An American Tail

Great watch with the kids.

Absolutely timeless

My daughter is three and half, and we watched this a few weeks ago when it was my (dad's) turn to pick the weekly movie. She was a little apprehensive about the ferocious Cossack cats at the beginning and stood back to watch from the other room. But she was captivated and soon joined us on the couch. I don't think she understood the big reveal near the end, nor could she fully appreciate the contributions of certain cinema legends, but she giggled at Madeline Kahn's "We-wease the secwet weapooon!" and the antics of Dom DeLuise's mouse-loving cat. We even added "Somewhere Out There" to our morning playlist (as beautifully, imperfectly voiced by the character actors) - she loves singing along. So happy my family watched this together after I hadn't seen it for 30+ years.

I grow up watching American tails and I’m still in love

I saw this long long ago in my childhood then throw the years had forgotten about it completely. Recently I remembered the name when I saw it on HBO so I decided to watch it. This film created more emotion for me than most oscar quality movies. Maybe it's the animals, they're just so cute, especially Fievel. But anyway, I loved it so much and it brought back so many memories that I watched it at least 5 other times on HBO that week. I had to own this movie, being as it jumped up to at least my 2nd favorite, 1st favorite in terms of animated movies.Through internet research I found out that the DVD version of American Tail had added sound effects and a few voice overs. I found a list of all of them and was dissappointed that I couldn't have the original version on DVD, I mean HBO showed it, why can't it be on DVD. Well anyway, I bought it here on VHS so I could have the original version. I also will buy it on DVD someday, even though the effects can be annoying sometimes and I feel they take away from the movie. The bullies in the end said different things and places where there was supposed to be silence or background music now has sound effects and people talking. There was only one thing added that was actually quite funny and didn't sound like someone just talking over the movie. Warren T Rat says "I wonder how you say 'trust me' in Chinese". The rest can get very annoying, but most I can deal with. Children probably won't know the difference or care and the animation and original character voices was not touched. THANK GOODNESS.The VHS came in it's original shrink wrap wrapping and is from a 1990 release. I almost don't want to open it because it is quite interesting. Cost $17.96 at Walmart back then. There's even a $5 rebate offer if you purchase American Tail and Fievel Goes West that expires 9/30/92.Anyway, DVD or VHS (or even Laserdisk) this is definitely a great film. Some may say it's really depressing. I'd agree it's sad and dark, but I feel it makes it more beautiful and heartwarming. If you love this film check out Secret Of NIHM. That's also a Don Bluth film and extremely good. Many say better than American Tail, but that's all opinion both are amazing.

Not too long after getting to America, Fievel is singing a duo with Henri the Frenchman... (cough) French-bird... called (drum roll!) "Never say never"! Hmmm. An American Tail came out in 1986, Justin Bieber released the song in 2010. Yep, I'd say he definitely got it from the movie, not the other way around! ;)I watched Fievel goes west many times, but had never seen the 1st movie before today. As another reviewer mentioned, the plot lines are pretty much the same: both have the family traveling to a new place where everything will be better, both have a cat pretending to be a rat/mouse robbing the immigrants of their money, in one Fievel falls off a train bridge while in the other he falls off a train, both times he falls into a gutter, both times he ends up in a cat bar, both times he discovers the cat behind the mask and tries to warn his family, both times his sister never gives up on him (I will never say never!) while his parents seem to quite easily dismiss the idea of ever finding him again and seek to squish any idea of looking for him.I actually still prefer Fievel goes west. If the plot lines are the same, then go for the one that is less scary. This one was frightening, black cats with dark teeth. As least in the second movie, you have more of Tiger for comic relief and the doom is more impending than crashing down on them over and over. Kinda scary for little kids. Recommend 8 and up for this one. Four and up for Fievel goes west.The symbolism is rather interesting. The mice are Russian Jews. The Cossacks and their cats come and kill a bunch of them (Hitler and the Reich saw the Cossacks as Aryans, unlike the rest of Russia). So, the mice/jews flee the Aryan/anti-semites and head to America where there is supposedly no one who is a cat/anti-jew. Unfortunately, that is not so. And there are plenty of anti-semites as well as Jews who are wealthy Germans (interestingly enough) who use the low-down-mob for their own good.And we all know that the producer Steven Spielberg is a Jew. His Grandpa, named Fievel oddly enough, came to the US from Russia. So, this kids movie suddenly becomes a very political thing.... Steven is essentially saying "my grandpap fled anti-semitism in Russia and I am telling you all it is here too!" Which is true, especially in recent years...Isn't the meaning behind "innocent" kid movies fascinating?!Almost as good as watching any 1950s movie, where the woman is stupidly conniving and the guy is always trying to put her in her place and the movie ends with him yelling at or beating her and her "seeing the light" and apologizing profusely for blocking his right of dominant manhood. Take that post-WWII women! The men are back from the war! Get out of your jobs and go back home and tend babies. Scat!

Love this movie

Great movie

Love the bit of history at the start. A good story for the whole family

Schöner alter Kinderfilm

Truffa ! all'interno c 'era un altro dvd intitolato the penguins of mafagascar 6 mentre nella copertina vi era la copertina an amercan Tail quindi il contenuto non corrisponde alla copertina esterna chiedo il rimborso con altro materiale

Opinión para: An American Tail [Edizione: Stati Uniti] [Italia] [Blu-ray] con ASIN : B07G1YC4SPAudio en español latino, el doblaje original. También tiene subtítulos en español.

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