Movie Review: Mulan

Mulan

The movie is all about the bravery of a Chinese girl named Mulan and her quest for honor. The movie is produced by Disney and the character can be added to the numerous princesses produced by this film institution. Mulan also set a trend in the line of movies produced by Walt Disney Pictures by having the setting in an Asian country and utilizing history to be part of the wonderful story. Furthermore, the movie also touched the tradition and culture of the Chinese which make it interesting to watch and fresh to the eyes. Add to these five emotional and well-written songs that adds flavor to the film. These songs provide the boost on emotion necessary to make the scenes more realistic in the ears of the audience.
Mulan is basically an animated film which revolves around the story of Mulan and how she brought honor to her clan by saving China from the possible invasion of the Huns. The start of the movie is dedicated in building the character of Mulan as a happy but accident prone young woman. This negative characteristic built her image as a disgrace to the family. However things have changed when she joined the army in place of her father who is old and weak enough to join the war. The interesting part is that she penetrated the army by pretending to be a man. Under the name of Ping, she managed to survive the exhausting and intense training given by Captain Li Shang, who takes the role of the prince charming of the story, together with her new comrades Ling, Yao and Chien Po. The first act of heroism of Mulan is shown when the Huns ambushed their troop on a mountain covered by snow. It is obvious that Mulan’s troop is outnumbered but they still managed to defeat the Huns when Mulan used their last canon to shoot a sn...

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...on the middle of the song wherein the three, after a debate, all agree that they want freedom and do the things like other girls do. Here, happiness and liveliness of music can be heard because the princesses are like in cloud nine trying to imagine being free. The princesses are enumerating one by one the things that they want to do if there are not born as the princesses of the empire. Personally, this music is also a success in bringing out the problem, this time of the princesses. The two moods of the song are effective in portraying the scene wherein the princesses are torn between their duties and their needs as a person.
For the credits, the song “Like Other Girls” is used. The song is an anthem and has a touch of a guitar-heavy alternative rock. Overall, this is a happy song which is adequate for conveying that Mulan and Li Shang story has a happy ending.