I still have a really strong memory of the last time I saw this in a cinema and it was one of those instances of the whole ‘cinema experience’ making the world of difference to a movie. There were kids everywhere, getting so into the whole thing, and everybody was just responding to it completely.

Sometimes Mulan goes too far over the silly humour line for me – and its ending (a chirpy happy pop song played in the ancestors’ temple) is really kind of lame. But I never tire of the key songs (“Honor to Us All”, “Reflection”, “Be a Man”, and “A Girl Worth Fighting For”), Jerry Goldsmith’s score, and the killer flashes of great animation (the haircut scene is certainly among my alltime favourite scenes).

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