My former employer offered us laid-off types an interesting two-day seminar from Lee Hecht Harrison, an outplacement/career transisition firm, so I spent Monday and Tuesday doing that and crashing on Janis' sofa to avoid The Drive™. You have to call it The Drive™, if you're going to be on the I-5/805 between Oceanside and parts south of the 163 at that time of day. Sometimes discretion is the better part of wisdom as well as valor, so I just spent the night, thus eliminating huge tracts of frustrated car-idling occasional-swearing morning rush-hour driving.
During all this (not during any driving portions, I assure you), Janis and I watched the film "Lilo and Stitch", one of the most unDisney animated films ever to come out of Disney in the history of the world. It was funny, characters were drawn looking more like human beings than dolls, and the film had a darker theme than other Disney films. Although, that perception may be because it wasn't based directly on a known fairy tale, and fairy tales may in fact be just as dark but not perceived as such because of this cultural association with the idea of a 'fairy tale' being somehow light and fluffy.
Finally, "Lilo and Stitch" is not a musical.
You read that right. Not a musical. One of the characters sings a song, and there is dancing, but it's in the context of singing someone to sleep, and little girls practicing hula for a recital. There is lip sync'ing to Elvis tunes, and a musical interlude where everyone's enjoying surfing and one of the movie's musical themes takes more of a center stage, but no big production numbers.
Ohana means family. The film is definitely worth seeing.
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