History Trivia / AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest

** Cathy Cavadini voices Tanya Mousekewitz due to Amy Green aging out of the role.

* RoleReprise: With the exception of Amy Green (Tanya) who aged out of the role, all of the original voice actors and actresses for the Mouskewitz family and several major/supporting cast members return as their respective characters.

** Most of the voice actors from the first movie reprised their roles, but Tanya was voiced instead by Cathy Cavadini.

* RoleReprise: With the exception of Amy Green, all of the voice actors from the previous film reprised their roles.

** All three managed to mop the floor with ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'', if only because it [[InvisibleAdvertising hardly had]] [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment a fighting chance]].

* PresumedFlop: Partly due to its ToughActToFollow status compared to the now-classic first movie, and partly because it wasn't directed by Don Bluth, it's widely believed that this movie was a box-office bomb. It wasn't. It actually made $40 million on a $16 million budget.

** Tanya had already been voiced by someone else, before John Horner discovered Catherine Cavadini through her demo of “Dreams to Dream”. He convinced Spielberg to have her voice Tanya, and she did, although the scenes with Tanya had already been animated to match the previous actor’s mouth movements.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Most of the voice actors from the first movie reprised their roles, but Tanya was voiced instead by Cathy Cavadini.

** Music/CelineDion was originally going to sing "Dreams to Dream" and even recorded a demo for Creator/StevenSpielberg. Unfortunately, it was rejected which prompted Dion to be terminated.

** On the other hand, both films paled in comparison to ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', which was not only a box office juggernaut but kicked off the Disney Renaisance of the '90s. This film managed to save a little face thanks to Spielberg's name on the credits.

** On the other hand, both films paled in comparison to ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', which was not only a box office juggernaut but kicked off the Disney Renaisance of the '90s. This film managed to save a little face thanks to Spielberg's name on the credits.

* DuelingMovies: With ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Sadly, you can already kinda tell how well that went. It beat out ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat: [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie The Movie]]'' though, which were in theaters at the same time. It's tragically ironic when a sequel to a Bluth movie out-does an actual Bluth movie AND [[CreatorKiller kills his studio at the same time]].

* ActorAllusion: Creator/JimmyStewart's finale role - a Western.
* DuelingMovies: ''Fievel Goes West'' with ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Sadly, you can already kinda tell how well that went. It beat out ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat: [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie The Movie]]'' though, which were in theaters at the same time. It's tragically ironic when a sequel to a Bluth movie out-does an actual Bluth movie AND [[CreatorKiller kills his studio at the same time]].

* BTeamSequel: Bluth was offered first crack at directing, but backed out when he and Spielberg started fighting for creative control. He was also busy with ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle''.

** During the production, Steven Spielberg had just finished a nasty divorce with Creator/AmyIrving, voice actress of Miss Kitty. What does the film introduce Miss Kitty doing? Breaking up with Tiger.