Mulan

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Summary: a strong Disney "princess" - Mulan rocks!
Review: My daughters (3 and 5) have just seen this movie, and they can't get enough of it. Mulan is a great heroine - strong and SMART. This is such a welcome relief from many of the typical Disney princesses. The sound track is only OK vs. other Disney films (Beauty and the Beast, Lion King and Pocahantas all offering better scores), with really only one moving song ("when will my reflection show, the me I see inside"). I was worried the movie would be too dark for them, but they were OK with the scary parts. It has also led to interesting discussions re history of China (the Great Wall, emperors, etc.), and "honor". My older daughter for the first time wants to be something other than a princess for Halloween - luckily we have a kimono from China for her to be Mulan - she can't wait! I am sure my young son will someday enjoy this movie as well for the action, etc. This is a movie I don't mind them watching over and over again - critics may call it too PC, but I think it is a great action story demonstrating both strong morals and how to rely on your yourself in difficult situations. Mulan isn't sitting at home waiting for someone to kiss her and make her dreams come true!

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Summary: Tired of feminist proselytizing
Review: Disney (and Fox in "Anastasia") have fallen into a very predicatble and enervating P.C. rut. In a trend that we got a whiff of in "Little Mermaid," a dose of in "Beauty and the Beast" and "Hunchback," and a full-blown shot of in "Pocahontas," Disney just can't seem to get away from stylized, idealized, P.C.-normed women. The only problem with them is that all the same: boring. Sooo predictable. If Disney wants to preach their gospel, they can do it on their own time and their own dime. As Sam Goldwyn said: "Include me out."

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Summary: Fun, exciting, great plot, wonderful cartoons--A must have!
Review: Fun, exciting, great plot, wonderful cartoons--A must have

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Summary: Mulan was an excellent film
Review: Mulan was great. My daughter and I found much pleasure in watching this brave film together. It kept you attentative.This film showed what morals and values mean, and that we as offsprings should obey the commands of our parents.

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Summary: Finally! A heroine who did the saving!
Review: Now if some of the humor wasn't so smart-alecky and rude, and the drawings were a little more Disney classic-this would be a perfect movie. Mulan is really a terrific heroine (and I mean HEROINE heroine) and her voice is A+ (when she isn't trying to sound like a man). Great movie alert!!!!!

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Summary: Brillant
Review: Walt Disney would be proud, as this is their finest work since Snow White. The story, the music, and the art are a thing of beauty, that melts together as Mulan

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Summary: Finally! Disney on DVD!! And it's Mulan!!!
Review: I'm glad that Disney is putting this one on DVD. I have it on video and I can say I hate watching it in full screen. Being a designer/special effect artist I watched how the beautiful scenery was chopped up to fit in the NTSC format. But now, with DVD we get to watch it in it's full splendor, colors and sound. Well, let's hope that Disney gets it right with the transfer to DVD (don't know if it's an anamorphic transfer)and let's hope they get Bambi out on DVD soon as well.

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Summary: Very enjoyable!! LOve the sequenses
Review: This movie was very good. It had a good message, a change in the romance formula (finnally) and I loved the sequenses, like when Mulan decides to take her father's place and it shows her going to the family altar (slightly slo-mo) and lighting incense, then cutting her hair. I just like the way that scene was animated with the music they put with it. I loved the song reflection and the sequenses in "be a man" starting with when Mulan figures out how to climb the pole. The sequence when the whole city bowed to her in kind of a "wave thing" was awesome too. I think Mushu was pretty good, but could have been cleaner mouthed, ok, he wasn't dirty mouthed, the movie just needed the whole scene about the bath deleted. COME ON PEOPLE, THESE FILMS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FOR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH SEXUALITY ARE YOU GOING TO TRY AND SLIP IN THERE??? If that whole scene was deleted as well as the comment Mushu made about being able to see through her armor, THEN there wouldn't have been too much sexual overtones to make this a children's movie . After claiming to see through her armor, e more than deserved to be slapped. That comment needed to be slapped off the script too... Also, I don't think the stupid cricket did anything for the movie, accept MAYBE when he caused part of the trouble at the matchmakers. But overall a wonderfull movie. I still give it 5 stars. A beautifull picture.

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Summary: GREAT MOVIE!!
Review: I LOVE THIS MOVIE!! MING-NA WEN DID THE BEST JOB AS MULAN!!!!!!!!!! I GIVE THIS MOVIE 5 STARS!!

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Summary: An amazing Disney movie which IS historically accurate.
Review: There are two animated films I know of that can envoke both epic excitement and emotion. The first is "Prince of Egypt". The second is "Mulan". For once, Disney has made a film that can send shivers down your back in scenes like "Mulan's Decision" or make you laugh at jokes that aren't too formulaic. Another interesting fact is that, despite what some people may say, "Mulan" is probably Disney's most historically accurate film. "Little Mermaid" certainly did not show sea-life in 19th century Denmark with profound reliability nor did "Beauty and the Beast" depict medieval/ renaissance age France all that well. But "Mulan" was true enough to show Chinese clothing as they were in Tang and Six Kingdoms Dynasties and used Cantonese instead of Mandarin (Cantonese is older and closer to the language the real Mulan, if she truly existed, would have spoken). The animation was beautiful and just as good as any other Disney movie, and much better than "Little Mermaid". And yes, the story was different than the original Chinese poem, but what do you expect? EVERY SINGLE DISNEY MOVIE IN THE LAST DECADE was more entirely different from the original source than Mulan was. I've read a translation, and the poem was much too short to make a movie out of. In fact, the movie seems to have drawn some inspiration from Maxine Hong Kingston's memoirs, "Woman Warrior" which relates the Mulan story with similarities to the film. And, finally, unlike every other Disney movie with a heroine, Mulan does not marry her handsome prince- SHE invites HIM to dinner.