Pocahontas vs Mulan

[JeanGreyForever]

Thanks for posting. It's refreshing for a change to hear praise for the film's accuracy. People always complain about John Smith and Pocahontas never having had a relationship, but their love story has always been central to American history, whether it's true or not, long before Disney came in the picture.

This is really one of my main concerns with the criticism. Though the criticism is on one hand understandable, people picks on Disney as like they were the ones to invent the Romeo and Juliet-premise which the Pocahontas story is associated with and that's unfair.

which is why I don't see why this movie gets so much flack for not being historically accurate (you never see Anastasia get this).

Perhaps because Pocahontas dealt with American history and dealt with a clash between two races, whereas Anastasia (despite dealing with another subject matter) had been filmed priorly and therefore the premise was being familiar. Besides, Anastasia has received flack as well, but it was better critically received than Pocahontas and therefore was Pocahontas even easier to pick on.

I have heard though that this film is better regarded in Europe, especially Norway, so it's nice that it still gets some positive attention somewhere else. .

Really? Where are your source for that? Norwegian critics were mostly lukewarm towards the movie when it was released.

Sorry, I didn't notice someone had responded to me. You're right on all points. As for the Norway remark, I found it on TV tropes here. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/Pocahontas under Germans Love David Hasselhoff