MULAN (2020) - Disney's Biggest Bruh Moment

It’s ironic a movie from 22 years ago is more progressive than its modern remake

not only is this movie the worst thing Disney has made since god knows what, they think that women are so bad they have to have super powers to be equal to men

As a woman the message I got from the movie was: "You'll never be able to prove yourself or compete against men if you don't have magical powers"

I love how the "grounded", "realistic" live action has witches, phoenixes and a bunch of people with chi superpowers while the "unrealistic" fantasy cartoon only has a comic relief dragon, a cricket and some ghosts who barely interfere in the story as fantastic elements

Disney and this movie in a nutshell: "Hey thanks China for letting us film right near your concentration camps."

I really hate that disney's response to people wanting strong female characters is literally make all their female characters physically stronger. We want compelling female characters who feel like their own person and whose character arc does not revolve around the men in her life, not a human nuke who can melt space ships and oh yeah also happens to be a woman.

Mulan (1998) also has one of the most unforgiving and sudden mood shifts of any movie i’ve ever seen. In the scene where the army is singing and having a good time as they march to meet up with the rest of their forces we an abrupt stop, and are shown a village that was burned down. We go from joyful and happy soldiers singing to just the complete opposite as they walk through the ruins of the village. The score goes from upbeat to depressing in a matter of seconds. They completely massacred this scene in the remake.

The fact that she's moving in 'slow motion' but the hair on her face is flowing in a normal breeze kills me every time. 😂

bruh Mulan’s HORSE in the cartoon version has more substance than any of these live action characters

The ironic thing is, her dropping her armor shows disrespect towards her father, the person she cares enough about to go to war for. That armor was her fathers, yet she just leaves it in the mud like it means nothing to her. Just another way the modern one somehow manages to screw up everything, even the virtues they supposedly show in the movie (loyalty, etc.)

Kung Fu Panda did a better job at portraying chi powers and the overall “chosen one” storyline. Po was ordinary like Mulan and wanted to prove himself as a kung Fu master. He was determined to put in the work even though there were others and things that would make him feel like he couldn’t do it. Even after the first movie, we still get to see Po evolve as a kung Fu master and learn about things like inner peace and how to use chi to help others. The fact that a movie about a cartoon panda fighting did a better job than mulan 2020 is hilarious.

I don’t think turning Mulan into a Wuxia story is inherently a bad idea, in fact it sorta works, but the people who wrote this movie fundamentally don’t understand Wuxia as a genre. One of the core principles of the Wuxia Genre is that birth and natural talent is secondary to hard work and training, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or woman, the Emperor or a peasant, if you put in the effort you can achieve great things, Mulan 2020 is the antithesis of the Genre it’s trying to emulate.

I love how they tried so hard to pander to China and even China was like “What is this shit?”.

Dreamworks made a better Chinese movie about Jack Black being a panda doing kung-fu than Disney supposedly making a realistic Chinese film.

You have my respect for raising awareness of oppression of the Uyghurs.

As Cynical CJ put it in his review of Mulan 2020 (great channel; well worth checking out) filming Mulan in Xinjiang and thanking the Chinese agency running the camps for their help would be like "filming a movie down the road from Auschwitz and giving a shout-out to the SS". It's absolutely gob-smacking that Disney could have done this. Yet here we are.

"We removed the dragon to make the movie more realistic. Now we got a witch and wall-running ninjas"

A love interest that is in a commanding position is uncomfortable. Please pay no mind to the concentration camps in the background

The “saving Moana from being made into live action movie” statement did not age well

“Theres still time to save moana guys” You did not bro 💀💀💀