If you’re a kid, you don’t have a sense of the bottom line cynicism, milking-an-idea-for-all-its-worth fatigue of knowing Disney’s animated hit of a couple of decades back, which also spun off a TV series, is a tad…familiar.

And if you’re a parent, you don’t care. It’s a holiday weekend. Let’s take the kids to a movie!

So the live action-with-CGI remake of 2002’s “Lilo & Stitch” is soaring into the thin air, on its way to becoming the biggest Memorial Day Weekend movie opening ever.

The Thursday night ($14 million)/Friday take at the gate was well over $50 million, and Deadline.com is projecting it will easily best the “opening day” of “Top Gun: Maverick.” Maybe $56, perhaps as high as $60. “Maverick” managed an eye-popping $52 a few summers back.

Saturdays numbers confirmed it.  “Lilo” is on track to earn $145 million over three days, a lot more over four. “Maverick” opened with back when the post-pandemic box office was on life support. “Lilo” is on track to earn$1833 million.

Reviews have been middling, and anybody old enough to remember the Orlando animated original “Lilo’s” anarchic charm, funny characters and hand-animated humanity probably don’t need to see it unless you have rugrats badgering you to go.

I covered the making of the original film, Disney’s Orlando animation studio’s last big hit. It’s a Hawaii story with Florida “types” and an alien who looks and moves like a Florida gecko. So, been there, seen that.

But packing the theaters on a holiday weekend is what it’s all about, and “Stitch” and Lilo are delivering.

That’s stealing much of the thunder from Tom Cruise’s final outing as Ethan Hunt in the eight film “Mission: Impossible” franchise. He’s going out with passable reviews as a “Mission: Impossible” The Final Reckoning” greatest hits finale — repetitive, bloated, and kind of a bummer, I thought. But a $60 million three day weekend, with a $77 million four-day Memorial Day weekend — maybe as high as $80 — will keep Paramount happy.

“MI:8” is outperforming the last “Impossible” overseas, where “Lilo” is also making bank, collecting Euros, yen, yuan, etc.

“Reckoning” will make a nice addition to Pluto TV’s all-“Mission: Impossible” movie channel, where viewers can see how closely these films hew to the same formula — motorcycles and sprinting and Cruise dangling with this or that. I watched chunks of a few of those before M:I-8 and they ran out of ideas on this franchise a while back. But kudos for back-engineering the story into one long and unlikely “narrative,” and for bringing back a bit player from 1996 for a big part in the final bow.

“Final Destination: Bloodlines” is still packing them in, too. It is losing just over half its opening weekend audience and heading over $19.6 million over three days, maybe $23 by midnight Monday.

Marvel’s latest imitation of “The Avengers,” “Thunderbolts*,” still has enough juice to clear $11.5 million over the four day holiday. It will finish its run under $200 million.

“Sinners,” the only “original” film in this top five and the biggest blockbuster of spring, should also take in another $11 million. It’s had legs all along, and held onto second place all last week, behind “Bloodlines.” It could clear the $260 million mark by Monday night.

“The Last Rodeo,” a slow-poke not-quite-faith-based/conservative virtue signaling cowpoke pic, is heading towards a $5.5 (three days), $6.4 million opening (four day/Memorial Day) weekend.

The dark bromance “Friendship,” co-starring Paul Rudd, about neighborliness that crosses lines to become romantic and unneighorliness that amounts to a breakup, is opening with a $7.4 million four-day weekend and doing that on just over 1050 screens. Not bad, A24.

The craptastic “Minecraft” has another $2.6 million in the tank. Over $421 million so far. Maybe $430 by the time it finally loses all its screens.

“The Accountant 2” is winding down its theatrical run with another $2.4. It will finish under $70 million in North America ticket sales.

That’s $1 million too much, kids. You were warned.

As always, I’ll update these figures as Sat/Sunday date rolls in.