Ohana means family.

Family means "No one gets left behind or forgotten". This is a continuing theme throughout the movie Lilo & Stitch.

Experiment 626 was created to invoke mass destruction on any planet he is sent to. Once the supreme ruler found out about the experiment the inventor was convicted and sent to prison. His experiment was sentenced to solitary confinement on a high security asteroid. While in transit Experiment 626 escaped and crash-landed on a remote island of Hawaii on the planet earth. As the scientist and an "expert" on Earth inhabitants were sent to recapture him he was adopted by Lilo and named Stitch.

Stitch creates all kinds of havoc for Lilo and her sister, Nani, while trying to avoid those who were sent to recapture him. While Nani tries to find a job to support her broken family Lilo tries to teach Stitch to become a "model citizen". Things go awry and the supreme ruler ends up coming to Earth. Instead of taking him away to the solitary asteroid he is sentenced to exile on Earth so he can be with his new family.

To pass time Lilo learns to hula. The hula dancing in the movie was one of the main reasons why I wanted to see it. I don't profess to be an expert on hula, but after taking lessons in the many dances of Polynesia for fourteen years I know when something doesn't look right. In order to create authentic movements for the hula scenes the animators went and watched a class learning the hula. I'm glad they did or I would have thoroughly been disappointed. Now I'm delightfully pleased on how everything turned out. Everything was authentic, right down to the music.

The DVD provides information on all the islands of Hawaii. This includes the culture and the wildlife as well as the many volcanoes. The questions for the "create an alien" game were easy if you paid attention to the movie. I enjoyed all the extra features on the DVD and recommend that if you have a DVD player to pick a copy of Lilo & Stitch up.