I liked the movie though compared to the animated version of 1998 it is nothing I feel. The story misses all the humor, fun. And instead of Mulan showing some character development she is already born a superwoman... YAY... She needs no efforts to be amazing. The 1998 version shows the efforts she puts in to be 'one of the guys' to be 'the best warrior' here she already is. They killed of mushu the amazing short dragon and brought in a Phoenix whose only part in the entire movie was to show her the road to the camp and all the other places the Phoenix appeared made no sense. Then the part of her love interest I'm fine with it but it could be more. They cut off all the songs from the original mulan. It felt more of a plain action movie. Would've loved if they focused some more on the animated version to make the live action version. The one where she had to climb the pillar with her hands tied to heavy coins or the attack in the palace because the king doesn't seem helpless.
But this movie is amazing as well. Waited to watch it for this long because of the reviews I read when it originally came so finally gave it a chance and it was good not as good as the original but good enough.