
Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he'd be rid off.... (Full plot summary below)
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Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he'd be rid off.
Leave your thoughts about An American Tail.
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.An intimate and entertaining animated epic... |
| Chicago ReaderPat GrahamThe overall quality of the animation -- baroquely executed if rather conventionally conceived -- makes it worth a look |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonIts sappiness is unmissably sincere, and such aching, embarrassing sincerity is never an evil thing in a movie. |
| New TimesLuke Y. ThompsonI liked it as a kid, and have liked it less and less every year since. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt has been written by people who want to prepare kids for the worst. |
| Washington PostPaul AttanasioIn the hands of director Bluth, An American Tail is technically impeccable, combining much of the richness of bygone Disney animation with modern technological effects. But if it's polished, it's also strikingly uninspired. |
| Film4Richard LuckThere's nothing particularly special about An American Tail, save for Bluth's slick animation. |
| VarietyVariety StaffCartoons with ambitions even this noble are as rare as Steven Spielberg films that lose money, but every character and every situation presented herein have been seen a thousand times before. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumEthnic mice plus fascist cats in groundbreaking animation. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyAn American Tail looks good but the tale itself, as conceived by David Kirschner for the screenplay by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss, is witless if well-meaning. It's mostly bland, though every now and then it rises to express its own brand of kiddie-bigotry. |