Mulan (1998) Critic Reviews

The payoff is a consistently rich piece with impressive visual vitality.Read the full review

Gorgeously animated and stirringly told, Disney's Mulan is a timeless story that will delight kids and divert adults with its sweeping scope, emotional intimacy and screwball humor.Read the full review

Mulan is an impressive achievement, with a story and treatment ranking with "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King."Read the full review

The film shines at capturing the watercolor delicacy of China's past.Read the full review

Mulan effortlessly blends serious, comic, and cute elements into a whole that should entertain the majority of movie-goers, regardless of race, gender, or age.Read the full review

It 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.Read the full review

Mulan may be exotic, but it's hardly a risky enterprise, what with its sentimental show tunes, wholesome morals and plucky teen heroine.Read the full review

A rich dramatic tapestry lightly stained by some strained comedy, rigorous political correctness and perhaps more adherence to Disney formula than should have been the case in one of the studio's most adventurous and serious animated features. Read the full review

Mulan has its accomplishments, but unlike the best of Disney's output, it comes off as more manufactured than magical. Read the full review