Mulan II (Video 2004)

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.

Directors:

Darrell Rooney, Lynne Southerland

Writers:

Michael Lucker (screenplay), Chris Parker (screenplay),

Stars:

Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, Mark Moseley

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ming-Na Wen	...	Mulan (voice) (as Ming-Na)
BD 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)

Storyline

Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain (now General) Li Shang asks for her hand in marriage. Before the two can have their happily ever after, the Emperor assigns them a secret mission, to escort three princesses to Qui Gong, China. Mushu is determined to drive a wedge between the couple after he learns that he will lose his guardian job if Mulan marries into the Li family. After the princesses unexpectedly fall in love with the Gang of Three, Mulan decides to help them escape the fate of marrying men they do not love. This contradicts the Emperor's orders and forces him to put Mulan's relationship with Shang into question. They are attacked by Mongolians, and the fate of China hangs in the balance.

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Plot Keywords:

china | 5th century | feud | sequel | falling into water | 

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Taglines:

Huns beware, this girl's gonna beat you into the next year.

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Comedy | Family | Musical

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Certificate:

G

Details

Official Sites:

Disney [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 February 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mulan 2

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

79 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Mulan's family name, Fa, should actually be pronounced Hua. Fa is the south Chinese (Canton) pronunciation used in Hong Kong and the surrounding area, Hua is the north Chinese (Mandarin) pronunciation used in much of the rest of China and on state television. Both share the same written form and mean 'flower'. The Chinese dub uses the Hua pronunciation as Mandarin is China's official language.

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Goofs

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".

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Quotes

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

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Connections

Referenced in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Episode #7.133 (2009)

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Soundtracks

" (I Wanna Be) Like Other Girls"
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics by Alexa Junge
Performed by Atomic Kitten
Produced by Brian Rawlings and Graham Stack for Brian Rawling Productions Ltd.
Atomic Kitten appears courtesy of Innocent/Virgin Records Limited

User Reviews

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 deserves to remain in the Disney vaults.

6/10