It’s ironic a movie from 22 years ago is more progressive than its modern remake

bruh Mulan’s HORSE in the cartoon version has more substance than any of these live action characters

As a woman the message I got from the movie was: "You'll never be able to prove yourself or compete against men if you don't have magical powers"

I love how the "grounded", "realistic" live action has witches, phoenixes and a bunch of people with chi superpowers while the "unrealistic" fantasy cartoon only has a comic relief dragon, a cricket and some ghosts who barely interfere in the story as fantastic elements

I love how they tried so hard to pander to China and even China was like “What is this shit?”.

Reasons why this movie is worse than the cartoon: 1. They took out “make a man out of you” 2. It’s made by modern Disney 3. They took out “make a man out of you”

Mulan (1998) also has one of the most unforgiving and sudden mood shifts of any movie i’ve ever seen. In the scene where the army is singing and having a good time as they march to meet up with the rest of their forces we an abrupt stop, and are shown a village that was burned down. We go from joyful and happy soldiers singing to just the complete opposite as they walk through the ruins of the village. The score goes from upbeat to depressing in a matter of seconds. They completely massacred this scene in the remake.

The fact that she's moving in 'slow motion' but the hair on her face is flowing in a normal breeze kills me every time. 😂

The ironic thing is, her dropping her armor shows disrespect towards her father, the person she cares enough about to go to war for. That armor was her fathers, yet she just leaves it in the mud like it means nothing to her. Just another way the modern one somehow manages to screw up everything, even the virtues they supposedly show in the movie (loyalty, etc.)

Dreamworks made a better Chinese movie about Jack Black being a panda doing kung-fu than Disney supposedly making a realistic Chinese film.

Kung Fu Panda did a better job at portraying chi powers and the overall “chosen one” storyline. Po was ordinary like Mulan and wanted to prove himself as a kung Fu master. He was determined to put in the work even though there were others and things that would make him feel like he couldn’t do it. Even after the first movie, we still get to see Po evolve as a kung Fu master and learn about things like inner peace and how to use chi to help others. The fact that a movie about a cartoon panda fighting did a better job than mulan 2020 is hilarious.

You have my respect for raising awareness of oppression of the Uyghurs.

not only is this movie the worst thing Disney has made since god knows what, they think that women are so bad they have to have super powers to be equal to men

The point of Mulan is that she ISN’T naturally strong. She ISN’T naturally gifted in martial arts and fighting. She ISN’T special. But, she’s incredibly smart, incredibly brave, she worked hard to become a skilled warrior, and she does what’s right, even when she’s scared or thinks she’s not able to do it. I dunno how they managed to fuck that up.

I don’t think turning Mulan into a Wuxia story is inherently a bad idea, in fact it sorta works, but the people who wrote this movie fundamentally don’t understand Wuxia as a genre. One of the core principles of the Wuxia Genre is that birth and natural talent is secondary to hard work and training, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or woman, the Emperor or a peasant, if you put in the effort you can achieve great things, Mulan 2020 is the antithesis of the Genre it’s trying to emulate.

As Cynical CJ put it in his review of Mulan 2020 (great channel; well worth checking out) filming Mulan in Xinjiang and thanking the Chinese agency running the camps for their help would be like "filming a movie down the road from Auschwitz and giving a shout-out to the SS". It's absolutely gob-smacking that Disney could have done this. Yet here we are.

Live action Disney is the film industry’s biggest bruh moment

"We removed the dragon to make the movie more realistic. Now we got a witch and wall-running ninjas"

The “saving Moana from being made into live action movie” statement did not age well

“Theres still time to save moana guys” You did not bro 💀💀💀

this movie basically said, “women can’t be strong without a super power”, while the old movie said “a woman could be just as strong as a man”.

I really hate that disney's response to people wanting strong female characters is literally make all their female characters physically stronger. We want compelling female characters who feel like their own person and whose character arc does not revolve around the men in her life, not a human nuke who can melt space ships and oh yeah also happens to be a woman.

Thank you for speaking up about Xinjiang. I am Chinese, and I firmly believe the CCP is the worst thing happening to my country. By the way, the lead actress in the earlier Mulan movie that you mentioned, Zhaowei, has been "disappeared" for more than a year.

In the 1998 mulan, shan yu was awesome. His character was freaking cool looking, he was a menace and a huge threat, his voice worked great with the character. Just the "boo" when he's hanging from the roof, just a great villan. The live action butchered it because he doesn't even feel like a threat, it feels like he isn't even dangeous without the witch. In the live action he's seemingly useless on hiss own, considered he was beaten by mulan instantly.

The 200 million dollars was just the production cost, it doesn't even cover the advertising costs. This means that Disney lost even more money than one might expect... And this does put a smile on my face.

Disney seems like they haven’t realized that we don’t actually want “strong female characters.” We want strong characters that just happen to be female. “Strong female characters” aren’t compelling because that’s literally their entire character. Strong characters that just happen to be female have to have other things going for them to be interesting, relatable, or admirable.

24:58 Had me almost speechless. It’s amazing to witness what a simple change of music and effects can do.

The thing that I loved so much in the 1998 movie was how it showed that what made Mulan so special was her ability to think creatively and critically in certain situations, like how she used the weights to climb up the log, fired a cannon into the mountain to cause an avalanche, and especially that whole ending scene where she devised a plan to save the emperor. It made her feel like an actual character with real strengths and weaknesses rather than just a generic strong female character. For this, she was always my favourite Disney princess character growing up because she taught me the value of hard work and dedication and fighting for what you love and that no matter what weighs you down, you can always get up and even use the things weighing you down to actually help you. The fact that this character that was meant to be an inspiration to young girls continues to inspire me, an adult male, just shows how well written she is. That's why the 2020 adaptation disappointed me so much. They took a character that I admired and looked up to since childhood and made her into a boring, overpowered protagonist with no unique traits other than that she has super magic kung fu powers or whatever. Even my little sister found the movie boring, and she's a huge fan of Mulan. I really don't have much more to say about the live action one because it was just so uninteresting, especially compared to the 1998 animated film which I can talk about for hours.

Disney: let’s get rid of Mushu, he’ll offend the Chinese audience again and will be inaccurate to actual Chinese culture Also Disney: EaGlE wItCh!

Disney and this movie in a nutshell: "Hey thanks China for letting us film right near your concentration camps."

Also love how Disney said they were removing the music and fantasy elements like Mushu to make it grounded. Only to then include super-chi, a phoenix, a shapeshifting witch, etc.

I've noticed a really disappointing theme with movies who center around strong female leads. in a lot of them, in order to make her strong, they will resort to giving her super powers. that *undermines the whole point of empowerment.* like... we aren't supernatural in real life. but we can be strong for who we are, though none of these movies that claim to represent that seem to believe that

My favorite part of the original Mulan was when she was sent home because she couldn’t keep up with the rest of the men. Instead of leaving she used the weights to climb the pole no one else could and get the arrow no one else could. THAT is an empowered woman and for me as a six year old girl, that was what made me feel like I could do anything through perseverance and determination. The new version tells girls they can accomplish anything if they have magic bullshit powers.

Disney has a very good habit of fixing things that aren’t broken

What I loved about cartoon Mulan was that she was flawed, but willing to learn from her mistakes and she had a good heart. The result was a character that may not have been physically strong, but was crafty and hard working. Where others only thought with brute strength, she used her head and came up with unique solutions. The pole climbing scene exemplified this perfectly. It was a problem that everyone tried to solve with pure strength, but Mulan solved it with intelligence. She excelled because she made her attributes work for her and she used her head. In the movie she excels because....... chi. That's it. It takes away so much of her agency and achievement! She's just some shell for the chi that does all the work! I find that in a lot of "girl power" movies they do this. They try to either force the character to be strong like a man, or they give her some outside mechanical force that makes her... strong like a man. In a story where women did not traditionally fight in the army for cultural reasons it just looks silly to strong arm a female character into a role without making her earn it through her skills and hard work. It makes "girl power" hollow if you're just using the story to force a woman into a traditional male role. She needs to EARN IT. That's the only way anyone is going to believe a woman overcomes the cultural expectations of her country that have existed for thousands of years. Making a character who only fits in with men because of some magical force only makes it more obvious why women can't achieve anything on their own merits.

Damn that Moana joke he makes at the beginning becomes relevant quicker than I thought 😂

You can replace "chi" with "the force" and nothing would change.

Mulan was actually not trying to prove her womanhood, she was trying to use her Chi to be the Hokage of her village for Respect

The end of “Make a man out of you” where Mulan is climbing the post to reach the arrow as the sun rises is one of the most powerful scenes in Disney history and it gives me chills every time AND THEY CUT IT FROM THE MOVIE!? That was the moment i lost all hope entirely for this dumpster fire of a movie

The hair cutting scene in the animated movie represents her embracing change, representing a new beginning, a new her. She embraced her new self she was going to have to be to join the army, before she had to, knowing she would have to develop as a person and face challenges she hadn't had before, that's why she cut her hair. Not because it would help disguise her/make her more masculine, because, like Elvis Alien said, men had long hair in early China, so she could've kept her hair, but didn't, to embrace change and her new future self, and let go of who she was before.

The pole climbing scene wasn't just showing Mulan's ingenuity. She also inspired all the other soldiers.

The original movie: women are just as strong as men and there's strength in both masculinity and femininity. This trainwreck: women can maybe catch up with men if they have superpowers, otherwise stay on your lane and give me sons

You can’t show that both the bad guy and Mulan are able to dodge arrows and then act like she is in any threat from an arrow, needing the sacrifice of the witch.

4:00 Too late.... They've got Moana, too.😭😭😭

Disney: Yeah woman can be as strong as men...as long as they have superpowers like 'chi' or 'the force.'

A love interest that is in a commanding position is uncomfortable. Please pay no mind to the concentration camps in the background

14:43 If that throwing star thingy was thrown with enough force to send Mulan flying backwards it should’ve penetrated her body and exited out her back akin to a very powerful bullet (or cannon ball since even bullets realistically don’t send you flying). Neither armour nor tiddy-binder would’ve saved her.

“Desert Goths” is actually perfectly accurate for the people’s being portrayed. There are distinct parallels between the Goths that fought the Romans and these “Desert Goths” fighting the Empire.

Mulan 2020: A Chinese movie made by Americans, for Chinese.

Disney is just straight up turning into the EA of the movie world

4:00 I'm sorry Elvis.

Thank you for highlighting the abuses of the Chinese government against the Uyghurs and those in Hong Kong. I hope and pray for their safety and for their freedom from oppression. I wasn’t a huge fan of the animated movie, but I respect that it was fairly accurate to the legend of Hua Mulan (save the dragon Mushu, Eddie Murphy was more annoying than funny). Disney deserved to take this L and I refuse to watch another live action remake.* * I missed “The Jungle Book”, but did watch “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King” in the theaters. I skipped “Aladdin” and will skip “The Little Mermaid” (Lizzo would have *slayed* as Ursula!).

I miss animated movies.. But they’d probably screw that up too. I hate Disney now.

“We need to be more realistic, get rid of the dragon and add superpowers, a wizard, a witch, and a phoniex.”

Birb Witch: can summon a swarm of birds for scouting and harassment Birb Witch: doesn't do that when taking the arrow for Mulan, thus saving herself and Mulan

4:00 well guess what👁️👄👁️

lmao they basically just randomly gave mulan ultra instinct in this movie.

Disney is simply going to remake every animated movie to milk it for as much money as possible.

Desert Goths*🤣 Fabric Bender*🤣

At 17:55 there is also the incredibly crappy and incorrect archery. She let loose CGI arrows with the wrong grip ( Mediterranean instead on thumb draw) from the wrong side of the bow and with an abysmal technique…

The sound of Disney losing so much money is a beautiful thing.

Disney sucks now, man, they're far past their prime.

Not so fun fact: Disney helped pay for China's concentration camp so they could film Mulan cheaply

that scene where the emperor catches the arrow and mulan returns it to sender is absolutely hilarious.

"dishonor on your script, dishonor on your plot, dishonor on your director!" -mushu 2020 'gone but not forgotten'

Disney: we don’t want to appeal to our OG Mulan audience, let’s try to appeal to Chinese audience with bare bones cultural research and zero effort. Oh no neither groups likes the movie????

4:00 oh no

im so glad you went into the controversy cause so many channels ignore it when discussing this movie

Mulans father in the cartoon is still of fighting age, but he’s disabled so he wouldn’t have been of any use in battle. In the live action her father is actually elderly, which begs the question of why his family wouldn’t just be exempt from sending a representative since he has no sons

The biggest mega bruh moment will be when there won't be any more animated movies left to remake.

26:26 I love how they left the part where the emperor struggles to read his lines in the final version of the movie. Like man, couldn't they have done another take?

The start of this video made me feel humbled it genuinely sucks that people are STILL going through all of those terrible things :(

I feel a lot of respect for Elvis discussing the Uighur camps. He’s using his platform to both entertain and inform.

Disney: Removes songs, Mushu and Lucky Cricket to make it realistic Also Disney: Adds in a witch and gives Mulan superpowers

Today, on lines that didnt aged well: 4:00 "There's still time to save Moana guys" Moana live action remake: "Im gonna ruin Elvis whole career"

having long hair in a fight, shows you that the screen writers never have been in a fight

DISNEY is ruining their own movies with these remakes, it’s gotta stop. Just make original new content

Disney: Okay, so cutting her hair isn’t historically accurate! Let’s change that! Also Disney: YES WITCHES, MAGIC, PHEONIX, LETS GOOOOO

19:23 Perhaps it's because I slept like hell last night and am still out of it, but "Unlock Her Lady-Chi" made me laugh so hard 😅 that my dog looked at me like I was insane and then sauntered out of the room... which only made me laugh harder! 🤣

holy shit a Trebuchet... Han dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China (202 BC - 220 AD)... The first recorded use of a trebuchet is in Europe in the 12th century. Who let Biff use the time machine again?

So they took out Mushu because they wanted a more grounded, less supernatural movie. Buttttt they have a witch and and Mulan has chi powers...right.... Disney logic

1998 Mulan: Fights in the Imperial City 2020 Mulan: Fights at a construction site 🤦‍♂️

4:00 this didn't age well. I would love to see your reaction to the Moana live action remake announcement.

this is a great video!!!!! thanks for including the segment about the camps,,,, i feel like not enough ppl know about that. also, the origional move was such a gem why'd they go and make a pile of garbage out of it lol

Armor: Saves Mulan's life Mulan: *Takes off armor*

Now that Mulan has mastered Chi and saved China, I hear she's going to travel to Japan to train with Goku.

I'm even more happy I never gave this movie a chance. I'll stick the amazing animated version with the N'Sync and Stevie wonder soundtrack

It is, like. genuinely amazing to me how Disney can make fight scenes look so cheap. Like omg the part where the witch threw the little shuriken at Mulan and she fell like 20 FEET BACKWARDS made me laugh so much

As a martial artist with long hair, I can confirm: letting your hair down in the middle of a fight sucks, not just because it gets everywhere, but if you turn fast enough, that shit be slapping you in the eyes.

You know another thing I can't understand from this whole thing? Why did Disney producers decide to specifically state "having a commander that is also a sexual love interest was very uncomfortable"? Why did they need to specify "sexual"? Wasn't "love interest" enough of a description? It's not like as soon as Lee saw she was a girl he immediately thought "well, I'm gonna smack that booty, I want her I'm my bed right now!" Like, is this how they see romantic relationships nowadays? Just a sexual thing? Also, he didn't even try to pursue her while she was a soldier. Not even after she was found out to be a girl. She was a civilian after he came to her. At no point he showed romantic interest while she was one of his soldiers. This makes even less sense.

BRAVO, Elvis - that background section took guts. Salute you for telling the truth!

11:52 And may i add that their relationship wasn't even that explored in the movie till the very end. They were basically colleagues.

1998: Somehow I'll make a man out of you 2020: Somehow I'll make 30 bucks out of you

Nothing warms my heart more than cynical cash grabs failing miserably

4:00 that aged well

Lol, it's too late to save Moana now

I’m so happy that Mushu, the cricket, Shang, and the grandma weren’t in this movie. I’m sure that their characters would’ve been butchered as well.

You know it’s a good day when Disney losses millions of dollars.

Thanks Elvis The Alien for voicing the Uiyghur. Respect I'll subscribe to you just for this

This review just reminded me how much I loved the cartoon Mulan. What a great movie! Haven't seen the remake....