Title: Another (yawn) Disney "Masterpiece"
Product review: It amazes me how shameless the Disney people are, slapping that label "masterpiece" on every recent animated feature they've done. And so too with "Mulan."This could have been a real provocative piece of storytelling. But once again, Disney plays it safe, following the formula of past successes. We get great animation, but a superficial story. Nothing really insightful about Chinese culture, history, or for that matter, gender, is revealed. The cute "sidekick" characters (this time a hip, wisecracking dragon) in these Disney features are getting very stale. The obligatory songs, which often trivialize what little meaning is found in the script, also get very predictable.I keep hoping that one of these days, Disney will really give their talented animators a chance to do a feature like no other -- a new work which will be looked back upon as redefining the storytelling power of this medium. That would be a "masterpiece," and "Mulan" is far, far from it!
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