Don Bluth Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Trivia Pat Musick He's assumed to be in his mid teens since he's taller than the Mousekewitz children and shorter than any of the adult mice. Role conflict in the later sequels The American Tail series consist of 4 animated movies. He's a bit cowardly but he can be brave when he wants to. Tanya is Fievel's older sister. He and Bridget kiss at the reunion of Fievel and his family Though they are presumed to be scared away by Gussie and Tiger when they tried to take Fievel away from his family, they just taunt him for looking for his family, turn them into mouse burgers when they had fulfilled their purpose. Buy from many sellers and get your cards all in one shipment! She lives in a water tower atop a downtown building, and lets Fievel stay with her while he searches for his family, likely acting as his caretaker along with Tony between the scenes. He has apparently been looking for Fievel all night and, after a little casual talking, decides to help Fievel out. She is . Very slender, tall young mouse, blue shirt with a red scarf on the neck, brown pants with feet-straps, red hat, black hair, barefoot, To help Fievel find his family (originally), Philly's thinking, Bridget, fighting cats, He and Bridget kiss at the reunion of Fievel and his family, "Pardon the expression but you looked like something the cat dragged in you know?". Forgiveness . Search the history of over 797 billion In his search to find his family, he discovered America.''. The Mott Street Maulers attack the marker, but Tony and Bridget survive the destruction and Tony realizes that Fievel has gone missing, but Fievel was revealed to be safe and unharmed and then, Bridget remembers that Honest John knows every mouse in the city and they all try to find Honest John. Gussie soon reveals that the ongoing killings of mice (thanks due to the cats) have become unacceptable and proposes an alliance made of all of the mice in New York (who will meet at a rally in a local park) in an effort to get rid of the cats. He's largely absent from Fievel Goes West except for some blink-and-you-miss-it cameos, but he comes back in full main character status in the direct to video sequels. When Fievel rides the tumbleweed he goes past armadillos. Thanks! But you pulled me out of a gutter, and for that I owe you some thanks. He meets Fievel at Moe's sweatshop and, after Fievel helps him escape, he agrees to help Fievel find his family. Tony's previous work experience with archaeologist Dr. Dithering gets the plot moving along after Tony takes Fievel to an abandoned subway and they discover an ancient Lenape map. In the last scene, Tony is with Tiger and the Mousekewitz family enjoying a day at the beach. He is seen alongside Bridget, who is carrying their baby. Once arriving in America, all mice immediately discover that there are indeed cats in America. An American Tail: Fievel and Tanya Go West With the main voice talents of: August Marturo as Fievel Mousekewitz Cathy Cavadini as Tanya and Yasha Mousekewitz Jim Cummings as Tiger Pat Musick as Tony Toponi Lloyd Battista as Papa Mousekewitz Jane Singer as Mama Mousekewitz Jon Lovitz as T.R. Tanya is a secondary character in the first film, who only features prominently in a few scenes. His friendship with Fievel and his family carries into the direct-to-video sequels. A crooked cop who is on the payroll of the three villains, doing their dirty work and enjoying every minute of it. She's never a huge part of the plot, and often is inserted just to look cute. Tony has a job at the cheese factory, but gets in trouble for coming in late and is docked a week's pay. Tanya Mousekewitz (An American Tail) as Megara. In this film Tanya is again younger, which is either due to the retcon ofFievel Goes West, or because takes place before said film. She's constantly at odds with her editor, who believes more in selling newspapers than bringing people facts. Come on, you weren't really fooled by Warren's fake nose, were you? Artful Dodger While retainingDom DeLuisethroughout the film series, the film reunites the voice cast ofNehemiah PersoffandErica Yohnfrom bothAn American Tail(1986) andAn American Tail: Fievel Goes West,Pat MusickfromAn American Tailwith the return of her character Tony Toponi, and introduces Elaine Bilstad,Ren Auberjonois,David Carradine,John Kassir,Ron Perlman,Tony JayandRichard Karron. ToponiPullaookNewshoundNewshawk on the Internet. She's finally proven right late in the film, when the Mousekewitz's meet Tony and Bridget. In the Japanese dub from the movie, he was voiced by Mayumi Tanaka. The only nice cat Fievel meets, and one of his best friends. It can be assumed that she and Tony have started a family by then, and moved to Green River. He meets Fievel at Moe's sweatshop and, after Fievel helps him escape, he agrees to help Fievel find his family. Weapons Tony Toponi, a very handsome streetwise young mouse of Italian descent, is a main character of the An American Tail movie series, with the exception of film 2. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West She appears alongside Tony in a few cameos in Fievel Goes West, always with a child in her arms. Alternate Versions They are Jewish-Russian mice who are forced to escape persecution after their village is destroyed in a pogrom by Cossack cats. When he asks Fievel why he didn't tell him what time it was, Fievel says "But Tony, I can't tell time!" The movie takes place circa 1885, and although the words to the song were written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, the song was only used by the Navy in 1889, and didn't officially become the national anthem, and thereby most likely to be sung at public events, until 1931. But this incident is likely what led to her becoming an activist against the unfair mistreatment mice suffered from at the hands of the cats of New York. When the mice have been captured by Mousey's gang, and he and Fievel sneak into the sewers to save them, Tony begrudgingly follows Fievel's plan rather than jumping in to rescue everyone trapped in the cages, but when Fievel and Nellie get stuck fighting Madame Mousey at the Daily Nibbler office he gets tired of waiting and floods the sewer to rescue the mice. Tony is first seen being yelled at by an angry Moe, who tells him to get back to work. Bridget is a mouse rights activist of Irish decent. In An American Tail, she wears a red babushka (headscarf), a blue blouse with a navy jumper dress and frilly white pantalettes. He later gets his only singing part in the movie during the song "Who Will". In An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (pictured), she was much older ( trading cards released at the time of the movie claim she is sixteen, although the novelization of the first movie claimed she was eight, a year older than Fievel) and her age range from Fievel was increased. Voice Tony Toponi. Soon enough, the cats have been given the boot and the mice are celebrating. Fievel and his friend Tony Toponi find a map that they believe points to a treasure buried somewhere beneath Old New York, and the plucky rodent is determined to find it. Applies to all the mice. Okay, that last one is specific to immigrant, terrorizing them into paying a protection racket. She has a very short-fused temper, and starts her own gang of cats in the sewer. When An American Tail was put in official production in 1985, he was redesigned as a young adult so he would be a helpful brotherly figure to Fievel Mousekewitz. Despite her personality change, she still cares for her brother. Tony is later seen on top of the sign for Hester Street. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is the 1991 first sequel to An American Tail. When Fievel says "Let's go on that ride again!" Soundtracks. Watch. Tanya Mousekewitz | An American TailAn American Tail: Fievel Goes West (cameo)An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan IslandAn American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster Much similar to Tanya's animation issues on Fievel's American Tails, Tony's streamline is limited as well, with the feet-straps of his patched trousers and his whiskers removed. The reason for Tonys role limitation was because of his actress, Pat Musick, had largely stepped away from acting to take care of her daughter, Mae Whitman (who was just born), and only appeared in a handful of productions during that period. As he begins to leave, he asks Fievel if he has a clue as to where his family is; however, Fievel has already run off, leaving Tony shouting for him, clearly worried. He meets her while she's giving a speech on the unfairness of the way cats mistreat mice. Fievel befriends her and brings her up to the surface in an effort to prove that European mice aren't bad. $2.55. It's about then that she met Tony Toponi. Certain species of real-life tarantulas can hunt and devour mice. Bernard (The Rescuers) as Zeus. Notably the Toponi family disappeared in majority during Fievel Goes West as Pat Musick had no involvement, causing her character, Tony Toponi, to be mostly written off, as well as completely in Fievel's American Tails. the same size as the rest of the cats in his gang. He is among those who finds out that Honest John can't help find Fievel's family, as John only knows every voting mouse in New York. Cossacks (and their Cossack cats) raid the village for a pogrom. But later, when she hears Tony and Bridget calling "Philly! The audience knows that if they'd just let it go, things would have worked out just fine, but the mice don't know that. An American Tail - burning the homes Part 2, An American Tail - opening credits Part 2, An American Tail - talking about america Part 2. She was sad to leave him behind in New York, but at the end of the comic they would have been reunited when he moves to Green River. (But not by that much if you look carefully. She appears alongside Tony in a few cameos in Fievel Goes West, always with a child in her arms. It's double suvberted at the end of the movie when try actually try to use it. When they do, it starts falling apart and making horrific mechanical noises. Slingshot until we find out he's not a rat at all but a cat, the same size as the rest of the cats in his gang, when he was really the leader of the Mott Street Maulers. Seeing Waul try to put the mice of Green River into a giant mouse trap during the film's climax snaps her out of it though, and by the end of the film she realizes she can still be beautiful by being herself, washing her makeup off. A crooked rat with a stranglehold on the mice of New York. In the climax he gets attacked by Scuttlebutt in a fight but is actually rescued by Tanya. Despite the current situation, Tony and Bridget stay behind to search for Fievel, as he didn't show up. Granted, this may be justified as he is wearing a fake rat nose. In An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, Tony, in his mid teens again, is one of Fievel's best friends, though Bridget is strangely absent. Tony ends up being promoted to a part-time reporter along with his paperboy job. He aided the other mice in the plan to get rid out of the Mott Street Maulers. Warren T. Rat (actually a cat himself) dresses as a rat to fool the mice into buying into his protection racket against the cats. It is stated that he helped get Tanya her job as Reed Daley's secretary. If you look real close at her feet when she was singing Dreams to Dream, it looks like Tanya is wearing black flats. The Mousekewitz family follows them because Tanya believes that they're looking for Fievel. Bridget is soon smitten with Tony and (thanks due to Fievel), the two would-be lovers end up kissing. leaves his friends in danger to save himself. Along with Tiger, Tony catches Mousey as she attempts to escape back into the sewers and the evil poodle is apprehended by the Dog High Council. UsefulNotes/Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, UsefulNotes/The Renaissance Age of Animation, UsefulNotes/Academy Award for Best Original Song, Around the World in 80 Days (Burbank Animation), The first movie sees cats regularly trying to eat the mice. BF5 / ATT: Fievel Goes West 13. A rich uptown mouse who is committed to ridding New York of its cat menace, and finally gets an idea on how to accomplish this from one of Fievel's fairy tales. As Gussie states that Warren is through, the cats make one last play of desperation- burning down Chelsea Pier. She looks and acts a little different in every sequel; in Fievel Goes West she is shy and wants to be a singer, in The Treasure of Manhattan Island she is spunky and sarcastic (although this began to show in Fievel's American Tails), and in The Mystery of the Night Monster her personality is much the same, but she tries to act more adult, partly because she has a deep crush on newspaper editor Reed Daley. An American Tail - burning the homes Part 2, An American Tail - opening credits Part 2, An American Tail - talking about america Part 2, An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster, An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, An American Tail: A Musical Adventure with Fievel and Friends, A Musical Adventure With Fievel and Friends, Grandma Mousekewitz (grandmother; deceased), Grandpa Mousekewitz (grandfather; deceased), Great Grandpa Mousekewitz (great-grandfather; deceased), Cavadini was not the first choice to voice Tanya; she originally only auditioned to sing. Tanya's personality has become sassy and sarcastic in this movie, and she gets very jealous of her brother getting to go on adventures all the time. Joining a group made of himself, Bridget, Gussie, the Mousekewitzes and Tiger (off-screen), the heroes set out to find Fievel. the Giant Mouse of Minsk busts through the museum door and starts rapid-firing fireworks at them. Fievel Goes West is where he saw the most character development. In honor of the 35th anniversary of An American Tail, the 30th anniversary of Fievel Goes West, and the 21st anniversaries of the direct-to-video sequels. In the climax he gets attacked by Scuttlebutt in a fight but is rescued by Tanya. In An American Tail: Fievel Goes West(pictured), she was much older (trading cards released at the time of the movie claim she is sixteen, although the novelization of the first movie claimed she was eight, a year older than Fievel) and her age range from Fievel wasincreased. 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