Leroy & Stitch

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Leroy & Stitch
DVD cover for Leroy & Stitch
Directed by	Tony Craig Bobs Gannaway
Produced by	Igor Khait Jess Winfield
Written by	Robert Gannaway Jess Winfield
Starring	Chris Sanders Daveigh Chase Tia Carrere David Ogden Stiers Kevin McDonald Kevin Michael Richardson Jeff Bennett Tara Strong Rob Paulsen Zoe Caldwell
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Home Entertainment Disney Channel Original Movie
Release date(s)	June 23, 2006 (TV premiere) June 27, 2006 (DVD) May 14, 2007 (UK release)[1]
Running time	72 minutes
Language	English
Preceded by	Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
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Leroy & Stitch is an animated film created by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is a spin-off of the 2002 animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the conclusion to the television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series and the franchise as well. The film debuted on the Disney Channel on June 23, 2006 and also aired on Toon Disney on June 26, 2006. It was released on DVD in the United States on June 27, 2006, a few days after the TV series finale.

[edit] Plot outline

Their mission to capture all 626 experiments and repurpose them on Earth completed, Lilo and her family are honored as heroes by the Galactic Alliance. Jumba is given the key to his laboratory again, Pleakley is offered a post as chairman of Earth Studies at G.A.C.C. (Galactic Alliance Community College) and Stitch (experiment 626) is made Captain of the Galactic Armada and commander of the BRB-9000 (BRB stands for "Big Red Battleship"). Lilo is made Ambassador to Earth and sole guardian of Stitch's "cousins". At first, the others refuse their rewards because they see how sad Lilo is when she finds out they would leave. But at the end of the day, Lilo accepts it and gets ready to say goodbye to her extended family from outer space. Before they leave, Lilo gives Jumba an Elvis record, Pleakley a paperweight (which is actually an Earth rock) and Stitch a necklace with a Tiki Ku (the Hawaiian god of strength). Lilo then says to Stitch "You're experiment 626 named Stitch" and then takes his picture.

Meanwhile, Gantu has decided that since he failed in capturing all of the experiments except for 625, he would break Dr. Hämsterviel out of prison. He takes the two-man shuttle, leaving 625 alone.

At Galactic Alliance HQ on Planet Turo, Stitch is given his first assignment - recapture Hämsterviel. Pleakley is first overjoyed at his new position at G.A.C.C., until his assistant tells him that he is merely a supervisory professor—he will teach no classes. Jumba is also happy at first returning to many of his "evil genius" ways, but soon discovers that without Pleakley (or anyone else) to show his accomplishments to, he is as unhappy as the others.

Jumba's sadness is short-lived when Hämsterviel and Gantu burst in. Hämsterviel demands a new and better experiment to defeat the Galactic Alliance. When Jumba refuses, he is forced to do it at laser-point. This new creation has all of Stitch's powers, but is slightly less "fluffy". After running through several names and one number (Experiment 627, which Gantu reminds Jumba he already created), Hämsterviel names this new monstrosity: Leroy.

At this point, Stitch blasts through the door, seeking to capture Hämsterviel. After a fight that destroys Jumba's lab (much to his horror since he does not have insurance), Stitch is defeated when Pleakley appears at an unfortunate moment, distracting Stitch long enough for Leroy to lock him in a container. Hämsterviel then reveals his master plan: to clone an army of Leroys to take over the Galactic Alliance. Before leaving for Turo, Hämsterviel locks Jumba, Pleakley and Stitch in Pleakley's G.A.C.C. space vehicle, with its autopilot set to send the ship into a black hole.

Back on Earth, Lilo makes the rounds to ensure that all of the "cousins" are still happy in their "one true place". After a confrontation with Mertle (who tells Lilo that she thinks Stitch ran away because she was too weird), Lilo decides to contact Stitch. After calling Cobra Bubbles (and getting his answering machine), Lilo realizes that there is still one inter-galactic videophone on the planet. Going to Gantu's ship, Lilo finds 625 making huge numbers of sandwiches. Lilo offers him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 625 is touched since no one has ever made him a sandwich before, but still remains suspicious of Lilo. When she asks about the videophone, 625 says it is broken and he won't fix it. Lilo notices that 625 doesn't have a name and, after several bad sandwich puns, settles on "Reuben" (as in the Reuben sandwich). 625/Reuben likes his new name and decides to help Lilo.

Once the videophone is fixed, Lilo contacts the BRB-9000. Leroy tries to pass himself off as Stitch. Leroy only succeeds in fooling Reuben. Lilo knows that Leroy is not Stitch because Leroy does not have the tiki necklace. Leroy blasts the communication screen. Hämsterviel decides on a new task for Leroy: go to Earth and capture all of the other experiments so that Hämsterviel may destroy them.

Lilo, sensing Stitch is in trouble, asks Reuben for help fixing Gantu's ship because he has almost all the same powers as Stitch. After some reluctance, he agrees and uses his powers for the first and only time in the entire series. Soon, Gantu's ship is space-worthy, but as they leave, Leroy crashes on Earth in Mertle's backyard (in much the same manner as Stitch in the original movie).

As Jumba, Pleakley, and Stitch head towards the black hole, Stitch escapes confinement and quickly frees the others. However, the navigational computer is locked on course for the black hole. Jumba says that the black hole will teleport them to a volcanic planet where they will be instantly vaporized, but if they can disrupt the event horizon, it will send them somewhere else. Pleakley pulls out the rock that Lilo gave him and asks if this will work. After Jumba says it is too heavy, Stitch takes a bite out of it, then crawls out the front of the vehicle and throws it at the black hole. There is a flash and the vehicle is sucked in.

On Earth, Leroy obtains Lilo's scrapbook of "cousins" and quickly captures all of them (as well as Mertle).

Lilo and Reuben have arrived at Turo, but they are too late. Hämsterviel has taken over using Leroy and he orders Gantu to lock them up, then turn in his I.D. card and cape; he is no longer needed since Hämsterviel has an army of Leroy clones to do his bidding, and they have shown their ability to succeed.

Gantu captures Lilo and Reuben, but a few minutes later, Gantu decides to release them because Hämsterviel fired him. After a close call with several Leroy clones, they are trapped. All looks lost until the G.A.C.C. van suddenly appears (from the black hole). With no time to explain, Lilo, Reuben and Gantu all climb in and head for Earth.

On Earth, the original Leroy has herded all the experiments into a large stadium, which appears to be based on real Aloha Stadium (where "Alohapalooza", a fictional event, was scheduled). The BRB-9000 appears and Hämsterviel prepares to obliterate all of the experiments, until a timely appearance by Lilo, Stitch and the others destroys the BRB's primary cannon. Hämsterviel is unfazed and reveals that he brought along his Leroy army as backup. He says "Let's get rid of all you 625 experiments!" Then Nosy, (experiment 199) says "Actually 624 because you subtract Stitch and 625". Stitch rallies his "cousins", and the experiments begin to battle. Clearly the Leroys are more than a match for the good guys. Pinned down, Jumba realizes that he did program a shut-down command into Leroy. When the original Leroy was created, Jumba was playing Lilo's record, which had a copy of Elvis Presley's song "Aloha 'Oe". If Leroy hears that song again, it will cause him to deactivate. Lilo, seeing the equipment set up for the concert, devises a plan.

With Jumba controlling the sound, Pleakley on lights, and Gantu providing fireworks, Stitch pops out on-stage in full Elvis attire. He begins to play "Aloha 'Oe", and one by one, the Leroys seize up and deactivate. Lilo and Reuben join in and every Leroy is stopped (including the original). His plan foiled, Hämsterviel is recaptured.

Many of Stitch's "cousins" are featured in this group photo taken at the end of Leroy & Stitch.

Back at Galactic Alliance HQ, the Grand Councilwoman calls Lilo and the others "heroes of the Alliance" and asks what reward they would like. Stitch is first, returning his commission and asking to go home to Earth with Lilo. Pleakley and Jumba also return their rewards and ask for the same. The Grand Councilwoman accepts this, then asks Gantu if he would like to be reinstated as Captain of the Armada. Gantu agrees, on one condition: that Reuben be assigned to his ship as its Galley Officer. The Councilwoman agrees.

Back on Earth, Lilo sets up for one last picture. Mertle arrives with Gigi (during the battle, Mertle learned that Gigi could talk and was one of Jumba's experiments). Though Mertle still thinks Lilo is weird, she says that Gigi wants to be part of the "ohana". Lilo's last picture is of all of the experiments still on Earth.

Meanwhile, Hämsterviel and Leroy and his clones were put into jail. Before the ending credits, the clones of Leroy dance to Elvis Presley's song, "Jailhouse Rock", with Dr. Hämsterviel tapping his feet.

At the end of the movie, all the names of the first 626 experiments are listed.

[edit] Bonus Features

• Bonus Episode (Link,Experiment 251)
• Virtual BRB Flight Simulator
• Games & Activities
• Photos Gallery

[edit] Voice cast

• Chris Sanders as Stitch and Leroy
• Daveigh Chase as Lilo Pelekai
• Tia Carrere as Nani Pelekai
• David Ogden Stiers as Dr. Jumba Jookiba
• Kevin McDonald as Agent Pleakley
• Kevin Michael Richardson as Gantu
• Jeff Bennett as Dr. Hämsterviel and Clyde (Experiment 150)
• Rob Paulsen as Reuben (Experiment 625), Squeak (Experiment 110)
• Zoe Caldwell as the Grand Councilwoman
• Ving Rhames as Cobra Bubbles
• Liliana Mumy as Mertle Edmonds
• Tara Strong as Angel (Experiment 624), The Alien girl from Pleakley's college (uncredited)
• Tress MacNeille as Bonnie (Experiment 149), Gigi (Experiment 007) (uncredited)
• Bobcat Goldthwait as Nosy (Experiment 199)
• Lili Ishida as Yuki
• Jillian Henry as Elena
• Kali Whitehurst as Teresa

[edit] Goofs

• In the scene where you see all of the experiments, most of them are repeated
• When Stitch is rolling past Gantu's feet, Wrapper has no eyes.
• In the film, the ship is called the BRB-9000, but in the flight simulator, it is called the BRB-5000. It is clearly not a different ship, because the voice says "You have chosen to pilot the same ship that Captain Stitch flies."
• During the battle, you can see Phoon as her normal self fighting the Leroys. But in the final picture of all the experiments you see her as the mutated version seen in her episode.
• When Stitch rolls torward the other experiments to give his speech, you can see Stopgo three times, and Zawp and Babyfier twice.
• When the gang first arrives at the stadium, Stitch isn't wearing his necklace. But in the scene where he is fighting Leroy, he has it back on.
• When Leroy captures the experiments, he captures Mr. Stenchy on earth. In the episode, he is sent to another planet. He captures Stitch later on.
• In the first film, the aliens worked at The Galactic Federation, in Stitch! The Movie, they worked for The Galactic Alliance, and in this film they worked for The Galactic Armada.
• Jumba mentions how hamsterviel "finked on Jumba to galactic federation" giving us the impression that the federation, alliance and armada are all part of some galactic elite. If so, Gantu, who claimed to be captain of the galactic alliance, would have been assigned to a new position. This creates a new error due to the fact that the council woman asked if Gantu would RE-assign to the armada not the alliance.
• Gantu's ship, telecommunicator and all, functioned perfectly throughout the series (tank, finder etc), it just couldn't fly. However, in this film the ship unable to fly or use its telecummunication system.
• The series is very specific about what each experiment is designed to do. Yet "yapper", an early experiment, was said to only bark yet here she speaks English (advanced language programing that jumba never mentioned).
• The following experiments were never seen in the film (049, 050, 052, 054, 056, 061, 073, 085, 086, 119, 222, 347, 489, 512, 517, 531 and 583). It is unknown as to why but the explanation for the comic experiments is probably because they are from the comics and not from any episodes and film.

Just a note, in this movie when lilo meets up with mertle edmonds at the movie theatre, Yuki makes a statment that Mertle dad is not around, however in the movie Lilo and Stitch 2:Stitch has a Glitch Mertle does a hula about her dad Carls' Store. In epsode "Wishy-Washy", however, it is stated that Mertle's mother is single.

[edit] Trivia

• One of the scene selections on the DVD is called 50,000 Leroy Clones Can't Be Wrong, which is a reference to the Elvis Presley album Elvis's Gold Records, Vol. 2: 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong.
• When Stitch is rolling past Gantu's feet, you see many Muppet aliens. You can also see them in the back in the first shot of the stadium, you can briefly see the aliens before Stitch slides on his knees across the stadium.
• This is the only time Gigi (Experiment 007) speaks (saying "Nice one, cousin" to Clip (Experiment 177) and "Look out!" to Mertle Edmonds); in her previous appearances, she did not speak.
• First and only time Reuben (Experiment 625) uses his powers (except for "Phoon").
• When Leroy was defeated, his eyes are exactly the same as Stitch's from Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch.
• The scene where an upbeat version of Aloha 'Oe shuts down all the Leroys is similar to a scene in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie where the song Goofy Goober Rock, an upbeat version of The Goofy Goober Song, destroys Plankton's mind-control helmets.
• On the TV promotions for Leroy & Stitch, Leroy was said to be #628. Although the pod for #628 was already seen in the series, it is never stated that Jumba actually finished that experiment, so Leroy could simply be the finished product of that pod.
• The license plate in the film (Stitch's car) is A113, the same as on VW, Nani's car, the fire engine, and Cobra Bubbles's car in Lilo & Stitch.

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• Official website
• Leroy & Stitch at the Internet Movie Database
• Leroy & Stitch at Keyframe - the Animation Resource
• Movie/DVD Review at UltimateDisney.com
• Leroy and Stitch at Disney DVD and Video
• Clips & Trailers of Leroy & Stitch plus bonus episode