While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Director: Don Bluth
Stars: Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Nehemiah Persoff, Madeline Kahn.
Watched online, good print.
6 songs in the Soundtracks, plus a reprise. 4 of them are Music by James Horner and Barry Mann, Lyrics by Cynthia Weil. 1 is by Sousa, and 1 by Gilbert & Sullivan.
At first I thought we had an animated Fiddler, then Oliver. It may have turned into Oz (seeking his family is seeking "home"), with lots of random meaningless events, and DD doing a pretty good impression of Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion.
MK was very recognizable, doing her stock Gabor impression with a B.Walters speed impediment. I have no idea who CP played (Henri). MP was Fievel's pop.
I have this in a list of films referenced in the UCI class on the Holocaust I audited. He showed a clip from the beginning, the cats attack the mice while the cossacks inflict a pogrom on the people.
The song There Are No Cats in America reminds us of the crazy romanticized notions immigrants used to have.
How Fievel managed to keep his oversized hat during all but the very last of the film, when his father re-gave it to him, is beyond suspension of disbelief.
Why this is rated 6.9 by 43k+ IMDb voters is beyond me.
