Tom And Jerry: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory Film Review

For some strange reason even tho Tom And Jerry have made very successful shorts back in the thirties and forties . When it comes to modern day Warner Bros just has no idea what to do with them with releasing one theatrically animated movie , one live action movie and a slew of direct to DVD movies alot of which have the dup paired up with classic characters well then in 2017 the worst of the team up movies was released and then quickly forgotten about and since it's almost ten years later I thought i'd take another look at this movie and so then join me as I review the film that destroys a classic film with the film in question being called simply just "Tom And Jerry: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when Tom and Jerry become friends Charlie Bucket the trio have to try and stop Slugworth from taking over Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for good. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as all it is is the plot of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory only with Tom and Jerry squeezed into it which is the films biggest flaw as these two properties don't really lend themselves all that well to a crossover as both of them have very different tones to each other with the world of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory being more fantastical and whimsical and the world of Tom And Jerry being more grounded in some form of reality with these two tones clashing all the time with the plot of this film when all this films plot needed to be was fantastical and whimsical and yet because of the fact that the film has to squeeze in Tom and Jerry and there antics the film has to stop the plot of the Willy Wonka side of things to continue the Tom and Jerry side of things and it goes the over way as well when this is a plot that should have just been focused on the Willy Wonka plot and that's really it but because Warner Bros got greedy we are now left with a plot that whilst it is predictable it's also not as bad as it really could have been with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least  

Starring in this film is this films producer and director Spike Brandt as Tom , Jerry and Spike and JP Karliak as Willy Wonka. Also starring in this film is Jess Harnell as Grandpa Joe , Bill The Candy Shop Owner and Sam Beauregarde , Lincoln Melcher as Charlie Bucket , Mick Wingert as Arthur Slugworth / Mr. Wilkinson , Lori Alan as Mrs. Teavee , Jeff Bergman as Droopy and The American Reporter ,Rachel Butera as Augustus Gloop and Winkelmann , Kate Higgins as Mrs. Bucket , Dallas Lovato as Violet Beauregarde , Emily O'Brien as Veruca Salt , Sean Schemmel as Henry Salt and Mr. Turkentine , Kath Soucie as Tuffy , Jim Ward as The Anchorman and The German Reporter , Audrey Wasilewski as Mrs. Gloop and Lauren Weisman as Mike Teavee.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own right but here it just feels like that there phoning in all of their performances as there performances in this film aren't as good as alot of the other projects that there in with it being made clear as day that not alot of the people that were involved with the making of this film cared enough to make sure that this films actors were turning in good performances as if they did then we would have a film where the acting is the highlight and yet because they didn't it means that even good actors like Kath Souci and Sean Schemmel just phone in there performances and yet at the same time there the best actors in this films with the same thing also being true for both Jess Harnell and JP Karliak as those actors are at the very least trying to turn in a good performance where as with the rest of this films actors none of that is coming across in the film with this films acting not even being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors anything to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at Digital eMation. Now then interns of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho it's not that good either as while the characters do have some really nice and fluid movements to them they also have these really creepy expressions alot of the time that make them look soulless but to give credit where it's due the film does have some really nice looking 3D CGI animation as well with the film even having some really nice looking backgrounds and yet thanks to those creepy looking expressions the films animation isn't as good as it really could have been either as we know from there other works that Digital eMation can produce some really high quality animation and yet for some strange reason for this film much like with the films acting it just felt like that they were phoning it in and just giving them some OK animation when all they had to do was fix the characters expressions and make them alot less creepy as this is a film that's meant for little kids and yet you wouldn't know it just going the expressions alone and while the film does have some really zany animation alot of the time which is something that does work for this film the films animation really doesn't sell the films more emotional moments either.

While the opening credits of this film do quite proudly state that this film is based on the book Charlie & The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. This is infact a lie as it's actually based off of the 1971 film adaptation Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and David Seltzer which makes you wonder why the makers of this film chose to adapt a film that even Roald Dahl himself left over creative differences when you have the original book sitting right there and while yes the 1971 film version is the most well known version of the story heck it could even be argued that it's more well known then the book is if your going to give credit for Roald Dahl for writing the original book then you should also give credit to the original film as that's what your borrowing more elements from even down to the fact that this film just straight up recreates the opening titles of the original film which while it could be seen as being nothing more then cute homage to the original film it's not something that the people who love Tom and Jerry will like and having this beloved story be interrupted by Tom and Jerry isn't something that the people that like the Willa Wonka & The Chocolate Factory film story will like as they just don't clash together and heck even the original Chocolate Factory movie wasn't made by Warner Bros it was made by Paramount Pictures with Warner only getting the rights when they made the more faithful 2005 film Charlie And The Chocolate Factory the bottom line is that these are two sets of characters that shouldn't have been crossed over as they don't work together and when your basically just remaking Willy Wonka & The Chocolate but not showing key parts of that films story because you want to justify why Tom and Jerry are suddenly in it then all your going to do is make alot of people really angry and that's something that happened when this film was first released about eight years ago.

For some rather off reason this film adds a huge third act sequence where Tom , Jerry , Tuffy Charlie and Grandpa Joe all try to stop Slugworth and Spike from stealing the Everlasting Gobstopper. Which really isn't needed as the big reveal of not only who Slugworth is but the fact that he's actually an employee of Wonka's does make that whole subplot pointless in the first place and while yes that could also be considered an issue with the book and film as well there tho they don't have a big third finale to wrap it up they just mention it once at the end and that's it where as here because of the fact that we do have this big third act finale it now makes the following scene pointless as all we do is just get confirmation of who Slugworth is something that he himself very easily could have said at quite literally any point during this film to either Tom or Jerry but he doesn't because of quite literally no reason whatsoever if your going to add a subplot for Tom and Jerry then you have to at least still make it make sense when you then connect it back up to the main plot like they do with this film at several points in the film because if not then that whole section of the movie and indeed the whole Tom and Jerry portion of this crossover movie just falls flat on it's face and heck if you wanted to have the characters take on someone in this film then why not make it Spike since he was acting as the sidekick to Slugworth anyway so you all you do is keep Slugworth away from Tom and Jerry and have Spike be this evil sweet maker who actually is trying to steal some of Wonka's inventions as that way you still can have that big epic third act and still have the more quieter scene with Charlie , Grandpa Joe , Willy Wonka and Slugworth still happen and nothing about the main plot of the film would need to be changed either.

This film has pretty much nothing original in it as not only does this film copy the plot and alot of the character designs from Willy Wonka * The Chocolate Factory. It also straight up just reuses alot of the films songs as well except for "Cheer Up, Charlie" which out of all the songs that this film could have cut that's the one that they go with grated it's a useless song but you have "I Want It Now" played twice just get rid of the first version of that song and your good and while the singing in this film isn't that bad as all of this episodes do sing there songs as well as could be expected as was just mentioned they have "I Want It Now" sung twice in the movie with it being sung by Slugworth near the middle of the film and then done as a duet between Slugworth and Veruca Salt which is just pointless as all the song does is just hit on the same point twice and that's the fact that Slugworth we are lead to believe is greedy where as we no for a fact that Veruca is spoilt child and so just keeping the duet version of the song would not only be just as faithful to the original film as it's one of that films most well known songs but it would also go to prove that both Slugworth and Veruca are we are lead to believe the same type of greedy person and yet by doing it twice means that we are stuck with hearing the same song sang the exact same twice with it putting it across the exact same message twice and heck it even has the exact same outcome twice with either Veruca or Slugworth getting put down something and while alot of the films other songs aren't done that badly like for example "Pure Imagination" is done really well the film does cut part from the "(I've Got a) Golden Ticket" number as we now don't get to see Grandpa Joe move even tho they keep in the original lyric with him asking Charlie to see his speed.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nineteen minuets and sixteen seconds. Which for this film is far to short of a running time to have as this film has more then enough plot there to not only cover that amount of running time but more and with the film cutting out whole sections of the original film it means that this film can't use it's running time all that wisely as the characters that are fully developed in the original film now don't get that character development because of the fat that the film now has to squeeze in two new characters in Tom and Jerry and Tom and Jerry themselves can't get any characters development because of the fact that they have to fight for screen time with the original films characters and yet if the film was even just fifteen minuets to ten minuets longer then it could have had some character development for all of it's character but for one reason or another the makers of this film chose not go that route and instead give us characters that can't be fully developed because of the fact that this film isn't willing to spend the time to make them memorable yes this film is based off of two very popular IP's but you still have to put in the work to make the characters good and memorable characters in the first place and when you can't that because of the fact that both sides of this crossover movie are fighting for screen time then there's something that's deeply wrong with your film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As while it's not as good as the comedy in other Tom And Jerry shorts it's also alot more better then the comedy that we got in both Tom And Jerry: The Movie and Tom & Jerry as here the slapstick comedy is very well animated with Tom and Jerry being a bit more toned down interms of violence which does oddly enough make the comedy feel a little less funny as everybody knows just how far those two characters would be willing to go to hurt in each in a factory setting like the one that this film ha as it's main setting but for one reason or another Warner Bros has decided to tone down the amount of violence that the two can do to each other and while we do get the same other top violence that we are used to from the other Tom and Jerry shorts alot of there stuff which is some of the best stuff in the movie is cut out as it has to make room for the stuff from the original Willy Wonka film and while the comedy from those characters isn't that bad you don't come to a Tom and Jerry movie to see Grandpa Joe struggle to find The Golden Ticket in his pocket as you instead come to it to watch Tom and Jerry and funny slapstick and that's really it and that is something that this film can't fully devote it's time as it has to squeeze in the plot from other of the crossover thus turning what could have been very funny jokes into jokes that just aren't as funny as they really could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of all their animated outings this is by far one of the worst movies that Tom And Jerry have ever been in and yes that includes Tom And Jerry: The Movie but at the same time tho when the makers of this film gets it right they really do get it right as the Tom and Jerry stuff is the best aspect of the movie it's just the human character stuff that doesn't work with neither one of these properties working all that well together in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a gran old score of exactly a 4 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his very film well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very film from the official Tom And Jerry fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very review being the really great the official Tom And Jerry fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Tom And Jerry fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.