Nightmare Fuel / An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is intended for children (maybe with a few Parental Bonuses), but this is also a sequel to a Don Bluth Film, so we all remember how his films tend to go...

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• Starting off, the Cat Attack scene at the beginning of the movie. Sure, Cat R. Waul has made no eating one of the tantamount rules for this attack, but that doesn't discount lots of mayhem and fear.
  • The music, while over the top, actually uses that overbearing intonation to its advantage, and really, REALLY, ups the panic and fear in the scene, especially in these parts:
    • Fievel runs off to fight the cats, and both Papa and Mama already fear him dead when he jumps out their knothole window, only for him to come back for his hat (to turn it into a cowboy hat), and then jump back out. Papa tries to call for him again, only for One-Eye (the cat with the lavender shirt, brown vest, and bowler hat) to slam his hand through the wall and tear their house apart, looking for the mice.
    • Fievel bites off a bit more than he can chew to protect his family. One-Eye decides for himself to go rogue and have himself a Fievel snack, with Fievel realizing he can't really take on this big cat. Slowly the cat advances on poor Fievel, overshadowing him, with Fievel slowly losing his tough composure. It's only the timely intervention of Papa Mousekewitz purposely screeching his violin playing, inflicting pain on One-Eye's ears, that saves Fievel.
• Fievel falling from the train made even worse by his family witnessing it and Papa Mousekewitz even attempting to jump overboard in a futile attempt to save him.
• The choice between the hawk and scorpion scene. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! With the part where the scorpion almost stings Fievel right between the legs as a stand-out that will make anyone cringe.
• THE LAAAAAAAAAAZY EYE that Burp implements as a successful way to intimidate his opponents.

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