In trying to remake another animated classic for modern audiences and simultaneously appease the massive multi-billion-dollar Chinese market, as well as politically-correct and hypersensitive viewers, Disney merely manages to remind us that some classics are better off just left alone.
The remake of the 1998 animated classic stars Liu Yifei as the titular heroine, Mulan. Liu, who is also known in China as “Fairy Sister” exudes a chic feminine radiance that would better lend itself to the role of a Disney princess than Mulan. Mulan is not a princess. She’s the hoyden daughter of an army veteran; her character commands a degree of unkempt ruggedness, a quality sourly lacking in Liu, whose long, silky hair managed to maintain its model-esque composure even in the apogee of battle.
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