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An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island [VHS]

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Plain & Simple- An American Tail & Fieval Goes West (1 & 2)...are two of the greatest cartoon movies to date...Why? Because of Director Don Bluth. i.e. (The Land Before Time.

The Original 1st Bluth movie surpasses all of the others.)

Stick with the originals - Only try'n to Help!

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Ok. I honestly have to say that before I watched this film, I had some doubts and apprehensions. Ever since NIMH II I told myself that I would avoid sequels like the plague. I even THOUGHT that it was going to be NIMH II once again. But I hunkered down and tried to enjoy it and suprising as it sounds, I did! PLOT: Pretty okay as plot lines go. Everything is as it was put in the editorial review. Fievel and Tony stumble upon a treasure map, and instead find an underground Native American mouse civilization. Meanwhile, Papa Mousekewitz has to deal with the daily grind of late 19th century labor and finds the hope and courage that he thought he had lost. The movie has morals all right, but not forced into the viewer. It deals with fear and prejudice and mixes it with hope and dreams. It wasn't the most formulatic plotline in the world either. This was actually kindof original and well conceived. ANIMATION: The animation was one of the things that made me anxious before seeing it. Fortunatly, it was a familiar animation group that I've seen on Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. It wasn't Bluth, but still it was very well done for a direct-to-video. The animation itself makes up for the few toony gestures in the movie because I've seen it on Tiny Toons all the time. CHARACTERS: I'm glad they didn't ruin any of the characters for me. Fievel was way too cute in this one! Voice and all. Tanya was a plus on the character roster too. Her design was like that in the first movie and for that I'm grateful. NOT to say that I didn't like the Fievel Goes West model, but she's cuter in this design. They brought back Tony, who wasn't there for the second movie, so that's also a plus! He's pretty cool. I'm glad they didn't ruin Tiger, like a certain other company did to a certain crow in another sequel! He was more or less the same as he was in the first two movies, but didn't get very many lines though. The new characters didn't come off as formula, especially not the villians. Cholina was the best of the new characters. She was really sweet, especially on Fievel. MUSIC & SONGS: They just started with a song after viewing Mannhattan Harbor. Frankly, that song was quite relieving, because it's the sequel's way of saying, "there ARE songs in this!" But there were only three, and for this I'm grateful that Universal didn't saturate the sequel with them. The songs were pretty good, even the villians' song "Friends of the Working Mouse." "Anywhere in our Dreams," sung between Cholina and Fievel, was my favorite. They did use the music track from the first movie thought. At first this annoyed me, but they integrated it with their own track pretty well. Later, I welcomed the classic music along with the new. FINAL THOUGHTS: All in all, this was a pretty good movie for a direct to video sequel. It's a good movie that deserves a fair chance before judgement. YES the second movie was shrugged off as one of Fievel's dreams, but I think his innocence and cuteness makes up for that. It was neat that they kept all cats out of this movie except Tiger, so in that respect alone it probably is truer to the original movie. But again, see it for yourself. You may be as pleased as I am!

Don't waste your time with this. If you want an example of how bad it is, according this Fivel Goes West never happened. It was all a dream.

I love Fievel & the first movie was dear & from the early days of animation. I was in college & so I have gathered the rest to have a complete series. Like I typed, I received it in good form so I expect that IF there are any problems, this seller will be responsible & help make it right. I fully do NOT expect any issues.

I bought this for the grandkids and they really enjoyed it.It had sone great morale lessons,JIM.

Fun and exciting adventure of Feviel and the Gang ! Fun for any age or fans of the oringinal American Tail from 1986 !

Short but excellent adventure of American Tail and worth checking out for the kids and anybody else !

This movie was great! I thought the animation was better than the first two, and the story was equally good...all in all, the movie was GRRRRREAT!

Being a video-only release, AT3 doesn't stand on a par -nor it pretends to either- with the former two movies about the Mousekewitzes saga. Japan-outsourced animation is typical Saturday morning TV fare and storyline is more or less on the same level. However, for anyone who has come to love Fievel and his pals' antics across the years, those pitfalls won't matter much. And kids won't complain at all either - the adventure story plot and vibrant color palette present will keep them well engaged and amused to the end.

On it's own, this was a good movie. Unfortunately, though, it was the third part to an excellant series. The quality wasn't as high as the previous American Tail movies. The animation was, well, bad. Fortunately the few songs were good (especially "Anywhere in our Dreams"). The story was also OK. It deals a little with racism (the Americans don't like the other mice because they are Natives) and how the Europeans took over the Natives' land. This is perhaps something that children should watch. They'd enjoy it for sure. Like I said. It's good on it's own, but only on it's own. Worth the money anyways....

I watched this movie and i really like it.Its cool,fun and exciting.I can watch it over and over.I think anyone should enjoy this movie.