History YMMV / AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The ''Fievel Goes West'' game for the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem wasn't too bad of a side-scroller, but it wasn't too impressive either. In the early 2000's Fievel even got a game on the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, ''An American Tail: Fievel's Gold Rush'', which seemed to take place after ''Fievel Goes West'' and played a lot like the Super Nintendo game (odd given that Universal had spent so much effort trying to convince everyone that the movie never happened). This trope is played far more straight with the random ''An American Tail'' game that came out for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 [[NoExportForYou in Europe]] (which actually plays disturbingly a lot like VideoGame/{{Superman 64}}). The PC game that follows the first two films is another major offender, being targeted towards younger audiences but having insanely hard puzzles that would stump the target audience in addition to featuring 2D sprites being meshed with poorly rendered stills from the movies.

* PresumedFlop: The film is a textbook example of this. Partly due to its status compared to the now-classic first movie, partly because it was released on the same day as 'WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and vastly overshadowed by it, and partly because, unlike its predecessor, it wasn't directed by Creator/DonBluth, it's widely believed that it was a box-office bomb. It wasn't. It actually made $40 million on a $16 million budget.

** Though for what it's worth, [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailTheTreasureOfManhattanIsland the sequel]] gave a ''much'' more agreeable depiction, surprisingly enough. The point being that, when one also considers the [[AllJustADream controversial way]] that movie retconned this one, one almost suspects that [[AuthorsSavingThrow it was made specifically to apologize for this movie]].

** Could be justified by the fact that this time, they at least knew Fievel was alive and therefore had faith that he would eventually find his way back to them, but still…

* PresumedFlop: The film is a textbook example of this. Partly due to its status compared to the now-classic first movie, and partly because, unlike its predecessor, it wasn't directed by Creator/DonBluth, it's widely believed that it was a box-office bomb. It wasn't. It actually made $40 million on a $16 million budget.

* MemeticMutation: "The ''Laaaaaaaaazy'' Eye!"

* AwardSnub: "Dreams to Dream" is so beloved that people take notice of it getting a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobe nomination (the movie's only nomination for anything), but not an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination. That said, much like it dominated the Box Office at about the same time as this movie’s release, ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' dominated the Best Original Song category too.

* AwardSnub: "Dreams to Dream" is so beloved that people take notice of it getting a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobe nomination (its only nomination for anything), but not an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination. That said, much like it dominated the Box Office at about the same time as this movie’s release, ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' dominated the Best Original Song category too.

* UncannyValley: The stone mountain in Tiger's shape that leads the mouse tribe to think he's their god. At one point a shadow comes over it and makes the stone looks like it has a face, which looks far more nightmarish than it has any right to be.

** Could be justified by the fact that this time, they at least knew he was alive and therefore had faith that he would eventually find his way back to them, but still…

** Could be justified by the fact that this time, they at least knew he was alive and would eventually find his way back to them, but still…

** That, or Creator/JohnCleese as Cat R. Waul.

** That, or Creator/JohnCleese as Cat. R Waul.

* HarsherInHindsight: Though he didn't die for a few more years, this was Jimmy Stewart's final role, and the ending includes his character, Wylie Burp, walking off into the sunset, with Fievel following. Not only that, but his final lines have some subtle self-projection about his twilight years:

* JustHereForGodzilla: Be honest, you were more invested in Tanya’s story than you were Fievel’s. Her redesign and [[AwesomeMusic Cathy Cavadini’s vocals]] definitely help in this regard.

* AwardSnub: "Dreams to Dream" is so beloved that people take notice of it getting a Golden Globe nomination (its only nomination for anything), but not an Academy Award nomination. That said, much like it dominated the Box Office at about the same time as this movie’s release, ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' dominated the Best Original Song category too.

* AngstWhatAngst: An EnforcedTrope; the writers wanted to avoid any angst and pathos in ''Fievel Goes West'' and keep things LighterAndSofter (also DenserAndWackier) in order to distance it from the first movie (which is probably one reason why Tanya gets tomatoes thrown at her for singing "Somewhere Out There"). The example that perhaps stands out most is the nonchalant reaction Fievel's family has after Fievel falls off the train; we saw plenty of Fievel's family mourning him in the first film already, and it might have been redundant to dwell on them grieving again -- though a child stranded in the desert is a far more dire situation he'd ever been in in New York.

* AssPull: Fievel somehow turning his cap inside out into a cowboy hat, and back again [[BookEnds at the ending]]. Awesome as it is, it is never alluded to in the first film and just serves the plot and tone of the sequel.

* TakeThatScrappy: Tanya's first scene in the movie has her begin to sing 'Somewhere Out There'. People throw produce at her to make her stop.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Whatever your opinion of the film itself, it boasts some absolutely beautiful and fluid animation for a Don Bluth sequel made without Bluth's involvement. One could argue that the animation is ''even better'' than what the original offered (having twice the first film's budget didn't hurt).
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Much like how the first movie made allusions to the challenges newly-immigrated Americans faced in a city environment, this one's main plot (in which the cats are utilizing the mice for labor before simply devouring them) could be seen as referencing the plight of the various minority railroad workers (namely the newly-freed slaves and the freshly-immigrated Irish and Chinese), who tended to get chewed up and spit out by the sheer magnitude of the workload they were burdened with.

** Though for what it's worth, [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailTheTreasureOfManhattanIsland The Sequel]] gave a ''much'' more agreeable depiction, surprisingly enough. The the point that, when one also considers the [[AllJustADream controversial way]] that movie retconned this one, one almost suspects that [[AuthorsSavingThrow it was made specifically to apologize for this movie]].

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Whatever your opinion of the film itself, it boasts some absolutely beautiful and fluid animation for a Don Bluth sequel made without Bluth's involvement. One could argue that the animation is ''even better'' than what the original offered (having double the budget didn't hurt).