#fievel goes west wylie burp

[catrwaul]

Somehow I’ve never shown these here, shame on me! So as you’d likely guess from my username, I’m a pretty big fan of Fievel Goes West, and Cat R Waul especially! I have an odd little collection in general for the film, but I think this plush collection deserves praise all its own! So, as far as I know, I have every character in plush form, that was made into a plush for the franchise! The large Cat R Waul, Tiger and Wylie Burp plushes to the left are from Germany (I thought they were French, as all of mine happened to come from France - nope!) The little Waul plush sandwiched between his larger counterpart and Tiger was made by SEGA. Fievel and Tanya plushes were also made to match him, but I only wanted him. My little Tanya plush, second to the right, was made by Toy Factory if memory serves. Not counting her, from left to right past the German ones, the rest were sold at the Universal Studios theme park. Those are Fievel, Cat R Waul, Wylie Burp, Tiger, Yasha (Fievel and Tanya’s baby sister) and Chula! Yasha is sitting on him, just in case you can’t see him down there. I couldn’t believe a plush of Chula existed in particular. He’s mint with his hang tag too. There’s another one on eBay currently for a firm two THOUSAND bones. So I mean, he’s there if you want him. I didn’t pay anywhere near that for mine though. As far as the Universal park plushes go, Waul, Wylie, Tiger and Chula all have their tags intact. Unfortunately none of the German ones do. Not that that necessarily bothers me, but I’d love to see what their tags look like! I also have a double of the German Cat R Waul plush, but he’s doomed to be a cuddle plush forever because I LOVE HIM. Peace.

[hunter-husky]

old dog Coach

Q:Honest John from An American Tail as a boxing couch? A:ima keep it straight with you G I got confused and thought you meant Wiley Burp so I drew Wiley Burp instead AMA:https://curiouscat.live/Nanothehedgehog alt:https://x.com/Nanothehedgehog/status/1746839510544195710?s=20

[theanimationalley]

[animated-character-of-the-day]

Today’s character of the day is: Wylie Burp from an American Tail: Fievel Goes West

[bobauthorman]

"...Just remember, Furred Suezo, one mon's sunset is another mon's dawn. I don't know what's out there beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been looking for."

[humbababa]

Let this sleepin' dog lie, son. Doggonit, I'm dog-tired. I'm tired of leadin' a dog's life. Fightin' like cats and dogs against cats and dogs. Young pups doggin' my tail, tryin' to be Top Dog. I'm goin' to the dogs in a dog eat dog world.

I'm so far over the hill, I'm at the bottom on the other side.

Wylie Burp - Fievel Goes West

[tenjad129]

The Dream-Quest of Tanya Mousekewitz

WARNING: This is a modified repost of an old blog post from my now-deleted UlyssesBobMac tumblr account, and so, proceed with caution or something...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, young and old, this may seem a very unusual procedure speaking to all of you in a very long while...

But with all four Funko Pop figures from An American Tail of Fievel (pictured), Papa, and Fievel's cat friend Tiger coming on my very doorstep this month, followed by a Funko Pop figure of the Fievel Goes West version of Fievel's sister Tanya (also pictured) coming on my doorstep this coming November , I have this most unusual subject to discuss with all of you:

Now, my appreciation sometimes for the beautiful, the pretty, and the lovely in any kind or type of animated character (whether 2D hand drawn or traditional stop motion animation in the past or especially 3D CGI in more recent times) may have reportedly been stoked maybe when I was a little boy, or perhaps even during some kind of long ago day care screening of one of the lesser known non-Disney animated classics of the early 1990s, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, which would be Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells' 1991 Amblimation-produced sequel to Don Bluth's original 1986 An American Tail film.

While everyone else teared up over the late great James Stewart's last performance (as the voice of the cowboy dog Wylie Burp) -- "one man's sunset is another man's dawn" as he will put it just before the end credits....

And while just about everyone else was roaring about the antics and humorous exploits of Fievel's cat friend Tiger (voiced by the equally late Dom DeLuise, who also voiced Dee Dee's imaginary friend Koosy in Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Laboratory)…

Even now, I was mostly enthralled, especially nowadays by this nine minute long segment that occurred between about 44 minutes and about 53 minutes within the 75-minute movie itself:

Now, This sequence, occurring as it was between 44 and 53 minutes into the 75 minute long An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, takes viewers into the world, and especially the dream world, as well as the fulfillment of the 'epic dream-quest', if you will, of Fievel's older sister Tanya Mousekewitz (the Fievel Goes West version of whom some certain Don Bluth fans still can't stop complaining about for not getting along very well with her brother, who happened to be Fievel himself).

In the beginning of the sequence, after a villainous cat dropped Fievel (who ends up being trapped in a wine bottle by T.R. Chula the Spider-Man thingy)...

(Hold it RIGHT there, Catty Are Waul!)

Said cat -- Cat R. Waul, who happened to be voiced by John Cleese of Monty Python fame -- discovers Tanya the mouse girl singing the beautiful and lovely song 'Dreams to Dream' (through the combined singing and music scoring talents of The Powerpuff Girls' Blossom's original voice actress, Cathy Cavadini and the late great movie music composer James Horner) to herself while doing chores for her family, The Mousekewitzes...

Just before she sings and dances with a paintbrush before singing and dancing with Cat R. Waul's front paw...

Very beautiful song, isn't it? Anyway, Cat R. Waul took Tanya back into the Green River Saloon that he happen to run, and presents Tanya to Tiger's cat girlfriend Miss [Sophia] Kitty (voiced by Amy Irving, Steven Spielberg's already-divorced wife at the time)…

After an argument between Miss Sophia Kitty and Cat R. Waul, Miss Kitty then comforts the frightened Tanya...

Before allowing her to fulfill her epic dream quest to sing a song or two to the whole entire world, and that is when Tanya gets a very beautiful, lovely, pretty, and VERY stunning saloon show girl makeover:

But after Cat R. Waul finally gets to introduce Tanya on the saloon dance hall stage, she is frightened a little bit...

But Miss Kitty pushes her anyway to the front of the stage, where all the cats booed her very presence...

And this is when Tanya summons up the courage to let a very BIG, LOUD, glass-breaking HIGH singing note fly out of her singing mouth to get everyone's attention while at one point the camera zooms into the inside of her singing mouth....

While unintentionally freeing her little brother from the wine bottle that he's trapped in for most of the segment, of course!

And then, while Chula chases Fievel around the saloon, Tanya finally does a catchy song and dance performance called The Girl You Left Behind, another song that Cathy Cavadini contributed to the Fievel Goes West soundtrack in collaboration with James Horner, and also known as The Girl I Left Behind according to the film’s official end credits roll.

Alas, the spell that Tanya's saloon performance had just cast on even me is soon broken, when, at the end of that nine minute long scene from Fievel Goes West, Tanya rejects Fievel's pleas for her to escape with him from the saloon, and after fetching Fievel a note to read ("Thanks for the adoration..."), was almost last seen in the movie when she pulled away from him and dances away from Fievel after kissing the public away, leaving him devastated before an intricate fadeout or perhaps even a slow and intricate dissolve to later that night...

And that was when they switched all the way over to Fievel and Wylie Burp training Fievel's cat friend Tiger to be a dog. (Although Tanya did return to simply warn the mice crowd and the Mousekewitz family that they are on a mouse trap, only to disappear after removing her saloon showgirl makeup and melt and disappear into the celebrating, dancing mice crowd after the mice declares victory against the cat gang of Green River, Utah, just before Jimmy Stewart's last performance as Wylie Burp doing his last speech to Fievel before the end credits).

So it REALLY dawned on me that many fans of An American Tail (1986), or anything else that Don Bluth himself had ever worked on or even involved in, thought that the makers and writers of its notorious 1991 Don Bluth-less sequel, Fievel Goes West, including writers Charles Swenson and Flint Doyle as well as directors Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells were very unfair to the character of Tanya as well as the relationship between Fievel Mousekewitz (voiced by Phillip Glasser) and his sister Tanya (voiced in Fievel Goes West by The Powerpuff Girls' Blossom's voice actress Cathy Cavadini), and not just because there wasn't enough scenes of Tanya in Fievel Goes West itself, but it's probably because since the writers and makers of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West fear that the original Don Bluth film's signature song 'Somewhere Out There' was way too sappy for 1990s audiences at the time, they ultimately ended up having something something very different in the place of Fievel and Tanya's more tightly knit relationship in the original Don Bluth-involved film of An American Tail, and unfortunately for many fans, something much more argumentative a brother and sister relationship, like the kind that one sees in a whole lot of movies and television shows that were made in the 1990s at the time, and it still seemed to them to be something of a ruinous trick, and still does strike some AAT fans as being something of a VERY ruinous trick, certainly as far as what the makers and writers of Fievel Goes West did to Tanya as well as Fievel and Tanya's sibling bond with each other.

And so, there had always been, and always would be some unfair complaints about the Fievel Goes West version of An American Tail's Tanya: Not just because there wasn't enough scenes of her in FGW, but also because her wish and goal and motivation to be an actress and/or a singer was much stronger than Fievel's to the point that she ends up arguing with and ignoring her own little brother altogether. And it was Fievel Goes West that branded Fievel and Tanya's sibling relationship forever!

Also, the female characters in the American Tail franchise (or especially any character who is either not named or other than Fievel or his cat buddy Tiger), like the Don Bluth original film's Bridget, for example, were at their very best memorable especially from afar and at their very worst passive if just plain marginal, just like Tanya herself!

Damn, I always wanted, and just once, for Tanya to actually, really reconcile with, as well as forgive and even apologize to Fievel for not getting along very well with him most of the time in Fievel Goes West!

But still, the beautiful, lovely, pretty, gorgeous, and stunning image of Tanya Mousekewitz, sister of An American Tail's Fievel himself, clad as she was in her saloon showgirl outfit, makeup, and eye shading, and so vividly, so beautifully, so subtly to life by a team lead by Dutch-born animation artist Rob Stevenhagen (who, along with co-directors Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells and character designer Uli Meyer had also previously worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Richard Williams and for Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg back in 1988), was still burned into my memory even to this very day and age.

Now, the subplot in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West that involves Fievel's sister Tanya Mousekewitz and her epic dream-quest to sing a song or two to the whole, entire world at large, even in a saloon and dance hall pack full of kitty cats, was now my most favorite part from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) itself, for a few reasons:

1) First of all, I thought what Tanya first sang in the fully excerpted nine minute sequence posted above (the aforementioned Dreams to Dream as sung by Cathy Cavadini for the movie) is guaranteed to REALLY TOUCH my own heart all the way down to its very core (just as Cavadini's song demo of Dreams to Dream did to the aforementioned James Horner's, so much so in fact, that he successfully persuaded one of the movie's producers, Steven Spielberg, to hire Cathy Cavadini as the new voice of Tanya in Fievel Goes West, though, according to Cavadini herself, Tanya was already voiced for that movie by somebody else replacing Amy Green, the original voice of Tanya in the Don Bluth movie).

2) Secondly, I thought that 'this (Tanya singing Dreams to Dream as well as her pretty saloon girl dress and makeup and her subsequent saloon dance hall singing and dancing performance) has got to be the loveliest and most beautifully stunning (if one of) things or scenes that I have ever, EVER seen outside of Disney's 1990s Renaissance revival, and not long before the rise of the Toy Story studio PIXAR or even Spielberg's own DreamWorks Animation (the latter now being famous and legendary as the studio behind the Shrek films)!'

3) The third thing I thought was "I hope someday, Fievel's sister Tanya could take center stage in her very own story (or at least especially one outside of that one subplot involving her within Fievel Goes West)!"

and especially...

4) Finally, and last but not least, the fourth thing is that, given my reaction even when watching An American Tail: Fievel Goes West especially as a child myself, I REALLY and always wanted Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz (or the Fievel Goes West incarnations or designs of both characters, in particular) to end up fixing and reconciling their tightly knit sibling bond sometime beyond the events of Fievel Goes West itself even after not getting along well by the end of that 75 minute long cartoon movie from the early 90s. And it would still seem that I always sympathized with both Fievel as well as the version of Tanya as she appeared in Fievel Goes West itself, a sort of sentiment that some or many fans of the American Tail movies hopefully shares with me. And in a way, and even though I must still have to make my lifelong dream movie epic entirely my very own, my lifelong dream movie epic idea and project, though I still don't know what may be its ultimate name, shape and form yet, should also be my very own way of making such a childhood or even lifelong wish come true one day, even if, in so many other ways, my lifelong dream movie epic project and ideas should also especially be a sort of reboot of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West itself (even if it may come complete with similar visual character or creature designs to Amblimation's design variations for An American Tail: Fievel Goes West on the Don Bluth-type animated cartoon mouse character designs as they were visually depicted in now classic stuff such as Don Bluth's work on The Secret of NIMH and An American Tail) , among many other inspirations and influences on me and the movie epic of my lifelong dreams, though, again, I still don't know what its ultimate name, shape and form should really be!

I mean, I also liked the Fievel Goes West character redesign of Tanya (the art of which comes complete with two tufts of brown hair at the front, and a GREAT BIG brown, furry ponytail sticking from the back of her head) more than the incarnation of her with the Eastern European headscarf in the Don Bluth-involved original.

Now, to be fully truthful, saying that Fievel Goes West lives not only in the shadow of Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) but also in the shadow of Don Bluth's Original American Tail as far as even the American Tail franchise goes may well be a VERY big understatement of facts.

The cinematic and animation worlds seems to be divided into two different camps: those for whom every frame of animation art featuring Fievel of An American Tail fame should be enshrined in some golden vault or even some kind of golden archive, and those for whom Steven Spielberg presented and produced for us all around the world the first two American Tail films (both the Don Bluth original and especially the Amblimation-produced Fievel Goes West) as well as the original 1988 Land Before Time movie (with Don Bluth as well as with Star Wars creator George Lucas) and only the respective original films of An American Tail and The Land Before Time are [STILL] worth remembering.

As usual, the truth may lie somewhere in the very middle in between. Was everything starring American Tail's Fievel the mouse or Land Before Time's little sauropod dinosaur protagonist Littlefoot all that good or great? No, not always quite.

Were the original American Tail and Land Before Time films from Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg (and plus, in the case of the first Land Before Time movie itself, Star Wars creator George Lucas) the only worthy films ever to come out of their entire respective franchises? No, not at all!

But anyway, yes, it is true that after Bluth's breakup from Spielberg over the latter's interference on the former's work on Land Before Time, things started to become progressively tough for both Don Bluth himself and Steven Spielberg's VERY own theatrical big screen animation production and presentation output, and that An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is admittedly still notorious in so many Hollywood circles and especially among the Don Bluth fandom for lacking in the dramatic or nightmarish soul and spirit that everyone had come to know and love about the original 1986 Don Bluth American Tail (in fact, some thought Fievel Goes West to be way too wacky, way too comedic, and especially, way too lighthearted in tone) and the fact that, as a box office failure coming and going in the shadow of Disney's 1991 animated Best Picture Oscar nominee, Beauty and the Beast, it contributed to the eventual decline or downfall of Steven Spielberg's cartoon animation production and presentation output (despite the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit three years earlier, and a further three years on from Fievel Goes West itself, Spielberg cofounding DreamWorks with David Geffen and ex-Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg 30 years ago in 1994), but actually, Fievel Goes West will always and forever be best remembered perhaps for featuring Jimmy Stewart's last performance (as the voice of the aforementioned Wylie Burp), and it certainly is not as terrible, bad, or insulting as the critics and reviewers of the time would label it.

But anyway...

WHAT are your own memories of and also your own opinion on Tanya Mousekewitz and her quest to sing a song (or two) in Fievel Goes West?

P.S. PLEASE just try and be safe from all that Hurricane Milton chaos down there, ladies and gentlemen, if you happen to be somewhere down in Florida...

[statecryptids]

“Just remember, Fievel - one man's sunset is another man's dawn. I don't know what's out there beyond those hills. But if you ride yonder... head up, eyes steady, heart open... I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.”

-Wylie Burp, An American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West

“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

[adamwatchesmovies]

Fievel Goes West (1991)

I’m not a fan of An American Tail. Its tone is too uneven, the main character not uninteresting enough, and the plot contrived. That doesn't mean I was necessarily going to dislike An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. A VHS came into my possession, I figured I’d give it a try. Maybe I’d even like it better than the first! Not a chance. This is a much worse film. I’d wager even fans of the original would dislike it.

Several years after the events of the first movie, cats have returned to The Bronx and the poor Mousekewitz family decide to leave for greener pastures far away (again). Separated from his family on the way there (again), Fievel (voiced by Phillip Glasser) uncovers a nefarious plan by a group of cats (led by Cat R. Waul, voiced by John Cleese) to exploit the mice and then eat them. It’s up to Fievel, his friend Tiger (voiced by Dom DeLuise), and Fievel’s hero, the elderly Wylie Burp (voiced by James Stewart) to save the day.

Beat for beat, the opening rehashes its predecessor while trying to distract us with a few generic Western elements. Being duped by someone pretending to be a mouse again makes the Mousekewitz look stupid and makes us annoyed with them. At least in the first movie, it was a cat in disguise. This time, they're duped by a puppet! A wooden puppet! As for Fievel, he's learned nothing about wandering around alone.  It severely undermines the emotional impact of a tightly knit family becoming separated. The fact that it’s already happened does so as well.

I must also question the film’s premise. I realize I’m being unfair because I'm watching Fievel Goes West. That's what's going to happen! but that’s the problem. It’s a lousy and generic premise. No one stayed up late coming up with this idea. This sequel was obviously rushed into production. So just rehash the first movie and throw in some lassos, big hats, saloons, and cactuses. Voila! Kids like Cowboys so they’ll come to see our movie!

Even as a Western, this movie doesn’t satisfy or entertain. I’ll forgive the questionable depiction of Native American Mice. What disappoints is the iconic scenes you expect that simply aren’t there. No cattle rustlin’, no bank or train robberies, no “pistols at dawn”, no cavalry, no prospectors, can-can-ing femme fatales, banditos, not even any revolvers or horses! I know those might not have been accurate to the very late 19th century/early 20th century, when this film was made, but in that case, don't set the movie in the "Wild West"!

This picture does not look as good as the first film (Don Bluth not being included, it’s unsurprising). The songs are neither memorable nor catchy. The side plot with Fievel’s sister Tanya (voiced by Cathy Cavadini) is dull and the plot involving Tiger is no good. This movie only lasts an hour and fourteen minutes and there’s so much of it that is either repeated from the first film or filler that it's almost like it doesn't exist.

If you remember liking Fievel Goes West and you feel like shattering your childhood memories, I recommend this film. It’s not funny, clever, or memorable. There’s no spark of imagination or true passion present at any point throughout. It’s the kind of kid’s entertainment I hate because a bunch of adults took a look at a shoddy product and said “they won’t know any better, just release it anyway”. (On VHS, January 8, 2016)

[madame-christine]

From my childhood, I watched “Fievel Goes West” before I saw the first movie, along with Disney Classics and Sailor Moon. I really loved it when I was a kid. Now, since it’s James Stewart’s birthday, I’m looking back at his role that he voiced in his last film. The character’s name was Wylie Burp.

I really enjoyed Jimmy’s role in “Wonderful Life,” while I remembered his voice for Wylie. (I will be looking at his other films, including Hitchcock. He’s an interesting actor that would give me an inspiration). ;)

In this scene, what I really like was to see how both late actors, Dom DeLouise and Jimmy Stewart, interact during character voicing. It’s something like JImmy and Dom communicate from reality.

Here’s a shot to dedicate for Jimmy Stewart’s role in his last film. Happy Birthday, Jimmy.

@theshadowsofevil

@beatlesgirlfab

[bonnieblue727]

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is an British-American animated comedy western film from 1991. It stars Phillip Glasser as Fievel Mousekewitz,Cathy Cavadini as Tanya Mousekewitz,Dom DeLuise as Tiger,Amy Irving as Miss Kitty,James Stewart as Wylie Burp,John Cleese as Cat R. Waul,Jon Lovitz as T.R. Chula,Nehemiah Persoff as Papa Mousekewitz, and Erica Yohn as Mama Mousekewitz.

Plot

In 1890, five years after immigrating to the United States, the impoverished Mousekewitz family discovers that conditions are not as ideal as they had hoped, as they find themselves still struggling against the attacks of mouse-hungry cats. Fievel spends his days thinking about the Wild West dog-sheriff Wylie Burp, while his older sister, Tanya, dreams of becoming a singer. Meanwhile, Tiger's girlfriend, Miss Kitty, leaves him to find a new life out west, remarking that perhaps she is looking for "a cat that's more like a dog".

He sends Tanya to Miss Kitty, who is now a saloon-girl cat, and she reveals that she came at Cat R. Waul's request. He tells Miss Kitty to put her on stage. With a little encouragement from Miss Kitty, she pulls off a performance for the cats. Meanwhile, Fievel is chased by Chula and briefly taken prisoner, but flees.

Enamored by his new personality, Miss Kitty and Tiger are reunited. Tanya becomes a famous singer and the water tower flows with 9,000 gallons of water again, making Green River bloom with thousands of flowers. Fievel finds Wylie away from the party who hands him his sheriff badge. Fievel is unsure about taking it, but realizes that his journey is not over.

[downordic-blog]

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. Unfortunately, the one making this claim is an oily con artist named Cat R. Waul who is intent on his own sinister plan.

An.American.Tail.2.Fievel.Goes.West.1991.NORDIC.PAL.DVD5 Original titel: American Tail, An: Fievel Goes West Dansk titel: Rejsen til Amerika 2: Fievel i det vilde vesten Instrukt°r: Simon Wells, Phil Nibbelink Universal - 1991 USA - Farve - 72 min Med dansk tale OBS!!! Alle sange er pσ engelsk. Desvaerre Tekster: Ingen Sprog: Dansk Engelsk Norsk Svensk Finsk I fortsaettelsen af Don Bluths teknisk flotte tegnefilm om musefamilien Mousekewitz, der emigrerer til Amerika fra Rusland, foelger vi nu Fievel, familiens yngste soen, paa hans eventyrlige faerd ud i det vilde vesten. Her droemmer han om at blive lige saa skrap som sin store helt, Sheriff Wylie Burp (udstyret med en pragtfuld stemmelaegning af James Stewart). Fievel faar baade nye venner og en enkelt farlig fjende. Read the full article