Kung Fu Mulan

Nah, you might want to skip entirely on this 2020 rendering of the "Mulan" tale.

I wasn't familiar with the existence of this movie, and I must say that I enjoyed both the animated movie from 1998, and the live action movie also from 2020. So as I stumbled upon this 2020 animated movie, of course I took the time to sit down and watch it.

First alarm indicator that should have raised an eyebrow was the title of this animated movie, as it has the words "Kung Fu" in it. Not really what you would immediately associate with the "Mulan" story. But hey, still sat down to watch it. And yeah, the Kung Fu part definitely made sense here, as there was an abundance of fighting throughout the course of this animated movie.

As for the storyline, well it was fairly weak and sort of bland. Sure, it was watchable, but hardly entertaining. Yet, I did manage to sit through the entire ordeal with my son, though none of us were overly impressed or entertained by writer Roger Chen's movie and the delivery of director Leo Liao.

This is a CGI animated movie, and it had that late 2010s computer game graphics look to it, for better or worse. I will say that the art was passable, but it wasn't the most of detailed textures in the scenes, especially for the environments and backgrounds. And at times the animation itself is wobbly or questionable.

The voice acting in an animated movie is everything, and I have to say that for the majority of the movie then the voice acting done by the actors and actresses in this particular animated movie were doing adequate jobs.

Ultimately, then "Kung Fu Mulan" was an animated movie that had managed to sneak in under the radar for me, and it is will just as unnoticeably return back into oblivious without having left as lasting impression on me.

This movie is not something I would recommend you rush out to get your hands on, because it wasn't really worth the effort. I am rating "Kung Fu Mulan" a generous four out of ten stars.