Films: Original film | Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch | Stitch! The Movie | Leroy & Stitch
TV series: Lilo & Stitch: The Series | Stitch! anime | Stitch & Ai
Video games: First GBA game | Lilo & Stitch: Trouble in Paradise | Stitch: Experiment 626 | Stitch Jam games
Other media: Stitch's Great Escape! | Stitch & the Samurai
- Awesome Music:
- Elvis Presley's music returns to the Lilo & Stitch franchise for the final time in this film. The ending even uses one of his most iconic songs, "Jailhouse Rock".
- The cover of "Aloha Oe" at the end by Stitch in his trademark Elvis costume from the first film with Lilo and Reuben joining after is a fun, jazzy tune using ukulele and saxophones. It was even used as background music in Phineas and Ferb.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Leroy. Granted, he's only a red, evil, more aggressive Stitch who gets cloned shortly after his creation, really only plays second fiddle to Hämsterviel, and receives no other canonical appearances after this movie,note but fans enjoy watching him nonetheless. Plus, he's the closest thing to what Stitch could have been like if he never reformed, making him more interesting in that regard.
- Fanon Discontinuity: Some fans tend to ignore the bland or ridiculous names of the unseen experiments listed in the end credits, usually to replace them with experiments of their own.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Leroy is popular enough in Europe to get some merchandise there alongside Stitch and Angel, including plush toys. (North American fans of the franchise are frustrated by this fact, though, as they only get Stitch and Angel in terms of regular experiment merch.)
- Harsher in Hindsight: If you've seen the anime or the Chinese series that both follow this film, then you know that Lilo and Stitch would not stay with each other forever.note Heck, the fact that this is chronologically the last time we see Lilo and Stitch living together in the franchise since Disney and The Series's own producers are not interested in returning to Hawaii for another animated film or show, with the duo continuously separated in newer animated works and giving Stitch new families elsewhere on Earth. Aloha ʻoe, indeed...
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- One experiment briefly glimpsed in the film, named "Butter", resembles a trunk-less mammoth-sloth hybrid, not unlike a more cuddly version of Titanus Behemoth from Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
- Ho Yay:
- The bromance between Jumba and Pleakley continues in this film. They both move out of Nani's house to pursue their goals and dreams in space, but it becomes obvious that they miss each other. Pleakley even has a picture of Jumba in his office. They both continue to be ʻohana with Lilo, Nani, and Stitch after Hämsterviel's final defeat. This means that Jumba and Pleakley move back into Nani's house and continue to live together, even though they have no other important reason to do so anymore.
- Gantu and Reuben's relationship improves vastly at the end of the film. Initially, Gantu leaves Reuben to help out Hämsterviel, which upsets Reuben a bit but they get back together. Gantu even makes the condition that he would accept his old job back if Reuben would accompany him as a companion and assistant.
- Just Here for Godzilla: Most fans agree the climax and end of the movie are its strongest parts.
- Moral Event Horizon: Hämsterviel crosses it when he tries to wipe out all the experimentsnote at once.
- Sequelitis: Like with Stitch! The Movie, this is far from one of the worst examples. Leroy & Stitch does a decent job of giving The Series a proper ending and watching the experiments use their powers and abilities to fight back against the Leroy clones is great. However, the ending is very predictable,note Leroy is nothing more than a flat Evil Doppelgänger of Stitch (and any chances of Character Development get thrown out the airlock when he gets cloned), his song-based fail-safe is a rather lame Deus ex Machina, and we still don't get to see what most of the other unseen experiments look like. (Some never-before-seen experiments do show up, and we see a list of experiment names in the credits, but that's it.)
- So Okay, It's Average: Much like with the other sequel films in the franchise, this film is nowhere near on par with the original movie or even the TV series that preceded this one. Nevertheless, it is still better than most Disney sequels and has some highly redeeming moments.
- Tear Jerker:
- The montage set to Elvis Presley singing "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry",
when Stitch, Pleakley, Jumba, and Lilo realize that their happy ending isn't as happy as they thought. - Then there's the heartbreaking line that Lilo says after she and Reuben are captured by Hämsterviel.
Lilo: Nani says Aloha means "hello" and "goodbye"... But for us, it mostly just seems to mean "goodbye". - The montage set to Elvis Presley singing "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry",
- Unintentional Period Piece: The climax at Aloha Stadium; the real-life stadium fell into such disrepair in the years since (being a metal open-air structure on a tropical island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean) that it was closed in 2020, with plans for a new stadium in its place.
- Unnecessary Makeover: Even though she only makes brief unvoiced appearances in this movie, Victoria gets this reaction from some fans who prefer her old ponytail instead of the haircut she got from Clip.
