Mulan (1998) movie poster

Mulan (1998)

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."
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👍 88%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 82%
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Director
Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
G
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.9/10 (10,309 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
72

Cast

Ming-Na Wen as Mulan (voice) · 67% avg
Eddie Murphy as Mushu (voice) · 73% avg
BD Wong as Shang (voice) · 77% avg
Miguel Ferrer as Shan-Yu (voice) · 72% avg
Harvey Fierstein as Yao (voice) · 78% avg
Freda Foh Shen as Fa Li (voice)
June Foray as Grandmother Fa (voice) · 76% avg
James Hong as Chi Fu (voice) · 73% avg

Is Mulan good?

Yes. 88% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 82%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#91 / 661 · Animation
Rank in its year
#15 / 116 · 1998

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

When Imperial China calls one man from every family to defend the empire from invading Huns, a young woman disguises herself as a soldier to take her ailing father’s place. Facing ruthless invaders, brutal training, and the risk of execution if discovered, she must decide who she truly is— and what she’s willing to fight for. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical action film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook. Based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, the film follows Fa Mulan, a young Chinese woman who disguises herself as a male soldier named Ping to take her aging father's place in the Imperial Army when the Huns invade China. Accompanied by her family's tiny dragon guardian Mushu, voiced by Eddie Murphy, and a lucky cricket, Mulan must survive military training, prove herself in combat, and ultimately save the Emperor — all while concealing her identity in a society where a woman masquerading as a soldier is punishable by death.

Mulan represented Disney's most action-oriented animated film, with the avalanche sequence — in which Mulan single-handedly triggers a mountainside collapse to bury the Hun army — ranking among the studio's most spectacular set pieces. Eddie Murphy's Mushu provided comic relief in the Robin Williams tradition, though the character's anachronistic humor was more divisive. The film addressed themes of gender identity and societal expectation with more complexity than most Disney films of its era, presenting Mulan's journey not merely as disguise but as self-discovery.

Jerry Goldsmith's score blended Western orchestration with Chinese musical elements.

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