I'm sure that's part of it. But even if they did hypothetically get Mena or Halle to film new stuff, it just wouldn't be as funny in my book simply because the landscape is just so different. The joke feels less edgy in the context of today's cross-media world what with a movie like "Spiderman: No Way Home" roping together three different Spidermans (Spidermen?) and it being like a tentpole film. Stitch transgressing the barriers that kept the Fab 4 movies as separate islands in the Disney canon was solid shorthand Stitch being this disruptive agent in his world. Today, those barriers are already so thin that this joke just doesn't have the same spark.
Statistics: Posted by PatchofBlue — Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:10 am