Fievel Goes West

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
A beautifully animated movie that goes off of the rails

Sagan, Lenny, and Seth have fond memories of this movie. Seth has watched the movie, but had read the novelization of it far more than watching the film. Sagan's alleged first favorite movie. Lenny watched it a couple of times.

This was to be the second episode, but according to Lenny "other things that were more interesting and weird came up" when asked why it wasn't in the first season. Sagan has jokingly threatened to leave the podcast after they reviewed Fievel Goes West.

Sagan takes the lead for this review, making this the first time that Sagan has led the podcast.

Quotes

 * "[As animators,] we live our lives not by seconds, but by 24 fractions of a second" -Leonard

Seth's Trivia Time Corner Time Corner

 * Budget for this film was $9.6 million. Much over what it was budgeted for. Sagan alleges that Gary Gold stated $22 million
 * It made back $40,766,041 in worldwide theatrical run
 * Came out 5 years and 1 day after An American Tail
 * Beauty & The Beast came out the same day
 * Shares stylistic choices with Who Framed Roger Rabbit
 * John Cleese turned down the role of Cogsworth to play Cat R. Waul
 * This was Jimmy Stewart's final film

Fun Fact: This episode announced the beginning of this very wiki!

Fievel Goes West Review Run time 02:05:59