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 The Huns could not have been the enemy of Mulan and her allies. The Huns were pretty much done by 469 CE and spent their time attacking the western and eastern empires of Rome, not the Chinese. The invasion of China that Mulan is alleged to have helped fight occurred in 600 CE. The Gokturks were the likely opponent that Mulan would have faced

 Chien-Po is a normal human who demonstrates anti-law-of-physics super-strength by lifting seven soldiers from the cliff and also by holding Ling and Yao with one hand while searching for Mulan in the snow. This absurd personage is a classic stock character in ancient-war genre movies.

 When Mulan reads the final admonition and copies it on her arms she writes it in simplified Chinese. However, simplified Chinese has only been created by the government of the People’s Republic of China in the 1950s. Mulan should have used the traditional Chinese symbols.

When the remaining Huns emerge from the avalanche (observed by Mulan) and look down from the pass onto the Imperial City, the City is oriented with its front gate facing the pass. Moments later, when Mulan rides off to warn the troops, the Imperial City appears to have rotated, so that the palace is on the left and the front gate on the right.

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