Director Dean Fleischer Camp and producer Jonathan Eirich tell EW that cutting the villainous Gantu deepened the storytelling.

The loss of Captain Gantu isn’t just a bummer for fans so much as it recalibrates the whole moral thrust of Lilo & Stitch. Gantu and social worker Cobra Bubbles (played in the

Lilo & Stitch "tells a story of the bond formed between a lonely human girl named Lilo and a dog-like alien named Stitch, who was genetically engineered to be a force of destruction," according to an official synopsis.