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  • 2020
  • PG-13
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2020
  • PG-13
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 1 h 55 m

Summary When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from Northern invaders, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. Masquerading as a man, Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her inn...

Directed By: Niki Caro

Written By: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Lauren Hynek, Elizabeth Martin, Guo Maoqian

  • 2020
  • PG-13
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2020
  • PG-13
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 1 h 55 m

Mulan

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 52 Critic Reviews
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Summary When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from Northern invaders, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. Masquerading as a man, Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her inn...

Directed By: Niki Caro

Written By: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Lauren Hynek, Elizabeth Martin, Guo Maoqian

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 52 Critic Reviews
66
56% Positive
29 Reviews
40% Mixed
21 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 52 Critic Reviews
66
56% Positive
29 Reviews
40% Mixed
21 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
Sep 3, 2020
Mulan is a spirit lifter, and though it doesn’t arrive as planned, it could not arrive at a better time.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 3, 2020
Mulan handily clears the bar set by live-action duds like The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, but it still fails to recapture the magic of the movie it’s adapting. It forgoes the strongest ideas in the animated film (the songs and the humble origins of heroism) in order to try to tell a more conventional story.
By Karen Han FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 3, 2020
Somber and serious-minded, the live-action Mulan is a movie that has grown up alongside its original audience, which is presumably old enough to crave something heavier in its entertainment diet. Little girls might be better off sticking with the cartoon for now; but this opulent, ambitious production and Liu’s focused, intrepid performance at its center, gives them something to grow into.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 3, 2020
Unlike other Disney remakes, the issue with Mulan isn’t that it hews to the formula too closely; it’s that when this movie veers away from that formula, it tries to be something approaching a Marvel movie, and that’s one crossover we still don’t need.
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60
Sep 3, 2020
Perhaps more than any other Disney live-action remake to date, Mulan feels like a blockbuster version of great mime – it’s performed with such consummate precision and showmanship that at times you would swear you were watching something with a heart.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW
55
Sep 4, 2020
Mulan delivers a straightforwardly heroic narrative of a capable woman battling her way to respect. It just doesn’t have much else to add.
By David Sims FULL REVIEW
25
Sep 3, 2020
Walt Disney’s Mulan remake perfunctorily recycles the worst aspects of the 1998 animated version and roundly fails to convincingly execute the few deviations that it does attempt.
By Sam C. Mac FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Walt Disney Pictures, Jason T. Reed Productions, Good Fear Content, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC)
Release Date Sep 4, 2020
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Loyal, Brave, True.
Website https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/mulan/2jlgPK4K0ilR
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Awards
• 5 Nominations

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