This slant provides an interesting angle, but it doesn’t feel nearly as satiating. The latest directive is that our beloved heroine is an expert warrior from the beginning, told to suppress her power to fit cultural and societal norms, and must learn to embrace her “chi” and put it into action. Though the bone structure is roughly the same as the original, there’s a significant amount that’s been retooled to varying degrees of success by screenwriters Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Elizabeth Martin and Lauren Hynek. Since the only man in Mulan’s household is her invalid father, Mulan takes it upon herself to go in his place, disguising her identity and assuming his for combat duty. All of this changes when a proclamation is issued by the Emperor (Jet Li) that one male from every household must enlist in the Imperial army to defend against a nefarious rebel group led by power-hungry Böri Khan (Jason Scott Lee). But fearing dishonor from their community, her mother (Rosalind Chao) and father (Tzi Ma) encourage her to dampen her fiery spirit and embrace a life of conformity. Mulan (Yifei Liu) has demonstrated remarkable skill and determination in dangerous situations from a very young age. However, it still delivers the uplifting, powerful potency from its sentiments about sacrifice, courage, honor and devotion to family – cornerstone virtues of which we can all stand to be reminded. Her mirrored reflection of the 1998 masterpiece is smeared with the former’s fingerprints, of course. THE LION KING and ALADDIN), Niki Caro’s MULAN fares fairly well in its justification for existing. Unlike a few of Disney’s recent features that have undergone the lucrative, yet entirely unnecessary transition from animation to live-action (cough, cough. Starring: Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong, Jason Scott Lee, Jet Li, Yoson An, Tzi Ma, Rosalind Chao
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