“Lilo & Stitch” has lost its unpredictable sense of anarchy in the retelling.

Disney’s Lilo & Stitch is crushing Memorial Day weekend box office records while Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is running in a distant second.

Disney and the filmmakers behind the live-action redo recruited one of the original's writers and directors, Chris Sanders, to reprise his role from the traditionally animated movie as the voice of S...