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You wouldn't be able to tell it was Disney's Mulan if they didn't tell you

posted 4 years ago by Rorikon (18115)
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Honestly, it felt like a generic Chinese fantasy martial arts movie with a mediocre story line and shallow character development. You can't include Mushu because you want it to be more realistic/traditional but you can add a shapeshifter into the plot? What? There's no Disney magic like the original Mulan (1998) that was beloved by fans. No humor, no songs, or the Disney feel to it. If it didn't have the name "Mulan" as its title then it would have been just another mediocre movie at best, forgettable but not terrible. But for a Live Action remake of the beloved classic "Mulan", absolute trash. Save your $30 and 2 hours of your life that you'll never get back. I mean I don't know how else to convey it but... man was it awful.

I think Disney quality of movies lately have severely degraded after they started kowtowing to the Chinese audience and investors and 'woke'-ness. Either removing certain songs, scenes, characters, and trying to combine realism with animation which makes everything look... DEAD and LIFELESS.

[–] 123 (543) 4 years ago

i thought Chinese love dragons in there movies and actually hate black magic, so a witch would be the worser thing to put in a film for them, also a grandma would be better received in terms of a family member rather then another young woman in a film.

So was this extra females kowtowing to the Chinese or to the western woke-ness audiences?

Definitely agree this was a generic movie made for the american audiences.

[–] Ace_Spade (9616) 4 years ago

The fact that they went in a different direction made it look more interesting to me. I get bored just thinking about the other remakes. Beauty & the Beast, for instance, was basically just a slightly different version of a classic film. What's the point? It's a cover song that just goes note-for-note with the original and brings nothing new or fun to the idea.

Look, I haven't seen it (nor am I likely to for a long time - no Disney+) but I'd rather they remake films with original concepts than just keep xeroxing out the old stuff with live action actors and uncanny valley CGI monsters.