Mulan is disney's latest live action remake that comes to their streaming service this weekend after a long delay due to the pandemic just like the original animation .


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Mulan - Movie Review


This tells the story of a young woman who takes the place of her father at war he's older and he's injured and he will most likely die if he goes to war so she pretends to be a man suits up and goes off to battle unlike the original animation this film doesn't have the spirits of mulan's ancestors nor does it have a dragon named mushu voiced by eddie murphy or a little cricket.

This time around there's a soldier named cricket christina aguilera's new rendition of reflection appears during the end credits it's not in the movie there's no songs at all it's pg-13 there's battle sequences this is something that i was actually very excited about i reviewed the original animation earlier this year when this film was going to come out i was very much looking forward to seeing this movie the original animation is one of my favorite disney movies of the 90s but this movie is inferior to that film in virtually every way one of the biggest problems with this film is that it seems to omit certain things that are integral to the story or at least to the characters and their journey through the story and it relies on our knowledge of the 1998 animation to fill in those gaps.



 There's a scene in that animation that is so great and it's still one of my favorite disney scenes it's when mulan decides to go off to war in the middle of the night she takes that sword she cuts her hair she puts on that armor this incredible music by jerry goldsmith is playing it's very epic and you understand just how important this choice is for this character that this choice is going to define their life and it's going to potentially end their life or bring dishonor to their whole family you really feel the weight of that moment in the animation whereas in this film it honestly cuts directly into a scene where she's already got the armor on .

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We don't even get to see her put it on she takes her sword out and points it into the lens and that's the scene then she just rides off into the night you never feel the dramatic impact of this choice that she's making just how much that's going to mean to her life to her family's life the change the evolution of this character you don't feel any of it it's just thrown away and there are so many scenes like that that feel like they have missing information there's one integral moment where she's on the battlefield and she's trying to help all of her soldiers survive and she looks for a place that has higher ground .

We don't see her go to this place we don't see her choosing this place it just cuts to her behind a rock slinging arrows at people and there's a lot of moments like that where it seems like sequences are missing from the movie and you're sort of running to catch up let's talk about those battle sequences some of them are acceptable but if you've seen films like hero shadow or crouching tiger hidden dragon or the house of flying daggers you've seen it all done better this movie has very high frame rate action that's over edited you can tell they were shooting in high frame rate to later in post choose which shots they wanted to be in slow motion or not but that high frame rate makes the action look very frenetic in a bad way horses are moving really fast .

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People are running very fast and it just doesn't look real it doesn't evoke the time period it looks too fancy it doesn't look like it has the grace that some of those great films i already mentioned have this is a very committee safe movie everything feels very approved the messages that the movie is going for while at times very admirable feel glossed over and insignificant the film boils down to a lot of lessons learned scenes where a lesson is presented a character reacts to it and then suddenly accepts it and realizes that they were wrong it's a lot of people learning their lessons throughout the film and it never really feels like it has that impact it's going for this is definitely an attempt to tell a more realistic version of the mulan tale .


And many people have attempted to tell this tale before not just disney but this is obviously a film that's going for more realism than the first one removing the musical sequences removing the talking dragon removing the cricket all of that's gone there's battle sequences and there's not a drop of blood and everyone's speaking english so the film really lost me for its attempts at realism and it's like disney is afraid that people just won't like subtitled movies come on parasite just won best picture now i watched this film with my wife and she mentioned something that i didn't really think of while watching the movie but now i can't really get it out of my head and i suppose this could be potentially a mild spoiler .

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So i just want to warn you i think this is a very mild spoiler i don't think it's really that important but just in case that's your warning very mild spoiler from the very beginning of the movie we understand that mulan has a lot of stored up chi she's very powerful and she's told by her family she needs to hide that and marry a man and be respectful we understand from the get-go from the first few scenes that as a young girl she had a lot of really incredible abilities when she goes off to war she's still trying to hide that power and eventually she unleashes it she strips away her father's armor and rides off into battle in a red gown with no armor of any kind the message of course could be interpreted in a lot of ways one of them could be that you shouldn't hide your inner beauty .

You shouldn't hide who you are your abilities you shouldn't try to conform to what the world wants you to be and you should let all that shine and be yourself and and not allow someone to tell you that you're inferior just because they think you are that's all great great stuff problem is this film says yes you too can do all of those things if you're the chosen one if you have magical hidden powers that you have been told to not reveal to anyone since you were a child so my wife said the film actually made her feel more alienated than included because instead of a regular girl training her body and her mind to get to the peak of her potential and achieve what no one else could in her time we have a character that's done from the start of the movie and all that's left for her as a character is to choose to .

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No longer hide that which isn't a very emotionally investing arc at all there's no real emotion to it it's just like a hallmark card that says you can do whatever you want and follow your dreams it doesn't actually mean anything you have to like legitimately work hard to achieve these things and and i don't like how disney's doing this trend lately where people just are magical from the get-go and they never have to train or work or learn or anything they're just [ __ ] magical and so the film's message feels very watered down in that regard also the cgi at times can be very distracting the film uses a lot of computer generated lighting techniques i believe and so .


Certain shots look very artificial the battle sequences are over edited and unfortunately the acting can be very wooden certain people are a standout gong li is very good in the film jet li is also really good as the emperor but the lead actress unfortunately is very blank and sort of wooden throughout most of the movie and certain scenes that you want her to really be expressing how important these moments are to her i just didn't really feel that i admired disney for trying to do something different they didn't just make a shot-for-shot version of the original movie but all of the choices they made felt inferior to that original film i'm going to give mulan a c minus .