Disney live-action reboots really can’t win. Despite being hailed by some as its best cash grab, that is, remake to date, Lilo & Stitch is caught up in controversy. Of course, it has nothing on the Snow White reboot, but a significant change to the end of the movie has infuriated fans on the Right and Left. 

In the 2002 cartoon, the film’s major conflict centers on older sister Nani’s struggle to maintain custody over her younger sister, Lilo, after their parents’ deaths. Despite, and then perhaps because of, the interventions of a fluffy extraterrestrial interloper, the family ultimately stays together, encapsulating the movie’s iconic message: “‘Ohana’ means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”