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#COSSACKS EUROPEAN WARS MOSE DOESNT MOVE MOVIE#
I have to say, the cat attacks in this movie are genuinely terrifying, and I remember now why this movie scared me so much as a kid. Anyway, Fievel doesn’t believe that there are cats in America but he soon changes his tune when the cats attack and tear up the market place where Bridget is holding her rally. Nothing comes between them, it adds nothing to the plot, it’s just there. They just see each, fall instantly in love, mumble some nonsense at each other and stay together for the rest of the movie. What bugs me is that they tack on this love story between Bridget and Tony and it’s not really a story. I recently did my family tree and once I got to the 1850s I had to spend half an hour figuring out if this was the Bridget who married a James or the Bridget who her brother James married or the mother of Bridget and James named Bridget.
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It’s not even that they gave her such a ridiculously stereotypical Irish name as Bridget, fair is fair. Internet! Find me something dumber than Fievel Mousekwitz for this analogy! Chop chop! Now, because Fievel is dumber than…um…oh jeez… Fievel gets washed around on a bar of soap and sees an open door leading up to the deck. For the mice, it’s a whole lot worse than that. Okay a storm breaks out and soon the ship is awash in bilge water. But there are no cats in America… So I guess what I’m saying is… Oh the old country, misery, death, cats, socialized medicine etc. Then it starts up again for a four line chorus.
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It’s not that the song slows down for the verses.
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And to say the shift in tone is jarring would be an understatement. And then the chorus stops for the main verses where the various mice describe the hardships the face in their home countries. But looking at the song again… Okay, the chorus is great. Um.oh There are no Cats in America! Everyone loves that song, right? It’s a classic! The emigrant mice all get together on the ship and sing about the great, feline-free life that awaits them on the other side of the Atlantic. Okay, I think I need to find something good to say about this film pretty quickly. Oh, they even gave them little furry hats and mustaches! Hell, even the Cossacks have cats, and bring them with them on their pogroms. The old world, however, is crawling with them. Mama Mouskewitz sharply reminds Papa not to use the “C-word” so Papa changes the subject to America, telling the children that in the new world there are no cats. It’s kind of hard to describe but it’s almost like the characters are overacting.Īnyway, Papa tells the children the story of the Giant Mouse of Minsk, a legendary rodent so massive that even cats were terrified of him. It’s kind of jerky and the lip synching is…well it’s not out of synch exactly but the lip movements seem to be too large for the words. Okay, I realise this may be heresy but…I’m not loving this bluthimation. To his daughter Tanya he gives a scarf, and to his son Fievel he gives a blue hat and… Papa Mouskewitz (Nehemiah Persoff) is giving out presents to his children. Oh my Dog! Art Spiegelman somehow traveled forward in time and stole Don’s idea. Some Bluthimation historians have speculated that if Disney hadn’t simply folded at the first challenge to their monopoly, that they might actually have had the talent and resources to push back, up the quality of their movies and maybe even experience some kind of “renaissance” and really give Bluth a run for his money. He left and formed Don Bluth studios and in quick succession released two films, the sublime and critically acclaimed The Secret of NIMH, and the box-office smash that was An American Tail. Upon which, the Disney studio rolled over like a dead dog and was quietly consigned to history. Bluth left the studio in 1979, utterly disheartened with how the Disney studio was being run and the decline in the quality of their Bluthimated films. Nowadays however they’ve faded completely into obscurity and are only really known as the studio that gave Don Bluth his start. And yeah, some of their earlier works were really quite impressive, some almost rising to the standard of modern Bluthimations. You’d probably have to be a hardcore Bluthimation fan to have heard of them but back in the day they were actually considered a pretty big deal. Who were Disney? Well, I’m not surprised you don’t know. It also represented a major personal victory for Don, as this is the movie that once and for all finished off the…let me see if I’m pronouncing this right…”Dies Nee” studio? Sorry, that’s Disney. Sidenote: Isn’t the new pope just freakin’ adorable?īut An American Tail occupies an important part of bluthistory because this was the first bluthimation to be a major financial success and so paved the way for all the world changing masterpieces that were to follow.