Mulan 2
| Movie | |
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| German title | Mulan 2 |
| Original title | Mulan II |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK o. A. |
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| Director |
Lynne Southerland , Darrell Rooney |
| script |
Michael Lucker , Chris Parker , Roger SH Schulman |
| production | Jennifer Blohm |
| music |
Scott Erickson , Jeanine Tesori , Joel McNeely |
| cut | Pam Ziegenhagen |
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| chronology | |
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Mulan 2 (Original title: Mulan II , alternative title: Mulan - On a secret mission ) is the sequel to the film Mulan and at the same time the 35th direct-to-video production of Walt Disney Studios . The film was released in 2004 and directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Coock .
action
The spirited Mulan, celebrated as a heroine, and General Shang want to get married. Mulan's parents find that the two are very different and give them two necklaces that, when put together, form the symbol of yin and yang, to warn them that two different halves can only work properly together. A message from the emperor calls both Mulan and Shang to the emperor. Mulan is accompanied by two friends who are hiding in her saddlebag: Cri-Kee, the "lucky cricket", and the dragon Mushu. Mushu learned from the family ancestors that after Mulan's marriage, the husband's ancestors would take over the duties of guardian. For Mushu this means that he has to return to his old position as servant of the spirits. That doesn't suit him at all, because he has long since got used to luxury treatment. He decides to break up the happy couple under the pretense that they would not be a match anyway and he just wants to save Mulan from running into their misery. But Cri-Kee sees through Mushu's selfish intentions and keeps arguing with him about it.
When they arrived in Beijing, the Emperor Mulan and Shang explained their mission: They were to escort his three daughters to Qi-Gong. The princes there are supposed to be married to the girls in order to create an alliance with Qi-Gong that is too powerful for the Mongols to dare to attack. Mulan disagrees with the idea of an arranged marriage; She is also shocked that the emperor is selling his own daughters in this way. But of course there is nothing she can do about it. For the escort, Shang chooses three men from his old army: the grumpy and sometimes aggressive Yao, the gentle but devouring Chien-Po and the prankster Ling. The three of them had to take a serious setback in their search for suitable wives and are happy, To be able to accompany Mulan and Shang. When they pick up the princesses late one night, Mulan discovers that Ting-Ting, Mei and Su have not even seen their fiancées yet. In addition, Yao and Mei fall in love.
In the course of the trip, Chien-Po and Su also get closer, but Ling woos Princess Ting-Ting in vain, who is much more strict than the other two in observing her duties and seems to be completely humorless, which is why she literally jokes in front of Ling's runs away. Mushu bullies Shang wherever he can to make him look like a fool in front of Mulan. However, this takes it very loosely; Little does she know that Mushu is behind all this. Eventually there is an accident. The princesses' carriage falls down a waterfall. Although everyone remains unharmed, Shang is so irritable that he (with secret tutoring from Mushu) starts an argument with Mulan. But eventually they make up again. Mei suffers from her engagement and obligations to the kingdom, which Ting-Ting keeps pointing out. When she asks Mulan for advice, she says that one is always committed to one's own heart. Mei then argues with Ting-Ting and writes a letter to her father that she wants to run away so as not to have to marry the Prince of Qi-Gong. When her sisters discover the letter, Ting-Ting is initially angry, but then she comforts Mei. She says it is destined for every princess to serve their country alone and better not to ask for more. But Mei and Su would rather be like all other girls, express their opinions freely and be free from all constraints. Eventually Ting-Ting also gets infected by it.
At night the princesses sneak away with the soldiers who go to a village festival with them. There it also turns out that Ting-Ting does have a sense of humor, just doesn't like to laugh because she is embarrassed to laugh. But that doesn't prevent Ling from conquering the princess after all. In the meantime, Mushu has provoked another argument with a trick. Shang yells at the completely unsuspecting Mulan, who is furiously looking for the escaped wards alone. Mushu then wakes up Shang, who finds the letter in the princesses' tent and blames Mulan with the phrase used there about the obligation to one's own heart. In the village he forbids the soldiers to have any further contact with the princesses and yells at Mulan so that she breaks the engagement. Mushu is happy about his success, but only for a short time: Mulan is so depressed that Mushu confesses under the pressure of his guilty conscience.
Mulan is angry with Mushu, she wants to make up with Shang. But before that happens, they are attacked by a troop of Mongols. They try to kidnap Mei. When that fails, they cut the ropes of the bridge on which Mulan and Shang are still. Shang asks Mulan's forgiveness and drops down to allow her to safely return to the edge of the ravine. In her desperation, Mulan decides that Shang's death should not have been in vain: She goes to Qi-Gong without the princesses and without the soldiers and claims in front of the count that Ting-Ting, Mei and Su perished. In order to save the Alliance, she offers herself as the bride, which is accepted because she is the greatest heroine of China. She will marry the earl's eldest son; an immature, childish kid. But because she mourns Shang, she doesn't care. Mushu cannot comfort her either. She doesn't know that Shang survived. He has met the rest of the traveling party and is now on the way to Qi-Gong, where he bursts into the wedding ceremony. Mulan is overjoyed to see him alive, but the Count orders that Shang be arrested. Mushu knows that he owes them both. He hides in the statue of the Great Dragon of Unity and pretends to be this. In this way he can ignore the will of the frightened ruler and trust Mulan and Shang on the spot without endangering China's alliance with Qi-Gong. Only Mulan knows who she owes this to.
At home, Mushu said goodbye to the sweet life of a guardian when Shang merged his family temples with Mulan's family temple. Mushu is allowed to keep his job as a guard. He learns from Mulan that Shang now knows everything about him, but that's okay because now there is peace again between Mushu and Mulan.
synchronization
| role | German speaker |
|---|---|
| Mulan (language) | Dascha Lehmann |
| Mulan (vocals) | Heike Gentsch |
| Captain Li Shang | Johannes Berenz |
| Mushu | Otto Waalkes |
| Mei | Natascha Petz |
| Yao | Tommi Piper |
| Ting-Ting (language) | Anja Stadlober |
| Ting-Ting (vocals) | Marion Musiol |
| Ling | Wilfried Herbst |
| Su | Manja Doering |
| Chien-Po | Markus Majowski |
| The emperor | Friedrich Schoenfelder |
| Ancestor | Horst lamp |
| Grandmother Fa | Luise Lunow |
| Fa Li | Inken summer |
| Fa Zhou | Bodo Wolf |
Reviews
"[...] still entertaining, even if made much more serial and template-like than the box office success."
useful information
The original speakers from the first film also spoke in this film, except for Eddie Murphy , who speaks English to Mushu in Mulan . Murphy has been replaced by Mark Moseley.
Web links
- Mulan 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Mulan 2. In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
