Mulan II (2004) (V)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Directors:

Darrell Rooney
Lynne Southerland

Writers:

Michael Lucker (screenplay) &
Chris Parker (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

1 February 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family

Tagline:

She's primped. She's engaged. She's back.

Plot:

Preparing for their wedding Shang and Mulan are suddenly sent off on a secret mission Mushu starts to meddle and a surprise attack by Mongolians doesn't help either.

Plot Keywords:

China | Based On Poem | Arranged Marriage | Broken Heart | Holding Hands

Cast

Ming-Na	...	Mulan (voice)
B.D. Wong	...	Shang (voice)
Mark Moseley	...	Mushu (voice)
Lucy Liu	...	Mei (voice)
Harvey Fierstein	...	Yao (voice)
Sandra Oh	...	Ting Ting (voice)
Gedde Watanabe	...	Ling (voice)
Lauren Tom	...	Su (voice)
Jerry Tondo	...	Chien-Po (voice)
Pat Morita	...	The Emperor (voice)
George Takei	...	First Ancestor (voice)
June Foray	...	Grandmother Fa (voice)
Freda Foh Shen	...	Fa Li (voice)
Soon-Tek Oh	...	Fa Zhou (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Cri-Kee (voice)

Runtime:

79 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:Livre | New Zealand:G | Australia:G | Germany:o.Al. | Singapore:G | USA:G (certificate #40423) | UK:U

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Trivia:

Judy Kuhn provides the singing voice of Princess Ting Ting.

Goofs:

Continuity: As Mulan practices martial arts during her chores with the rake, the head of the rake is not visible whenever she twirls it, and in a few more scenes before she kicks it off at the beginning of "Lesson Number One".

Quotes:

Mei: Fa Mulan it's love! Yao and myself, Chien Po and Su...
Ting Ting: And myself and Lingy Bear... I mean Ling.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#32.11)" (2004)

If you want to watch a proper Asian American movie, I highly recommend "Better Luck Tomorrow."

Disney in recent years have been making bad decisions left and right. Instead of solving their internal problems, their simple answer to everything is to just simply "pull the plug." A loss of good jobs to a lot of talented artists, if you ask me. :(

For example, I sat down for 3 hours tonight and watched "Mulan I & II" back-to-back on DVD. The first one was breathtakingly awesome, with an epic scope in theatrical widescreen. The direct to DVD sequel was bland, but one sore scene sticks out for me in the sequel when the little Dragon Mushu offers Mulan a little "pick me up" (while they are on horseback) by offering her a stereotypical Chinese takeout paper bucket with chopsticks sticking out askew.

That maybe funny to the white man, but to an Asian American like myself that scene was a desperate attempt at an unfunny, uncreative, stereotypically naive, cheap ass-attempt-at-humor anachronism that obviously backfired! The talentless hack who was responsible for that one deserved his firing, and it would be sweet justice if he were living and eating out of a dumpster right now (where his career belongs!). They should have just went with a traditional Chinese bowl filled with steaming rice. No one would have cared, or noticed the difference.

Disney's good catalog deserves to see the light of day; the kind of dreck like the one I described above deserve to remain in the Disney vaults.

6/10