When "Lilo & Stitch" opened in 2002, the Disney marketing department cheekily treated its title character - a shape-shifting alien bioweapon - as the studio's redheaded stepchild. Conceived by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois,

The six-legged alien Stitch from “Lilo & Stitch” doesn’t choose to be bad. He’s just genetically programed that way.

Family means no one gets left behind. That seems to be Disney's motto when it comes to adapting their animated hits into new live-action vehicles (though they do appear to be pumping the brakes) to varying degrees of success.