Did anyone else find this film irritating?

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 1998)

"Mulan" was more of a problem than I anticipated. It's getting good reviews, I told myself, and for once it's a distortion of a story you don't know - just sit back and enjoy it. But the stereotypes got to me. The funny-animal-friends were just intrusive, and it was annoying that she couldn't have done it without them. The pompous bureaucrat got on my wrong side immediately when the first words he spoke betrayed the lack of research behind the film. (A lack that shows up again. And again. And...)
On the plus side, casting Asian actors in key roles was a nice touch, even if some of them were Japanese. And there's some really fun sequences, and the score is great. The film's probably great fun for children and people who know nothing about China.