• Tired of all the endless ruminations on how an animated film is made … over and over again on each subsequent DVD? Then On Location with the Directors is the feature for you. A brief yet insightful ‘fly on the wall’ look into the making of Lilo and Stitch: you are witness to storyboard meetings, vocal track and orchestral score recording sessions, live action reference filming, animation review and clean up and the infamous sweatbox … all in approximately 20 minutes. Aside from co-directors/co-screenwriters Sanders and Dean DeBlois, you can spot producer Clark Spencer, animator Andreas Deja, composer Alan Silvestri and actors Chase, Carrere, Stiers, Zoe Caldwell (the Grand Councilwoman) and Kevin McDonald (Pleakley).
• Sanders and DeBlois return to introduce the Deleted Scenes, including alternate versions of Stitch’s trial (featuring cool ‘video footage’ of his destruction of a neighboring planet) and the Nani/Lilo bedroom scene. But the film’s original chase scene, which had Stitch hi-jacking a plane and flying through the streets of Honolulu, is curiously absent (possibly being saved for the Collector’s Edition …?).
• All four of the insanely loony ‘Inter-Stitch-als’, wherein Stitch invades famous scenes from contemporary Disney classics, are included in the Theatrical Teaser Trailers feature.

Toon Talk Trivia:

• Lilo and Stitch is a front-runner for nomination for the Best Animated Feature Academy Award, and was recently awarded a special citation from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. (The Oscar nominations will be announced February 11^th.)

Coming Soon in Toon Talk:

• The perfect Disney Christmas gift: The Lion King roars onto IMAX and other large screen theaters on Christmas Day.
• Murder, mayhem and “All That Jazz” … Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere star in Miramax’s Oscar-baiting film version of the Tony Award-winning Kander and Ebb musical Chicago, opening in limited release December 27^th and nationally January 17^th.
• Toon in for the Toon Talk Top 10 - The Best of 2002.

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-- Kirby C. Holt

Kirby, a former Walt Disney World Resort Cast Member (and Trivia Champ), is a lifelong Disney fan and film buff. He is also an avid list maker and chronic ellipsis user ...

Took Talk: Disney Film & Video Reviews by Kirby C. Holt is posted whenever there's something new to review.

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-- Posted December 17, 2002