A lot.to like in this movie from the storyline to the simple-yet-beautiful animation to the humor of Eddie Murphy, etc. I take away a couple stars for the following reasons:
(1) Getting hit over the head with the female empowerment message. By the end, Mulan is basically a superhero. The finale at the castle was just ridiculous.
(2) The bad choice of music to start the credit roll: Stevie Wonder doing a loud, up-tempo number with harmonic. WTH did that have to do with anything that came before? Totally took me out of the mood.
The reason I watched this movie today is that I read a scholarly paper on Disney princesses. The writer argued that Mulan was the genesis of the present era of progressive female leads.
(2) The bad choice of music to start the credit roll: Stevie Wonder doing a loud, up-tempo number with harmonic. WTH did that have to do with anything that came before? Totally took me out of the mood.
The reason I watched this movie today is that I read a scholarly paper on Disney princesses. The writer argued that Mulan was the genesis of the present era of progressive female leads.