Prosecutor: Now you say, Mr. Bluth, that all dogs go to heaven?
Don Bluth: Yes
Prosecutor: May I remind you that you are under oath, and that perjury is a felony offence?
Don Bluth: I understand
Prosecutor: Then could you explain to the jury the existence of Hellhounds?
Don Bluth: *sweating*
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(thought of this again, and adding more/adjusting a few things)
Stories I wish could have been movies with the Henry Selick/Jim Hensons' Creature Shop touch-
Babes in Toyland (fully puppet/stop-motion. this one doesn't just "want" to be puppets and stop-motion, it NEEDS to be puppets and stop-motion)
The Nutcracker (live-action for the "regular" world, puppets/stop-motion for the fantasy characters)
No Flying in the House (puppets/practical effects for human characters, stop-motion for miniature characters)
Bunnicula (as a live-action movie, with voice-overs for the animals similar to Homeward Bound)
the Velveteen Rabbit (live-action humans, puppets/stop-motion for toys)
The Borrowers (fully puppet/stop-motion)
Malice (live-action for the real world, traditional animation for the spooky comicbook world)
A Bad Case of Stripes (fully puppet/stop-motion)
The Wind in the Willows (puppets/stop-motion)
Stories I wish could have been movies with the Bluth touch-
The Pain and the Great One (traditional animation, in the art style of the original book)
The Neverending Story (live-action for the real world, traditional animation for the world within the book)
A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream (traditional animation)
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse (traditional animation. honestly, imagine if it was kinda like an American Tail spin-off, where the great-grandkids of Fievel have grown up in different places across the country and then come together)
The Story of Ferdinand (traditional animation)
Watership Down (you KNOW Bluth movies are good at 2 things; cute animals and nightmare fuel)
The Fish Who Weren't (traditional animation)
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ok. ok ok. ok. so. An American Tail:
this movie's gorgeous. visually. the art design mixes with James Horner's musical score to create something between melancholic and nostalgic
tbh tho, I felt there was bit of a tug-of-war at play between the movie's subject material (the immigrant's complex relationship with the United States) and its choice of storytelling (family film). for the most part it works out, but there were moments where I found I had to relax and let the whimsy be, well, whimsical. the story leans a little more fable than historical fiction, which you'd think would be obvious but I think the opening might trick you a bit.
did not expect the metaphor of the cats being essentially the source of all the mice's misfortunes to extend as far as the storm that separates Fievel from his family taking the shape of some eldritch feline sea-god.
speaking of, something I picked up on was Fievel's strange relationship with water. there are multiple instances in this movie when Fievel is swept about by water, and like- it's nearly always taking him from where he wants to go (back to his family) but always positions him somewhere he needs to be. like on the one hand, there's the above storm, and a moment where he gives up finding his family at the end and despondently sits in a puddle. but on the other hand, a woman emptying her wash bucket sweeps him back to Tony, he sings "Somewhere Out There" from the water tower he's sleeping in, he's saved from the fire by the fire hoses pushing him out of danger, and when he reunites with his family it's in the puddles from the storm the night before.
(I don't have the brain power to sort this out tho, I've written and rewritten this post like four times by now ANYWAY. movie good.)
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