Trivia / Mulan II

• Blooper:
  • The headless ancestor is supposed to be Fa Deng from the first film, but on closer inspection one can see it is in fact not Fa Deng, but another ancestor from the first film who was mistakenly identified as such.
  • When Mushu makes his speech as be the Golden Dragon of Unity near the end of the film, the princesses and the soldiers are seen listening from the crowd. For this brief shot, all three of the princesses look completely different from how they do in the rest of the film, indicating that these were earlier designs left in by mistake.
• Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • Lucy Liu and Sandra Oh voice Princesses Mei and Ting-Ting.
  • There's also figure skater Michelle Kwan as the shopkeeper in the festival scene.
• Deleted Scene: An Action Prologue, which never made it past the animatic stage, has Mulan and Shang retrieve a scroll from some bandits, whom they fight in the site of a giant Buddha statue. It would have tied into the main plot when Shang asks Mulan, "If we somehow make it out of here alive, would you marry me?", a proposal she accepts after they complete the mission. The scene remained un-animated after the directors realized this didn't seem like a strong enough connection to the main story.
• The Foreign Subtitle: It's called Mulan II : The Emperor's Mission in France.
• Non-Singing Voice:
  • Lea Salonga once again provides Mulan's singing voice for "Lesson Number One".
  • Judy Kuhn, Mandy Gonzalez, and Beth Blankenship provide Ting-Ting, Su, and Mei's singing voices respectively.
  • While Ling's singing voice in the previous movie was provided by Matthew Wilder, it's averted here with Gedde Watanabe (Ling's speaking voice) doing his own singing for the redux of "A Girl Worth Fighting For."
• The Other Darrin:
  • Eddie Murphy could not reprise his role as Mushu for this film due to a clause in his contract for Shrek 2. Mark Moseley replaced him (Coincidentally, Moseley has also filled in for Murphy by voicing Donkey in the Shrek video games, and has served as Murphy's regular stand-in).
  • April Winchell replaces Miriam Margoyles as The Matchmaker for the one line she has.
  • Frank Welker replaces Chris Sanders as Mulan's dog Little Brother.
  • In the Quebecois French dub of the first movie, Mulan, Mushu, Yao, and the First Ancestor were voiced by Céline Furi, Anthony Kavanagh, André Montmorency, and Ronald France respectively. Here, they are instead voiced by Kim Jalabert, François Godin, Bernard Fortin, and Yves Corbeil, again respectively. In the case of the First Ancestor, it's because Ronald France retired several years before the release of this sequel.
• Release Date Change: At least in the US, the first DVD's release date got pushed back from Fall 2004^note Disney even re-released Mulan on DVD in October '04, as a tie-in to February 2005.
• Sequel Gap: Completed six years after the first Mulan movie but was released closer to seven.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally, the princesses only faked falling in love with Mulan's friends, so the guys could help them escape their arranged marriage. However, the directors decided this would make them seem too unlikable.
  • This early Concept Art for Mulan II shows the Matchmaker having a bigger role in the story, going along with them on their journey. It also reveals that there would have been a female dragon as a love interest for Mushu, possibly Shang's family guardian.
  • Barry Cook, director of the first film, originally wrote a treatment for the film involving Shan Yu and his Huns Back from the Dead haunting North China, leading the Emperor to send Mulan and Shang, both about to be married, to investigate there, with the finale featuring Mulan and her allies, including the Fa Family Ancestors, against Shan-Yu and his ghost army.
  • The princesses◊ were originally going to have body types even more similar to Yao, Ling, and Chien Po, as if you couldn't already tell enough.
  • There were plans for a Mulan III, as mentioned in this article, but was cancelled before Mulan II was released. Any ideas of reviving that movie vanished when John Lasseter returned to the studio a year later, and unplugged all Direct to Video sequels that were not already in production.

---