An American Tail (1986)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 5
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 239,126
Movie Info
An American Tail is a beautifully rendered animated flim that tells an overly familiar story in terms children can easily understand. Fievel Mousekewitz and his family of Russian-Jewish mice escape from their homeland in the late 1800s, boarding a boat headed toward America to evade the Czarist rule of the Russian cats. Fievel, however, is separated from his family upon his arrival in New York City, and he discovers to his horror that there are cats in America too (his father said there
Nov 21, 1986 Wide
Jan 20, 2004
Universal Pictures
Cast
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Cathianne Blore
Bridget -
Dom DeLuise
Tiger -
John Finnegan
Warren T. Rat -
Philip Glasser
Fievel Mousekewitz -
Amy Green
Tanya Mousekewitz -
Madeline Kahn
Gussie Mausheimer voise... -
Pat Musick
Tony Toponi -
Nehemiah Persoff
Papa Mousekewitz -
Christopher Plummer
Henri -
Neil Ross
Honest John -
Will Ryan
Digit -
Erica Yohn
Mama Mousekewitz -
Hal Smith
Moe -
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All Critics (25) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (8) | DVD (1)
Cartoons 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.
Top CriticThe overall quality of the animation -- baroquely executed if rather conventionally conceived -- makes it worth a look
For all its state-of-the-art animation techniques, Spielberg's production remains resolutely conservative: visually it's virtually indistinguishable from Walt at his wimpiest.
Witless if well-meaning.
It may be that the truly American tale here is the spectacle of an artist squandering his awesome gifts on the way to becoming a Hollywood institution.
he movie has such vague ethnic grounds, however, that only a few children will understand or care that the Mousekewitzes are Jewish. And few of those are likely to be entertained by such a tragic, gloomy story.
Adorable, heartwarming tale of immigrant mouse.
Its sappiness is unmissably sincere, and such aching, embarrassing sincerity is never an evil thing in a movie.
There's nothing particularly special about An American Tail, save for Bluth's slick animation.
The story is moving, and the animation includes some powerful images, although some of the early scenes depicting the suffering of the mice in Russia may be too frightening for younger viewers.
Like other Spielberg-produced features, this one pays homage to old movie traditions (live-action Westerns) and icons, but the film has been made mechanically.
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Can't resist any film with singing mice. Truly Bluth's best film.
Ethnic mice plus fascist cats in groundbreaking animation.
I liked it as a kid, and have liked it less and less every year since.
No Mickey, but a nice mouse.
A light and charming little animated adventure.
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Movie: ID: 9541 Title: An American Tail Release Date: 1986-11-21 00:00:00.0 MPAA: 1 Status: 1
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Foreign Titles
- Feivel - der Mauswanderer (DE)
- Fiével et le nouveau monde (FR)
