Adorable moment little girl bursts into tears while watching Disney classic Lilo and Stitch for first time
A mother has captured the adorable moment her toddler burst into tears while watching a Disney classic for the first time.
Lyla, 3, collapses while shouting, “He's a little boy!” while watching family favorite Lilo and Sitch.
Her mother Leticia, known as @leticiaescobedo on TikTok, regularly posts Lyla's charming reactions to various Disney films, including The Lion King, Hercules and Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast.
Viewers loved Lyla's reaction, praising her empathy for the characters, calling her “so sweet,” but warning “don't let her watch Bambi.”
Three-year-old Lyla from the US was recently sent on an admirable emotional rollercoaster while watching Disney's Lilo & Stitch for the first time recently
Lilo and Stitch focuses on the adventures of a Hawaiian orphan named Lilo, who finds and adopts an alien, and affectionately calls him Stitch (Photo: Shutterstock)
Lilo and Stitch focuses on the adventures of a Hawaiian orphan named Lilo, who finds and adopts an artificial alien, affectionately calling him Stitch.
Footage of Lyla's reaction to watching Lilo & Stitch has racked up more than 21 million likes from moved viewers who warned other Disney films could “traumatize” her like an “entire generation” of '90s kids.
Sitting at her kitchen table, Lyla watches in tears as Stitch appears to be drowning in the sea. She exclaims, “What's happening to Stitch? He's a small man.
“Why didn't Stitch stay with him?”
She then becomes more hysterical after Stitch befriends a duck, sobbing, “There's a duck.”
As the developing plot draws her in, Lyla migrates to her couch to pay more attention to the movie, and seems calm until Stitch magically transforms into an extra set of arms.
She turned around and, crying, asked her mother Leticia, “Why did he go to four arms now?”
Shortly afterwards, unable to understand why the 'evil men' are trying to take Stitch from Earth, Lyla screamed, 'Why?! I don't like the bad guys.'
Lyla could be seen sitting in her house watching parts of the noughties Disney classic – and almost immediately starting to cry as she empathized with the main characters.
Leticia comforted her daughter throughout the film and encouraged her to stay tuned to witness Stitch's happy ending.
However, she admitted that it was hard not to laugh during some of Lyla's dramatic reactions.
In the caption below the video, she wrote, “The emotional turmoil of watching Lilo and Stitch for the first time, lol.
'I felt so sorry for her, but I really tried not to laugh. At least we know she's not a sociopath, lol.”
More than 61,000 comments were received from viewers praising the three-year-old's empathetic nature, but some joked that Lyla might not be able to handle some of Disney's more “traumatic” films, such as Bambi and The Fox and the Hound.
One person wrote, “She's an empath,” while another agreed, saying, “Empathy is a superpower and she has a LOT!!! That is amazing! So sweet!'
A fellow viewer said, “Lilo and Stich are EMOTIONAL. My two-year-old niece and I watched it and we both cried.”
More than 61,000 comments were received from viewers praising the three-year-old's empathetic nature, but some joked that Lyla might not be able to handle some of Disney's more “traumatic” films.
Meanwhile, one person jokingly warned: “Don't let her watch Lion King, Bambi or Old Yeller,” while another wrote: “Don't let her see the Fox and the Hound for a few years… like… until she's at least in my twenties!!'
Comic book, film and television site CBR (Comic Book Resources) ranked Lilo & Stitch at number 19 on Disney's '20 Saddest Movies', with Toy Story 3 and UP taking the top spots.
This comes after a former Disney screenwriter behind the Bambi remake said the scene where the famous deer mother dies needs to be reworked because parents are “more sensitive.”
Film writer and director Lindsey Anderson Beer worked on a live-action version of the beloved Bambi film to bring it to a modern audience.
Part of the modernization process of the classic 1942 film was removing the death scene of the titular character's mother, Beer said.
Speak with Collider in September, Anderson Beer said this was due to parents now being 'more sensitive' than previous generations.