Mulan (My Version)

Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical comedy-adventure drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, Caravan Pictures, Valhalla Motion Pictures and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 19, 1998. The 36th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon and the ninth film in the Disney Renaissance, the film is based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, and was the first of three produced primarily at the animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. It was directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells, from a screenplay written by Philip LaZebnik, Christopher Sanders, Rita Hsiao, Eugenia Bostwick Singer, and Raymond Singer, with a screen story by Robert D. San Souci, and produced by Roger Birnbaum, Gale Anne Hurd and Pam Coats. The film features songs written by Matthew Wilder and Stephen Schwartz and a score composed by Hans Zimmer. It stars Ming-Na Wen, Danny Glover, B.D. Wong, Miguel Ferrer, Soon-Tek Oh, Freda Foh Shen, James Hong, Harvey Fierstein, Gedde Watanabe, Jerry S. Tondo, June Foray, with Pat Morita, and George Takei.

Mulan takes place in Ancient China where it was under attack by the Huns led by Shan-Yu (Miguel Ferrer) who will to conquer all of China. When Mulan (Ming-Na Wen) joins the Chinese Army of Emperor to save China including her father, Fa Zhou (Soon-Tek Oh), she disguises herself as a man named Ping with the help of a former dragon guardian Mushu (Danny Glover), her horse Khan, her insect pet Cri-Kee, three soldiers Yao (Harvey Fierstein), Chien-Po (Jerry S. Tondo) and Ling (Gedde Watanabe), and the captain Li Shang (B.D. Wong).

While the film today is very popular among the millennial generation, many of which praise it for being the most progressive Disney Princess film, the film did only modestly well at the box office; its success did not quite reach the standards of previous Disney Renaissance movies, such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics who praised its animation, visual effects, songs, direction, screenplay, musical score and vocal performances (particularly Wen, Glover, Wong, Ferrer, Fierstein, Tondo, Watanabe, Morita, Takei and Hong). It became a box office success, grossing $304.3 million against a $90 million budget.

Mulan spawned an animated television series Mulan: The Series aired on Disney Channel in 2003, followed by a direct-to-video sequel Mulan II in 2005.

Cast

 * Ming-Na Wen as Fa Mulan (singing voice provided by Lea Salonga),
 * Danny Glover as Mushu (singing voice provided by Brian Stokes Mitchell),
 * B.D. Wong as Captain Li Shang (singing voice provided by Donny Osmond),
 * Miguel Ferrer as Shan-Yu
 * Soon-Tek Oh as Fa Zhou
 * Freda Foh Shen as Fa Li (singing voice provided by Ofra Haza),
 * James Hong as Chi-Fu,
 * Harvey Fierstein as Yao,
 * Gedde Watanabe as Ling (singing voice provided by Matthew Wilder),
 * Jerry S. Tondo as Chien-Po,
 * June Foray
 * Pat Morita
 * George Takei