My latest Everyman piece is up, discussing the butchering of Lilo and Stitch and what it says about modern culture:

If you were to tell me that Disney has recently released a live-action remake of one of their animated classics, and then were to tell me that it’s an abomination against man and God that seems to have been written by particularly untalented aliens, my answer would be “Why did you just say the same thing twice?”

Modern Disney is no longer the House of the Mouse; it is a snake eating its own tail.

And the sad part is that they’re mostly being rewarded for it. Audiences full of nostalgia and lacking in taste flock to hand over good money to see toxic trash on the grounds that it bears a superficial resemblance to a great film they could have watched at home for about the price of a sandwich. Such is the world we live in.

It would not be worth talking about the remake of Lilo and Stitch at all if it weren’t for a specific change made in the new version that highlights a more serious point of cultural decline.

Alas that we don’t have time to go into 2002’s Lilo and Stitch in detail. It is almost indisputably the best Disney animated film of the decade, and indeed a strong contender among the entire post-Walt canon, as it skillfully combines satirical space opera with kitchen-sink drama, all hung together with Elvis songs.

Read the rest here