Editing Mulan

Doug (vo): Okay, so what do people in general really like about this movie? Well, they like the girl power aspect, they like the fact that such a strong female lead, that she goes out, she flings a sword, she fights her battle, she does all this good stuff. And that’d be great if she was a little bit more interesting. I don’t want to say she’s a bore 'cause she’s not totally forgettable, but, again, I just feel like I’ve seen this character before. She’s the free spirit that everybody tells should be one thing, but she wants to be something else. She can’t do the one thing that everybody tells her to do, so she wants to go into something unconventional. And wouldn’t you know it? That unconventional thing changes everybody’s perception. Again, not a bad moral, I’ve just seen it, and her character seems much more tied to the moral than it does an actual character. What pulls her through are the scenes where she’s trying to be a boy, but we’ll get to that in a second.

Doug (vo): Okay, so what do people in general really like about this movie? Well, they like the girl power aspect, they like the fact that such a strong female lead, that she goes out, she flings a sword, she fights her battle, she does all this good stuff. And that’d be great if she was a little bit more interesting. I don’t want to say she’s a bore 'cause she’s not totally forgettable, but, again, I just feel like I’ve seen this character before. She’s the free spirit that everybody tells should be one thing, but she wants to be something else. She can’t do the one thing that everybody tells her to do, so she wants to go into something unconventional. And wouldn’t you know it? That unconventional thing changes everybody’s perception. Again, not a bad moral, I’ve just seen it, and her character seems much more tied to the moral than it does an actual character. What pulls her through are the scenes where she’s trying to be a boy, but we’ll get to that in a second.

Doug (vo): People like Eddie Murphy as Mushu...I don’t. He seemed really out of place, I didn’t laugh that much at him, and, I don’t know. I didn’t see a character, I just saw Eddie Murphy doing the voice of a cartoon. In something like [[Shrek|''Shrek'']], it makes a little bit more sense. This is just the kind of world it is. In Chinese history, this doesn’t seem to fly very well. Though, to be fair, he does get a good line every once in a while.

Doug (vo): People like Eddie Murphy as Mushu...I don’t. He seemed really out of place, I didn’t laugh that much at him, and, I don’t know. I didn’t see a character, I just saw Eddie Murphy doing the voice of a cartoon. In something like [[Shrek|''Shrek'']], it makes a little bit more sense. This is just the kind of world it is. In Chinese history, this doesn’t seem to fly very well. Though, to be fair, he does get a good line every once in a while.