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"Mulan: Legendary Warrior" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 06/24/2016
A young woman takes the place of her ailing father when he is called up for military service and rises through the ranks to become a celebrated general during their campaign against an encroaching army of raiders. Mulan was a story that was also adapted by Disney for one of its feature length cartoons and the general premise is the same; a skilled woman poses as a man and finds acceptance and respect of her peers as well as the love of a comrade. It is this romanticism that makes this film a little too contrived and steeped in saccharine in places but the overall effect of having a female lead makes a nice counterpoint to the usual macho posturing of the wartime epic. Its clumsiness, particularly in the relationship between she and her unrequited love, mars the story only occasionally …
