Look, If You Didn't Like This Movie, Then...

Linda Woolverton, even as far back as when Beauty and the Beast was made into a Disney film, made it VERY clear that she had been influenced by the 1970s' Women's Liberation Front when making the film, and how Maleficent was ultimately a continuation of Beauty and the Beast in terms of themes. In other words, yes, it IS pushing an anti-male agenda. Even the Federalist noted the anti-male agenda being pushed in it. Don't believe me? Read this: http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/06/maleficent-once-upon-a-screed/

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Yeah, I heard, though he should have sufficed with "Slave traders", as there have been black slave traders and Asian slave traders, among others. I'm not fond of George Lucas, though. To me, he killed Star Wars the very second he admitted he based the Rebel Alliance on the Vietcong and the Empire on America, not to mention had always intended for them to represent those respective groups since he started writing the first film in 1973. I don't support communists (in fact, I utterly hate them due to their persecuting and trying to commit genocide against religion, Christianity especially), especially not if they are treated as good guys. Not even the Prequel Trilogy and it's fair share of problems, or even Han Shot First, was enough to really shake my liking of Star Wars, that's how bad it was, that revelation. Yet it speaks volumes that Lucas would have been a better choice compared to Abrams. As bad as the Prequel Trilogy was, at least it actually ATTEMPTED to be somewhat original in its storyline, even if that crashed and burned. And he apparently sold Disney the rights to Star Wars in the first place just so he'd make himself tax exempt if Romney got into office, which if you ask me was just disgustingly selfish and short-sighted.

And honestly, I wouldn't even call it "disneyfication" so much as, pardon my language, but bastardization (I'd argue that mess even started with Beauty and the Beast. Certainly the roots for how Maleficent was awful stemmed back to that film.). Disneyfication at least attempts to make things a bit more hope-filled rather than bleak (Heck, even the Legends Expanded Universe was far more hopeful than The Force Awakens was, which basically destroyed the happy ending of Return of the Jedi in the most cynical manner possible).

And to be honest, I can sort of understand why Disney would somewhat alter Alice in Wonderland, because it wasn't exactly meant for kids in the first place (it was political satire for Victorian-era England). He also completely altered The Jungle Book, and I could understand why he'd do so, considering that simply wasn't a child-friendly book.

Nothing canon breaking? The entire REASON why the old Expanded Universe save for The Clone Wars TV series (the new one, not the old one) and the first six films ended up removed from canon was to make room for that film. Last I checked, that fit the definition of "canon-breaking", And for the record, Return of the Jedi was supposed to end on a happy note, where they defeated the Empire, and in the Special Editions anyways, they even had a worlds rejoice montage showing what is implied to be the entire galaxy celebrating the death of the Emperor. Not to mention Han Solo was supposed to basically cast aside his soundrel ways and become a person of good standing, and Luke was to found a new Jedi order. What did Force Awakens do? They completely crapped on that by having Luke go into hiding like a coward just because his nephew turned to the Dark Side (and what's more, unlike Yoda or Obi-Wan who also went into hiding, Luke STILL had plenty of allies to help him out, not to mention the New Republic still existed during that time. Oh, and Han Solo went back to being a smuggler and essentially divorced Leia simply because they did a bad job raising Ben Solo, or rather, Kylo Ren, and the New Republic itself basically came across in an even WORSE light than the Prequel Trilogy's depiction of the Old Republic or even the old Expanded Universe's depiction of the New Republic. They completely destroyed the happy ending of Return of the Jedi, and destroyed a lot of the Expanded Universe, and for what? What is essentially a plagiarized remake of A New Hope with some elements of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi spattered here and there?

As far as BatB and Mulan, in case you have neglected to notice, most of the men are painted in a pretty bad light in the former. Even with Belle getting together with the Prince, that was only AFTER Belle essentially emasculatized him. Let me give a list of all the named males in the film. There's Gaston, LeFou, Maurice, the Beast, Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Chip. Of them, only Chip is even remotely decently characterized, being a typical child. The other characters are, in order, a possessive dumb muscle with some instances of being cunning, a dim-witted sidekick to the aforementioned lout, a man who's sanity is questionable at best and needed to be rescued by his own daughter twice DESPITE his trying to rescue her from the Beast's clutches, a raging monster in the first act who's first step towards redemption besides saving Belle was essentially losing an argument to her despite the fact that he had the better logic in that blame game (Belle broke into the West Wing deliberately despite clearly being told not to by the Beast and his servants, so the whole mess was ultimately largely her fault) and in the second act became so dependent on Belle that he wasn't even willing to fight back against Gaston until Belle was physically nearby, an unrepentant womanizer, and a grouch, in that order. And don't even get me started on the rest of the villagers. In other words, the majority of the men in the film were not painted in a very positive light, either being monsters in the literal or figurative sense, or otherwise goofballs. In fact, besides Chip, the only male character who is depicted in even a slightly flattering light was that bookstore owner who barely even had many lines. And it's not just males that were demonized. Even the likes of those blonde triplets were depicted in a very bad light largely because unlike Belle, they DID implicitly think marriage was a good thing (they were called the Bimbettes, and yet they weren't shown doing anything that would even remotely qualify as bimbo behavior beyond crushing on Gaston [Ariel, Aurora, and Snow White crushed on guys, and last I checked, they weren't bimbos, and in fact, they waited until marriage], yet the featherduster maid was hinted to be a bit promiscuous and she wasn't even treated badly in the narrative).

And Mulan? Okay, I'll agree with you that compared to Beauty and the Beast and especially Maleficent, it's more male-friendly, but a lot of the guys weren't exactly depicted in a very good light, largely being idiots among the good guys, and apparently, they only succeeded in infiltrating the castle by... what, having them cross-dress?

Linda Woolverton made clear with both BATB and the Maleficent movie that she was very much influenced by the 1970s Feminist movement, and last I checked, that movement WAS misandric, male-hating, in other words.