Mulan (2020) VS Mulan (1998)

Mulan has been released on Disney Plus and has been HEAVILY criticised as being one of the worst Live Action Disney Remakes.
So to get to the bottom of this, I am making a versus battle between the two movies. Its Mulan vs Mulan. Which film did a superior job and which movie brought dishonour to this beloved character. The Disney animated movie, or the Disney live action remake.
Watch and find out as we are about to compare the new live action Mulan (2020) with the original animated Mulan (1998).

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[EricCarter]

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[midekubrandio]

Everyone speaking to Disney when they saw the live action remake:
“DISHONOR ON YOUR WHOLE FAMILY, DISHONOR ON YOU, DISHONOR ON YOUR COW!”

[alexdinu]

Animated mulan: You can do whatever you have in mind with enough determination and if you are willing to work as hard as you can
Live action mulan: Hard work and determination are useless. You must be born with special abilities or some kind of powers

[heatherstewart]

Bro imagine paying money to see Disney destroy one of their best films.

[jlfilmnatic]

So basically, Mulan from the 90s has more Personality

[Connor.SG-Ring]

_Dishonor on Disney!_
_Dishonor on their franchise!_
_Dishonor on their cash cow!_

[silentnoob]

The Mulan 2020 doesn’t even bring any “Honor to us all”

[brandonc]

Eric stop with Disney live action we care about your mental health

[trinaq]

Why try to fix something that wasn't even broken to begin with? In the original, Mulan was completely ordinary, but got by with her strengths and determination. In the remake, she's an invincible Superhero for no discernible meaning! 🙄😤

[Jfrmdasthest]

Honestly Disney should remaster the old animated movies with the animation not remake them

[jacindaellison]

One of the things I love about the cartoon version of Mulan is that she gets to defeat the villain with using both her feminity- she and her 3 friends wooing the villain's guards dressed like beautiful women and, using her fan to swipe away his sword. And she gets to kick butt using her martial arts she's learned in the army. I believe that was a fantastic way to show that you can use both things that were deemed only female and male at the time and show that they both complement each other.
P. S. Mulan having her long hair down, despite it being woman powered, I'm surprised it didn't get caught on something. I did learn that at Mulan's time period, men would tie their long hair up. Maybe she could have wrapped it up.

[mediamaniac]

“Dishonor” was the first word that came to mind when I saw that Disney was not only doing a feminist live-action remake, but making people pay $30 to watch it. Great work, as always!

[JC-rfwz]

Disney Remakes:
>plot: 0/10
>originality: 0/10
>Action: 2/10
>population: ∞/10

[stepheneastern]

Even more, what I hate the most about the 2020 version of Mulan is that they decided to remove the most important philosophical value contained in the animated movie, that is the philosophy of late blooming flowers that will bloom more beautifully than others. That philosophy summarizes the essence of Mulan's story in disguising herself as a soldier, not to give up in despair when you do the right thing. And I hate their decision to add a sister for her instead of her grandma. When we see closely, Grandma Fa has more important role for Mulan's character growth than a sister. In the animated movie, when the palace's guards arrive to announce the announcement, her mom tell her to stay inside but her grandma asks her to watch from their fence wall, it clears to me that her grandma wants her to be strong, educated, and empowered at the level she could and as far as she knows. In the live-action, her sister does nothing but being amazed by her, and gives no contribution whatsoever in Mulan's character growth.

[nginamandouma]

If Disney doesn’t watch this video the next live action movie will be horrible

[mr.coffee]

Not only does showing weakness show growth, it also shows Humanity.

[OutOfTheBoxThinker]

She's female. She's a protagonist. It's current year. Hence, she has to be a Mary Sue.
Remember Captain Marvel?
Remember Rey (from Star Wars)?
This is just one more of these female protagonists that is totally unrelatable to anyone because she's a total Mary Sue...
The irony here is that the same kind of people who think characters like these make great role models for young girls are the people who think Barbie is problematic because she's too unrealistic.
Morons!

[diamondlockproductions]

I’m honestly sick of seeing these worthless Mary-sue’s that keep popping up. I haven’t seen the original Milan, but the way you described it Eric, the main character definitely sounds like one you can root for, while the live action version is just nearly OP.

Note: One example of another great female character in media (that isn’t a Mary-sue) is Undyne from Undertale. She’s a very tough character, and has a likeable personality (that is later on, when she’s not trying to kill you).

[jondavidtheauthor]

In animated films such as Mulan 1998, the filmmakers have a limited amount of time and money to tell their story. That's a strong motivation to pack in as much story telling in as little time as possible. Disney and others have learned this and did it well many times. The makers of THIS film are spoiled, knowing that their budget is huge and they got all the time in the world.

[achinthmurali]

Please Disney, stop doing live action and go back to animation!