section_path: Reception/Critical response
section_name: Critical response
paragraph_text: Critical response
  
  The film received mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 71% of 202 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Recapturing the adorable charm of the original if not quite matching its rambunctious sense of imagination, Lilo & Stitch emerges out of the crate as one of the better live-action remakes of a Disney classic." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 53 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, the same as the animated film, while those surveyed by PostTrak gave it a 90% overall positive score, with 81% saying they would definitely recommend the film.
  
  Several changes made to the remake were criticized, including the removal of Pleakley's drag disguise, Gantu's absence, Jumba being villainized as the main antagonist, and the decision to have Nani surrender her guardianship of Lilo.
  
  The film received mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 71% of 202 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Recapturing the adorable charm of the original if not quite matching its rambunctious sense of imagination, Lilo & Stitch emerges out of the crate as one of the better live-action remakes of a Disney classic." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 53 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, the same as the animated film, while those surveyed by PostTrak gave it a 90% overall positive score, with 81% saying they would definitely recommend the film.
  
  Several changes made to the remake were criticized, including the removal of Pleakley's drag disguise, Gantu's absence, Jumba being villainized as the main antagonist, and the decision to have Nani surrender her guardianship of Lilo.