Mulan gets the superhero-origin-story treatment in Niki Caro's long-awaited live-action remake, starring Liu Yifei, Gong Li and Donnie Yen.

Disney's remake of the 1998 animated movie makes its heroine feel like a Marvel superhero with an encouraging story for young girls and women.

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From new characters to remixed scenes, here are the big and small changes the new movie makes from Disney's 1998 animated classic.

No Mushu, no songs, just a watered-down and boring Mulan sprinkled with familiar superhero tropes." Not having seen the 1998 original, I was immune to these comparisons.

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Turning her into a superhero removes Mulan’s everywoman appeal, and leaves her with no room to grow as a character, huge swathes of Chinese viewers said.

Disney's live action Mulan stumbles while trying to update an animated classic.

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“Mulan is not a superhero, so her physical action needed to be anchored in a strong female body and bounded by the laws of physics,” she adds. “What you see of [Yifei] fighting on the ground ...