Feivel, the mouse wanderer in the Wild West
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| German title | Feivel, the mouse wanderer in the Wild West | ||
| Original title | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1991 | ||
| length | 74 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 6 | ||
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| Director |
Phil Nibbelink , Simon Wells |
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| script | Flint Dillie | ||
| production |
Steven Spielberg , Robert Watts |
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| music | James Horner | ||
| cut | Nick Fletcher | ||
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Feivel, the mouse wanderer in the Wild West ( English : An American Tail: Fievel Goes West ) is the first sequel to the 1986 film Feivel, the mouse wanderer . The cartoon was released in 1991 and was directed by Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells and produced by Steven Spielberg . Unlike in the previous film, Don Bluth was not involved. The television series Feivel the Mouse Walker & Friends continues the film, as does the movie Feivel the Mouse Walker: The Treasure of Manhattan .
action
Feivels family and many other mice find that they are not doing as well in New York as they had hoped when they immigrated. In the meantime, the cats forge a plan to process the mice into mouse burgers. To do this, they want to lure the mice to the Wild West by making them believe that mice and cats would live there in peace. Feivel realizes on the train that they have been tricked. The cats try to deceive him, but Feivel flees and ends up in the wild. There he meets the tomcat Tiger from New York, who also moved west and is now worshiped as a deity by a tribe of Indian mice. While Tiger prefers to stay with the Indian mice, Feivel travels on and eventually finds his family again.
The mice live in empty cans and shoes in the town of Green River. Feivels father decides that the Mauskewitz will move close to the water. But soon the water disappears because the spider Chula has blocked its path. Feivels sister, who can sing well, is hired by Miss Kitty for her saloon. Cat R. Raul plans to lure the mice into the saloon to catch them there. At the same time, Feivel found the famous dog Wylie Burp while exploring the city. Wylie agrees to train Kater Tiger to be a sheriff, so that he can finally take action against the machinations of Cat R. Raul.
Production and publication
The film was produced by Amblimation under the direction of Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells from 1989 to 1991 and was the studio's first film to be created as a collaboration between Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment . Over 250 people were involved in the production. Steven Spielberg and Robert Watts were responsible as producers . Initially, Don Bluth, director of the first film, was scheduled to direct. Due to a dispute with Steven Spielberg, however, he left the project. Flint Dille wrote the script, James Horner composed the music, and Nick Fletcher was the lead editor. Neil Ross was hired as artistic director.
James Stewart speaks in his final film role Wylie Burp . His German spokesman Siegmar Schneider, who had been in German for decades, was also used here for the last time.
The film premiered on November 21, 1991 in New York City, and opened the next day in the rest of the United States. This was followed by cinema premieres in Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands and Great Britain, until the film was released in German cinemas on June 25, 1992. It has also been translated into Spanish, Japanese and other languages.
synchronization
The German synchronization was created by Berliner Synchron GmbH. Lutz Riedel was responsible for the script and direction .
| role | Original speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Feivel Mauskewitz | Phillip Glasser | Timm new |
| Tiger, the tiger cat | Dom DeLuise | Edgar Ott |
| Papa Mauskewitz | Nehemiah Persoff | Jochen Schröder |
| Mama Mauskewitz | Erica Yohn | Bettina Schön |
| Cat R. Waul | John Cleese | Peter Matic |
| Chula, the tarantula | Jon Lovitz | Santiago Ziesmer |
| Miss Kitty | Amy Irving | Regina Lemnitz |
| Tanya Mauskewtiz | Cathy Cavadini | Angelika Milster |
| Wylie Burp | James Stewart | Siegmar Schneider |
reception
The film grossed around 40 million US dollars worldwide, making it significantly less successful than its predecessor Feivel, the mouse wanderer .
Halliwell's Film Guide rates the film two out of four stars and sees it as “an entertaining and motivated animated film that borrows many plot elements from the classic western.” The New York Times states that the film is not such a haunting allegory of the immigrant of the 19th century, but a rather bland and seemingly random series of adventures by Mauskewitz '. The representation of the Wild West is surprisingly dull and superficial. The (English) voice actors and the above-average quality of the animations are praised. The German lexicon of international film writes: "A lovable, child-friendly, narrated cartoon that stylishly develops role models from the history of film."
Web links
- An American Tail walkers in the Wild West in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jerry Beck: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West , in The Animated Movie Guide , pp. 18-19. Chicago Reader Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55652-591-5 .
- ↑ Box Office Mojo on the movie
- ↑ David Gritten (Ed.): An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (**) , in Halliwell's Film Guide 2008 , p. 37. Hammersmith, London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. ISBN 0-00-726080-6 .
- ↑ Stephen Holden: An American Tail Fievel Goes West (1991) , New York Times, November 22, 1991
- ↑ Feivel, the mouse wanderer in the Wild West. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .