“I felt like some of her precociousness and her maturation over the course of the film really only made sense for a kid that was actually that young,” director Dean Fleischer Camp says.

“Lilo & Stitch,” Disney’s latest live-action remake, is crash-landing in theaters this weekend.

Few performers have chewed the scenery as literally or as delightfully as Stitch, the intergalactic hobgoblin whose omni-destructive chaos made 2002’s “Lilo & Stitch” one of Disney Animation’s most ef...