Year: 1986, Director: Don Bluth, Nostalgia Score: 4/5, Most Recent Watch: As an adult, but only a few times. Best Quote: "There are no cats in America and the streets are paved with cheese." There are an inexplicable number of kids' movies featuring talking mice and many of them are actually quite good. Off the top of my head, I can think of An American Tail , but also The Secret of NIMH and the two Rescuers movies. One at a time though. This week, I specifically watched An American Tail and, let me tell you, I had much difference experiences watching this movie as a child and as an adult. As a kid, all of the historical context went straight over my head and I never really got emotional while watching. As an adult, I'm much more aware of just how dark and sad some parts of this movie actually are. But no matter how much my perception of the story has changed, the beautiful animation has not. I remember liking An American Tail (and other movies fro...
A project to virtually recreate my childhood VHS collection. Once a week, I'll be watching a kids' movie released sometime between 1980 and 1999, and writing about the experience of seeing them again as an adult.