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100The payoff is a consistently rich piece with impressive visual vitality.
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90It's the characterization of Mulan, both in voice and visuals, that makes the film a keeper.
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90Gorgeously animated and stirringly told, Disney's Mulan is a timeless story that will delight kids and divert adults with its sweeping scope, emotional intimacy and screwball humor.
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Disney's latest animated feature hearkens back to its heyday fare, a sweet and captivating tale that pits gentle, enduring goodness against dark, malevolent forces.
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88The film shines at capturing the watercolor delicacy of China's past.
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88Mulan is an impressive achievement, with a story and treatment ranking with "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King."
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88Mulan effortlessly blends serious, comic, and cute elements into a whole that should entertain the majority of movie-goers, regardless of race, gender, or age.
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83It took long enough, but Disney has finally come up with an animated heroine who's a good role model and a funky, arresting personality at the same time.
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80The folks at Disney prove that clothes -- and little else -- make a man, and do so with extraordinary style.
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80It seems as if all of the new animation competition has lit a fire under Disney's collective ass and they have something to prove again.
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80Mulan serves up the sort of classic entertainment the Magic Kingdom was built on: stunning animation, sharply defined characters, a smattering of catchy tunes all seamlessly woven into a simple, powerfully told yarn.
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80The incredible special effects, which make lush cherry blossoms as vivid as the intense battle scenes, are balanced by Disney's tradition of care and painstaking detail in developing and animating its characters.
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75This high-quality Disney animation combines strong pictorial appeal with amiable voice-performances.
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70A rich dramatic tapestry lightly stained by some strained comedy, rigorous political correctness and perhaps more adherence to Disney formula than should have been the case in one of the studio's most adventurous and serious animated features.
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70Mulan may be exotic, but it's hardly a risky enterprise, what with its sentimental show tunes, wholesome morals and plucky teen heroine.
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While the movie sticks to the familiar Disney formula, the cute sidekicks are less intrusive and the songs are not as overbearing as usual; for the most part, it sustains an enjoyable hum and a simple, delicate glow.
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Disney's retelling of the popular Chinese folktale, may seem its gutsiest choice yet, but on closer examination it's obviously less a matter of guts than careful calculation.
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63Mulan is another competent effort, but it's a disappointment for anyone hoping the studio would raise the standard of the animated feature to a new level.
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60Mulan, like all the characters in this movie, is a cookie-cutter American prototype, lazily ripped off from the Disney boilerplate that fashioned Pocahontas et al.
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Though Disney's animation department does deserve credit for shaking up its formula and delving into relatively mature drama, the movie is flawed in numerous aggravating ways.
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It's nothing more than pleasant matinee fodder with some jarring tones and clunky stretches.
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60Mulan has its accomplishments, but unlike the best of Disney's output, it comes off as more manufactured than magical.
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50It's hard not to keep thinking that this movie is basically "Yentl" with a nose job.
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50A film that not only breaks the cross-dressing barrier but also ratchets up the violence level for children's animation.