I maybe a little late to the game with the live action remake of Mulan, I do not even know if you can call it a remake as it keeps very little in common with its animated counterpart, much less than the other live action adaptations that Disney has made. I was never a huge fan of the animated version it still stands as one of my lesser favorites of that period in Disney feature animation, the parts I do enjoy are the scenes with Mushu, "I'll Make a Man Out of You" segment and the few times we get to see Cri-kee. All those of course are not in this version that aims to take a more serious pass at the girl named Hua Mulan. Not being a supporter of movies of this scale skipping cinemas and going straight to VOD even in the time of COVID-19 I waited after hearing the remarks others have made about the movie and knowing that one day it will just come out on disc, which it did and I purchased it through the Disney Movie Club. Being a completionist I had to add it to my Disney collection regardless of it was good or bad, I got the 4K combo set which includes the 4K Disc, Blu-Ray and Digital Copy which I'll go into the disc contents at the end of this review.
To me if Disney wanted to just make a more serious Mulan they easily could have, just changed the name a bit to take away the comparison and remake conversations surrounding this version. If another studio would have made this and gave it a new name it probably could have stood on its own as a Chinese action film, being Disney though even trying to look at it objectively as it's own entity no matter what their will always be that underlying comparison for viewers to the 1998 animation.
