I believe it is. The one thing that always kept NIMH from being tops for me is the Jeremy character...he always felt so out of place and added unneeded bad comedy to an otherwise great film. In AAT, Dom DeLuise's character Tiger is much more fitting and represents more than a comic relief character. An American Tail has the most interesting story, DB's best animation, and the right balance of heart, laughs, and metaphor. It's a shame it's become so underrated these days. I see a lot of people bringing up The Land before Time, that might be great for kids but it's mass appeal is nonexistent. And to the person who called The Lion King a true masterpiece, thanks for the joke, hilarious!
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elgrandTA82
10 years ago
This is really is a great movie, and captures in a way that very few animated movies have mostly because of its characters. But I wouldn't call this a masterpiece and its a shame because it could've been a masterpiece. However this is not the fault of Bluth or Spielburg, the blame for that really falls onto the studio. Mostly because they went and cut down on the production time, demanding the finished product much earlier and forcing a massive speed up in production. So if the movie looks very cut and paste and jumbled as some have mentioned this is the reason why, many story points got lost and shorter scenes had to be made to compensate. This is mentioned by Bluth himself in his interview where he talks about the films production, he does give some details on lost scenes.
Thanks to a friend cleaning out her attic I was able to get a copy of the novelization and as result got to see more of what the original script had in mind. Fievel gets screwed the most as his entire character arc (which is slightly similar to Little Foots) was pretty much cut out where as in the novelization you see the character actually evolves as he turns less impulsive. The character's temperament is also shown more and his angry outburst on Orphan Alley is a bit more built up to. Tony is a more fleshed out character and his friendship with Fievel is more grounded. Some events happen over the course of days such as the sweat shop and building of The Mouse of Minsk (which Fievel actually does participate in building the outside barrier with Tony). There's more time with the Mousekwitz and papa grieving the loss of Fievel. There's also the Mousekitwitz reaction to learning Fievel is alive, papa gets humorous moment and Tanya gets a crowning moment of awesome, she's also the one who has Fievel's hat in the original reunion scene.
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