Review #49 | All Dogs Go to Heaven

If only they have done some major changes, including a change in title, it would've be impressive.

All Dogs Go to Heaven, 1989

One of the most expensive of Don Bluth's animated cartoon features, All Dogs Go to Heaven was also among the most successful. Set in late-'30s New Orleans, the story centers upon a roguish German shepherd named Charlie B. Barkin (voice of Burt Reynolds), who is killed early in the proceedings by his business partner, Carface (voice of Vic Tayback). Charlie travels to Heaven, and is promptly warned that if he heads back to Earth, he can never return; he does decide to go back to Earth, however, to exact revenge on Carface, who has kidnapped Anne-Marie, a little orphan girl who can talk to Animals. The film also includes the vocal skills of Dom DeLuise, Charles Nelson Reilly, Vic Tayback, Melba Moore, Loni Anderson, and a host of others. All Dogs Go to Heaven was the first production of the Dublin-based Sullivan Bluth Studios.

Very unstable animated feature film which lacks appeal and entertainment. The animation is not the best out there and the story that is based on a weak and unstable theme. It fails to have a great story with side stories being unhelpful.

The music is not really helping the story move forward. The story is pretty dark and does not serve its purpose. All Dogs Go to Heaven lacks something special that is crucial to an animated film.

Inside Outside Rating: 32%

Review #13 | An American Tail

An American Tail, 1986

While the release date for An American Tail has been announced I had a chance to watch it. I have been wanting to watch it for a long time and finally got watch it! All I can say is that I personally loved this film. Particularly the songs were so endearing I have to buy the soundtrack someday. Here is the synopsis:

An American Tail is a beautifully rendered animated flim that tells an overly familiar story in terms children can easily understand. Fievel Mousekewitz and his family of Russian-Jewish mice escape from their homeland in the late 1800s, boarding a boat headed toward America to evade the Czarist rule of the Russian cats. Fievel, however, is separated from his family upon his arrival in New York City, and he discovers to his horror that there are cats in America too (his father said there weren't). Fievel meets his share of friendly and hostile mice, and he eventually befriends a cat as well. Former Disney animator Don Bluth co-produced and directed this often heartwarming yarn, the first animated feature presented by Steven Spielberg, and it has its charms despite a number of cliché situations.

I loved the story and the plot lines in the story. Plot after plot it had something it wanted to say, and was really funny too. It never got tired or bored throughout whole time. The songs like There are no Cats in America, Never say Never and A Duo are instantly likable that I wanted to sing along. Somewhere Out There was my favorite song in this movie because of its melody and lyrics and because of the animated sequence where Fievel and his sister sing together.

If there is the weak side of this film, it would be the animation. It was not perfect, it had its flaws and the use of colors was not great. The colors were dim, and sometimes the colors changed in the movie.

Other than that it was one fun movie that I recommend families with children to watch. An American Tail will be in Blu-Ray format on March 4, 2014.

Inside Outside Rating: 77%