Tom & Jerry Review: A Live-Action Hipster Remake That s Strictly for Kids
Tom & Jerry Review: A Live-Action Hipster Remake That s Strictly for Kids
The classic cartoon cat and mouse cause chaos at a posh hotel s celebrity wedding in Tom and Jerry.
Tom and Jerry return to theaters and HBO Max in a hipster, live-action film that s strictly for younger children. The classic Hanna-Barbera cat and mouse cartoon are still the best of frenemies. But get a modern update that rankled my old-school sensibilities. I knew things were going to be different when an animated pigeon starts rapping in the opening scene. The film isn t a musical, but there are a few auto-tuned songs that turned me off completely. That said,
Tom & Jerry Review: The Cat-and-Mouse Rivals Wage Big-Screen Battle in This Low-Concept Outing Tom & Jerry Review: The Cat-and-Mouse Rivals Wage Big-Screen Battle in This Low-Concept Outing
Warner Bros. resurrects Hanna-Barbera s inexterminable frenemies, placing them in a live-action context where they can wreak maximum mayhem.
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Director: Tim Story
With: Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Jordan Bolger, Rob Delaney, Patsy Ferran, Pallavi Sharda, Colin Jost, Somi De Souza, Ajay Chhabra, Patrick Poletti, Janis Ahern, Ken Jeong.
Running time: Running time: 101 MIN.
In the 80 years since Tom and Jerry made their cartoon debut, the duo have zonked, bonked and kerplonked one another too many times to count, and somehow the joke has never gotten old. Nor have the aggravated gray cat and his rival the clever brown mouse, who remain forever young, and forever scrappy a hand-drawn Punch and Judy whose ruthless slapstick antics hav
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Remember the age-old trivia that McDonald’s Golden Arches are recognised by more people than the symbol of one of the biggest religions in the world? This absurd fact seems plausible because we are involuntarily attracted to the logos, characters, and references that we grow up with. One such cartoon that existed before most of us were even born and will most likely still be around long after our departure, is the Tom and Jerry show.
The duo is so iconic that unless you were neighbours with the Flintstones, you’re bound to know them. When the trailer of the newest film adaptation of the cartoon was released three months ago, I wondered why they were taking the Space Jam route. Why opt for a live-action/animated hybrid instead of going completely animated like many Tom and Jerry films have since 1992? Just minutes into the new Tom & Jerry, it becomes apparent that the makers wanted to give us more than just slapstick humour.
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Wonder Woman 1984,
The Little Things, and
Judas and the Black Messiahâ released through Warner Bros. new release model fell more into the superhero and crime thriller dramas, respectively, but the fourth entry in a long list of titles being released in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously is a little more family-friendly but features a cast just as impressive as its predecessors. Seriously, the
Tom and Jerry: The Movie) cast is one of the most impressive of the bunch, and in terms of animated features in recent years.
With everyone from Chloë Grace Moretz taking on the role of a young hotel employee doing her best to avoid disaster and find a solution for the titular cat and mouse, to Michael Peña doing his best impression of an evil mastermind, the live-action cast is something else. Combine that with Frank Welker (along with archival footage of
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