Mulan 2: True to Your Heart (2004)

While 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

1 nomination.

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 | female protagonist | princess | presumed dead | interrupted wedding | 

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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 [United States]

Country:

USA South Korea Singapore Russia Malaysia Kazakhstan Taiwan Hong Kong Japan China India Syria Iran Egypt Pakistan

Language:

English

Release Date:

31 January 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mulan II

Company Credits

Production Co:

Disneytoon Studios, SD Entertainment, 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 horse is black but she wears the white side of the yin yang symbol while Shang's horse is white but he wears the black side of the yin yang symbol.

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Goofs

When the princesses are escorted into the cart, Ting Ting first speaks to General Shang, sitting to his left. When Mulan comes into the picture, Mei is sitting in the same spot Ting Ting was previously sitting, but when they are shown again, Ting Ting is sitting in her previous spot and Mei is sitting opposite from her.

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Quotes

Fa Mulan: [after being asked if their wedding is going to be big] Absolutely!
Captain Li Shang: Oh ho, no! Blue!
Fa Mulan: Pink!
Captain Li Shang: Mild.
Fa Mulan: Spicy!
Captain Li Shang: Yes!
Fa Mulan: No!

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Connections

Referenced in Estrenos Críticos: Eyjafjallajökull, Corazón de León, Marsella, Aviones 2 y Planeta de los Simios 8 (2014)

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Soundtracks

Here Beside Me
Music by Joel McNeely
Lyrics by Kate Light
Performed by Hayley Westenra
Hayley Westenra appears courtesy of Decca Records/Universal Classics Group

User Reviews

Entertaining, surprising, yet a little off

I didn't think Mulan II was awful and I certainly didn't hate it. I found the material to be pretty sophisticated for a Disney movie, particularly for a sequel. The relationship issues were were complex and thoughtful, and I agree with a previous comment that the movie does a good job of building and expanding on what we saw in the first movie. I enjoyed the addition of the the three daughters as characters as well and the return of Ling, Yao, and Chien Po. Overall I thought the movie was charming, entertaining, and it made me grin. There were also some very dramatic scenes in the movie that I thought were just outstanding and ground-breaking for a Disney animated feature.

Having said that, I also have to say that I was disappointed that the feel of the movie did not match the first. In fact it was completely different, and I found many of the characters to be extremely out of character, particularly Shang and Mulan. They just did not seem like themselves, based on our understanding of who they are from the original film. There are moments in which the way they react to events is completely over the top (for example, Shang's anger when he thinks Mulan is gossiping about him to the princesses). His facial expressions even become exaggerated in cartoon fashion. Basically, the movie did not have the serene, serious, yet beautiful feeling of the first. Instead it was like the movie was completely thrown to a group of writers and directors who were given semblances of who the characters are and then ran off with it. Shang, Mulan, and Ling acted so off sometimes that it seemed like their voice actors changed. I was surprised that B.D. Wong, Ming-Na, and Gedde Watanabe were still doing their parts, despite how familiar I am with their voices.

Mulan II is enjoyable, but it's nothing like the first. I think I could best describe it as watching a Mulan fan fiction come to life.... entertaining but with a few ummms in there.