Mulan
Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Year: 1998
Stars: Ming-Na Wen, Lea Salonga, Eddie Murphy, Gedde Wantanabe, Matthew Wilder
Now this is more like it. Channel Five have been showing Disney movie premieres on a Sunday afternoon for the past few weeks now, and I seem to have been watching most of them. I've sat through some dire sequels, but also managed to catch up on some excellent classics I've never seen before (for some reason, Disney movies kind of passed me by as a child).
I'm pleased to say that Mulan sits squarely in the latter category. An entertaining, involving story with happy, funny and sad parts in equal measure, this is what Disney films should be. The plot follows the girl Mulan, who goes to war (without her families knowledge) in order to save her old, injured father from having to fight.
A beautiful movie with an excellent, engaging storyline. If only Mulan 2 (which is on next week) could live up to this... I know it won't, I know it will be awful, but I also know I'll probably end up watching it anyway, just to check. Hmmm.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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