It has the most important ingredient for a good cartoon feature: an appealing main character.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 19, 2023

[It] celebrates the rich diversity of our melting-pot heritage; it doesn't insult kids (or adults) with fifth-rate Saturday-morning non-animation; and it gives us some wonderfully memorable characters that weren't already sitting on the Toys R Us shelves.

| May 19, 2023

An American Tail is simply not remarkable. It's handsome, wholesome and eager to please, but its theme seems well beyond the ken of the very young. Worse, the plot has a dreadful familiarity to it -- the borrowings are extensive.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 19, 2023

The sights and most of the sounds are always eye-filling and occasionally thrilling. The mouse's-eye views of old Manhattan are stunningly rendered, as are the bird's-eye panoramas. And Horner's score has sweep and splendor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 19, 2023

Beautifully animated in the classic tradition of Pinocchio, An American Tall depicts the immigrant experience of i hundred years ago as seen through the eyes of young Fievel Mousekewitz, his family and his murine compadres.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 19, 2023

There is no crackle to the tale, no suspense to the adventure. Older, more sophisticated children -- those beyond, say, 8 -- are going to find it bland.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 19, 2023

Its impossible to review Steven Spielberg's first fully animated venture without using the words "cute, charming and adorable," so I've disposed of them all in this first sentence.

| May 19, 2023

Though am usually responsive, nay Pavlovian, with my tear-ducts, on such occasions, one feels that to respond here is like weeping at the request of a mugger with a gat.

| May 19, 2023

...carefully reconstructed history... [Full review in Spanish]

| May 18, 2023

Bluth has given us animation that's substantially more realistic than what we get by way of Saturday morning cartoons these days. But we're still not quite back up to the old Disney standard.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2023

It's a sweet, tame movie.

| May 18, 2023

You won't see better animation than this for a long time. But you might feel entitled to hope for a stronger, headier story to go with its stunning detail.

| May 18, 2023

Designed to appeal primarily to children, An American Tail is a film that grown-ups will also enjoy.

| May 18, 2023

A bright-eyed tale of Jewish triumphs that will find a place in many young hearts.

| May 18, 2023

An American Tail is more than a cartoon, though one of the most enjoyable that kids have been offered in years. It's also an animated parable of melting-pot America.

| May 18, 2023

Tiger (the voice of Dom DeLuise) steals the film, which is entertaining, but for me lacks the magic of the Disney classics.

| May 18, 2023

The secondary figures, including villainous Warren T. Rat, are often splendid. So are the storm scene, fire effects and the Statue of Liberty episodes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2023

The movie is made with great skill, like everything Spielberg puts his name on, and its humor is aimed at grownups as well as children. But the style, which we've seen in dozens of Disney films, is painfully familiar.

| May 18, 2023

For all the care that has been lavished on this production, it remains a rather plodding movie especially when compared with the far more sprightly Walt Disney feature, The Great Mouse Detective.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2023

It's just a terrible idea, terribly executed.

| May 18, 2023