72
Metascore
24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 89Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleDisney's latest animated feature hearkens back to its heyday fare, a sweet and captivating tale that pits gentle, enduring goodness against dark, malevolent forces.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIt took long enough, but Disney has finally come up with an animated heroine who's a good role model and a funky, arresting personality at the same time.
- 80EmpireEmpireMulan serves up the sort of classic entertainment the Magic Kingdom was built on: stunning animation, sharply defined characters, a smattering of catchy tunes all seamlessly woven into a simple, powerfully told yarn.
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThis high-quality Disney animation combines strong pictorial appeal with amiable voice-performances.
- Though Disney's animation department does deserve credit for shaking up its formula and delving into relatively mature drama, the movie is flawed in numerous aggravating ways.
- It's nothing more than pleasant matinee fodder with some jarring tones and clunky stretches.
- 60Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMulan has its accomplishments, but unlike the best of Disney's output, it comes off as more manufactured than magical.
- 60L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorMulan, like all the characters in this movie, is a cookie-cutter American prototype, lazily ripped off from the Disney boilerplate that fashioned Pocahontas et al.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserIt's hard not to keep thinking that this movie is basically "Yentl" with a nose job.