Mulan 2 Download

Mulan 2 Download

Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain (now General) Li Shang asks for her hand in marriage. Before the two can have their happily ever after, the Emperor assigns them a secret mission, to escort three princesses to Qui Gong, China. Mushu is determined to drive a wedge between the couple after he learns that he will lose his guardian job if Mulan marries into the Li family. After the princesses unexpectedly fall in love with the Gang of Three, Mulan decides to help them escape the fate of marrying men they do not love. This contradicts the Emperor's orders and forces him to put Mulan's relationship with Shang into question. They are attacked by Mongolians, and the fate of China hangs in the balance.
While preparing for their wedding, Shang and Mulan are suddenly sent off on a secret mission. Mushu starts to meddle, and a surprise attack by Mongolians doesn't help either.
For the most part, what I would say about this movie is that what Disney usually does well, Disney does well again with this. The animation is fantastic, the characters are fun (especially Mushu) and the story is interesting enough to keep an adult watching all the way through. There were, however, a few weaknesses here that I wouldn&#39;t usually associate with Disney.<br/><br/>The first wasn&#39;t really Disney&#39;s fault - it was mine. Having not seen the first Mulan this was difficult to get started with because it&#39;s clear that the characters have a history that you&#39;re not aware of if you haven&#39;t seen the first movie. But there are a couple of more problematic things. First was the music. I didn&#39;t think the music was Disney-calibre. It was fun while the movie was on, but within an hour I don&#39;t think I would have remembered any of the songs or even been able to hum any of the tunes. None of them were particularly memorable. People who come from non-Western cultures where arranged marriages are still quite acceptable may find the movie&#39;s very blatant anti-arranged marriage message offensive (it didn&#39;t really bother me but I thought of it) and - most problematic to me - was the value system the movie promoted.<br/><br/>At first, the movie seemed to present an ethical dilemma. Duty or heart? Do I do what I have to do for my country or do I just follow my heart? That&#39;s an interesting dilemma. The problem was that it was answered by Mulan pretty quickly. She decided that &quot;my duty is my heart&quot; and that becomes the main message of the movie. It seems to me that &quot;my duty is my heart&quot; can be too easily understood as &quot;my duty is to me.&quot; So - I have no responsibility to anyone or anything except to pursue what I want? That didn&#39;t strike me as a message I want to send to children.<br/><br/>So, there&#39;s a lot of good stuff with this movie, but my gut reaction to the message makes me give this only a 6/10.
I didn&#39;t think Mulan II was awful and I certainly didn&#39;t hate it. I found the material to be pretty sophisticated for a Disney movie, particularly for a sequel. The relationship issues were were complex and thoughtful, and I agree with a previous comment that the movie does a good job of building and expanding on what we saw in the first movie. I enjoyed the addition of the the three daughters as characters as well and the return of Ling, Yao, and Chien Po. Overall I thought the movie was charming, entertaining, and it made me grin. There were also some very dramatic scenes in the movie that I thought were just outstanding and ground-breaking for a Disney animated feature.<br/><br/>Having said that, I also have to say that I was disappointed that the feel of the movie did not match the first. In fact it was completely different, and I found many of the characters to be extremely out of character, particularly Shang and Mulan. They just did not seem like themselves, based on our understanding of who they are from the original film. There are moments in which the way they react to events is completely over the top (for example, Shang&#39;s anger when he thinks Mulan is gossiping about him to the princesses). His facial expressions even become exaggerated in cartoon fashion. Basically, the movie did not have the serene, serious, yet beautiful feeling of the first. Instead it was like the movie was completely thrown to a group of writers and directors who were given semblances of who the characters are and then ran off with it. Shang, Mulan, and Ling acted so off sometimes that it seemed like their voice actors changed. I was surprised that B.D. Wong, Ming-Na, and Gedde Watanabe were still doing their parts, despite how familiar I am with their voices.<br/><br/>Mulan II is enjoyable, but it&#39;s nothing like the first. I think I could best describe it as watching a Mulan fan fiction come to life.... entertaining but with a few ummms in there.

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