Very good, but its flaws keep it from achieving greatness.

Rating: 9/10 (18 August 2010)

Mulan is very well animated, very well written, and very well done. I want so much to give this a 10, but there is a few flaws that take away so much from it. First is the character Mushu. If they had made this without any Mushu this would have been a 10, but he is there. He takes away a lot of drama from the movie. In "The Hunchback" there was a comedic gargoyle character that took away a lot of drama, but he didn't take up a lot of screen time. Mushu has a lot of screen time to soak up a very large amount of drama, and he isn't even funny. I really wish they took this a little more seriously. Another flaw is Mulan's man voice that is painfully awkward. Although it isn't in the film as much as Mushu so it isn't very bad. Then there is the romance of Mulan and Shang. With other Disney films the romance is needed for the film. With this film we don't need a romance. This film is supposed to be inspiring girls to be who they want to be not just "girls", but Mulan ends up falling in love with someone just like every other Disney female. Despite these flaws I really like this movie. It just had so much going for it, and it fell short of what it could have been.
3 and a 1/2 stars out of 4