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 Art: Give credit where it's due: Disneytoon has maintained the original film's art style so faithfully that casual viewers could easily mistake this film's scenes as being from the first film, which is an impressive accomplishment considering the usual deteriorating quality of Disney movie sequels.
- Awesome Music: As with the original film, there are some Elvis Presley tunes to enjoy. This one has "Rubberneckin'", "I Need Your Love Tonight" and the Junkie XL remix of "A Little Less Conversation".
- Contested Sequel: While this film is still not considered as good as the original, it is often considered better than the rest of the franchise because it aesthetically looks more like the first film, keeps the focus on both Lilo and Stitch (instead of just giving Lilo or Stitch—especially the latter—the spotlight), and feels more like a direct continuation of the original film and its intimate comedic-dramatic themes instead of a heavily comedic kid-friendly spin-off with a Gotta Catch 'Em All theme to it, which has led to some purist fans calling it the only Lilo & Stitch sequel that "matters". Tellingly, Stitch Has a Glitch stands as the only Lilo & Stitch continuation that Disney has released on Blu-ray, bundling it together with the original movie, although all four movies are available for digital HD download and, along with Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Disney+ streaming, and the back of the DVD casing and some digital download listings for Stitch Has a Glitch clearly has Disney declaring its interquel status by stating, "Before the other 625 experiments land in Hawaii," in its synopsis. There's also the bundled The Origin of Stitch short, and the DVD bonus feature game directly relating to The Series that foreshadows Leroy & Stitch upon completing it. However, it does catch flack from fans who do like the direction The Series took, being unhappy (if not a bit insulted) that Disneytoon disregarded much of the mythology established in a show that was already two years old by this film's release. Several viewers also have issues with certain aspects of the plot, primarily that the duo's main conflict (the deterioration of their friendship) was mainly because Jumba and Pleakley decide not to tell anyone else about what's actually happening with Stitch, leading the duo to make some awful assumptions that nearly results in Stitch's death. There's also the completely pointless side plot of Pleakley unnecessarily "helping" David hook up with Nani again that serves as no more than padding for what is a rather short feature film, and Stitch's Disney Death being such a Writer Cop Out that does in Jumba and his machine that it unintentionally takes Lilo's message of "love is more powerful than death" much too literally, which leads to some saying that if that's the case, then this implies Lilo and Nani's parents died because the sisters did not love their parents enough. Some also say that the cast's characterizations were too simplified compared to how they were in the original film (an accusation also thrown at The Series) and the film's pacing is all over the place.
- Crosses the Line Twice: Lilo fighting Mertle. Responding to an insult with physical violence is bad. But when the insulting person is known Alpha Bitch Mertle getting her patookie whooped by Lilo while Stitch takes photos of the action including a selfie? Comedy gold.
- Fanon: Even though Disney has established that this film takes place before Lilo and Stitch
begin dealing with the other 625 experiments (and there are enough in-universe details supporting this; Nani's employmentnote and the deal with Mertle's absent father, for starters), a small contingent of fans like to believe that this is the "true" Grand Finale of the franchise and it takes place after Leroy & Stitch, pointing out things such as the destruction of Jumba's ship after Stitch crash-lands from his final glitch.note There's at least one fan theory out there that argues for this. - Fanon Discontinuity: While this film is mostly enjoyed for what it is, several Lilo & Stitch fans prefer most or all the other sequel and spin-off material because this movie disregarded them and the continuity that was already established at the time of its release, despite it being produced at the same time as Lilo & Stitch: The Series. Considering the filler nature of the film itself, it's easy to do so for those fans.
- Ho Yay:
- Jumba and Pleakley continue to live together at Nani's house in this film, although they did not engage in much Ho Yay with each other in this film as they did in the other films and the first two TV series.
- Pleakley and David go through some of this as well, as Pleakley constantly hooks himself up with David in this film. However, this is justified because Pleakley is trying to help David win over Nani's heart. He does this by pretending to fall in love with David to make Nani jealous, although these schemes usually fail.
- Like You Would Really Do It: Heart-wrenching as the climactic scene was, there was no way that Disney was going to kill off one of their most popular protagonists that easily, especially since it canonically takes place before its first TV series, which was still airing new episodes at the time of this film's release.
- Memetic Mutation:
- This infamous scene of Stitch breaking down hysterically (from shortly after the map of Elvis locations gets destroyed), is used in a lot of image macros. In fact, most people don't even know that it's from this movie and not the original.
- "My name is Inga, and I'm a foreign exchange student.◊ Are you jealous?"◊ Like the above, most people aren't aware that this is not from the original movie.
- "Selfie status while my homegirl choke a ging bitch" Explanation
- The film's subtitle has led to a good number of snowclones in many Internet comments in the vein of "Stitch [two one-syllable words] [word rhyming with Stitch]" (e.g. "Stitch Has an Itch"), most commonly ones that rhyme "Stitch" with the impolite term for a female dog.
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- Misaimed Merchandising: This advertisement in Disney Adventures features a cutout door hanger featuring Stitch, with the "do not disturb" side having Stitch say, "Don't Bother Me! I'm GLITCHING!" Considering the tragic plot of the film, the door hanger might as well have him say, "Don't Bother Me! I'm DYING!" Just as bad is the tagline on the top of the ad:Let The World Know When You're Glitchin'!
- Nightmare Fuel: Stitch's glitches are very unsettling to watch, with Stitch gaining green Glowing Eyes of Doom, uncontrollably spasming and seizing and sporadically reverting back to his original destructive programming. It gets even worse when it's revealed that Stitch is slowly dying, and he actually does for a moment. He gets better, but still-.
- Padding: The scenes where Pleakley "helps" David get together with Nani again were unnecessary, even for a rather short animated feature film (68 minutes long, including credits).
- Tear Dryer: At the climax of the movie, Stitch passes away in the fusion chamber when it fails to recharge his molecules. Lilo holds him in her arms and tearfully apologizes for having been too obsessed with the hula competition to realize that something was wrong with him. However, her tears awaken him and they share a big hug.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Not that this was an intentional choice, but some viewers felt that Dakota Fanning's voice acting didn't have the same charm as that of Daveigh Chase.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The film's plot is about a cute little alien losing control of his body and slowly dying, in a manner that can be compared to someone suffering a neurological disease that's slowly killing them. Both he and his human best friend have no idea what's really going on until it's too late, and their friendship deteriorates as a result of his spasms.
