This is not, as it turns out, a consensus opinion: Mulan II is largely regarded as a mostly un-miserable sequel, with fairly strong animation. What makes this particular movie stand out, then, is how much it betrays itself: while most of these movies at least manage to hang together as self-contained objects, Mulan II is so feeble-minded and irritating even as a stand-alone narrative that before too long, I'd pretty much forgotten to keep comparing it to the original 1998 Mulan - the last film from Disney's 1990s renaissance to end up stuck with a DTV sequels, as it happens - as the experience of watching this movie was perfectly enervating all by itself, without having to hunt for reasons to hate the damn thing.
So it is no surprise that Mulan II does this. Many of the sequels produced by DisneyToon Studios - many, many, many, many of them - betray the emotions and themes of their precursor movies from the actual Disney canon.
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