Test audiences not wanting this scene and thinking it's "too dumb" is the reason this movie was so needed in a time like this. The fact that saving a life, any life, is seen as corny is why we need Superman right now.
When I talk about Hollywood interjecting more white centered conservative politics into their films, this is what I'm talking about: Nani denigrating Hawai'ian beliefs and turning Lilo over to the gov't so she can study outside of Hawai'i is colonial anti-indigenous messaging.
i remember people saying jackie and hyde came out of no where when she was canonically obsessed with him throughout seasons 1 and 2 and she was the one person he was always soft on no matter how much she annoyed him
gen z loves to accuse any relationship with a slight age gap as predatory. we need to stop infantilizing people in their 20’s they’re literally grown adults