Review – Mulan

I guess this is a step in the right direction for the Disney animation studio. Certainly this Chinese legend of a girl who pretends to be a boy so she can take her father’s place in the conscription ranks is a far cry from the women-as-helpless-victims plots of the studio’s heyday. The animation quality’s pretty good, and the comic relief (in the form of Edie Murphy lending his voice to a diminutive dragon) is actually kinda funny. Still, the most enduring memory I’ve got of this film is that when it first came out in the theaters McDonald’s had a promo tie-in where they briefly had Szechwan sauce available for McNuggets. Wow, that stuff was good! Mildly amusing