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There Is No Captain Gantu in the Live-Action Lilo & Stitch
The movie lacks both a villain and a hunk.
I’m sorry to be the one to break this news to the people of DeviantArt, but Captain Gantu — the hulking, whale-shark-like alien voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson who serves at the command of the United Galactic Federations Grand Councilwoman in the animated original Lilo & Stitch — is not in the live-action adaptation of the movie at all. After a climactic chase through the mountains of Kaua’i, however, the Grand Councilwoman tells Gantu to stand down: Lilo and her family are now under the protection of the Galactic Federation due to their ownership of Stitch. Whereas a number of the fantastical animated Disney films required a big bad hoping to kill or overthrow a kingdom, Lilo & Stitch — despite its heightened, alien-dense world — was more or less tethered to reality.
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