Ohana means the family and the family means that no one is left behind … or spoiled. This article discusses major spoilers From “Lilo & Stitch”.

The new tradition of Disney live action cash capture Remakes finally threw his goal on the most loved animated film of my generation … But, in a torsion, all the favorite characters of the fans are not present and taken into account. The newly released “Lilo & Stitch” kept the actor’s services (and original co -director / writer) Chris Sanders, who initially loaned his voice abroad roughly (experience 626, to be precise) which captured so many hearts and minds more than two decades. He is not the only Holdver either, because the members of the TIA Carrere distribution (who expressed Lilo Nani’s sister) and Amy Hill (Mrs. Rasagawa) also make their feedback – although in different but poignant roles. Otherwise, all the other characters and performances have been redesigned to better adapt to the age of each, inheritance and various other live concerns. All this, with the exception of the original villain of the story.

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It is not a secret for anyone that, despite the crazy scientist Jumba Jookiba and her reluctant manager Pleakley leading hunting at the stitch on Earth, the real Big Bad from “Lilo & Stitch” has always been the giant size stranger known as Gantu. Expressed by Kevin Michael Richardson, the captain without frills receives the uninvable task of teaching Stitch if the criminal jumba and the unreliable pleakley fail in their mission. More memorable, Gantu finds himself on the reception of several of the most colorful insults in Lilo, whose non-exhaustive sampling includes “Big Dummy”, “Fumyhead” and, my favorite, “Fish-face” Stinky. In short, his presence gives our main characters someone who represents an authentic physical threat with a strong personality which deserves to be rooted.

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Curiously, the director Dean Fleischer Camp and the screenwriters Chris Kekanookalani Bright and Mike Van Waes opt not to include Gantu in the remake script “Lilo & Stitch”. Although the new direction they take (mainly), the change will undoubtedly make waves among fans of the original. Here is why.

Who knew that the completely omission of the main villain of a film inevitably has training effects on the rest of the story? Of The many reasons why the original “Lilo & Stitch” feels so refreshing and resistant to dateThe love and respect he has for each of his characters (yes, including Ice Cream Man) stands out the most. There is a reason why Lilo, Stitch, Nani and The Oddball, found the family they create with Pleakley and Jumba continues to shoot all our collective collective strings. But without Gantu existed as the main antagonist trying to tear this through his relentless pursuit of Stitch, well, which unfolds naturally and completely changes the dynamics of other characters – in this case, Pleakley and Jumba.

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The absence of a remake gantu leaves a narrative hole which must be filled by Jumba, of all the characters. In the original film, Jumba is an imprudent rupture whose impious creation of a monster as Stitch leaves the search for redemption. The fact that he can only do it by tracing and stopping the point initially Puts it in disagreement with us. That said, a key aspect of history comes from the recurring theme of ohana (Which, as we know, means that the family and the family mean that nobody lets themselves leave or forgotten) and their ability to win even the most belligerent and stubborn characters … including Jumba, itself.

In the remake, however, Jumba begins history as an unrepentant villain and ends the story almost exactly the same place. Although transforming it into a main villain definitely helps to rationalize the script, it also deprives us of the figure of the eccentric uncle of Lilo and Stitch which ultimately ends as one of the vouchers. The whole role of Pleakley as a reluctant companion, meanwhile, retroactively smiles their buffoonery of friend’s comedy. Zach Galifianakis as Jumba and Billy Magnussen as clumsy Public Pleakley are entertaining and hilarious in any version of this story, but making Pleakley an involuntary accomplice of an unpredible villain resembles a compromise that is not worth the cost.

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Considering The third act sadly put to the scope of the original filmFans of “Lilo & Stitch” should be used to the idea that things are not quite planned. The big change concerning Gantu in the remake is certainly among the most important in the franchise. But, despite the amount of internet fake ink that I have just knocked out this little Kerfuffle, it is not necessarily means that it is the end of the world as we know it. The prospects of the film’s box office Make an almost sure suite. Devil, why not remove a page from The popular series Disney Channel And Pit Lilo and sew against all the experimental “cousins” from abroad, unleashing on the Hawaii islands? Gantu, for all useful purposes, could still appear at some point in this new live franchise.

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But should he? It is not necessary a specialist in rockets to understand that Gantu was probably left on the floor of the cutting room (if it was even far from starting) because of the huge costs, he would have taken to make this character extraterrestrial with visual effects. On a related note, this also explains why the colorful characters Jumba and Pleakley are transformed by magic into humans of normal appearance for the most part of the film. For a film that already extends the limits of the suspension of disbelief with his blue title character rendered in “Live-Action”, well, adding another Alien VFX-Heavy in addition to this would probably have been a bridge too far.

At the end of the day, Disney is sitting downright in the driver’s seat with regard to “Lilo & Stitch”. We, the purists, can fail to have our massive villain and in the faces of the whales that we like to hate running and terrorizing our main heroes, but it remains to be seen if the children (and their parents of ticket purchase) end up feeling the same thing.

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“Lilo & Stitch” now plays in theaters.