Lilo & Stitch director felt "frustrated" by praise for Frozen's central sisterhood: "We did that!" - The A.V. Club

Lilo & Stitch centers around a young Hawaiian girl, Lilo, and her older sister, Nani.

When Lilo meets the effervescent blue alien Stitch one day, the hodge-podge trio quickly become a chosen family.

Lilo & Stitch co-writers-and-directors Sanders and Dean DeBlois, who previously worked together on 1998's Mulan, said they wanted to learn from the mistakes they made after creating a young female Chinese character without the input of girls like her.

For Lilo & Stitch, Sanders and DeBlois relied on the help of Hawaiian musicians and locals to make sure everything from the dialects to the set dressing in the film rang true.