Robust, fast, reckless (unafraid, for example, of giving offense to Native Americans), funny, punny, with much of the footloose imagination of an old Looney Tune: the Land of Plenty is envisioned by the immigrant rodents as a U.S. map with bas-relief plateaus of cheese; a roadside sign of "You Are Now Leaving the Badlands" is followed immediately by one of "Now Entering the Worselands." And yet this is a perfectly legitimate and logical sequel. The gunslinger is as much a national icon as is Lady Liberty, and tales of the Wild West have played an integral part in the allure of America to foreigners. More practically, such a tale jettisons the cargo of schmaltz that so weighed down the first Tail. The trouble starts whenever you must look at or listen to the saucer-eared, piccolo-pitched protagonist. That's a lot of trouble, so much of it that you can become inured. Directed by Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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