Mulan 《花木兰》Yes, it's another live-action remake of a classicDisney cartoon, but Mulan looks as if it could beworlds away from Cinderella and Beauty and theBeast. Based on the Chinese legend of a girl (LiuYifei) who disguises herself as a man so that she canjoin the imperial army, it doesn't have any of thesongs from the 1998 film, let alone a wisecrackingdragon voiced by Eddie Murphy. Instead, directorNiki Caro (Whale Rider) and the cast – whichincludes Jet Li, Donnie Yen and Jason Scott Lee – have staged massive battle scenes andgravity-defying martial-arts bouts reminis