Mulan (1998), 6 now 7+

G | 1h 28min | Animation, Adventure, Family | 19 June 1998
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Directors: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Stars: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong, ..., June Foray, James Shigeta, George Takei.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120762/
borrowed dvd.

5 songs in the Soundtracks with 2 version/reprises.

The last 3 cast I listed above were voices I recognized during the film.

EM's dragon was extremely annoying. I liked the film until he arrived. Fortunately the story got serious again, and he was minimized and mostly calmed down. I don't understand why Disney thinks they need these extreme "funny" creatures in each film.

I found the animation/CGI of the Huns charging through the snow sorta creepy; perhaps something too uniform about their movement, and the perspective was at such a far distance they looked like bugs.

I liked very much that Mulan was a smarter warrior, which would have to be the case since she wasn't the biggest/strongest/most experienced. 2 ex: climbing the pole with the weights and stopping the aforementioned Huns.

IMDb trivia: "This film marked Disney's first ever DVD, released in November 1999."

Another: "This was the last Disney animated feature film to contain musical elements, after a decade's worth of Disney animated musicals (the only exception being The Rescuers Down Under (1990)), up until The Princess and the Frog (2009)."

Rated 7.6 (212,239)

Disney, dir. Bancroft & Cook; 6

Update 5.Dec2020: I'm upgrading this. EM was fine; how else would a tiny dragon gain attention except with his smart-alecking. Loved the heroic nature of Mulan, and her incredible smarts. Loved the warrior captain who evolved during the story.

7.6 (252,719); 7+