Ohana means dumping your little sister into foster care.

Yeah they really fucked the plot of this movie. Its really fucking gross.

They remove the cop as a bad guy. They make Jumba the bad guy. The cop is the bad guy because the Galactic Federation is ALSO the bad guy. They do not want to understand Stich, and simply want to kill him. Its the cops job to get that done. He is alien to them (ironic) and want him gone. He is presented as a savage.

On the flip side, its the STATE that is the bad guy in Lilos life. She is a native, in a colonial outpost. Her only care giver is her sister. The state is threatening to destroy this already struggling and broken family.

Stich causes chaos in the their life making it harder on Nani, and the threat of loosing lilo becomes real as a result. They have a somber moment where Nani sings Aloha ʻOe to Lilo which was written and composed by Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii, while she was imprisoned in 'Iolani Palace for trying to restore her monarchy. It is widely regarded as a lament for the loss of her country. So it is sung, in this moment, as a farewell to Lilo, mirroring that mournful moment of Hawaii history..

The galactic state wants to remove stich from Lilo. The colonial state wants to remove Nani from Lilo.

All any of them want is to be a family. Something colonial states regularly seek to destroy as part of their colonial project, destroying the "nontraditional family", which Lilos family fully represents. Jumba has a change of heart, and aids in saving Lilo and Stich from the cop.

In the end, their family is restored, and even protected.

In the new one Nani gives up custody of Lilo to her friend so she can live in California to learn Marine Biologist... Which is like the total antithesis of the point of the original movie!

the Hawaiian government can cover the health insurance costs if she relinquishes her guardianship,
Using healthcare as a bargain chip is truly one of the most American things in existence.
live in California to learn Marine Biologist
This part genuinely baffles me. The University of Hawaii has a community college campus on Kaua'i and a marine biology program. What happened, did the University of California pay for an advertising spot in the film?
I heard it was bad, but this is just awful. This is like if you got the smuggest rich white kid in hollywood to rewrite Lilo and Stitch to fix the "plot holes" or whatever.
A lot of the disney movies from the 90s and early 2000s could have prolematic messaging and themes (and sex-pest characters) but modern Disney is actively harmful, their attempt to sanitise everything, to smooth everything over, is looking increasingly...I don't know if..."pink fascist" quite makes sense, but it's the words I want to use to describe this, wholesome, family-friendly fascism with token POC and willfully ignoring any important context or more importantly, subtext of the original movie.
- The original movie also had deleted scenes where the tourists are openly racist to Lilo and she ends up yelling out, “Tourists! Prepare to die!” And Stitch eats that shit right up. It was an openly anti-colonialist movie that they’ve absolutely shat on. And speaking of plot holes, Nani would have been able to study marine biology in Hawaii for free. So why would she abandon her sister in order to travel?
- Pinterest grey baby toys fascism
Its so girlboss of her to submit to hegemonic perceptions of what feminism ought to look like. Thank you disney.

wait, what?

The remaster has Nani attend University, leaving Lilo in the care of their neighbor whose known their family forever, Tūtū. She also has an alien teleporter that allows her to visit Lilo frequently.
The film seems to choose to use some fairly hand-wavy solutions at the end so that they don't have to compromise the happy ending with bittersweetness.
Like, I don't think anyone would say Nani made the wrong choice by fighting hard and making sacrifices to hang onto her little sister in the original film, even though that holds its own sad implications.
I also think that the backlash over this new script is fairly justified, since it completely erases all the consequences that any real person in Nani's situation would face for making the same decision. There will be feelings of abandonment if you surrender your position as primary caregiver, even when it's the right choice. The movie goes out of its way a bit to have its cake and eat it too.
had to look it up too, but apparently nani straight up abandons lilo to move to the lower 48

The dude that directed this is working on a Jetsons reboot or something, so prepare for Abundance Liberalism. Which I guess the original was anyway, but yeah.

There's a theory that the Jetsons and the Flintstones live on the same planet at the same time
- based if true, even more based if its also concurrent with scoobydoo

"Look what did to my ~~boy~~ favorite animated movie!"