Bad reviews are mostly from poor understanding or anti-female

Case in point ladies and gents. Another thick skull that didn't even understand the movie. She wasn't born special! I explain that right in the OP but that won't get through your thick skull.

Just move on and go watch something else. You named 70s and 80s movies as examples for female characters you liked. Nowadays to people like you its "feminist propaganda" and Mary Sue. As I said, move on and go watch something else like Terminator.

Stick to the original thats fine. This movie isn't trying to copycat everything about the original, nor is it trying to replace it. This is a different telling of the ballad of Mulan.

Superhero? No. Special powers? No. More skills through years of training by a great skilled former soldier (her father)? Yes. That wasn't anything given to her. You missed where she dedicated all her time to training. If you don't think thats hardwork and determination then you might need your head checked.

I prefer the original animated too. But the gripes over "superhero" "special powers" "didn't work hard" are untrue and invalid.

Exactly, and that seems to be what Disney is doing these days: Female characters have to be flawless and have no challenges to overcome nor do they have to work to achieve anything. They are just good because they are awesome. These characters Disney writes are weak, bland and uninteresting a perfect example is MaRey Sue from Star Wars. And yes you are correct it is sexist to write female characters this way because you are sending the message that females are supposed to be overpowered and in real life if you aren't then there's something wrong with you. Disney doesn't know the first thing about writing strong characters and this idea that if you don't like Disney's approach that you are somehow against strong female characters is absurd, I have cited multiple strong female characters from other franchises that I love (Sarah Conner, Ellen Ripley, Ruth De Wit Bukater, Officer Anne Lewis, Meg Altman (Panic Room), Tracy Di Vicenzo, Melina from Total Recall, Hermione Granger, etc.)

I have no idea how you feel this ruins the original animated movie.

Do you think "these people" would spend nearly as much time spewing toxic negativity about a film if it was a male lead? I'll answer, no they wouldn't.

You couldn't have seen the movie because the father wasn't old and cripple when he was training her. Nope, you're lost.

I don't need people to try to influence the way I feel. I saw the movie and know how I feel about it. I don't need someone to try to change my mind into not liking and enjoying something. That's just dumb.

That's a good comparison and explanation video. I, too, like the 1998 animated Mulan character and movie better. I didn't get the chi that Mulan had as it seemed to be her natural superior athletic talent and not something everyone possess but have to bring out through training. In comparison, her sister does not have that, is timid and shy, and is just willing to accept her fate as a bride. Moreover, being forced into a difficult or crisis situation brings it out of us. The closest I can think of this is the, "Be all that you can be" slogan of the US Army through rigorous military training. Finally, the other reason for the change seems to that Disney didn't want to upset China's view and was willing to kowtow to it in order to make $$$$s.

I think the opposite view is that this version is more a super hero movie like than in the Marvel universe. That's how someone who liked it explained it to me.