Wednesday, September 9, 2020

LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS: What to Watch after the MULAN Remake

I wanted to do something different than review Disney's Mulan (2020), the remake of their hit 1998 animated film Mulan. While I watched and enjoyed it, there are plenty of people more qualified to speak to its merits as it relates to the culture and stories that it's trying to depict. My aim here is to offer some suggestions to people who watched it (or didn't want to drop $30 but have access to a streaming service or two) and are hungry for a bit more high-flying martial arts action in a roughly similar vein.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that most everyone knows about 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and has seen Kung Fu Panda, and I'll try to include a couple (mostly) kid-friendly options along the way for any slightly adventurous youths who got their appetite whetted for a bit of wushu.