Good Disney animation, funny in spots, rating seems a bit too high.

Rating: Null/10 (24 November 2002)

I like good animated films. Disney's "Tarzan" is one of my favorites. I also like "Shrek", "A Bug's Life", and "Monsters Inc." To me "Mulan" doesn't quite make that grade. Everyone knows the story by now - young girl Mulan disguises herself as a young man and reports to fight the Huns instead of her ailing father, and becomes a hero. I felt some of the silly characters, and the "spirits", were making fun of the Chinese. And, while Eddie Murphy's character, the midget dragon, was funny, it was too much like the talking donkey in "Shrek."
The high points -- the film was only about 75 minutes long, the animation was really good, the picture on DVD is very sharp and colorful, the Dolby 5.1 surround sound is used to good effect. But the "extras" are spartan, there wasn't even an "outtake" section. :-)