An American Tail (franchise)

An American Tail is a franchise based on the 1986 animated film of the same name directed by Don Bluth and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios/Amblin Entertainment.

An American Tail
Directed by	Don Bluth Phil Nibbelink Simon Wells Larry Latham
Produced by	Don Bluth Gary Goldman John Pomeroy Steven Spielberg Robert Watts Larry Latham
Production companies	Amblin Entertainment Sullivan Bluth Studios Amblimation Universal Cartoon Studios
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	1986–1999

The franchise follows the adventures of Fievel Mousekewitz, a Russian-Jewish mouse immigrant to the United States in 1885. The franchise opened up a couple of attractions at Universal Studios Hollywood including "Fievel's Playland" and "An American Tail Show".[1]

Media

An American Tail

An American Tail is a 1986 film which follows Fievel and his family as they immigrate from Ukraine to the United States and how he subsequently gets lost and aims to reunite with them.

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is a 1991 western sequel to An American Tail. This movie has premiered four times at the Jimmy Stewart Museum since 2015,[2] a dedication to the late James Stewart in his final role.

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island is a 1998 direct-to-video sequel. While premiering in the United Kingdom in late 1998, this wasn't released in North America until early 2000.[3]

An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster

An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster is a 1999 direct-to-video sequel. Released in the United States in mid 2000.[4]

An American Tail: The Computer Adventures of Fievel and His Friends

An American Tail: The Computer Adventures of Fievel and His Friends is a 1993 Microsoft DOS point-and-click adventure game developed by Capstone Software and Manley & Associates, Inc., based on both of the first two An American Tail movies.

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is a 1994 Super NES video game based on the film of the same name.

An American Tail Movie Book

An American Tail Movie Book is a 1998 Interactive storybook for Windows and Macintosh developed by Wayforward Technologies and published by Sound Source Interactive.

An American Tail: Fievel's Gold Rush

An American Tail: Fievel's Gold Rush is a 2002 platform game for Game Boy Advance developed by Hokus-Pokus.

An American Tail

An American Tail is a 2007 platform game developed by Data Design Interactive and published by Blast! Entertainment based on the film of the same name. It was released exclusively in Europe.[5] The game consists of ten levels and four bonus levels. In each level the player must guide Fievel on a preset path from start to finish. The player can collect stars or pieces of cheese along the way. Gameplay takes different forms in different levels, such as running in a bubble, riding the back of Henri the pigeon, parachuting downwards and others.[6]

"Somewhere Out There"

"Somewhere Out There" is the theme song of An American Tail, performed by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram.

"Dreams to Dream"

"Dreams to Dream" is the theme song of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, performed by Linda Ronstadt.

Fievel's American Tails

Fievel's American Tails is a 1992 spin-off TV series and continuation of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. This series remained abandoned after the release of the direct-to-video sequels until NBCUniversal regain rights to the series and have it available on Peacock sometimes in 2020.

An American Tail Theatre

An American Tail Theatre was a live stage show based on An American Tail: Fievel Goes West at various Universal Parks & Resorts theme parks that ran from 1990 to 1992.

Cast and characters

Characters	Films				Television series
	An American Tail	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island	An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster	Fievel's American Tails
	1986	1991	1998	1999	1992
Fievel Mousekewitz	Phillip Glasser		Thomas Dekker		Phillip Glasser
Tanya Mousekewitz	Amy Green	Cathy Cavadini	Lacey Chabert		Cathy Cavadini
	Betsy Cathcart (singing voice)
Papa Mousekewitz	Nehemiah Persoff				Lloyd Battista
Mama Mouskewitz	Erica Yohn			Jane Singer	Susan Silo
Tiger	Dom DeLuise
Tony Toponi	Pat Musick	Silent cameo	Pat Musick
Bridget	Cathianne Blore
Honest John	Neil Ross
Henri	Christopher Plummer		Silent cameo
Warren T. Rat	John Finnegan
Digit	Will Ryan
Gussie Mausheimer	Madeline Kahn
Wylie Burp		James Stewart
Cat R. Waul		John Cleese			Gerrit Graham
T.R. Chula		Jon Lovitz			Dan Castellaneta
Miss Kitty		Amy Irving			Cynthia Ferrer
Cholena			Elaine Bilstad
			Leeza Miller (singing voice)
Chief Wulisso			David Carradine
Dr. Dithering			René Auberjonois
Mr. Grasping			Ron Perlman
Scuttlebutt			John Kassir
Police Chief McBrusque			Sherman Howard
Nellie Brie				Susan Boyd
Madame Mousey				Candi Milo
Reed Daley				Robert Hays
Twitch				John Mariano
Slug				Jeff Bennett
Lone Woof				John Garry
Sweet William		Silent cameo			Kenneth Mars

Crew

Film	Directed by	Producer	Written by	Composer	Editor
An American Tail	Don Bluth	Don Bluth Gary Goldman John Pomeroy	screenplay: Judy Freudberg & Tony Geiss story: David Kirschner Judy Freudberg & Tony Geiss	James Horner	Dan Molina
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Phil Nibbelink Simon Wells	Steven Spielberg Robert Watts	screenplay: Flint Dille story: Charles Swenson		Nick Fletcher
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island	Larry Latham	Larry Latham	Len Uhley	Patrick Griffin Michael Tavera	Danik Thomas
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster				Michael Tavera

Critical reception

Title	Rotten Tomatoes
An American Tail	70%[7]
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	54%[8]
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island	N/A
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster	N/A

References

1. "Reviews – No One Puts You in the Movies Like We Do!". GameFan. Vol. 1 no. 9. August 1993. p. 94.
2. "Sunday Matinee – "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West"". The Jimmy Stewart Museum. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
3. Fitzpatrick, Eileen (December 25, 1999). "'Mummy' Shoots Universal's Sales Over $1 Bil.; Retailers Win with Sight and Sound". Billboard. Vol. 111 no. 52.
4. Nichols, Peter M. (July 28, 2000). "Home Video; It's a Sequel? O.K., I'll Take It". The New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
5. Cowan, Danny (July 9, 2007). "Release This!". Gamasutra. UBM. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
6. "Gamespy – An American Tail". Gamespy. IGN. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
7. "An American Tail". Rotten Tomatoes.
8. "An American Tail 2". Rotten Tomatoes.