User blog comment:Queen Misery/PG Proposal: Fievel Mousekewitz/@comment-39032584-20191003124946/@comment-2059440-20191003204220

American Tail (the original and the second) get a pass because Fievel's only a child so it is going to be "cute" no matter what, the worse offenders for overly "cute" stuff would by far of been the dark era of Hasbro's MLP (after G1 and before FiM era) and so on, which really did treat kids as not-too-bright.. there was also the 60s era of cartoons in which all hope was lost for quality (alongside comics etc due to "comic code", where even the word "zombie" was outlawed for being too "violent").

the biggest problem with Bluth's stuff, to me, isn't the "cute" factor but the never-ending sequels.. which destroyed many of the franchises (American Tail should of ended after the second, NIMH should never of had a sequel to begin with and Land Before Time just got ridiculous.. just like the old straight-to-video Disney sequels most of the sequels definitely watered down the movies into blatant "kid-only" stuff.. which was a shame as American Tail especially was originally about real-world prejudices etc,  which was completely thrown out of the window come the third film).