{"id":20699,"date":"2016-05-16T19:59:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T23:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20699"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:59:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T23:59:31","slug":"an-american-tail-mystery-of-the-night-monster-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/an-american-tail-mystery-of-the-night-monster-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Tail: Mystery of the Night Monster (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AnAmericanTail-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AnAmericanTail-4.jpg\" alt=\"AnAmericanTail-4\" width=\"380\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>After doing research online I learned that these clumsy sequels to \u201cAn American Tail\u201d are actually intended to be in-betweenquels. \u201cFievel Goes West\u201d is, as many fans have debated, the final film in the chronological timeline. That doesn\u2019t make much sense since the character Tony is nowhere to be found in \u201cFievel Goes West,\u201d and the Mousekewitz\u2019s only have two children, rather than two and a half. In either case, it\u2019s probably best not to think about it, and just accept these movies however you want to.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The final two films are just throwaway adventures you can attribute as in-betweenquels. Fievel, in the final two films gets in to danger, rather than accidentally finding himself in danger. Now, Fievel and sister Tanya (given a bigger supporting role this time around), dream of working for a local mouse newspaper. There\u2019s been a mysterious monster running around New York kidnapping mice, and forcing them to toil and work underground. Tanya no longer dreams of being a singer apparently, as she now looks up to intrepid female reporter Nellie Brie.<\/p>\n<p>She also has a crush on heroic editor Reed Daley, as played by Robert Hays. This final film is a lot less steeped in racial stereotypes, and garners a better premise involving more exploration of themes involving slavery and immigrant exploitation. \u00a0When Fievel and Tony help to investigate the mythical night monster, Fievel uncovers a large conspiracy that could harm his beloved mother and father. This sequel much like the previous one, lacks any of the memorable musical numbers we saw in the first and second film. Where \u201cSomewhere Out There\u201d became a standard for the nineties, there\u2019s really nothing there you\u2019ll remember.<\/p>\n<p>You might even forget there were any musical numbers to begin with once the credits have rolled. \u201cMystery of the Night Monster\u201d is not up to par with the original film, but it\u2019s a nice diversion and mediocre finale to the animated series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After doing research online I learned that these clumsy sequels to \u201cAn American Tail\u201d are actually intended to be in-betweenquels. \u201cFievel Goes West\u201d is, as many fans have debated, the final film in the chronological timeline. That doesn\u2019t make much sense since the character Tony is nowhere to be found in \u201cFievel Goes West,\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[50,71,99,219,340,349,580,700,703,922],"class_list":["post-20699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-a","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-family","tag-fantasy","tag-kids","tag-musical","tag-mystery","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20701,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699\/revisions\/20701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}