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.
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09/10/08
An American Tail (1986)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:2
Rotten:4
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: In Don Bluth's animated fable AN AMERICAN TAIL, when a mouse family leaves Russia and emigrates to America, they believe the New World is a land without cats. The film, a heartfelt homage to the... [More]
Starring: Phillip Glasser, Madeline Kahn, Nehemiah Persoff, Christopher Plummer
Director: Don Bluth
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Reviews for An American Tail
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Top CriticThe overall quality of the animation -- baroquely executed if rather conventionally conceived -- makes it worth a look
09/10/08
Top CriticWitless if well-meaning.
08/30/04
Top CriticIt 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.
01/01/00
Top CriticA bright-eyed tale of Jewish triumphs that will find a place in many young hearts.
01/01/00
Top Critiche 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.
01/01/00
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