Also, Mulan had more chemistry with Shing Shing than with that guy, he barely even spoke to her and she just reveals she's a girl and they kiss. What? If this were made recently it would have ended with Mulan X Shing Shing being a thing.
@@cintronproductions9430 Given how Shing Shing just gives up on saving her after barely making an effort I question if that relationship's really preferable.
I mean, it would be hilarious if she fell in love with her "Male" persona only to find out it was a girl this whole time and...that maybe that doesnt change her feelings in the long run.
"Disney has two major movies coming out this year. Mulan and A Bug's Life. If we're going to cash in on both, we need to make two 'secret of' movies." "Actually.... I have a better idea...."
I have a hunch that the reason they made the characters in this bugs is because A Bug's Life and Mulan came out the same year, so they figured they'd rip off both those movies at the same time.
I don't know whether to wtf over the ridiculous shoe-horned anthropomorphic bug people, the 'baby's first story' level of a plot, the utterly nonsensical world logic, the atrocious line delivery, or the vapid stupidity of everything. Every time I think these movies can't get any dumber, they get dumber.
You're right. Both came out around the same time. I wouldn't be surprised if they were planning a normal Mulan ripoff but added aditional limbs, wings and mandibles to the character designs to turn them into bugs before production began.
In that case, it seems that every single character in this clusterfuck-except possibly Mulan herself-must have just gone for a swim right before the movie started.
@Simple Weirdo yeah if anything, they would become so useless that they end up become very useful either that or the entire that they live on explodes and everyone that lives there dies.
Wait....Mulan has WINGS?! Here i thought the secret was that she had a group of instruments following her around, who are really the reincarnation of her dead family. DISAPPOINTED!
Honestly, I wish the real secret here was that Mulan is into girls since she had more chemistry with Shing Shing than her male love interest. And looking at some of these comments, I'm not the only one.
This feels like 1st grader fanfiction of Mulan after watching A Bug's Life. At least The Secret of Anastasia and The Hunchback were entertainingly bad.
yeah, while the other UAV ones look like they'd at least be watchable or work as background noise, this feels like it would be almost painful to actually sit through
not really a high bar there, since you got one movie that's about bugs that's lazily made and you got another that was made the way it is because they're trying to please their Chinese overlords for that stupid global box office.
@@ZackExplorer28 And the funniest part is they managed to make it so offensive to the Chinese that the movie was banned there, it was a mega shitshow xD
@@megamage911 yeah the remake was a waste of my precious life and time mind you not. I'm not going to explain how bad the remake is but clynicalreviews reviews it. his profile picture is a dog btw cuz idk if I spelt his channel correctly.
Wow this mulan and a bug's life crossover is so stupid. Also the version of mulan phelan referred to was chu ren hos novelization, and Mulan's final words were "i am a girl. i have been through war and done enough, i now want to be with my father"... Also Mulan's mom was remarried by the time mulan came home from the war.. She seemed to get over her husband death kinda quicky
Producers were afraid that young girls wouldn't have found Mulan's story as inspiring if they knew she was a bug, because as we all know, girls don't find bugs inspiring.
@@foxymetroid NO, that's fictional!!! The dog was actually on the HMHS Britannic for morale support... tragically, the dog was present on the day it sunk
Surprised that Phelous didn't mention how Prince Butterfly was referred to as a brilliant leader multiple times in the film but the second Mulan was away from the army, they started losing.
So, I used to make character designs for my Animation Degree. When I saw that the characters here were bugs, I immediately thought, "Oh, you made the animation harder for no reason." Also, if they wanted to make the scout look like a dragonfly, why didn't they give her two buns on the sides of her head like dragonfly eyes? And maybe a patterned outfit that looked like a banded belly. Oh, wait, that would take actual thought.
Also part of the animation degree, we learnt script writing and storyboarding/telling. This whole script reads like one of our first year's drafts before they learnt what a three act structure was. That, and how to write a compelling main character.
I don't say any of this to sound pompous. I apologise if it comes off like that. It's just these are such basic things you learn in the field, I don't understand how they got through.
They just wanted to cash in this quickly. The poor animators probably didn't even have enough time to make a coherent plot because of the deadlines. Also, don't apologize, it's actually pretty interesting to see all the things that animators have to learn to get the shows we love out there into the public
So the secret of Mulan is that every character is a moron, the voice acting is worst than the original Resident Evil, there was no point in her disguising herself as a boy, and THERE IS NO SECRET!!! Quasimodo being an angel and Anastasia's family reincarnated as instruments was more worthwhile secrets than this crap!🤨😂🤪
There was a point to her disguising herself as a boy as that other girl was not a soldier in the army. She was just the messenger. Phelous was just wrong.
At least the secrets in The Secret of the Hunchback and The Secret of Anastasia were genuine secrets even if the secret in The Secret of Anastasia wasn't kept very subtlely.
they did worse enough besides copying antz and quest for camelot while making a batman and robin joke in a scene to counter a two headed dragon's SUPERMAN scene.
@@fenrir-art4742 A Batman & Robin joke? It wouldn't suprise me of the upcoming remake of Mulan was just as bad. Now if they used this knock-off a basis and made all the characters insects...!
I find most of these movies to be legitimately hilariously bad, but this one I could not sit through without constant pausing because I felt my braincells being assaulted just so much in every scene I needed a "mental cooldown" break. The levels of logic, story progression and pacing that this movie operates on even (negatively) outperform Dingo Pictures movies, which is honestly an impressive feat. This really is a new level of idiocy.
I didn't hate Secret of Anastasia, sure it was ridiculous having her family spiritually posses instruments, but the animation was at least had a better frame rate, they tried to give the characters personalities and actually had the romantic interests spend time to build chemistry, it wasn't great, but it was better than this and we have seen with Dingo Pictures there is no lower limit on quality on cash in films. Also Anastasia had a great singing voice.
By how much they interacted compared to the 3 lines with butterfly guy, I'm surprised Mulan didn't end up with Shing Shing. Mulan x Shing Shing is the ship we deserve
Not to defend this show's logic bc it doesn't seem to have any but I sorta assumed that maybe the dragonfly girl can be in the army and be a girl bc she's a scout/messenger. Not that the rest of this movie makes sense...especially the 'secret'. as Diva From musical hell said..the prince and emperor both have wings and antennas and they are dudes so it's not like her having wings would out her as a girl. also another thing...Mulan has more romantic chemistry with the dragonfly girl than she has with the prince
I thought that as well that she might have some point in their army. Still it would be better to stick to the story and have her be a guy as it just makes Mulans whole point of dressing up pointless. Though the more I think about it mabye she was afraid that she would be turned away from fighting if she wasn't dressed up, like how back then women served other roles and were forbidden to go on the front lines.
See this is why the Mulan story would be a really good LGBT story. Whether it's interpreting Mulan enjoying being a man, making Shang bi, or stories in which Mulan has female friend or befriends a princess.
@@carsfan1995 reminds me of when I saw someone say that Mulan for Disney was a feminist movie long before Brave and Frozen were made. Iirc she not only manages to win the war against the Mongolians(I think they won because of her idea) , but at the end when she reveals herself everyone including the emperor bows in respect for her.
Malah Khan! Malah Khan! Trampling over your front porch! Malah Khan! Malah Khan! Friendly pencil needle broom! Yes! I am Malah Khan! Fear the fearsome lay-by you'll be square! Gin! Bang! I keep it rad! Taking over udder rising flares!
Every now and then, in the process of adapting a true story into a film, an element of real history comes up that just seems so unlikely that the producers of the film decide not include it because audiences will probably assume they made it up. An example would be that Galdiator was originally going to have the gladiators have sponsors like modern day athletes, a real thing that happened but nobody would ever believe that without a degree in history, so it was scrapped. This is the reason Disney changed everyone into humans for their version of Mulan.
Only reason I imagine she pretends to be a guy is because the requirement was for every able-bodied man to fight. Since it would have meant her dad going, she took the place as the able-bodied man. That said, since, as you point out, they already have female soldiers in this movie, it makes them being so specific kinda pointless. But I'm putting way too much thought into this movie.
"Then there's the ending where she kills herself so she doesn't have to become a concubine." I've read Three Kingdoms 3times, Water Margin 4 times as well as Journey to the West and even some of A Dream of Red Mansions and used to be active on the Scholars of Shen Zhou.. So I feel somewhat justified when I say that sounds like the closest thing to a 'canon' ancient Chinese ending. Although it's missing her father and entire family being executed because she broke the law/Disgraced the Son of Heaven. :P
Classical Greek lit: So the hero dies tragically Classic Chinese lit: We should extend the story to add in more tragic deaths George RR Martin: I think you guys need to have more death, honestly.
7:14 Those could be australian hopping mice, jerboas, or springhares, just to name a few. "Kangaroo mice" is a very fitting description, there are even mice called like that irl, but they tend to have shorter ears. 7:29 Stingers are modified ovipositors, female-exclusive organs in insects. Drones(male wasps) are unable to sting because they lack stingers. So I doubt that the butterfly warrior took any manhoods that day. 17:01 Those could be nematodes.
9:28 Get this: "Hua" isn't Mulan's family name in this movie. He suggests she call herself that because it means "flower". Which is stupid enough on its own, really. "I can't let anyone catch on that I'm a girl." "Hey you, what's your name?" "Uh... Flower."
@@Tareltonlives They also claim that Mulan herself was named after the magnolia flower when, from what I can tell, the name actually means "wood orchid"
I loved this rip off growing up.. The opening song! "MALA KAHN MALA KAHN TRAMPLING OVER YOUR FRONT LAWN!" I confess this is my jam when driving I bust this out the windows
Honestly, of all the knock-off film lines that Phelan covers, this 'Secret of' one is probably the best by a long way. Of course, when your competition includes Dingo Pictures and Bevanfield, that's a low bar, but they do have some actual life and creativity to them and the insanity of their premises kind of adds to the charm.
Both the fact that Khan is in his name and that he hangs out in a yurt would indicate that he’s meant to be Mongolian but the armour is definitely Japanese/Japanese-inspired
Listen, this is a movie where turtles and rabbits are the size of butterflies. If anyone on the creative team started talking about the accuracy of the armor, they were promptly kicked out for daring to contribute more than 10 seconds of thought and effort.
"Courage!" I'm assuming he was hoping that his voice would give his troops super strength. (Yes, I know that's not the right Tristan voice, but still XD)
The underwear that the army ant loots in the beginning appears to have three leg "holes". However, I don't see any bugs that have legs that would need a pair of underwear like that in the movie. So what is that middle hole for then UAV? I'm so mature. Thank you as always for the laughs as I really needed it today.
Well considering that they are Rabbits rats and mole/shrews running around I'd assumed that maybe that's what the third hole is for but, then again considering how well thought out this movie seems my theory seems unlikely.
The review is 3 years old and it only just now dawned on me why Malakan looks like a samurai. He’s a JAPANESE BEETLE, thats literally what they’re called. Facepalming so hard rn.
Everyone in the comments really seems to ship these 2 for some reason, I get that they have more chemistry with each other than the prince, but it's not really all that romantic, or even just good banter (then again nothing in the movie is actually good), they just have more screen time together, that'sabout it.
So um did the REAL Mulan turn out to be bisexual? Or is it just everyone wants to find something to latch onto in a crazy movie?🤣 although the latter part makes sense even if the dialogue isn’t interesting
Wow, Phelous, way to spoil the secret in the first minute! I was hoping she'd be an angel and fly off into the sun with Quasimodo! And then they'd ascend to Heaven and hear the voice of the Almighty: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Strange comment to make, but, my god Phelous actually looks younger than when I first got into his content back in the TGWTG days. Heh, share to us your secrets, sir.
He trapped a part of his soul in the Wabuu dvd, a la Dorian Gray. It absorbs all of Phelous's sins. He will be forever young, as long as nobody destroys that dvd.
I still have this movie. I've had it since I was three or so and I forgot how bad it was and looked. I knew there was a reason I never watched it again even as a kid. Also when Mulan asks what was happening to her... did her parents not tell her about caterpillar puberty?
I have an idea for how to fix the movie: For the movie, all of the soldiers, including the dragonfly character, are boys so that it would make sense for Mulan to have to disguise herself as a boy to join the army. When the Chinese army fights back, they genuinely try to fight back, but can not get the upper hand until Mulan gets involved. In the scene where Mulan gets captured, the dragonfly character genuinely tries to stop her from being taken away, but gets knocked out. In the scene when Mulan feels herself change, she realizes she is turning into a butterfly. It is not kept a secret because everyone knows caterpillars turn into butterflies. Also, the movie's title would not be The Secret of Mulan. It would just be called The Legend of a Caterpillar Named Mulan or something. In the movie's climax, the Chinese army fights against the invading army as the latter storms the palace. But just when it seems that the Chinese army is going to win, the villain manages to get past the army and captures the prince. The villain then threatens to execute the prince if the emperor doesn't have the army surrender. That is when Mulan steps forward and challenges the villain. Thus, the two duke it out. The fight eventually transitions to the edge of a cliff and Mulan is knocked off. Mulan then removes her armor and reveals she is not only a woman, but she is now a butterfly. (I think the movie should have it be that female butterflies have different colored wings from male butterflies so that it would make sense for Mulan to have to hide her wings.) The villain then charges Mulan in a fit of rage, but Mulan dodges him and he falls to his death. The movie ends with Mulan and the dragonfly character becoming a couple.
You know if i didn't know any better I'd think Shing-Shing and Mulan were the intended pairing giving how much screen time they shared but one of the execs came in at the last minute and stopped that from happening Maybe THAT was the real secret
I was thinking "oh man, bug/beetle samurai is legit a cool idea though" but then I remembered there was one in Kubo and the Two Strings. That being said, there probably was some potential for some cool designs but of course they were just mostly humans with some vague bug traits...
Shit I remember owning that double feature bootleg of Mulan and Moses when I was a kid. I cringed at the fact that I actually thought the bootleg was original while the Disney (and Dreamworks) movies were knockoffs.
Kimi FW Not according to Disney lawyers its not. Plus considering it was released to cash in on the success of Disney’s Mulan as an attempt to confuse the consumers with an inferior copy, yeah its kind of a bootleg.
More than any other movie Phelous has reviewed, this one had me constantly wondering how many Black Panther diamonds the creators snorted while making it.
Did UAV take all the drugs when coming up with movies like this? "Mulan is a bug that turns into a butterfly. There! Make movie!" *snorts more cocaine*
I really hope Phelous eventually reviews the Golden Films ‘Red Shoes’ movie. I’ve always thought it would be interesting to cover since they didn’t have any prominent animated film to bank off of so they had to come up with their own concepts for it.
I feel like whoever does the video subtitles (I don't know if Phelous adds them at a later date, or if he gets someone else to do it) is gonna have a rough time with this one, because I could _barely_ understand what the characters in the movie were saying, the audio quality is that bad. --- Who else was kind of waiting for Mulan to get together with Shing Shing near the end, especially when Mulan reveals her new butterfly form to her? Because, honestly, they had way better chemistry and more screen time together than Mulan did with Prince Courage here. EDIT: After skimming through the comments, it turns out that *a lot of us* thought the same thing.
When me and my bro watched it long ago, we noted it would've made more sense for Mulan to end up with Shing Shing than Prince What's-his-face. And yeah, I kind of ship it as well, they look cute together.
Ah, the Secret of Mulan. This was actually the very first DVD my mum bought to test out the new DVD player when it first came out. She chose it because it was just a cheap, junkie $2 movie that wouldn't bother anyone if it got damaged.
I loved this movie as a kid 🤣 It had really good songs and I wish they were on spotify, particularly the one where she was singing "for honor..my country".
It’s a summertime miracle! This was well worth the wait! Finally the Mulan, Bugs Life, and Antz crossover movie has been release. Thank You Phelan for all you do!
It seems most of these characters were pointless like the rabbit, the mole, the woody Allen bug, and even the traitor if all he did was help capture Mulan.
The REAL secret of Mulan is that Disney's 1998 animated film was a huge success that is still well-known and loved even today. It's SUCH a secret, that even Disney themselves didn't seem to know that about their own movie, so much so that they just decided to remake it, thinking nobody loves or remembers their 1998 one.
If I had to guess why they made the characters bugs, I'm guessing they also wanted to cash in on A Bug's Life, which came out the same the same year as Mulan. I suppose two knockoffs for the price of one could be a good deal, but why combine two stories that have nothing to do with each other?
@@Alejandroigarabide No offense, but what you said sorta reflects the hypocritical way people bash on the remakes. You just called TLK 2019 a photocopy, but you're sad that Mulan 2020 won't have music or Mushu. Like, people complain if it's the same, but they still complain if it's different. What do people want then? XD
"No Women in the army!"
"But Shing Shing is a woman."
"Yeah, WoMAN, we're allowed to have one."
Also, Mulan had more chemistry with Shing Shing than with that guy, he barely even spoke to her and she just reveals she's a girl and they kiss. What? If this were made recently it would have ended with Mulan X Shing Shing being a thing.
"Hyu-yuck!"
@@cintronproductions9430 I totally ship it though. XD
@@cintronproductions9430 I ship it.
@@cintronproductions9430 Given how Shing Shing just gives up on saving her after barely making an effort I question if that relationship's really preferable.
It's not known for sure if Mulan was a caterpillar, but that's the story John Smith told.
Phelan reviewing Young Pocahontas can't come soon enough.
Which John Smith are you talking about, the Pocahontas figure or the Doctor's go to alias?
@@avremirine8986 Pocahontas. It was a running gag in one of Phelous's other videos.
Thanks for correcting me.
Mulan has more romantic chemistry with the dragonfly girl than with the Butterfly prince guy.
True
I would be having my gay ship-addicted ass get to that, but is anyone really in the market for representation from GoodTimes?
I mean, it would be hilarious if she fell in love with her "Male" persona only to find out it was a girl this whole time and...that maybe that doesnt change her feelings in the long run.
Gotta love that good ol' fashioned heteronormavity, lol. Mulan ended up with pretty dragonfly girl in the end. I accept nothing else, haha. 😁
Gotta love how the bootleg keeps the bisexual moods LOL
"Disney has two major movies coming out this year. Mulan and A Bug's Life. If we're going to cash in on both, we need to make two 'secret of' movies."
"Actually.... I have a better idea...."
Hit two Birds with one stone.
I'm not sure if someone would be really so stupid to mistake it for "A Bug's Life" if "Mulan"'s in the title.
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives that stone's secret is that it had wings, and that's why it cold hit two birds
@@fermintenava5911 The Secret of Mulan is a ripoff crossover of both Mulan and A Bug's Life because why not ripoff both Disney and Pixar
@@TemmiePlays either that or goodtimes had aimbot turned on.
He should have shouted "Raid!" It means charge AND an insect killer.
EH!🤣
Such a great NEW WAY
Ah yes, I remember the dark times when Imperial China was invaded by Mongol Samurai Bugs.....
This was before China solved their bug problem.
I have a hunch that the reason they made the characters in this bugs is because A Bug's Life and Mulan came out the same year, so they figured they'd rip off both those movies at the same time.
I don't know whether to wtf over the ridiculous shoe-horned anthropomorphic bug people, the 'baby's first story' level of a plot, the utterly nonsensical world logic, the atrocious line delivery, or the vapid stupidity of everything.
Every time I think these movies can't get any dumber, they get dumber.
Talk was out killing two birds with one stone
Kids in 1998: “I wanna go see Mulan and A Bug’s Life!”
Mom: “We have those at home.”
Mulan and A Bug’s Life at home:
They KO'd two Rock types with one Surf.
You're right. Both came out around the same time. I wouldn't be surprised if they were planning a normal Mulan ripoff but added aditional limbs, wings and mandibles to the character designs to turn them into bugs before production began.
The army had a sign that said "no girlS". They're allowed to have ONE.
Shing-Shing: (doofy laugh)
The reason why the turtles wouldn't cross the water is because they realized that if they got wet, they'd be completely useless now.
In that case, it seems that every single character in this clusterfuck-except possibly Mulan herself-must have just gone for a swim right before the movie started.
@Simple Weirdo yeah if anything, they would become so useless that they end up become very useful either that or the entire that they live on explodes and everyone that lives there dies.
Maybe they're tortoises? They don't seem to have trademark turtle adaptations, like webbed feet.
Teenage Mutant HYEEEEEEEEEE-nja Turtles
Speaking of useless.... 4:10
Wait....Mulan has WINGS?!
Here i thought the secret was that she had a group of instruments following her around, who are really the reincarnation of her dead family.
DISAPPOINTED!
Honestly, I wish the real secret here was that Mulan is into girls since she had more chemistry with Shing Shing than her male love interest. And looking at some of these comments, I'm not the only one.
Nah, shing give Up to Chase. Mulan
Trust me, UAV would never do something like that.
Why don't you write a fanfiction?
I ship it
@@allisonelizabeth6596 ANY fanfiction would probably have better writing than the canon lol
This feels like 1st grader fanfiction of Mulan after watching A Bug's Life. At least The Secret of Anastasia and The Hunchback were entertainingly bad.
How did you comment on this 2 weeks before the posting date?
ImaNerdANDaGeek Early access on Patreon.
yeah, while the other UAV ones look like they'd at least be watchable or work as background noise, this feels like it would be almost painful to actually sit through
You might be onto something there...
Oh... How I miss the likes of Russian Cobra Commander and Beardy Gaston...
Still better than the Live Action remake....
not really a high bar there, since you got one movie that's about bugs that's lazily made and you got another that was made the way it is because they're trying to please their Chinese overlords for that stupid global box office.
@@ZackExplorer28 And the funniest part is they managed to make it so offensive to the Chinese that the movie was banned there, it was a mega shitshow xD
@@megamage911 yeah the remake was a waste of my precious life and time mind you not. I'm not going to explain how bad the remake is but clynicalreviews reviews it. his profile picture is a dog btw cuz idk if I spelt his channel correctly.
@@AWasteOfYourTime8205 Oh do not worry, I watched his video on it months ago haha xD Been watching him for quite a while.
@@megamage911 yeah he's an awesome dude 😎
The ant's heads look like Goombas with human bodies.
All the ants that were beheaded during the insect wars became ghosts doomed to wander the earth. And now you know where Goombas come from.
I can't unsee that now.
The bad guy is discount Shao Khan, but with a cheesy fangstache.
Yeah I thought the same as well 🤣
This was the weirdest child-friendly Starship Troopers remake ever.
I'm going to need to hear about the other child-friendly starship troopers remakes you know about. It's for a friend.
I'm gonna need to hear more about the bug menace and the 300,000 mobile infantry troopers that we lost on Klendathu.
sadly no Darkseid or Lex Luthor voice overs as military leaders this time
Yeah calleld Roughnecks DO YOU GET IT.
WE GET YOU SIR.
And I’m sure the kids would NOT like to know more.
Because talking tuba and angels aren't weird enough already.
I’m convinced that the secret of series is in their own universe where stupid stuff like this exists
Right?! Angels can't TALK!
Paphvul angels being able to talk is not a stupid thing, just read mythology, Satan himself is an angel in the book of Job.
The Secret of Cinematic Universe!
@@alsatusmd1A13 Pretty sure Paphvul was joking, bruh.
you can entertain children by jingling keys in front of their face. this movie ranks below jingling keys.
It was my fav movie as a kid 😭😭😭
Wow this mulan and a bug's life crossover is so stupid. Also the version of mulan phelan referred to was chu ren hos novelization, and Mulan's final words were "i am a girl. i have been through war and done enough, i now want to be with my father"... Also Mulan's mom was remarried by the time mulan came home from the war.. She seemed to get over her husband death kinda quicky
...please tell me she doesn’t mean _with_ her father.
you never know with some folk tales
@@rassilontdavros3004 she meant in death they can be father and daughter.. Also mulan's mom was remarried when mulan can home after the war
@@rassilontdavros3004 seriously?🙄
Wow I didn’t know Mulan was a bug. Man those history books lied.
The UAV version of Mulan is a bug.
concept could have been waaaaay better if a different and greater story, but media sucks along with that company who made this
Low-key drama what's your favorite cartoon character?
Producers were afraid that young girls wouldn't have found Mulan's story as inspiring if they knew she was a bug, because as we all know, girls don't find bugs inspiring.
Now I'm not historian but I'm 75% sure being a bug wasn't one of her secrets.
Yes and my research on the Titanic can’t recall a rapping dog on board. Pretty sure the dog was not on board.
@@calamaty9963 The rapping dog was actually on the Olympic. Those animators didn't do their research.
@@foxymetroid NO, that's fictional!!! The dog was actually on the HMHS Britannic for morale support... tragically, the dog was present on the day it sunk
You're right: you're not a historian
I'm pretty sure Mulan is fictional, not a real person.
The traitor looked like Bug Jafar.
I've noticed these Disney-knockoff companies just LOVE to rip off Jafar...even if it isn't for an "Aladdin" knock-off.
That's how we know he's a traitor, duh
Fun fact: Jafar's job in Aladdin was Vizier which literally translates to "He who plots to overthrow you."
Surprised that Phelous didn't mention how Prince Butterfly was referred to as a brilliant leader multiple times in the film but the second Mulan was away from the army, they started losing.
hmmm...if this was made today, this would've been perfect for the Woke culture.
@@ZackExplorer28 ) wasn't the original that already?
@@steamboatwill3.367 no, that would be the remake.
@@ZackExplorer28 ) whatever, anyone who says the "w" word as an insult, unironically, is just a dipstick......
He was an average fighter, but a brilliant leader.
So, I used to make character designs for my Animation Degree. When I saw that the characters here were bugs, I immediately thought, "Oh, you made the animation harder for no reason."
Also, if they wanted to make the scout look like a dragonfly, why didn't they give her two buns on the sides of her head like dragonfly eyes? And maybe a patterned outfit that looked like a banded belly.
Oh, wait, that would take actual thought.
Also part of the animation degree, we learnt script writing and storyboarding/telling. This whole script reads like one of our first year's drafts before they learnt what a three act structure was. That, and how to write a compelling main character.
I don't say any of this to sound pompous. I apologise if it comes off like that. It's just these are such basic things you learn in the field, I don't understand how they got through.
They just wanted to cash in this quickly. The poor animators probably didn't even have enough time to make a coherent plot because of the deadlines.
Also, don't apologize, it's actually pretty interesting to see all the things that animators have to learn to get the shows we love out there into the public
Bugs are harder to animate? Is It because of the extra limbs?
@@flyingstonemon3564 no its just bc they're icky disgusting and gross to look at so the production team has to take a lot of breaks
So the secret of Mulan is that every character is a moron, the voice acting is worst than the original Resident Evil, there was no point in her disguising herself as a boy, and THERE IS NO SECRET!!! Quasimodo being an angel and Anastasia's family reincarnated as instruments was more worthwhile secrets than this crap!🤨😂🤪
The secret was that she was a girl, even though "there was no point in her disguising herself as a boy."
There was a point to her disguising herself as a boy as that other girl was not a soldier in the army. She was just the messenger. Phelous was just wrong.
@@Emisop she's still working in the army, and they don't seem to mind her fighting so there really was no point.
Toi O'Kelly At least that godawful "music" doesn't play when you go into the basement of the "Mulan Dual Shock Edition"
At least the secrets in The Secret of the Hunchback and The Secret of Anastasia were genuine secrets even if the secret in The Secret of Anastasia wasn't kept very subtlely.
"What are you doing?"
"Ah, about four knots?"
That one admittedly got a chuckle out of me
"Apparently they can have one girl soldier, but not two"
So, it goes by "No Homers Club" rules?
Uh-yuck!
Shing Shing shouldn't count as a soldier, cuz she's an empress/princess. Right?
I heard Homer at 5:35
the holy parchment says so
*The Secret of the Ninja Turtles*
Spoiler Alert. The secret is that they don't find a new way.
"the secret of the ooze"
the secret is that it was actually Red Bull and it gave people wings.
"The Secret of Shredder"
The secret is that he's Cobra Commander's more superior brother. And Murky Dismal is their cousin, 420 times removed.
I thought it was that they hate Splinter.
I can’t imagine *why* Disney didn’t go the bug Mulan route. It was so seamless...
they did worse enough besides copying antz and quest for camelot while making a batman and robin joke in a scene to counter a two headed dragon's SUPERMAN scene.
@@fenrir-art4742 A Batman & Robin joke?
It wouldn't suprise me of the upcoming remake of Mulan was just as bad. Now if they used this knock-off a basis and made all the characters insects...!
"DO THE COURAGE!!!"
After seeing what their bug courage looks like, they'd be better off doing the Retirement.
I know this has been done to death, but “it seems the bugs’ courage is completely useless now!”
I find most of these movies to be legitimately hilariously bad, but this one I could not sit through without constant pausing because I felt my braincells being assaulted just so much in every scene I needed a "mental cooldown" break. The levels of logic, story progression and pacing that this movie operates on even (negatively) outperform Dingo Pictures movies, which is honestly an impressive feat. This really is a new level of idiocy.
So...Angel Quasimodo is still the best of these, huh?
Yep.
I didn't hate Secret of Anastasia, sure it was ridiculous having her family spiritually posses instruments, but the animation was at least had a better frame rate, they tried to give the characters personalities and actually had the romantic interests spend time to build chemistry, it wasn't great, but it was better than this and we have seen with Dingo Pictures there is no lower limit on quality on cash in films. Also Anastasia had a great singing voice.
@@ImaNerdANDaGeek True.
Also, The Secret of Anastasia was so insane that it was funny again.
Secret of Anastasia is ironically watchable and at least made some sense despite there being very little sense in the movie to begin with.
Sadly... yes.
Wait, so Mulan and the Hunchback WERE hiding the same secret...(sorta)
Hunchback still seems less stupid, oddly.
Except one of them was slightly less stupid. I'll let you decide which one.
By how much they interacted compared to the 3 lines with butterfly guy, I'm surprised Mulan didn't end up with Shing Shing. Mulan x Shing Shing is the ship we deserve
Mulan and Shing Shing are my OTP of this movie.
in a different movie, yes. this one...um not worth it XD
the Puma Man theme never gets old...
MU-LAN-MAN, SHE FLIES LIKE A MORON!
Pyumaman - there I fixed it for you. XD
Guys, it's the Pew-may-mun
Alternate ending: Mulan meets an old toymaker who invites her to live with him because it's good luck. Mulan on the Hearrrrrrrrrth!
She's not a cricket. How's a butterfly on the hearth a symbol of good luck?
"You're an insect? PLEASE COME IN TO LIVE WITH US! I MAKE TOYS!"
I'd pay good money to see that.
That would make for a much better mockbuster than the one we got...
Her secret is she is a musical instrument with wings in her back, right?
Not to defend this show's logic bc it doesn't seem to have any but I sorta assumed that maybe the dragonfly girl can be in the army and be a girl bc she's a scout/messenger. Not that the rest of this movie makes sense...especially the 'secret'. as Diva From musical hell said..the prince and emperor both have wings and antennas and they are dudes so it's not like her having wings would out her as a girl.
also another thing...Mulan has more romantic chemistry with the dragonfly girl than she has with the prince
I thought that as well that she might have some point in their army. Still it would be better to stick to the story and have her be a guy as it just makes Mulans whole point of dressing up pointless.
Though the more I think about it mabye she was afraid that she would be turned away from fighting if she wasn't dressed up, like how back then women served other roles and were forbidden to go on the front lines.
What's weird is why the male butterflies have the female patterns.
See this is why the Mulan story would be a really good LGBT story. Whether it's interpreting Mulan enjoying being a man, making Shang bi, or stories in which Mulan has female friend or befriends a princess.
@@carsfan1995 reminds me of when I saw someone say that Mulan for Disney was a feminist movie long before Brave and Frozen were made.
Iirc she not only manages to win the war against the Mongolians(I think they won because of her idea) , but at the end when she reveals herself everyone including the emperor bows in respect for her.
Why wouldn't they just hire another guy in that case? Logic 100 movie.
Malah Khan! Malah Khan! Trampling over your front porch!
Malah Khan! Malah Khan! Friendly pencil needle broom!
Yes! I am Malah Khan! Fear the fearsome lay-by you'll be square! Gin! Bang! I keep it rad! Taking over udder rising flares!
Every now and then, in the process of adapting a true story into a film, an element of real history comes up that just seems so unlikely that the producers of the film decide not include it because audiences will probably assume they made it up. An example would be that Galdiator was originally going to have the gladiators have sponsors like modern day athletes, a real thing that happened but nobody would ever believe that without a degree in history, so it was scrapped. This is the reason Disney changed everyone into humans for their version of Mulan.
Only reason I imagine she pretends to be a guy is because the requirement was for every able-bodied man to fight. Since it would have meant her dad going, she took the place as the able-bodied man. That said, since, as you point out, they already have female soldiers in this movie, it makes them being so specific kinda pointless. But I'm putting way too much thought into this movie.
I mean, can Mulan’s dad even be called “able-bodied”? We don’t see much of him in this one, but in the Disney version the guy could barely walk!
@@rassilontdavros3004
I meannnn, someone wouldve had to been the cannon fodder
Still better than the Disney + Remake
Indeed
@Angus Ng that’s contradicting
And Mulan 2...
Mulan and Shing Shing had more chemistry. That's the true love story here.
I have to agree there.
Did they want to make a lesbian Mulan/Shing Shing relationship but chickened out at the last minute?
Glad I wasn't the only one who saw it.
YEEEEESSSSSSS.
@@scottgaultney This was all I was thinking all the way through not gonna lie
Every single time Phelous uses the Beauty gasp clip, I laugh so hard. 😂😂😂
This is insulting, not nessicary culturally, but definanrly to my eyes.
*necessarily *definitely
Disney did worse than this and that remake is far boring than the 1960s musical Mulan and the Mulan 2009 movie.
"definanrly" is my new favorite non-word.
No, it is culturally, too. I'm not even remotely Asian and I was offended. Crimeny.
I can see that...
Of course Splinter's in this universe helping out the "good" bugs. The other side's skipping corpses instead of skipping stones.
2:39: “Traveling all over your front lawn.”
If that’s the case call Terminex
Or get a wax.
So the live-action Mulan got delayed, so it only made sense for Phelous' review of a Mulan knock-off to get delayed as well.
"Then there's the ending where she kills herself so she doesn't have to become a concubine."
I've read Three Kingdoms 3times, Water Margin 4 times as well as Journey to the West and even some of A Dream of Red Mansions and used to be active on the Scholars of Shen Zhou.. So I feel somewhat justified when I say that sounds like the closest thing to a 'canon' ancient Chinese ending.
Although it's missing her father and entire family being executed because she broke the law/Disgraced the Son of Heaven. :P
Ancient China was messed up.
Classical Greek lit: So the hero dies tragically
Classic Chinese lit: We should extend the story to add in more tragic deaths
George RR Martin: I think you guys need to have more death, honestly.
CaptainMarvell92 Returns
Ancient Everything was messed up.
Don't forget the incest.
oh NO, is the human centipede!
And we are all the middle piece.
(PTSD flashbacks intensify)
Please for the love of Go and all that is sacred... don't give animators an ideas for a children's version of The Human Centipede.
@@U014B *flashback of part 3 ....SHIVERS!*
7:14 Those could be australian hopping mice, jerboas, or springhares, just to name a few. "Kangaroo mice" is a very fitting description, there are even mice called like that irl, but they tend to have shorter ears.
7:29 Stingers are modified ovipositors, female-exclusive organs in insects. Drones(male wasps) are unable to sting because they lack stingers. So I doubt that the butterfly warrior took any manhoods that day.
17:01 Those could be nematodes.
My best guess for the mice are Jerboas, their ears are the closest match
"Do the courage!"
I love the courage
9:28 Get this: "Hua" isn't Mulan's family name in this movie. He suggests she call herself that because it means "flower".
Which is stupid enough on its own, really.
"I can't let anyone catch on that I'm a girl."
"Hey you, what's your name?"
"Uh... Flower."
So they even changed the meaning of the name Hua?! THE NAME OF THE CHARACTER HAS ALWAYS BEEN HUA MULAN! (Fa in the Disney version, but still!)
@@Tareltonlives They also claim that Mulan herself was named after the magnolia flower when, from what I can tell, the name actually means "wood orchid"
Tareltonlives hua actually does mean flower in chinese, her surname means flower
@@ricekrispy463 Ahhhh
Then wait, what's her birth name? I'M ASKING ABOUT THE BIRTH NAME OF AN INSECT WHAT HAS BECOME OF MY LIFE
I loved this rip off growing up..
The opening song! "MALA KAHN MALA KAHN TRAMPLING OVER YOUR FRONT LAWN!" I confess this is my jam when driving I bust this out the windows
Honestly, of all the knock-off film lines that Phelan covers, this 'Secret of' one is probably the best by a long way. Of course, when your competition includes Dingo Pictures and Bevanfield, that's a low bar, but they do have some actual life and creativity to them and the insanity of their premises kind of adds to the charm.
That's it, movie! Dishonor! Dishonor on your whole "Secret of" line! Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your kangaroo-mouse cow!
Weren’t racist “Yellow Peril” depictions of Asian people often given insect-like features?
Yeah, making Mulan about bugs sounds like a great idea
Rats actually, which given one of the characters is a rat may raise a red flag or two.
@@sapientcube9788 i mean, the rat is the first sign on the Chinese zodiac, but yeah
You're giving these guys way too much credit assuming there was any kind of thought going on during production...
@@sapientcube9788 Doesn't that mean Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles also are insensitive for making Splinter a rat? :v
@@HiperPivociarz no because Ninja is JAPANESE 😅
11:00 *COURAGE😂😂* He sounds like he’s cheering
*HOORAY😂😂😂*
This is the worst Next Mutation episode. Doesn't even have the turtles
They were replaced by mutant drummer turtles.
Theponydalek what's your favorite my little pony FIM?
The biggest idiot of the episode is
Is a New Way
No turtles?! Then what are those turtle-like creatures in Mala Khan's army supposed to be, then?!
So if Mulan's a caterpillar in her movie, does that mean Moses is a scarab in his movie?
All I know is I want an Old Man version of Prince Of Egypt. Old Mayor is Moses & Old Man is Ramses. :P
Nah, he's a Jerusalem cricket that was RAISED by scarabs!
....I'll see myself out.
@@geoentronecromancer
No relation to Cricket Crockett.
Mulan being an insect doesn't sound as stupid as Mulan being a perfect, flawless, super-woman with magic Chi powers her whole life.
Worst Bug's Life/Mulan Crossover Ever! 🦋💸
ACHT-tually, the secret is that she’s a BUTTERFLY. Which YOU spoiled on the thumbnail. Take that, Phelous!
EXCEPTUALLY, you mention that later in the video. Take that, me!
Is it just me or are the invading mongols wearing Japanese armor? Are they Mongolian or are they Japanese? The leader is apparently a Khan.
He is clearly a Chinese Shinobi Shaman
Not to mention "Mala" is Latin for "bad".
Taking cues from Shao Kahn probably, another baddie wearing Samurai armor
Both the fact that Khan is in his name and that he hangs out in a yurt would indicate that he’s meant to be Mongolian but the armour is definitely Japanese/Japanese-inspired
Listen, this is a movie where turtles and rabbits are the size of butterflies. If anyone on the creative team started talking about the accuracy of the armor, they were promptly kicked out for daring to contribute more than 10 seconds of thought and effort.
The weird mole dude is just Fone Bone's missing cousin, Wimpy Bone.
Ayyyyyyyy, awesome Bone reference!
Phony Bone is more likable than the mole dude
Ah man! I thought it was gonna be about the Moses movie. Well, at least being a bug is a better secret than your dead family being instruments
Did you say Moses? Noooo! NOOOOOOOO!!!!
Makes me wonder what Moses secert is. Is he part Spinex? or does he also have wings
I’ve been looking forward to this for years :’)
Good things come to those who wait
Me too
Same here ever since I watched _Musical Hell's_ review of it. :)
Me too!
"Courage!"
I'm assuming he was hoping that his voice would give his troops super strength. (Yes, I know that's not the right Tristan voice, but still XD)
''Khan you say goodbye?''
''Whaaat?''
Ok, now whole situation "bugging me" so much! Thanks, UAV. x_x
The underwear that the army ant loots in the beginning appears to have three leg "holes". However, I don't see any bugs that have legs that would need a pair of underwear like that in the movie. So what is that middle hole for then UAV? I'm so mature. Thank you as always for the laughs as I really needed it today.
Well considering that they are Rabbits rats and mole/shrews running around I'd assumed that maybe that's what the third hole is for but, then again considering how well thought out this movie seems my theory seems unlikely.
Just saying, Mala Khan might've had a better chance at winning if he said "COURAGE!" too.
The review is 3 years old and it only just now dawned on me why Malakan looks like a samurai. He’s a JAPANESE BEETLE, thats literally what they’re called. Facepalming so hard rn.
I would have liked this movie more if the secret turned out to be that Mulan was a lesbian and she hooks up with the dragonfly at the end.
Everyone in the comments really seems to ship these 2 for some reason, I get that they have more chemistry with each other than the prince, but it's not really all that romantic, or even just good banter (then again nothing in the movie is actually good), they just have more screen time together, that'sabout it.
@Simple Weirdo I guess, but it's also "the secret of Mulan" so it's kinda odd they'd care about anything at all in this film.
So um did the REAL Mulan turn out to be bisexual? Or is it just everyone wants to find something to latch onto in a crazy movie?🤣 although the latter part makes sense even if the dialogue isn’t interesting
@@gracekim1998 I don't think she was that I know of, it's more this movie is so crazy stupid that I'll just take any grain of anything in it.
Wow, Phelous, way to spoil the secret in the first minute! I was hoping she'd be an angel and fly off into the sun with Quasimodo! And then they'd ascend to Heaven and hear the voice of the Almighty:
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Strange comment to make, but, my god Phelous actually looks younger than when I first got into his content back in the TGWTG days.
Heh, share to us your secrets, sir.
It's called not being on TGWTG anymore.
He isnt with them anymore. That's enough to drop ten years in an instant.
He's a bug
He trapped a part of his soul in the Wabuu dvd, a la Dorian Gray. It absorbs all of Phelous's sins. He will be forever young, as long as nobody destroys that dvd.
TGWTG?
I still have this movie. I've had it since I was three or so and I forgot how bad it was and looked.
I knew there was a reason I never watched it again even as a kid.
Also when Mulan asks what was happening to her... did her parents not tell her about caterpillar puberty?
Glad we owned Young Hercules.
I have an idea for how to fix the movie: For the movie, all of the soldiers, including the dragonfly character, are boys so that it would make sense for Mulan to have to disguise herself as a boy to join the army. When the Chinese army fights back, they genuinely try to fight back, but can not get the upper hand until Mulan gets involved. In the scene where Mulan gets captured, the dragonfly character genuinely tries to stop her from being taken away, but gets knocked out. In the scene when Mulan feels herself change, she realizes she is turning into a butterfly. It is not kept a secret because everyone knows caterpillars turn into butterflies. Also, the movie's title would not be The Secret of Mulan. It would just be called The Legend of a Caterpillar Named Mulan or something. In the movie's climax, the Chinese army fights against the invading army as the latter storms the palace. But just when it seems that the Chinese army is going to win, the villain manages to get past the army and captures the prince. The villain then threatens to execute the prince if the emperor doesn't have the army surrender. That is when Mulan steps forward and challenges the villain. Thus, the two duke it out. The fight eventually transitions to the edge of a cliff and Mulan is knocked off. Mulan then removes her armor and reveals she is not only a woman, but she is now a butterfly. (I think the movie should have it be that female butterflies have different colored wings from male butterflies so that it would make sense for Mulan to have to hide her wings.) The villain then charges Mulan in a fit of rage, but Mulan dodges him and he falls to his death. The movie ends with Mulan and the dragonfly character becoming a couple.
It’s a nice break from the Ninja Turtles to talk about...the Teenage Mutant Hero Insects
At least these bugs are smarter than the coward turtles
13:25 "Signal captain Hua." vs "Signal, captain Hua." Or maybe he meant Mulan is now a signal captain.
Whatever it was Mulan appeared in two different places. Pretty sure it was an animal error.
You know if i didn't know any better I'd think Shing-Shing and Mulan were the intended pairing giving how much screen time they shared but one of the execs came in at the last minute and stopped that from happening
Maybe THAT was the real secret
The Pumaman music never gets old.
I'm slightly impressed that they went through the effort of animating extra limbs....
I was thinking "oh man, bug/beetle samurai is legit a cool idea though" but then I remembered there was one in Kubo and the Two Strings.
That being said, there probably was some potential for some cool designs but of course they were just mostly humans with some vague bug traits...
Shit I remember owning that double feature bootleg of Mulan and Moses when I was a kid.
I cringed at the fact that I actually thought the bootleg was original while the Disney (and Dreamworks) movies were knockoffs.
Ugh... I avoided bootlegs for a long time. My friend rented a few just to make fun of them.
It's a knock-off, not a bootleg.
@@kimifw58 I know that. They're the same thing.
@@scottylewis8124 Knock-offs don't infringe copyright. Don't rob words of their meaning just because you're too lazy to distinguish them.
Kimi FW Not according to Disney lawyers its not.
Plus considering it was released to cash in on the success of Disney’s Mulan as an attempt to confuse the consumers with an inferior copy, yeah its kind of a bootleg.
More than any other movie Phelous has reviewed, this one had me constantly wondering how many Black Panther diamonds the creators snorted while making it.
Did UAV take all the drugs when coming up with movies like this?
"Mulan is a bug that turns into a butterfly. There! Make movie!" *snorts more cocaine*
I really hope Phelous eventually reviews the Golden Films ‘Red Shoes’ movie. I’ve always thought it would be interesting to cover since they didn’t have any prominent animated film to bank off of so they had to come up with their own concepts for it.
And Lionel Wilson, the voice of Eustace Bagge (Courage the Cowardly Dog; for the first 34 episodes).
No crappy animated movie secret remains hidden from Phelous!
I feel like whoever does the video subtitles (I don't know if Phelous adds them at a later date, or if he gets someone else to do it) is gonna have a rough time with this one, because I could _barely_ understand what the characters in the movie were saying, the audio quality is that bad.
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Who else was kind of waiting for Mulan to get together with Shing Shing near the end, especially when Mulan reveals her new butterfly form to her? Because, honestly, they had way better chemistry and more screen time together than Mulan did with Prince Courage here. EDIT: After skimming through the comments, it turns out that *a lot of us* thought the same thing.
I ship it
When me and my bro watched it long ago, we noted it would've made more sense for Mulan to end up with Shing Shing than Prince What's-his-face. And yeah, I kind of ship it as well, they look cute together.
5:18
It's really funny when Phelous adds a looping animation like this.
Ah, the Secret of Mulan. This was actually the very first DVD my mum bought to test out the new DVD player when it first came out. She chose it because it was just a cheap, junkie $2 movie that wouldn't bother anyone if it got damaged.
In Chinese, 花 "Hua" isn't pronounced like Al Pacino saying "Hoo-ah," it's pronounced as a one-syllable "Hwa."
Producer 1: "How do we make a Mulan movie without having any Chinese people?"
Producer 2: "Hey, I have an idea..."
I loved this movie as a kid 🤣 It had really good songs and I wish they were on spotify, particularly the one where she was singing "for honor..my country".
It’s a summertime miracle! This was well worth the wait! Finally the Mulan, Bugs Life, and Antz crossover movie has been release. Thank You Phelan for all you do!
Has there ever been a caterpillar character in fiction that didn't turn into a butterfly by the end?
Heimlich from A Bug's Life
EDIT: Wait no nevermind, I think he got wings by the end they were just really tiny...
I mean it makes sense naturally but I guess it is a cliche by design.
@@elsie8757 " we drew one of you dying because the teacher said it would be more dramatic! "
It seems most of these characters were pointless like the rabbit, the mole, the woody Allen bug, and even the traitor if all he did was help capture Mulan.
The REAL secret of Mulan is that Disney's 1998 animated film was a huge success that is still well-known and loved even today. It's SUCH a secret, that even Disney themselves didn't seem to know that about their own movie, so much so that they just decided to remake it, thinking nobody loves or remembers their 1998 one.
Here’s a ‘secret’: Disney’s Mulan is as old as me😜
6:07 That doesn't feel quite right without, "I *HATE* SPLINTER"
If I had to guess why they made the characters bugs, I'm guessing they also wanted to cash in on A Bug's Life, which came out the same the same year as Mulan.
I suppose two knockoffs for the price of one could be a good deal, but why combine two stories that have nothing to do with each other?
Well no matter how bad the new Disney remake is, it can't possibly be this bad. Thanks, Phelous, for giving us a very low bar for it to clear.
At least it's gonna be different from the animated one instead of a photocopy like Lion King 2019. Too bad there'll be no music nor Mushu.
@@Alejandroigarabide apperently the chinas dont like musicals and it was made for them
@@Alejandroigarabide No offense, but what you said sorta reflects the hypocritical way people bash on the remakes. You just called TLK 2019 a photocopy, but you're sad that Mulan 2020 won't have music or Mushu. Like, people complain if it's the same, but they still complain if it's different. What do people want then? XD
This cash-in is still better in comparison to that soulless remake.
@@cintronproductions9430 Reminds me of when people complain about the star wars sequels.