The way "a girl worth fighting for" ends because they find a girl worth fighting for. The little girl who died and her doll left behind is the girl they find worth fighting for.

The best part about Shan-Yu as a character comes at the moment Mulan reveals she was the one that took out his army. He doesn't doubt what she says, he doesn't scoff at the idea of a woman being the one to take him out; he refers to her as "the soldier from the mountain". Mongolian women weren't as looked down on as Chinese women at the time, and many even held positions in military and politics. To Shan-Yu, Mulan was just another soldier, and he treated her as such.

It kind bothers me when people say Mulan wants to fight in the war - she doesn't want to be a warrior, she wants to save her father so she willingly goes in his place.

Emperor sees Shang and Mulan and is all like: "I ship it."

“Oh wait are we gonna see her train?!” Only in THE BEST TRAINING MONTAGE EVER CREATED! 😂

32:48 - I don't think the father changed during the movie. He always loved and cared for Mulan. He just knew that without a good reputation, Mulan will have trouble building a good life for herself (he obviously didn't anticipate that Mulan will create a good life for herself by going to war).

The songs in Mulan have a different purpose than in most Disney films. There are only 4 and they all belong to the "juvenile" part of the movie where Mulan is growing and learning new skills. Notice that "Girl Worth Fighting For" cuts off right at the point where the characters and we, the audience, stop messing around and take things seriously. No more time for singing, the real adult life begins. P. S. Whenever someone says "let's get down to business", I can't help but quietly add "to defeat the Huns!"

Nick: “I don’t think she can hide being a girl” Mulan: WATCH ME

The fact that Milan didn’t want to be a warrior and instead did it to protect her father makes me respect her soo much. Mulan was my favourite disney princess :)

Don't see a lot of people talk about it, but Mulan's Decision (The piece that plays as Mulan is putting on the armour) is one of my favourite pieces of music in Disney. It's just so easy for me to lose myself in it

One of the coolest head canons I've ever heard about this movie is this- When Mulan makes the decision to pose as a soldier and go to war to save her father, she is sitting on the stone statue of the Great dagon.... that's the reason why Mushu wasn't able to wake the great stone dragon it was because the great stone dragon is now Mulan.

Every scene from this movie even if it’s a couple of minutes or seconds it’s better than the live action of Mulan

Believe it or not, when this movie came out, it got mixed reviews. Critics felt it wasn't nearly as good as other 90s Disney movies and some even said the songs weren't memorable. Some even called it an anti feminist movie because of the "be a man" song. But honestly this has got to be one of the greatest Disney movies. And compared to other 90s Disney movies, I think it's aged much better. Particularly for millennials, the idea of feeling lost and looking for acceptance from your family and society, really hits home.

One of the best training montages ever and my personal favorite. It shows her struggling, failing, about to give up before she gets back into it and ultimately succeeding and winning over her comrades. And how? Through hard work, perseverance and intelligence. They even show all the men succeeding with her so in the end they all come out fairly equal and not her being some chosen one ultimate soldier.

Mulan's father was never that hard on her being womanly... not even at the beginning. It was only when she embarrassed him that he got mad and said she should know her place. He's the head of the family. He's the one that's allowed her such leeway in her behaviour up to that point.

The scene where her father tries to make her feel better about failing at the matchmaker’s always makes me tear up, then it’s heartbreaking later on when he tells her it’s time she learned her place, but in the midst of that moment, I have to admire the great courage and fortitude he’s exhibiting in accepting his fate. He knows it’s a death sentence for him.

21:17 That face... Yeah. NO-ONE was prepared for the scene of the burning village. One of the best gut-punches Disney ever threw.

"Prince of Egypt" is a good one, too! Great music!

I saw someone make the observation the other day that while the men were singing the song A Girl Worth Fighting For they were still behaving like boys because war was not real to them yet. All they were thinking about was going home like war heroes and being selfish. They are abruptly met with the realization of why they are fighting and the real "girl worth fighting for" was the little girl that the doll belonged to and others like her. Choked me up just reading it but seeing this scene for the first time with that in mind just added another layer to this movie. They got a lot wrong when it came to the real Ballad of Hua Mulan and how they treated the cultures of the Chinese and Hun, but they didn't hold back on the emotional depth.

“I’ll make a man out of you” gets me so hyped to do anything lol

When they were singing merrily and happened on that destroyed village, that's considered one of the greatest transitions in cinematic history.

Fun fact: Mulan’s singing voice, Lea Salonga, is also Jasmine’s singing voice.

Shan Yu’s my favorite of all the Disney villains! I mean he commands a huge army, uses a curved edge sword, has an evil looking pet falcon (that is until Mushu burns his feathers off), and don’t even get me started on his badass theme.

Mulan didn't want to be a warrior, she just didn't want her father to die because he was injured from the last time he fought.

*Very Fun Fact:* We saw that Mulan was sitting by the stone dragon right before she chose to leave. This is important. Later when Mushu tries to awaken the stone dragon, it doesn’t wake up. Why? Because it’s already awakened. Mulan! The reason the stone dragon didn’t awaken was because it was already awake. Mulan was already on the path to protect the family by going to war for her father.

I love that Eddy Murphy's voice is sooo recognizable, I love it!

One thing I always liked was Yao's declaration that they had to help "Ping." He and Ling and Chien Po knew they wouldn't win the fight, but they ran towards the Huns anyway. I always thought it was because they didn't want their friend to die alone.

"The greatest gift and honour, is having you for a daughter" this gets me every time 😭

I have to agree, this movie is so much better than the terrible live action remake they took itself too seriously, as well as lacking any songs and original music in the movie.

Also, fun fact, in Hun culture they didn't minimize women the same way as the Chinese so that's why Shan Yu doesn'tm make a big deal that a woman was the one who took his victory on the mountain.

"How many men does it take to deliver a message?" *Archer takes aim* "...One." I had chills during that scene. It perfectly drives the point home that these guys are the villains. I know that they're an invading army so leaving enemy soldiers in fighting condition would be foolish, but shooting a guy in the back they let go... that's evil.

she wanted to be like the other girls and bring honor to her family by impressing the matchmaker. The fact that she failed so miserably was hard. But she brought honor in a different way with her desire to risk her life for her father and then for her friends and for her country. She thought of others before self.

All of the songs are absolute bangers.

Hey everyone hope you enjoyed the reaction! Next up will be Castaway and then Hunchback of Notre Dame!

From now on every time somebody says “Let’s get down to business “ you’ll now automatically sing to yourself “and defeat the Huns!”. Such a great soundtrack and film.

The singing voice of the grandmother was one of the nuns in The Sound of Music. She's Marni Nixon, one of the best "ghost singers" in Hollywood in the 1950s-60s.

Great reaction!! And I remember reading somewhere that the Great Stone Dragon doesn't wake up because his spirit is actually imbued directly in Mulan (during the rain scene, before she puts on the armor), so she essentially becomes the protector of her family.

The best thing about the training montage is even though Mulan is the focus, we see that all of them are really untrained and we watch all of them grow and improve like Mulan.

The whole hair cutting sequence is so bad ass and intense it's one of my favorite scenes in animation, not to mention how serious it is

Mulan was always my favourite Disney movie. Even when I was a little girl I really liked that Mulan wasn't the typical helpless disney princess but that she actually defied all expectations/rules and went to war herself. Even better, she didn't really need the "prince" - he needed her in the end! My other two favourites were Princess and the Frog and Tangled. Even though the latter is the exact opposite of Mulan, I really enjoyed the humour in it.

One thing I really like about this movie, and about Shan Yu himself, is that while everyone else looks down on Mulan for being a woman, and being a woman masquerading as a soldier, the first thing Shan Yu says when he sees Mulan isn't a comment about her being a woman; he acknowledges her as "the soldier from the mountains". Apparently, in Hun culture, women were just as great warriors as men, and fought alongside them. So, to Shan Yu, it's not strange to see Mulan as a soldier; he's just pissed that she's the one who nearly killed him and his army. Usually it's the love interest, or even best friend, who goes against the norm for the main protagonist right at the start; but in this case, it's the villain. Also, Shang's English singing voice is Donnie Osmond, one of my mom's favorite singers :3

When you were praising Reflection, my audible reactions were “correct! Absolutely! ABSOLUTELY!” It’s considered one of the top tier Disney films sung by the legendary Lea Salonga. And Mulan! Just wow. The live action could NEVER

Fun fact: Milan may be based on a true story. It’s one of those tales that is so old it’s hard to know what is true and what is not but it is believed that she was a real person!

About the lack of the father through the film: At the beginning, they have a great relationship, he tells her to go at her own pace and she’ll get here eventually, and they have that beautiful moment under the cherry blossom tree But then the conscription happens And this tears a seam of their relationship And the last time they speak, is a fight driven highly by emotion (Mulan sits in the rain, clearly upset at the rift torn in their relationship, and decides she must take his place, so that she can do as he said and bring honour, and “find her place”) After this Mulan leaves (We see the father try to chase her but he falls down calling her name, and is forced to let her go. Mulan of course doesn’t see this, but this is where we see his regret that their last moment was a fight) This creates actual stakes in the movie, not only does Mulan have to survive but she also has to get back home and reconcile with her father She believes the only way for them to reconcile is for her to being honour back home, yet when she does that, he throws it away and hugs her This resolves the main emotional journey through the story as well as resolving the relationship between the characters I think it is important we don’t see him when she is away, because he is constantly in the back of the audience’s mind, just as with Mulan’s Which creates the emotional suspense of the movie, “what is he doing?” “How is he feeling?” “How will he react to her when she returns?” etc. Seeing him throughout the movie would’ve also made their reunion less impactful As Mulan returns we see her father under the same tree from the beginning, this time shrunken down instead of sitting tall, and this time all the blossoms have bloomed symbolising Mulan’s journey is complete and she has become the person she dreamed of and her father hoped for Their first beautiful emotional moment under that tree establishing their connection, with the last resolving the rift and solidifying their bond

And of course, Ming-Na would go on to play another badass Disney heroine on Agents of SHIELD.

honestly I think Mulan is one of the most perfect animated films, I personally even put it above your top two 😅

This is definitly one of, if not, the best Disney movies. A great score, solid plot, and valuable lessons. At the time this movie was made, Disney was hitting homerun after homerun, but this was a grandslam!

If you want an uplifting classic + a banging soundtrack then Oliver and Company, a Goofy Movie, and Tarzan were made for you haha

"If she's gonna go to war are we gonna see her train?? I'd love to see her train" Yep sure are. One of my fav parts of the movie also. The song is amazing (as they all are) and I love the montage of them going from absolutely terrible to awesome fighting champions. When she retrieves the arrow is the best part of that song for sure.

fun fact: When Mulan yells about how her father shouldn't have to fight and he says "you dishonor me", the animators forgot to put in their meal. All they have to eat is rice

When you said you hoped you’d get to see her train I was just like, “Ohohoho you are about to be so happy.”

During the sequence when Mulan gets ready to take her father's armor and disguise herself as a man, you can see dragon imagery throughout the entire thing, to symbolize the great dragon that watches over the family. Conclusion: Mushu was unable to awaken the Great Dragon because it had already left, signifying that Mulan is the Great Dragon that protects her family.

Something fun to realize about the great stone dragon, it's absent from its stone form because it was already within Mulan's spirit. Also, some historical context, the Huns were far more egalitarian and allowed women to take on more roles than just wives and mothers. This is why Shan Yu, realizing Mulan was the soldier who set off the avalanche, could care less if she was a woman or not.

You should watch Brother Bear it’s so underrated but I think everyone who comes around on the movie loves it The music and animation is amazing

Chills everytime you see the smoke clear from the mountains and the figures appear on the horizon

It’s crazy to me how you haven’t seen a lot of the classics, but I’m really glad you’re sharing your reactions with us, your content has been great!

Lea Salonga is the one who sings her voice (just the songs). She is a musical genius. Seriously gorgeous voice and talent.

"I hope we get to see her train!" Oh boy, thats the best song in this whole damn movie!!

"I hope this movie has songs! I love the Disney songs!" *Oh this is going to be fun* 😀

I still get chills when Shan Yu finds that girl's doll. The way he casually says "Besides, the little girl will be missing her doll. We should return it to her."

Weirdly enough, that "I brought a spare teacup" part is one of my favorites: it's funny because she's obviously so used to being clumsy that she just knows to have a spare ready, but I also find it weirdly charming!

This movie is awesome! The fact that 20 years or later I can break out pretty much anywhere - used to do it at work - with "Let's get down to business..." and have someone else reply "to defeat the huns..." It says it all ❤

Lea Salonga (who sings for Mulan) also does Jasmine’s singing voice!

Mulan and Li Shang are my favourite Disney Princess and Prince

No one can watch that scene with her deciding to take her father's place and not get freakin' PUMPED!

The music is so epic when mulan is cutting her hair and putting on the armor. I love Mushu Eddie Murphy is hilarious .

Asking if we’re gonna see Mulan train. “Oh boy, you have no clue what epic song is coming up for that!”

I remember back in 1998, I was an 8 year old boy, with my mom at the movie theater and there was Mulan and Lost in Space about to begin. She told me I could choose which one we would see, and I went for Mulan. Eventually, we saw Lost in Space in home video, but I don't regret my decision!

This movie has an all-star cast as well. Fa Mulan- Ming-Na Wen (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and The Mandalorian) Li Shang- B.D. Wong (Jurassic Park/World and SVU) Mushu- Eddie Murphy Prime Ancestor- George Takei ( The OG Sulu in Star Trek) Emperor- Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid) Also the voice actress for Grandmother Fa was Cindy Lou Who in the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

and then later, the voice actors of Mulan and Chi-fu will play daughter and father in Agents of Shield

One of the best jokes in this movie imo is Mulan saying "I never want to see a naked man again", and then then most of the army runs past, so she saw a good fifty.

So looking forward to this! Please react to Brother Bear! Such a moving story about growth and family. And has amazing songs too, one of the best in Disney in my opinion

I love that Mulan fails at the typically feminine traits and expectations and later the masculine. However, she does eventually become successful at stereotypically masculine traits, but she also earns respect first and distinguishes herself by retrieving the arrow-- a task that all the men failed at because they were using brute force tactics, she was successful because used a different tactic that isn't necessarily masculine (she looks at the problem differently than using brute force). One of the major themes beyond family/honor is that gender doesn't matter or define a person's greatness or ability to achieve. It lends greater importance to Mulan's self discovery "reflection" and realization that adhering to those traditional gender norms does not define a person. I would also like to add that later the men follow Mulan's tactics by dressing as women, calling back to her tactics in the retrieval of the arrow and their willingness to try something beyond brute force.

I hope you'll react to The Great Mouse Detective, that's a great one and it's sadly quite underrated.

"Women should be able to do whatever they want" ... ok im subscribing just bc you said that. Preach! 👏👏👏

Mulan fires on all cylinders... Truly powerful story, great art style and animation (the huns charge in the mountains was a technical achievement in its day), and the soundtrack holds up as one of Disney's best. Such catchy lyrics and a beautiful, powerful score. (Also launched Christina Aguilera's career!)

This movie cracks me up every single time, no matter how many times I watch it!!!!

It would be dope if you could react to spirit : stallion of the cimarron

Fun fact: There's a live action movie made by China themselves that is more historically accurate to the ballad the cartoon was based off of, and I believe it's equally as good mainly because of the historical accuracy and the different tone it offers. I think it addresses your desire for the cartoon movie to get to know the father more, seeing as in the live action they spent more time characterizing him.

7:43 This is one of the best songs from all the disney movies! 😍😍 This movie has always been an inspiration to me as a woman, that we can be as delicate as a flower, but strong as warriors! Women can be wherever they want and they can be whoever they want. ❤‍🔥

FUN FACT: Mulan has the highest body count in all of Disney animated history! Including all the Disney villains!

She does not want to become a warrior just wants to help her family and bring them honour.

22:02-22:40 Something that goes unnoticed. The hun archers first shoot at Lee because he’s clearly the leader. Kill the leader, and the group would lack order. Then they immediately shoot Fire Arrows at the carts, purposefully trying to destroy the canons. Then after the group fires back at the hun archers, they only have one canon left. Shan Yu then immediately does a cavalry charge without worry from Cannon fire, meaning that this was all PLANNED! The war tactics are all there without being brought up!

Nick during “Reflection”: I’m gonna have to listen to this soundtrack after. Me: oh just you wait. Movie’s not even close to over

So, the deal with the stone dragon not awakening. There’s a theory that when Mulan decided to take her father’s place, she was sitting beneath the dragon in the rain. She awoke the great stone dragon within herself.

I always LOVE this movie.

Nick: They can't die, this is a Disney movie. Mulan: observe

for all this movie's inaccuracies, this is much much better than the recent live action movie.

This is one of my all time favorite Disney movies. I'm glad this lifted your spirits.

Fun fact: in the movie it’s a joke that her name is Ping, because Hua Ping means flowerpot, which is a term for someone who’s pretty but otherwise useless

In the real story of Mulan, "Mushu" was actually her childhood friend who ran into her during training and knew who she was, and did his best to help hide her identity and protect her. I highly suggest watching the Chinese movie 'Mulan: Legendary Warrior' (2009) for a more emotional, realistic story of Mulan. It makes me cry every time I watch it!

"I don't know why but I wanna see her train!" It's because my bisexual icon gives us one of the best songs in this movie during that montage. Which is saying something because this score is FIRE!

The entire soundtrack is excellent, one of my favorites.

Please react to "The Emperor's New Groove".

I can’t believe that Mulan, along with Lilo & Stitch, and Brother Bear were all made primarily at the former animation studio in Orlando, Florida. What a special thing for those three, eh? Anyway, I’m glad that you loved this film. Definitely in my top ten as well!

Both of us crying at the end 😪 I cry every time I watch this lol it’s my fave Disney movie 💖

I would definitely recommend Disney's The Rescuers next. It's a heartwarming movie and highly underrated!!

Since you enjoyed the music, fun fact about the singing voice of Mulan - it's the same singing voice as Jasmine in Aladdin, Lea Salonga.

"You don't meet a girl like that every dynasty." Lol

Fun fact: the guy that almost boiled Aang in oil in ATLA is the voice of the emperor’s assistant :D he usually plays characters that look the same IMO and they’re usually the same obnoxious pompous arrogant person lolol