Tom and Jerry fans the famous duo have been around since the 40's and for awhile pretty much everything that did was pure gold but something happened they started to be unfunny and their movies were pretty bad well now i'm going to talk about the latest TV show to feature the famous cat and mouse The Tom and Jerry Show by the way this has 2014 in the title because there's another Tom and Jerry show with the same name.
This show doesn't have a plot which honestly for these two is a good thing instead each episode has one of five different set ups Tom , Jerry and Spike in an modern day urban setting , Tom and Jerry being pets to two witches , The duo owning there own detective agency , for the first season Jerry living in a lab with another mouse called Napoleon with Tom being an alley cat , from the third season Tom living in an Downtown Abbey type of house and the final set up is the duo in a parody of Van Helsing which was also introduced in season 3.
So as you can see even tho there's no real story there's plenty of different set ups that help keep the series from going stale the issue for me was some of these set ups do get old pretty quick I started to grow tried of seeing the urban setting just because there wasn't much verity.
The show stars William Hanna as Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse , Mel Blanc as Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse and Harry E. Lang as Tom Cat no you didn't read that wrong there are four people doing the voices for Tom and Jerry but it's done by using archive audio. Also in the show are Frank Welker , Rick Zieff , Grey Griffin , Cree Summer , Tara Strong , Stephen Stanton , Jason Alexander (season 1 only) and Kath Soucie.
Now I mentioned that the show uses archive audio for Tom and Jerry and I do have to say that at times it does blend together really well but then there are times where it gets a little distracting or at least for me anyway and it did have me wondering why they didn't just stick with one classic Tom actor since then it would have created a more consistent sound. I don't really think this needs saying since alot of these actors are true giants but i'm going to say it anyway they do a really good job and it goes to show how much pulling power Tom and Jerry have.
Now most people will see the name Tom and Jerry and think that the animation was done by Warner Bros Animation well your half right Warner Bros are involved with the series but they handle the script writing and general production the actual animation is done by Renegade Animation who also do the animation for the currently airing Unikitty series and it's safe to say that the animation in that show is a step up from what's in this series.
The animation in this show while not bad it's not the kind of animation that should be given to an iconic comedy double act the whole show for me just looks ugly and cheap and it's hard to think that this show is made in Flash since you can make some pretty good animation in Flash but then again this also the studio behind such hits such as Chop Kick Panda , Puss in Boots: A Furry Tale and of course that well known family favorite Tappy Toes.
For the first season the show aired in two eleven minuet cartoons and for some of the early season two episodes that was still the case but then they did something which I find weird in season two each twenty two minuet episode would now be made up for three six minuet cartoons to me that's just weird yes Tom and Jerry did start out in six minuet shorts but those were meant to be just that shorts this is a TV show so surely having two eleven minuet cartoons would be better.
Like most cartoons based on a classic property this show aired it's first season on Cartoon Network and then for it's second season it went to the place were all cartoons go to die sorry I meant to say Boomerang and since Cartoon Network don't promote anything that's on there i'm letting you all know here incase there are any fans of this show.
It also makes no sense for them to keep doing this since the whole freaking point of Cartoon Network was to house older cartoons so surely they should keep the new shows based on those classic properties on Cartoon Network and if there not going to do then at least promote what's on Boomerang we don't need all of the air time taken up by terrible shows just use some of that airtime to promote your other shows it's that simple.
Now one of things that Tom and Jerry became well known for was it's use of slapstick and if I do say so myself they were the masters of it but sadly few people on this show got that message because the slapstick here can at times be funny but for the most part it's just not and I have a feeling that if the animators drew like one or two more frames then the slapstick that wasn't funny would suddenly be funny since slapstick like all forms of comedy comes down to timing.
Overall i'd say that this is a decent show but it's not the duo at there best if a little kid was watching this then I could see them becoming a fan but even with all that in mind the show gets a 5 out of 10.