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Review of live-action movie 'Mulan'

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Mulan is a live-action of a famous 1998-99 musical  Disney Toon movie with the same name. I have added the "original" Mulan to my watchlist after watching this one. There are few movies which give a double boost: entertainment and learning in one go. Mulan movie is an adapdation of a Chinese fictional folk warrior heroine, Mulan from Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century AD). Mulan is popular worldwide and many series and movies have been made before on her life. Disney live-action Mulan is the latest remake. I would not like to go into details about what Disney has missed like its other women-centric action movies just to lure the Chinese authorities to accept this movie to their theaters. I would also not talk about the boycott movement around this movie. This movie deserves a round of applause too. I am going to talk about it. To save her ailing father, a girl named Hua Mulan( Liu Yifei ) steals her father's sword and armor to join the Imperial Army ...