Hello there animation lovers with a new Tom And Jerry movie out in a few months i thought i'd review the only direct to DVD Tom And Jerry movie i actually heard about and so here is my review of Tom And Jerry: Spy Quest.
So then what is the plot of this crossover movie you ask well Tom And Jerry team with the Jonny Quest team to help defeat Dr. Zin. That's really all you get when it comes to plot and to be fair it's the kind of plot you'd expect from a Jonny Quest / Tom And Jerry crossover movie however where the movie losses points is the fact that things happen so fast you don't have time to take anything in which given the fact that the movie is around 75 minuets long is to be expected.
Now the voice actor for Tom isn't listed but i'll say his yell grew to annoy me so much all he does is yell in this movie as for the rest of the cast we have Reese Hartwig as Jonny Quest , Eric Bauza as Dr. Benton Quest , Michael Hanks as Race Bannon , Arnie Pantoja as Hadji , Tia Carrere as Jezebel Jade and James Hong as Dr. Zin. In terms of the quality of the acting in this movie it's very mixed some actors are better then others i personally liked Tia Carrere as Jade i thought she did a great job considering she isn't in much of the movie and i thought that Reese Hartwig was at times good but at other times bad i do however have to give the movie credit for bringing back original Jonny Quest actor Tim Matheson tho and the fact he gets to have a few lines of dialog with his old character i thought was fun.
The action scenes in this movie while really well animated they were also dull watch and just not exciting at all and i think it's because the characters moved at such a slow pace during those scenes each punch took a good five or six seconds at least and they really weren't helped by the fact that there was no music playing during those scenes at all it was just plain silent during those scenes.
I can gladly say that the comedy in this film is easily better then the comedy in Tom And Jerry The Movie that being said however most of the jokes in this movie do not work at all there are a few good jokes that did get a smile out of me like for example there's a pretty funny running joke featuring Tom and Bandit which i won't spoil here but it's worth watching just for that. Now you'd expect the slapstick in a Tom And Jerry movie to be funny in this movie however it ranges from being slightly funny to not funny at all and for a Tom And Jerry product that's not a good thing at all.
The animation in this film i can say is actually pretty good it's not perfect but for what it is it's decent animation the characters look great and they have some good facial expressions but there are times when Tom becomes to stretchy and that takes away from the comedy and there are times when Tom And Jerry which to me takes away from how they were animated back in the 40's.
What i didn't expect this film this film was to use the classic Jonny Quest intro except this time they added in Tom And Jerry for me it was great use of both 60's animation and animation from today and if you were a fan of Jonny Quest then you would have gotten a kick out of it as well and if there are any Jonny Quest fans out there i can tell you that the characters do retain there look from the sixties TV show.
Overall while this is better then Tom And Jerry The Movie it's still not that good of a film i didn't comment on the music because there's not alot of it but the movie does start with the classic Tom And Jerry theme i give this movie a 6 out of 10 now bring on Tom And Jerry: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.