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

The movie deviates from the original in many ways, but the central story is a tale of sisterhood and found family with lots of rowdy chaos along the way.

After learning about Gantu's omission from the new movie, fans called out Disney, with one writing on X, "This is a true 21st century shame. GIVE CAPTAIN GANTU SCREENTIME!"