The aliens initially decline the offers for Lilo's sake, but she later lets them go after seeing how much they long for their new adventures.

Before they leave, Lilo gives Jumba her favorite Elvis Presley record, Pleakley a small rock to use as a paperweight, and Stitch a necklace with a Kū tiki.

Stitch, on assignment to recapture Hämsterviel, arrives and duels Leroy, but is defeated and imprisoned in a capsule.

On Earth, Lilo decides to contact Stitch but realizes that the only intergalactic videophone available on the planet is in Gantu's ship.

He then throws Pleakley's rock into the black hole, disrupting its event horizon and enabling them to escape.

Jumba then remembers that he programmed a secret shutdown command into Leroy: Elvis Presley's rendition of "Aloha ʻOe".

As the team is again honored by the alliance for their victory, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley ask to return to Earth with Lilo.

The film marks the third film in the Lilo & Stitch franchise without any involvement from creators Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (besides Sanders providing the voices of Stitch, Leroy, and the latter's clones), as they would leave Disney for DreamWorks Animation to write and direct How to Train Your Dragon.

[8][9] Bonus features of the DVD include a then-unaired episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series titled "Link" and a set-top game The Big Red Battleship Flight Simulator.

[3] Distributed by Walt Disney Home Entertainment, DVD sales in the United States earned a total of $16,672,732 as of September 2021.

[11] Skyler Miller of AllMovie gave the film a rating of 3½ out of 5 stars,[h] praising the voice acting, Elvis Presley songs, and "[the] fast-moving plot that mixes frenetic action, sentimentality, and a few laughs."

[13] Common Sense Media (CSM) gave the film's quality 4 out of 5 stars and applicable for ages 5 above based on 10 reviews from both parents and children.

However, she also criticized it for "los[ing] a bit of the human charm of the original and the previous [released] sequel.