It was sweet and in keeping with the storybook texture of the films. The women were there to be saved by the men. It is bad enough that, in the real world, it is now acceptable to take women into the army, train them, and let them fight beside men. Women are the bearers of life, the providers of children. Theirs should not be the province of death and disorder.
Men start the wars.
Let men fight them. In these turbulent times, one could count on Disney to maintain the proper order of things. Not any more. Mulan is the first female in Disney animated history I can think of who has taken a life. And that is an understatement.