This is a brilliant soundtrack, takes me back to my childhood when I was about 5 or 6 years old. James Horner is fantastic mainly in Balto and An American Tail! I miss such classic films like An American Tail, today the films are good but not as great as these were. I'll never forget my childhood memories!
@chipndipy hey. thats my line. lol.... yeah i spend tooo much time relishing my childhood. they tell me i need to move on but i refuse to, an they cant make me.
Now this is something clean and original. I did not see this movie when I was a kid but I used to see The Mystery of the Night Monster. I just happend to find this video now, which made me see all American Tail movies. I thank you my good sir for putting this up.
One more reason James Horner is my favorite Hollywood composer. Zimmer makes your heart pound. Williams makes you feel awe and scope. Horner does both, and makes you cry with beauty, and your heart ache with emotion.
My absolute favourite movie when I was a kid. I used to watch it like 5 times a day and it never got boring... today I myself am about to migrate to America and watching this movie just reminds me where my long journey started
I still believe this movie to be one of the greatest animated masterpieces of all time. They just don't make them like they used to. Imagine all the time that must have went in to the background/scenery art and animation itself. Everytime I watched this movie as a child it made me want to draw and paint!
22 year old here, this movie really brings back amazing memories... Only have it on VHS somewhere so i have no way to play it :( will have to download it instead
Such a classic film! I had the soundtrack on tape long before I ever saw the film in its entirety. I just LOVE James Horner's score, and all of the songs. I love the film too. They just don't make movies like this anymore. :(
I loved this movie so much when i was a kid, brings back so many memories, me and my grandma used to sit and watch its every chance i saw her. :D miss those days, still a favourite "18 now" I have got to find the dvd for it again. thanks for uploading the soundtrack ...soooo beautiful
I remember this movie. It scared the crap out of me as a kid. I think it was a little too dark for children, but a pretty good depiction of immagration to the United States during this period.
I was around 5 or 6 when I first saw this movie, and I cried at the end. Then I watched it again in my early teens and cried at the beginning and the end. Just four days ago I watched it and recorded it on our TV; this time I cried from the beginning, the end, from the music, AND the memories of how this movie & OST touched me throughout the years. Mr. Horner, you're a genius. :)))
A whole bunch of 25-30 year olds, getting misty eyed. I just turned 26 a few months ago and am getting nostalgic for all the old shows I watched. I am planning on getting them all on dvd. I don't care what anyone says I love them and they will always be a part of me.
@BelovedCaptain In the animation world these movies are more fit to be labeled as Don Bluth films than any studio's. Don Bluth used to be an animator at Disney Studios and then went to do his own stuff, and did indeed direct some big titles. Still, he had some issues with them, such as the animation was not quite at the level of Disney's, and his storytelling timing was pretty poor, though he got better with time. But still, great films, specially when you grow up with them, can't let them go.
@givemeaname55555 Altho this isnt Disney I hear what you're saying. There was far more creativity back then. CGI has killed the creativity, it becomes what the computer can do, not what the artist can do. Personally hand drawn will always be my favourite. I hate this want for perfect CGI visuals and no story line.
@givemeaname55555 not disney don blueth and universal don blueth has a lot of good animated movies you will probably know them this one secret of nihm all dogs go to heaven land before time and several others i cant name off the top of my head he was a great animated movie director
@givemeaname55555 \HOW DARE YOU!"!!! compare something as amazing as this movie to disney. I am sickend by your judgement. sickend. as if fucking disney could ever create something this creative or emtional.
@givemeaname55555 LOL oh man... poor Don Bluth. Granted I heard he kinda screwed a bunch of artists over during the course of his films, THIS along Land Before time and Secret of NIMH are under his studio's name, NOT Disney's. He was a former Disney Animator but struck out on his own and w/the collective help of insanely skilled artists and producers like Steven Spielberg (The Land Before Time) helped give us more powerful & TOUCHING films than Disney has EVER done. Shame DB isn't making more =(
Thanks for uploading this brilliant soundtrack. It reminds me when i was like 4 or 5 years. Now i am 25, and still thinking it´s one of the greatests melodies ever written. Was it James Horner??? Thanks a lot!!!!
this was the movie that taught me to speak english. i was born in '91 so pretty much since i was born i'd been watching it up until it got "childish".. well, come to think of it, i don't think i'm over it.. lol
When i was younger, i used to love this movie but never really understood the meaning behind it. But now i'm a teenager and totally respect the meaning behind it, and i like it even more now
Ahhh this takes me back to when Don Bluth was the king of animated movies... basically before such atrocities as A Troll in Central Park or Rock-a-Doodle *shudders*
there will never be another animated film like this that teaches us about the hardship and history of our forefathers in a new land to find freedom and to find hope for the future of their children and grand children to come.
I myself am pretty shocked to hear this sound track again. I watched it when I just came to Canada as an immigrant. Had some serious flash backs with watery eyes while listening to this. Thank you very much. (T.T)
@kodiack12345 it was my fave childhood (i still am a child?) memory i love reliveing the time when movies looked as such i wish they were still made this way
@MsTommyknocker This film said absolutely nothing about communism one way or the other. Remember that it was the Cossacks who attacked the village. The cat rampage at the beginning is supposed to represent Czarist anti-Jewish persecution - it specifically says "1885" at the beginning.
thank so much!!! its my favorite movie!! i think this film came out in 85 or 86 not sure, but i fell in love with it! i came to this country at age 5 in 85, and i could totally relate with this little mouse. they should make more movies like this for kids!! everything is changed so much since then. i will show my kids this!
@pixargod Yes, the Drew Struzan one was nice, epic and had that nostalgia value for me. The one you see while you are listening to this is great, but there is an another poster on the DVD (at least here in Sweden) that sucked balls!
I remember when I was little, we went to a friend's house and they had this movie. Well, curiosity got the best of me, given that I had the sequel to this, so I asked to watch it, and I loved watching it. I'm renting it off of Netflix, so now, all I have to do is wait.
It's a shame they don't make films like this anymore but I don't have enough faith in today's society they would probably reject such a film if it came out today.
@fatjolyroger This is a definite reason why nostalgia has been striking the minds of people as young as their teens and twenties over the past few years.
@BelovedCaptain To be honest. Never really been amazed by anything of his... But thats prolly a matter of taste :P It just seems... A bit too slow for me^^
@thewewguy8t88 It's too bad that childrens movies in the last decade don't fit with this rule. Granted I don't watch a lot of them but on occasion I have seen some of them and unfortunately not only do the movies stink but so do their soundtracks (Hopefully there are enough people who will show their kids these classic movies with epic music)
Also check out these AWESOME Horner Soundtracks: Land Before Time, Willow, Jumanji, Star Trek 2 and 3, Apollo 13, and Braveheart to name a few!
Awww I was just 2 years. 2 year old when it were released.. I cried alot of joy when I saw this movie again after 20+ years. (Was 5 years, now 26 years)
Don Bluth did really had some great composed songs in his early movies, and this poster is epic. The todays poster on the DVD-form for this movie sucks!
listening to this, im suddenly 4 years old again, laying on the floor looking up at the TV watching this movie for the hundredth time......that feeling means so much to me. Amazing that a piece of film score from a kids movie can bring me to tears!
This movie like so many from that great era in the 80's has real heart, it moves you to tears & exhilarates at the same time. Horner needs to go back to writing stuff like this but I think movies now don't inspire emotional or uplifting music. Their has been some good movies in the last 10/15 years but I can't think of any that moves you like An American Tail and alot of stuff from that era.
It's not a bad thing that this movie was being compared to a Disney movie. Classic Disney movies were great and wonderful. Don Bluth was a Disney animator that left to form his own studio. The studio that now owns this property took a good thiing and made some straight to DVD crap sequels that were probably animated in India. Probably written there, too.
Great idea but I don't even think kids over 5/6 would want to watch it, it wouldn't be 'cool' enough for them & they'd probably think the beautiful animation was to 'slow' & boring. I do think the market would be there for adults like myself, I'd pay to see this on the big screen and I'd pay twice as much to see this than CG crap like Avatar.
...And this was made the same year Horner did an incredibly pumped and rousing action score for that great action movie Aliens...what a talent! I just wish he would go back to the style we loved him for in the 80's and early 90's. Maybe it's because the movies now are so souless and visually bland they don't inspire great composers like Horner to the heights we seen in the 80's & 90's!
That's unfair to say all movies nowadays are soulless, because it all depends on perspective and personal tastes. I think good movies with good music can still be found, like Kingdom of Heaven, Dragonheart
You liked those movies and that is fine, they were average to me and the music wasn't good ( to me ) I'm afraid. As for souless movies now, I'll stand by that, like I said, beautiful, talented animation is gone, just like well made fantasy films. Now we have visually horrible, cheap looking and lazy CGI which not only destroyed 'animated' movies, it is used in everything else, form sci-fi to action/adventure movies...because it's quick & cheap. Sorry but that is why I find cinema now souless.
Oh my GOD!! You have bad taste!!! Kingdom of Heaven was shit! Not even a sad excuse for a realistic movie, and the music is just a big rip off on Howard Shore's music. And I'm not even going to comment Dragonheart...
@dragondisaster Wow, we must be like teachers who fail students miserably for not putting any heart and soul into homework assignments and huge projects. We also must've been proud of ourselves to treat virtues like serious business since we obtained and maintained knowledge of them from reliable sources!
We all know 'real' animation is gone but so it great music. A magical movie and the first minute and half of this is as good as anything Horner has done, it's romantic and sad and gives me shivers, just like 'Tara's Theme' from Gone With The Wind. Nobody of my generation appreciates or loves old-fashioned music anymore, it's all no talent 'porn music' nowadays. How is there so much souless trash now and great music like this is lost?
Because Hollywood is all about making money, just like any business. Back in the 80's ( which weren't perfect by any means ) the public valued morals and old-fashioned sentiments alot more, Hollywood cashed in by making some great movies & animated features. Nowadays it isn't 'cool' to be kind, humble or old-fashioned ( kids & trendy young parents would now laugh at such values ) 'You gotta be tough & omg, so cool'. Hollywood movies of today reflect the shitty era we now live in.
I feel the same way. I rarely go to see movies anymore, because most of them nowadays either have a recycled story that we've seen before but done differently, or it's for some stupid political agenda.
To me, Hollywood's practically dead now. I think a new film studio that does movies the old fashioned way needs to be created, but not somewhere near Hollywood. Maybe in the other side of the country.
@robhere1982 I definitely wanna rescue today's kids from the crappiness of modern society by forcefully sharing them the top-quality stuff that teens and adults grew up with in order to make them as classy and sophisticated as we are today. In fact, I bet a lot of children that will emerge into our world over the next several years will be forcefully raised on the stuff their parents grew up with now that our generation has aged into the predominant child-bearing range.
This is one of the best animated films ever, such a serious mood to it and the music is wonderful, i can't decide if this is better or The Land Before Time
This is a brilliant soundtrack, takes me back to my childhood when I was about 5 or 6 years old. James Horner is fantastic mainly in Balto and An American Tail! I miss such classic films like An American Tail, today the films are good but not as great as these were. I'll never forget my childhood memories!
bethgstan 8 hours ago
I seen this film yesterday on RTE TWO, men, i didn't know they aired movies on half-term on TRTE/RTEjr on RTE TWO.
mag237 1 week ago
Holy nostalgia.
chipndipy 2 weeks ago
@chipndipy hey. thats my line. lol.... yeah i spend tooo much time relishing my childhood. they tell me i need to move on but i refuse to, an they cant make me.
candyycebaby 1 week ago
Now this is something clean and original. I did not see this movie when I was a kid but I used to see The Mystery of the Night Monster. I just happend to find this video now, which made me see all American Tail movies. I thank you my good sir for putting this up.
TechnicalJaguar 2 weeks ago
I want my childhood back...*sniff!*
Eyeglompyou 3 weeks ago
One more reason James Horner is my favorite Hollywood composer. Zimmer makes your heart pound. Williams makes you feel awe and scope. Horner does both, and makes you cry with beauty, and your heart ache with emotion.
spehizle 3 weeks ago
Dang it. Now you went and made me cry...
Z3NZ31 1 month ago
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Armysoldierize 2 weeks ago
@Z3NZ31 I know what you mean.
Armysoldierize 2 weeks ago
Wonderful score.
powe2550 1 month ago
Shrek can't touch this.
bladske 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
I loved this movie to bits when I was younger, together with 'The Land before Time'. When I hear the song again it gives me goosebumps.
KoiaKiss 2 months ago 3
My absolute favourite movie when I was a kid. I used to watch it like 5 times a day and it never got boring... today I myself am about to migrate to America and watching this movie just reminds me where my long journey started
hallabalooza 2 months ago
I rememebr so so long ago I sat in front of the TV to watch this.
andysim232 3 months ago
I still believe this movie to be one of the greatest animated masterpieces of all time. They just don't make them like they used to. Imagine all the time that must have went in to the background/scenery art and animation itself. Everytime I watched this movie as a child it made me want to draw and paint!
bornagain1310 3 months ago
beautiful- thank you xx
madeleineellis 3 months ago
Thanks to this film and the opening titles, this song always runs through my head when it starts to snow.
zbt518 4 months ago
this brought tears to my eyes : )
first time i hear it after 17 years
MrFFSMAN 4 months ago
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PraecoNoctis 3 months ago
James Horner > Alan Meinken
MrSilkySweat 4 months ago
Believe it or not, some characters of the film actually mirrors who we are or once were.
TheOsiris1601 4 months ago
I don't know why but this song always felt sad, bleak yet at the same time hopeful
Drrailaa 5 months ago
@Drrailaa It perfectly embodies the hopes and fears of the immigrants who first left for America...doesn't it?
Cierrakahana 5 months ago
@Cierrakahana I totally agree, i miss great soundtracks like this!
Drrailaa 5 months ago
I love the strings flourish at 0:18.
BlueParatroopa 6 months ago
22 year old here, this movie really brings back amazing memories... Only have it on VHS somewhere so i have no way to play it :( will have to download it instead
CrazyEurazion 6 months ago
It's very similar to the land before time soundtrack. Especially with the title "the big migration"
mrlover482 6 months ago
The hairs on my arms still stand up every time I hear this.
Terramax 6 months ago
God I Cry every time I see this film, soundtrack is just the same!!
Death60Note60Kira60 7 months ago
That movie was my whole childhood I loved it, but I forgot all about it and just remembered today, I think I will be watching this 24/7 -3
hanna455 8 months ago
Such a classic film! I had the soundtrack on tape long before I ever saw the film in its entirety. I just LOVE James Horner's score, and all of the songs. I love the film too. They just don't make movies like this anymore. :(
datalal624 8 months ago
I loved this movie so much when i was a kid, brings back so many memories, me and my grandma used to sit and watch its every chance i saw her. :D miss those days, still a favourite "18 now" I have got to find the dvd for it again. thanks for uploading the soundtrack ...soooo beautiful
vampyr12sweetie 8 months ago
this used to scare the shit out of me when i was a kid
1andrewman1 8 months ago
wonderful song .
thanhbites 8 months ago in playlist Movie sound tracks
I remember this movie. It scared the crap out of me as a kid. I think it was a little too dark for children, but a pretty good depiction of immagration to the United States during this period.
solodatemaru 8 months ago
This movie and Balto were excellent films =D
Eyeglompyou 9 months ago
I was around 5 or 6 when I first saw this movie, and I cried at the end. Then I watched it again in my early teens and cried at the beginning and the end. Just four days ago I watched it and recorded it on our TV; this time I cried from the beginning, the end, from the music, AND the memories of how this movie & OST touched me throughout the years. Mr. Horner, you're a genius. :)))
RyuuyamaShiraku 10 months ago
A whole bunch of 25-30 year olds, getting misty eyed. I just turned 26 a few months ago and am getting nostalgic for all the old shows I watched. I am planning on getting them all on dvd. I don't care what anyone says I love them and they will always be a part of me.
bushbasher85 11 months ago
where can i get this song? i looked it up on Itunes and they dont even have anything that has to do with the movie..
muscluver17 11 months ago
Is it just me, or did Disney use to put out alot better quality movies when I was 6.
givemeaname55555 11 months ago 14
@givemeaname55555 This isn't Disney. I think it belongs to Universal studios.
BelovedCaptain 11 months ago 39
@BelovedCaptain Correct my good man. This film belongs to Universal Studios
Ganon33 10 months ago
@BelovedCaptain Yeah Universal owns it. But even better, This was Steven Spielberg's first animated film.
dougstar02 10 months ago 3
@BelovedCaptain still cartoons movies were better pre 2000
ibainesy 10 months ago
@BelovedCaptain Yes it is Univesal
TheChocorider 8 months ago
@BelovedCaptain In the animation world these movies are more fit to be labeled as Don Bluth films than any studio's. Don Bluth used to be an animator at Disney Studios and then went to do his own stuff, and did indeed direct some big titles. Still, he had some issues with them, such as the animation was not quite at the level of Disney's, and his storytelling timing was pretty poor, though he got better with time. But still, great films, specially when you grow up with them, can't let them go.
iaintgotimetoblog 4 months ago
@BelovedCaptain That's about right.
DramaKaw 3 days ago
@givemeaname55555
Google Don Blueth and or see the following films: The Secret of Nihm, All dogs go to Heaven, Land Before Time
Theneonwind 11 months ago
@givemeaname55555 Nope, Don Bluth, an amazing animator/Director of animated films. Although he used to work for Disney.
CrimsonNineTail 10 months ago
@givemeaname55555
You think all animation is disney?
Johnlindsey289 10 months ago
@givemeaname55555 Learn your facts before stating anything. I don't know the film company, but Don Bluth directed this movie.
6HagareNo6Yumi6 10 months ago
@6HagareNo6Yumi6 Cunt waffle, I made a mistake with the production company, give it a rest.
givemeaname55555 10 months ago
@givemeaname55555 Altho this isnt Disney I hear what you're saying. There was far more creativity back then. CGI has killed the creativity, it becomes what the computer can do, not what the artist can do. Personally hand drawn will always be my favourite. I hate this want for perfect CGI visuals and no story line.
pow1983 10 months ago 3
@givemeaname55555 not disney don blueth and universal don blueth has a lot of good animated movies you will probably know them this one secret of nihm all dogs go to heaven land before time and several others i cant name off the top of my head he was a great animated movie director
schmelzwah 9 months ago
@givemeaname55555 It was by Steven Spielberg
DeltaFoxtrotWhiskey3 4 months ago
@givemeaname55555 \HOW DARE YOU!"!!! compare something as amazing as this movie to disney. I am sickend by your judgement. sickend. as if fucking disney could ever create something this creative or emtional.
gabbstarrr 4 months ago
@givemeaname55555 This is Don Bluth!!! Not Disney!!!
TsarIvanIV 3 months ago in playlist An American Tail Soundtrack
@givemeaname55555 LOL oh man... poor Don Bluth. Granted I heard he kinda screwed a bunch of artists over during the course of his films, THIS along Land Before time and Secret of NIMH are under his studio's name, NOT Disney's. He was a former Disney Animator but struck out on his own and w/the collective help of insanely skilled artists and producers like Steven Spielberg (The Land Before Time) helped give us more powerful & TOUCHING films than Disney has EVER done. Shame DB isn't making more =(
Glyph2040 1 month ago
I miss being a little kid...
Eye2EyeIIIV 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this brilliant soundtrack. It reminds me when i was like 4 or 5 years. Now i am 25, and still thinking it´s one of the greatests melodies ever written. Was it James Horner??? Thanks a lot!!!!
juanreyfernandez 1 year ago 14
@juanreyfernandez You're so welcome! :) Yeah, this movie was a big part of my childhood too. :D
Oh yes, it is Horner. He is just so awesome.
BelovedCaptain 1 year ago 7
@BelovedCaptain I love James Horner! Grew up with his music!!!
sparrowmeyer 11 months ago
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Kudos my friend. This film is beautiful and so is the music in it ^_^
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TheOnlyMooseman 1 year ago
this was the movie that taught me to speak english. i was born in '91 so pretty much since i was born i'd been watching it up until it got "childish".. well, come to think of it, i don't think i'm over it.. lol
pbtorre 1 year ago
Whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA, nostalgia! Man, I can barely remember this movie, but I remember that I used to LOVE it. I've got to watch this again...
Amutofan123 1 year ago
When i was younger, i used to love this movie but never really understood the meaning behind it. But now i'm a teenager and totally respect the meaning behind it, and i like it even more now
Ranceman13 1 year ago
Just watched American Tail again the other day, hadn't seen it in years - the music is so nostalgic =]
SilverGothWolf 1 year ago
Oh wow.... I was just hit with nostalgia. I'm... overwhelmed. T_T
wkunzelman1 1 year ago
I'm glad James Horner is still making good music =)
Eyeglompyou 1 year ago
Oh I love this song! brings back so much memories :( i wish they'd still make em like this and not the crap they making now..
BabiiGurlC 1 year ago
I own the vinyl it's buetiful.
tetails 1 year ago
Ahhh this takes me back to when Don Bluth was the king of animated movies... basically before such atrocities as A Troll in Central Park or Rock-a-Doodle *shudders*
floydthatcrazylass 1 year ago
2:16 stars my fav part :)
oxoxBlackAngelxoxo 1 year ago
there will never be another animated film like this that teaches us about the hardship and history of our forefathers in a new land to find freedom and to find hope for the future of their children and grand children to come.
mortichro 1 year ago
I loved this movie when I was a kid, and it's still beautiful! =D
Eyeglompyou 1 year ago
Oh captain, my captain! Thank you for sharing this beautiful soundtrack, bringing me back to my early childhood!
Calick 1 year ago 7
@Calick You're welcome! :D
BelovedCaptain 1 year ago
@BelovedCaptain
I myself am pretty shocked to hear this sound track again. I watched it when I just came to Canada as an immigrant. Had some serious flash backs with watery eyes while listening to this. Thank you very much. (T.T)
kodiack12345 1 year ago 2
@kodiack12345 Aww, well you're welcome. :)
BelovedCaptain 1 year ago
@kodiack12345 it was my fave childhood (i still am a child?) memory i love reliveing the time when movies looked as such i wish they were still made this way
zekethewolfy 1 year ago
very nice soundtrack
MrDinnckels 1 year ago
I never liked this movie, because it was too Anti-Soviet. There are in fact many good things in communist countries
MsTommyknocker 1 year ago
@MsTommyknocker This film said absolutely nothing about communism one way or the other. Remember that it was the Cossacks who attacked the village. The cat rampage at the beginning is supposed to represent Czarist anti-Jewish persecution - it specifically says "1885" at the beginning.
TServo2049 1 year ago
oh okay
MsTommyknocker 1 year ago
i use to want to cry as a kid when this started playing
Drrailaa 1 year ago
thank you tank you
NothingED 1 year ago
hellz muthafuckin yea my favorite fuckin movie of all fuckin time
above69down420 1 year ago
thank so much!!! its my favorite movie!! i think this film came out in 85 or 86 not sure, but i fell in love with it! i came to this country at age 5 in 85, and i could totally relate with this little mouse. they should make more movies like this for kids!! everything is changed so much since then. i will show my kids this!
shewassourgirl 1 year ago 9
@shewassourgirl You're welcome! This movie is amazing, and a big part of my childhood. :) You should show your kids the movie too. :D
BelovedCaptain 1 year ago
@shewassourgirl Could't agree more
NielsJacobus 1 year ago
@shewassourgirl Hell yeah! Today's kids are in dire need of growing up with stuff that teens and adults grew up with for the better!
SonicFamilyGal 1 year ago
@pixargod Yes, the Drew Struzan one was nice, epic and had that nostalgia value for me. The one you see while you are listening to this is great, but there is an another poster on the DVD (at least here in Sweden) that sucked balls!
snopp9000 1 year ago
I remember when I was little, we went to a friend's house and they had this movie. Well, curiosity got the best of me, given that I had the sequel to this, so I asked to watch it, and I loved watching it. I'm renting it off of Netflix, so now, all I have to do is wait.
spiritgirl41192 1 year ago
This background song is one of my favorite songs it makes me soooooo wanna cry.
sailorscoutpet 1 year ago
It's a shame they don't make films like this anymore but I don't have enough faith in today's society they would probably reject such a film if it came out today.
fatjolyroger 1 year ago
@fatjolyroger This is a definite reason why nostalgia has been striking the minds of people as young as their teens and twenties over the past few years.
SonicFamilyGal 1 year ago
is it just me or do children movies have some of the most epic music ever.
thewewguy8t88 1 year ago 65
@thewewguy8t88 Lol, yeah, especially if the music is done by Horner. XDD
BelovedCaptain 1 year ago 5
@BelovedCaptain Or Hans Zimmer! Ya know... Lion King?
iGottaRandomName 1 year ago
@iGottaRandomName True, but then we must add Alan Menken. :)
BelovedCaptain 1 year ago
@BelovedCaptain To be honest. Never really been amazed by anything of his... But thats prolly a matter of taste :P It just seems... A bit too slow for me^^
iGottaRandomName 1 year ago
@thewewguy8t88 It's too bad that childrens movies in the last decade don't fit with this rule. Granted I don't watch a lot of them but on occasion I have seen some of them and unfortunately not only do the movies stink but so do their soundtracks (Hopefully there are enough people who will show their kids these classic movies with epic music)
Also check out these AWESOME Horner Soundtracks: Land Before Time, Willow, Jumanji, Star Trek 2 and 3, Apollo 13, and Braveheart to name a few!
psychm0 1 year ago
Fievel Rules!
R.I.P Dom Deluise
Purpleicious6666 1 year ago
Awww I was just 2 years. 2 year old when it were released.. I cried alot of joy when I saw this movie again after 20+ years. (Was 5 years, now 26 years)
torerik1234 1 year ago
I use to watch this with my mom.
It made me cry.
Even though I am 16 today, I still watch it.
May she rest in peace. Love you mom. <33
TediBearMassacre 1 year ago
Don Bluth did really had some great composed songs in his early movies, and this poster is epic. The todays poster on the DVD-form for this movie sucks!
snopp9000 1 year ago
@snopp9000
I thought drew struzan did a great job on the posters.
pixargod 1 year ago
amazing
NielsJacobus 1 year ago
I just downloaded the movie! I'm so happy! God, these were good times!
awilli182 1 year ago
listening to this, im suddenly 4 years old again, laying on the floor looking up at the TV watching this movie for the hundredth time......that feeling means so much to me. Amazing that a piece of film score from a kids movie can bring me to tears!
NukePaperScissors 1 year ago 64
@NukePaperScissors That's the power of James Horner, my friend. :)
BelovedCaptain 1 year ago 8
@NukePaperScissors same here, totally. Greetings from Germany!
hallabalooza 1 year ago
@NukePaperScissors Amen to that!
erinkelly83 1 year ago
@NukePaperScissors Yep! :) Nostalgia! It can be a great gift.
PoseidonKross2009 9 months ago
@NukePaperScissors OMG! I did the same exact thing! I miss those days so much! DX
Fathom315 6 months ago
This music takes me back so many years...
bladske 1 year ago
were can i download this???
dyxeldoff 1 year ago
horner's rules
hilaryduffok 1 year ago
being Russian and also knowing how my family immigrated to America because of the Cossacks this movie can really relate to me. :)
brnbyfan2 1 year ago 2
reminds me of land before time.
firemario10 1 year ago
@firemario10 yeah, same composer
ActionMovieBuff 1 year ago
This movie like so many from that great era in the 80's has real heart, it moves you to tears & exhilarates at the same time. Horner needs to go back to writing stuff like this but I think movies now don't inspire emotional or uplifting music. Their has been some good movies in the last 10/15 years but I can't think of any that moves you like An American Tail and alot of stuff from that era.
robhere1982 1 year ago 4
My opinion: A short part 0:49 - 1:00 remembers me of the movie "Ben Hur" (just my opinion)
Seastorm13 1 year ago
Is it me or do Don Bluth's movies (and the music in them) always find a way to rip your heart out?
StormeDragon666 2 years ago
It's not a bad thing that this movie was being compared to a Disney movie. Classic Disney movies were great and wonderful. Don Bluth was a Disney animator that left to form his own studio. The studio that now owns this property took a good thiing and made some straight to DVD crap sequels that were probably animated in India. Probably written there, too.
holeymoley24 2 years ago
THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE came out in the same year, 1986. It was a disney movie. I can see that more people enjoy AN AMERICAN TAIL even more.
WizardOfHumor1989 2 years ago
I wish they would reissue this great moving film for a limited release for the cinemas.
pixargod 2 years ago 3
Great idea but I don't even think kids over 5/6 would want to watch it, it wouldn't be 'cool' enough for them & they'd probably think the beautiful animation was to 'slow' & boring. I do think the market would be there for adults like myself, I'd pay to see this on the big screen and I'd pay twice as much to see this than CG crap like Avatar.
robhere1982 1 year ago
Amazing
kevin77v 2 years ago
I love this beginning music. It's so captivating. I love the other American Tail movies too. They made three others and that was it I believe.
EmilyMikuChan 2 years ago
This movie is such a tear jerker but one of the best out there.
MiyahSummer 2 years ago 2
James Horner is a phenominal composer. He's me second with John Williams being my first.
Pogue76 2 years ago 4
agreed
BlackPhantomJambo 2 years ago
Howard Shore is brilliant too.
MiyahSummer 2 years ago
James Horner is amazing.
ClaybergStudios 2 years ago 5
The Amaerican Tail theme is soooo epic. As well as the movie. I miss it.
CrimsonNineTail 2 years ago 3
@CrimsonNineTail
It's never too late to own it on dvd.
pixargod 2 years ago
The Music up until 1:15 Touches me so deep, i cant even begin to describe it!
Darrosified 2 years ago 11
oh my god! timeless...
fmKUBRICK 2 years ago 3
somewhere out there.
hilaryduffok 2 years ago
James Horner is truly incredible!
lupoistheman1 2 years ago
i looooooove this film so much its sad and the music is great too, james horner can do no wrong
makasheli 2 years ago 2
The great american story of a little Russian's journey!!!
timeless :)
PapagenoJuan 2 years ago 2
@PapagenoJuan
You can say that again. I think this is one of the best animated films I have ever seen. It's ashame so many critics keep comparing it to disney.
pixargod 2 years ago
unbelivable.... wow.... it must be years!!! thx a lot!
arendum 2 years ago
Wow this actually bought me to tears... amazing film, huge nostalgia. Cheers dude
TheOnlyMooseman 2 years ago 2
O MY GOSH i love this song
StarWarsObsession42 2 years ago 2
In a word: timeless.
FreakinReeree 2 years ago
i start crying at the end of the first one when he finds his dad :') such a happy ending. thanks for upload
Blossom104oncp 2 years ago 3
dude its been forever since I've heard this. thanks a crap load.
christianmetalfrk 2 years ago
...And this was made the same year Horner did an incredibly pumped and rousing action score for that great action movie Aliens...what a talent! I just wish he would go back to the style we loved him for in the 80's and early 90's. Maybe it's because the movies now are so souless and visually bland they don't inspire great composers like Horner to the heights we seen in the 80's & 90's!
robhere1982 2 years ago 5
That's unfair to say all movies nowadays are soulless, because it all depends on perspective and personal tastes. I think good movies with good music can still be found, like Kingdom of Heaven, Dragonheart
dragondisaster 2 years ago
You liked those movies and that is fine, they were average to me and the music wasn't good ( to me ) I'm afraid. As for souless movies now, I'll stand by that, like I said, beautiful, talented animation is gone, just like well made fantasy films. Now we have visually horrible, cheap looking and lazy CGI which not only destroyed 'animated' movies, it is used in everything else, form sci-fi to action/adventure movies...because it's quick & cheap. Sorry but that is why I find cinema now souless.
robhere1982 2 years ago 4
Oh my GOD!! You have bad taste!!! Kingdom of Heaven was shit! Not even a sad excuse for a realistic movie, and the music is just a big rip off on Howard Shore's music. And I'm not even going to comment Dragonheart...
moltoallegro19 2 years ago
@dragondisaster Wow, we must be like teachers who fail students miserably for not putting any heart and soul into homework assignments and huge projects. We also must've been proud of ourselves to treat virtues like serious business since we obtained and maintained knowledge of them from reliable sources!
SonicFamilyGal 1 year ago
What caused this greatunisnpiration in movies these days, do you think?
BlackPhantomJambo 2 years ago
We all know 'real' animation is gone but so it great music. A magical movie and the first minute and half of this is as good as anything Horner has done, it's romantic and sad and gives me shivers, just like 'Tara's Theme' from Gone With The Wind. Nobody of my generation appreciates or loves old-fashioned music anymore, it's all no talent 'porn music' nowadays. How is there so much souless trash now and great music like this is lost?
robhere1982 2 years ago 5
i always wondered that
BlackPhantomJambo 2 years ago
Sorry, you always wondered what?
robhere1982 2 years ago
why they started making cheapheartless movies nowadays
BlackPhantomJambo 2 years ago
Because Hollywood is all about making money, just like any business. Back in the 80's ( which weren't perfect by any means ) the public valued morals and old-fashioned sentiments alot more, Hollywood cashed in by making some great movies & animated features. Nowadays it isn't 'cool' to be kind, humble or old-fashioned ( kids & trendy young parents would now laugh at such values ) 'You gotta be tough & omg, so cool'. Hollywood movies of today reflect the shitty era we now live in.
robhere1982 2 years ago 3
wow, i totally agree
BlackPhantomJambo 2 years ago
@robhere1982
I feel the same way. I rarely go to see movies anymore, because most of them nowadays either have a recycled story that we've seen before but done differently, or it's for some stupid political agenda.
To me, Hollywood's practically dead now. I think a new film studio that does movies the old fashioned way needs to be created, but not somewhere near Hollywood. Maybe in the other side of the country.
Ignore that, I'm just talking nonsense.
infinitlycool 2 years ago
@robhere1982 I definitely wanna rescue today's kids from the crappiness of modern society by forcefully sharing them the top-quality stuff that teens and adults grew up with in order to make them as classy and sophisticated as we are today. In fact, I bet a lot of children that will emerge into our world over the next several years will be forcefully raised on the stuff their parents grew up with now that our generation has aged into the predominant child-bearing range.
SonicFamilyGal 1 year ago
@SonicFamilyGal Really interesting story.
robhere1982 1 year ago
This is one of the best animated films ever, such a serious mood to it and the music is wonderful, i can't decide if this is better or The Land Before Time
dragondisaster 2 years ago 4
I think both would be best.
dmc97ingc 2 years ago 2
Another part is 4:03 to 5:11. It's sounds so beautiful because it shows how much Fievel and his family love each other.
dmc97ingc 3 years ago 2
The music around 0:47 to 1:14 gives me the chills. This music and the track "The Great Migration" from The Land Before Time.
dmc97ingc 3 years ago 2