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Mulan (2020) Reaction! (Patreon)

Published:
2023-01-01 06:00:06
Imported:
2023-04

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Mulan (2020)

Edited Reaction Alongside the regular multi-part full, you now have the option of watching an edited version of the full movie reaction with 10-15mins of Picture-in-Picture. You can watch this edit in the player, or alternatively you can download it to your computer using the button underneath each part.

Comments

Dean Nolan

Happy New Year! Could I add to the film reaction list the 'Oldy but Goldy' trilogy - Harvey, Ladykillers, Arsenic and Old Lace. (AKA Grannies causing trouble trilogy)

Ryan

It's incredibly telling when Ming-Na Wen does her cameo, and shows more personality in just a couple seconds than the new Mulan does in the whole movie. It's especially damaging that they made the reasonable decision to take out Mushu, but then apparently couldn't think of anything to put in his place, which also leaves Mulan without anyone to talk to for a significant chunk of the movie.

Ryan

One really amusing bit: you might notice that all of Mulan's dialogue indicating she's lost on the way to the training camp is dubbed in with her face offscreen. That's because they realized late in production that maybe they should have the Phoenix actually do something to help her at some point, and this was the best they could come up with that would avoid extensive reshoots.

Thomas Corp

Mulan was one of those films that, though not in my top ten Disney films, it was one I rewatched a lot back in the day. It's a bit hard to believe it will be twenty-five as of this year, though the math does check out. I hadn’t heard too much in the way of opinion of this going into it. Overall, I found it to be decent enough. I remember being curious about who would play Mulan in this and thinking that it’d be tough to have to follow in the footsteps of Ming-Na Wen, who is a major reason why I love the original animated film. Along with Fennec Shand, Mulan is my favorite of Ming-Na's characters, though there is a soft spot for her performance as Jing-Mei in The Joy Luck Club. And of course, there’s May. I found Liu Yifei to be good as Mulan. I don’t know how popular an opinion that is, but I liked her well enough as Mulan. You are correct in your recollection of Mulan in the original animated film not being a skilled warrior from the beginning like she is here. That was something I very much enjoyed in the original in that she becomes a skilled warrior throughout the film. And even then, she’s not the toughest or most skilled warrior, yet she saves the day more by relying on her intelligence rather than her physical prowess, and I liked that a lot with the original film. Now, I am told that Mulan being an impressive warrior is accurate to the original ballad. It still took me out of this some due to its presentation being very over the top almost Jedi and/or Matrix like. Yeah, this film beat you over the head with its messages. They kicked it up a notch or two, message-wise. An impressive cast. Standouts being Tzi Ma and Donnie Yen. I needed a lot more of Rosalind Chao than there was in this, but I'll take what I can get. Concerning the villainous side of things. Shan-Yu was a Disney Villain that I'm quite fond of and I loved Miguel Ferrer as the character. Similar to what you said, Böri Khan does not make as strong an impression, though as you noted, his screentime being somewhat limited didn’t help. I still thought Jason Scott Lee was great with what he was given. I enjoyed Gong Li as the witch. Mixed feelings on the character herself, though like you said, she had a killer look, and the parallels between her and Mulan were interesting. The performance I loved. Then there was Ming-Na's cameo, your reaction to it was everything. I had a similar reaction myself in that I saw Ming-Na, gasped some, said, “There she is!” and cried some. The score for this was good. I mean, it's hard to top the score from the original as composed by the late great Jerry Goldsmith. Harry Gregson-Williams did a good job with the score. I missed the songs in this. It was nice that at least they featured the primary motif from Reflection if nothing else. I agree with you that it did stretch the suspension of disbelief that no one saw through Mulan’s ruse. You mentioned how you were hoping that they would, and it wouldn’t have made any difference to them, that would have been an interesting twist in this, and I too wish they had gone with such an idea. All in all, as I said, a decent enough film, and a fun reaction to start the year. Sorry to hear that you and technology were not friends on the day you filmed this what with you having trouble with the internet and how you had to deal with your power going out. Also, sorry to see your eyelash was giving you trouble. Thank you for this fun reaction. And thank you, Jess, for a most lovely time that was had in sharing these Disney remakes with you these past several months. It was most wonderful.

Ryan
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This was where it really became unavoidable that almost every single one of these live action remakes was doing the exact same "girl power" story, to the point where it just comes off as performative (and ironically puts the impressionable young girls watching the movies into even more of a box, telling them this is the only kind of story they can be part of). While a horribly sexist society certainly makes more sense in ancient China than some of the other settings, it still goes so cartoonishly over the top with it, while also making Mulan a perfect warrior from childhood which leaves her no possibility for any kind of personal arc, that it's impossible to take seriously.