stitch! The Movie, the series and Leroy & Stitch.

What is Pleakley's given name in the original continuity?

Pleakley's given name is Wendy, revealed in Lilo & Stitch: The Series, where he insists it is a boy's name on his home planet Plorgonar.

In Lilo & Stitch, what is the name of the fish Lilo believes controls the weather?

Pudge is an orange tropical saltwater fish, and Lilo feeds him a peanut butter sandwich every Thursday because she believes he controls the weather.

In the 2025 remake, which university does Nani leave Kauaʻi to attend?

In the 2025 remake Nani enrols at UCSD to study marine biology, leaving Lilo with neighbour Tūtū and popping back to Kauaʻi through Jumba's portal gun.

Which phrase does 626 shout at his trial, to the horror of the courtroom?

At his trial 626 spits out 'Meega nala kweesta!', an obscenity in his creator's tongue that makes the whole courtroom gasp.

In the anime, to whom does the adult Lilo pass down her doll Scrump?

In the anime's later special a grown-up Lilo returns with her daughter Ani, who now carries Scrump, the rag doll Lilo made as a child; Ani looks just like young Lilo.

Which experiment is 'X-221', with electrical abilities?

Sparky, Experiment 221, is a yellow experiment who shoots electricity; freed in Stitch! The Movie, he finds his one true place powering an old lighthouse. Melty is Experiment 228.

Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626, a 2002 prequel game, was released on which console?

Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 was a PlayStation 2 exclusive from High Voltage Software, a prequel in which Stitch gathers DNA samples for Jumba before the film's events.

Stitch is a summonable character in which video game series?

His homeworld also appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.

Which director was in talks to helm the live-action remake in 2020 before Dean Fleischer Camp?

Jon M. Chu, director of Crazy Rich Asians, was in talks to direct the remake in November 2020 but moved on; Dean Fleischer Camp was announced in 2022.

Who plays Nani in the 2025 remake?

Sydney Agudong, who grew up on Kauaʻi, plays Nani in the 2025 remake opposite Maia Kealoha's Lilo; Kaipo Dudoit plays David.

Which Ted Lasso actress voices the Grand Councilwoman in the 2025 film?

Hannah Waddingham, who plays Rebecca Welton in Ted Lasso, voices the Grand Councilwoman in the 2025 remake, succeeding Zoe Caldwell.

Who plays Jumba in the 2025 live-action remake?

Zach Galifianakis plays Jumba in the 2025 remake, voicing the alien and appearing in human disguise; Billy Magnussen plays Pleakley.

Which new character does Tia Carrere play in the 2025 remake?

Tia Carrere, Nani's voice in the animated films, plays Mrs. Kekoa, the social worker created for the 2025 remake.

Which major character was cut from the 2025 remake at the director's behest?

Captain Gantu was cut from the 2025 remake, which makes Jumba the third-act antagonist instead; critics also complained about the changes to Jumba and Pleakley.

Who composed the score for the 2025 remake?

Dan Romer, composer of Beasts of the Southern Wild, scored the 2025 remake; Industrial Light & Magic led the visual effects that brought Stitch to life.

Whose Memorial Day weekend record did the 2025 film break with a $182.6 million four-day debut?

Lilo & Stitch's $182.6 million four-day debut topped Top Gun: Maverick's Memorial Day record of $160.5 million from 2022; it opened alongside Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Which film finally knocked the 2025 remake off the top of the US box office in its fourth weekend?

How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks' live-action remake of the 2010 film Sanders and DeBlois directed, opened at number one on June 13, 2025, ending Lilo & Stitch's three-weekend run at the top.

Which film's record as top live-action/animated hybrid did the 2025 film surpass?

The Smurfs had made $563 million in 2011.

Which Chinese animated film was the only 2025 release to cross $1 billion before Lilo & Stitch?

Ne Zha 2, the Chinese animated sequel released in January 2025, passed $1 billion within weeks; Lilo & Stitch was the first Hollywood film of 2025 to reach the mark.

Filming of the remake was interrupted in 2023 by what?

Principal photography began in Hawaii in April 2023 and halted that July when the SAG-AFTRA strike began; shooting resumed in February and March 2024.

Daveigh Chase, the voice of Lilo, also played Samara Morgan in which 2002 horror remake?

Daveigh Chase played the ghostly Samara Morgan in The Ring (2002), Gore Verbinski's remake of the Japanese film Ringu, and Samantha Darko in Donnie Darko.

Tia Carrere first hit the spotlight as rock singer Cassandra in which 1992 comedy?

Carrere played Cassandra Wong, the rock singer who dazzles Wayne, in Wayne's World (1992) and its 1993 sequel; she has also won two Grammys for Hawaiian music albums.

David Ogden Stiers, the voice of Jumba, played Major Winchester on which sitcom?

Stiers joined M*A*S*H in 1977 as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, the Boston blue-blood surgeon, and stayed to the 1983 finale; he also voiced Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast.

Kevin McDonald, the voice of Pleakley, is a member of which comedy troupe?

Kevin McDonald is one of the five Kids in the Hall, the Canadian troupe whose sketch series ran from 1988 to 1995, alongside Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson.

Ving Rhames won a Golden Globe for playing which boxing promoter?

Rhames won the 1998 Golden Globe for playing Don King in HBO's Don King: Only in America, then famously handed the statuette to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon on stage.

Jason Scott Lee, the voice of David, played which martial arts legend in a 1993 biopic?

Jason Scott Lee played Bruce Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993), and Mowgli in Disney's 1994 live-action The Jungle Book.

Dean Fleischer Camp is best known for creating which stop-motion character with Jenny Slate?

Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate created Marcel the Shell with Shoes On as a 2010 short; the 2021 feature earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.

Dean DeBlois directed a 2007 documentary about which Icelandic band?

DeBlois directed Heima (2007), which follows Sigur Rós on a series of free concerts around Iceland after their 2006 world tour.

The actor who plays Jumba in the remake is best known as Alan in which film trilogy?

Zach Galifianakis played Alan Garner in The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013); he also hosted the web series Between Two Ferns.

'Burning Love' was written by Dennis Linde and first released in 1972 by which singer, before Elvis?

Arthur Alexander, the Alabama soul singer behind 'Anna (Go to Him)', released 'Burning Love' first in 1972; Elvis Presley's version followed as a single that August.

Alan Silvestri has scored nearly every film by which director since 1984?

Silvestri has scored nearly every Robert Zemeckis film since Romancing the Stone (1984), including Back to the Future and Forrest Gump.

Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu, who co-wrote the film's Hawaiian songs, ran a hula studio in which US region?

Hoʻomalu's hālau, the Academy of Hawaiian Arts, is based in Oakland in the San Francisco Bay Area; the filmmakers recruited him for authentic Hawaiian chant.

In the TV series, which experiment does Jumba build specifically to out-do Stitch?

Jumba builds Experiment 627 in the episode of that name to prove he can make something badder than Stitch; 627 cannot be turned good, so Jumba dehydrates him back into a pod.

In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, what is the fictional Kauaʻi town where the Pelekais live?

Lilo & Stitch: The Series sets the Pelekai house in Kokaua Town, a fictional Kauaʻi community that Jumba's loose experiments wreck week after week.

Which country singer recorded 'Burning Love' for the 2002 soundtrack?

Wynonna, the country star who began in The Judds, recorded 'Burning Love' for the 2002 soundtrack; it plays over the film's closing family montage.

Which 2002 tie-in game was released for the Game Boy Advance?

Disney's Lilo & Stitch, a side-scrolling platformer, was the Game Boy Advance tie-in released in 2002; Trouble in Paradise went to PlayStation and Windows, while Stitch: Experiment 626 was a PlayStation 2 exclusive.

Who plays Cobra Bubbles in the 2025 live-action remake?

Courtney B. Vance plays Cobra Bubbles in the 2025 remake, where he is a CIA agent investigating the crash rather than the family's social worker.

Which character in the 2025 remake is original to that film rather than the animated original?

Tūtū, played by Amy Hill, was created for the 2025 remake as the Pelekais' Native Hawaiian neighbour and David's grandmother, who speaks with a local Pidgin accent.

On which Hawaiian island was the 2025 remake actually filmed, rather than Kauaʻi?

Director Dean Fleischer Camp cited only 'boring logistical reasons' for not shooting on the island where the story is set.