Mulan

1998

1h 28m

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7.9/10

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To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

Directors

Tony Bancroft

Barry Cook

Writers

Raymond Singer(screenplay by)

Chris Sanders(screenplay by)

Eugenia Bostwick-Singer(screenplay by)

Stars

Ming-Na Wen

Eddie Murphy

BD Wong

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Top cast

Mulan (voice)

Mushu (voice)

Shang (voice)

Shan-Yu (voice)

Yao (voice)

Fa Li (voice)

Grandmother Fa (voice)

James Hong

Chi Fu (voice)

Miriam Margolyes

The Matchmaker (voice)

Pat Morita

The Emperor (voice)

Marni Nixon

Grandmother Fa (singing voice)

Soon-Tek Oh

Fa Zhou (voice)

Donny Osmond

Shang (singing voice)

Lea Salonga

Mulan (singing voice)

James Shigeta

General Li (voice)

George Takei

First Ancestor (voice)

Jerry Tondo

Chien-Po (voice)

Gedde Watanabe

Ling (voice)

Directors

Tony Bancroft

Barry Cook

Writers

Raymond Singer(screenplay by)

Chris Sanders(screenplay by)

Eugenia Bostwick-Singer(screenplay by)

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Disney heads East for this fantasy adventure, this time based on an ancient myth from Imperial Chinese folklore. The Hun hordes are attacking the ancient kingdom and the Emperor must rally every troop he can to defend the nation. His riders travel far and wide calling upon all his men to join the army. They arrive at the home of "Mulan" and rather then send her ageing father, she decides to impersonate a boy and go join the fight. There is plenty of action in this much darker animation; the evil "Shan-Yu' has devilish, piercing eyes and the use of darker colours and hues - alongside heavy drum-based themes from Jerry Goldsmith goes some way to project a decent sense of menace on the latter half of the film. "Mulan" herself, though spending half of the film pretending, turns out to be a feisty heroine easily the match of her male counterparts. So, why only 3/5 - well: Eddie Murphy drove me mad. "Mushu" was as irritating as he was noisy; a hammer to crack a nut - so overblown as to largely ruin the film for me.

Geronimo196728 Aug, 2023