Mulan II

Mulan II

Disney

November 28, 2004 (direct-to-video)

Historical Comedy, Romance?

DVD
C-

The first quarter-hour is uneventful and cute at best.  Darrell Rooney and Lynne Southerland co-directed.

Mulan (1998)

Mulan (1998)

Disney

June 19, 1998

Historical Drama, Historical Comedy, War Drama, War Comedy, Musical*

DVD
B-

A G-rated Disney movie about cross-dressing, implied nudity, concubines, and of course war?  It was The Nineties.  Anyway, while not a typical princess movie, I like it better than most, if not as much as I did when I saw it for the first time about fifteen years ago.  The voice acting is fun, if not always culturally appropriate.  (Not that I will ever knock June Foray of course.  The woman was a long-lived legend.)

Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook co-directed.

*I'm skipping the "romance" tag because it's such a minor part of the story.

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

Universal

June 30, 2000

Comedy, Animation

DVD
C

I was rooting for this to at least hit the C+ level, like Dudley Do-Right, but even twenty minutes in, it just hadn't clicked, although there were touches I like and the cast is certainly interesting.  I think the fact that Natasha (Russo) did almost nothing but pose didn't help.  Des McAnuff directed.

This is on a "Four Movie Marathon" pack of "Family Comedies," all of them based on TV shows, although Josie & the Pussycats (which I'm skipping over since I own it) was a comic book first.

Dudley Do-Right

Dudley Do-Right
Universal
August 27, 1999
Comedy
DVD
C+

Goofy, amiable movie that never quite hits the heights of the cartoon, although bless it for trying.  Opens with an actual Fractured Fairytale cartoon featuring a cameo with the then seemingly eternal June Foray.  (She'd die at 99 in 2017.)  Hugh Wilson wrote and directed.