An American Tail - The Mystery of the Night Monster

Rating:
Summary: Most entertaining
Review: "The Mystery of the Night Monster" is an amazingly good/underrated film with a cheesy-sounding title. I found myself cheering on the awesome villain, the "creature de la nuit" poodle named Madame Mousee (or Mousey, but as we French speakers know, the name would be spelled Mousee and pronounced 'moo-say,' with an accent on the first e.) For that matter, whoever did the closed captioning and words for the "Creature de la Nuit" sing-along song did not know a thing about the French language and made many blatant errors even in the English lyrics. The song begins, "I'm the creature," not "from the creature." The song goes, "nouvelle chic," not "very chic." She says, "Regardes," not "hang out," and the word means "look," as in "look at me." The captioned words "we're starving" are incorrect; the lyrics are "C'est moi who rules the street," not "ce-moi." Ce-moi makes no sense. C'est moi means "it's me," as in "I'm the one who rules the street." "Powerful yet petite," not "colorful."

I think those were all the errors. Either way, I found her to be an incredibly fun character. The rest of the movie is humorous, charming, and overall well-done. Nellie, Reed, Fieval, Tanya, Tony, and Tiger blend together with other new characters and songs for a very fine movie. I would like to see the soothsaying Madame win though...

The songs in this movie are extremely good; in particular, the showstoppingly incredible "Creature de la Nuit," thought I must say I've had "Get the Facts" and "Who Will?" stuck in my head on more than one occasion. I thought these songs were much better than the Oscar-winning "Somewhere out There" in the original, so I can't quite understand why some people believe that one was better, but it is just one opinion. Also, the fact that Nellie and Fieval live amongst immigrant mice in the city and speak with representatives of various nationalities was NOT stereotyping! This could have been done tastelessly but wasn't. Why is it automatically stereotyping to include a Chinese mouse with a Chinese accent or a Scottish mouse talking about, well, Scottish things?! They were not portrayed negatively at all and weren't stereotyped. They were portrayed as simply who they were intended to be. So, excellent movie on the whole.

Rating:
Summary: The Greatest An American Tail ever!
Review: A great film! This is the best An American Tail I've seen so far! I love it! It has great animation and great new characters! Buy it! You'll be glad you did!

Rating:
Summary: May I suggest an alternative ending?
Review: The wicked awesome pink poodle "Creature de la Nuit" does away with that spoilsport Nellie Brie and takes over the world!!

Seriously, though, this movie was really cool, much better than the other American Tails. Brighter, cool music, more entertaining....on the whole it's pretty cute and good one to see.