An American Tail
(1986)
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While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets seperated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country. |
Directed by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth and with Steven Spielberg as co-executive producer, this handsome feature has the look and feel of a master cartoonist at work. The story of the Mousekewitz family who leave 1880s Russia for the United States because they've heard that the country has no cats and every wall has a mousehole in it and the streets are paved with cheese, ties in nicely with Bluth's stunning animation, and, in true Disney tradition, the Oscar-nominated song Somewhere Out There is a major highlight. Children will love it.
Halliwell's Film Guide
Expensive cartoon feature with old-fashioned full animation but not much in the way of narrative interest or indeed humour.
