Deborah Ross

Half the fun of the animation – and much longer: Mulan reviewed

This live-action remake for Disney+ is stiff and no character has any personality or inner life or spark

No attempt at gender disguise: Liu Yifei as Mulan in battle against the Huns. Credit: Justin Boland / © 2020 disney enterprizes, inc. all rights reserved 
issue 05 September 2020

Mulan is Disney’s latest live-action remake, coming in at 120 minutes, compared with the 1998 animation, which ran to 80. So it’s a third longer, and very much seemed it — and half the fun, if that.

No songs. No jokes. No crazy grandma. No Eddie Murphy. Instead, this is a workaday action-adventure that is unlikely to entrance a new generation and won’t cut it for nostalgic adults either.

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