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Tuesday, 28 July 2026

Tom And Jerry: Texas Tom Review


Tom And Jerry are characters that need absolutely no introduction as everyone regardless of there age knows who these characters are be it from there various TV shows and movies or if really your off a certain the original animated shorts. Bottom line being these two characters are ones that alot of people do know about and well I thought that i'd take a look at one of there classic shorts as i've really been trying to get a review of one of there shorts of the ground and so then join me as I review the cartoon that sees Tom and Jerry at a dude ranch with the cartoon in question being called simply just "Texas Tom" enjoy.

The plot of this cartoon is Tom and Jerry are just doing there usual thing at a dude ranch when an attractive cat comes to stay and Tom falls in love with her. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon was in all honesty really good. While the cartoons plot is a really simple plot for something like Tom and Jerry that's kind of what you want as the plots are nothing more then an excuse for the characters to get creatively violent with each other and that is something that doesn't really require a deep plot to it. Rather it just requires the most basic of sets up and that's it and that's something that we the plot of this cartoon gives us as the set up is them at a dude ranch we don't need to know why they are there we just need to see them there as that allows for the characters to get to the mindless and funny violence that they are known for and while yes it would have helped if the cartoon did have a stronger plot as something like "Blue Cat Blues" did prove that these characters can work just find with a stronger plot and still have funny violence but it's not really something that is required to make the cartoon work as nobody is going to a Tom And Jerry cartoon wanting to see a plot heavy cartoon as we are going into it to see these two hurt each other in fun and funny ways and whilst yes it would have helped if they did have a deeper plot as then could answer the question of why these characters are this dude ranch in the first place but that is something that would take away from what we've came to to this cartoon for in the first place with the plot of this cartoon also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 


This one of the many Tom And Jerry cartoons where there is no voice actors in the cartoon and this is something that does work for these characters. As these character do work there best when they are silent as then we get to see what the characters are thinking through the use of the animation rather then having it be told us and thankfully alot of the Tom And Jerry movies barring the obvious one have stayed true to this and kept the characters silent minus the odd scream from Tom with the characters being the best animated silent duo of all time due to the fact that they never utter a word not only in this cartoon but in alot of the cartoons as well with this being something that has helped to make the characters timeless. As if this cartoon was made today then you just know that the characters wouldn't shut up and would be voiced by celebrities spouting phrases that are four or five years old with that being something that would date the cartoon right away and yet due t the fact that the characters never say a word you could show a kid this cartoon today and actually trick them into thinking that it's a new cartoon as outside of one scene the whole cartoon does have a timeless quality to it, with the fact that the characters also being why they've been able to keep on going all of these instead of just fading away like alot of other silent movie stars did eventually do when talkies started being a thing as it would have been very easy for Tom And Jerry to just fade away when the shorts ended but they kept on coming back and they kept on bringing back that style of silent cinema where it's just the characters actions and facial expressions that are driving the dialog forward and while yes cartoons like for example Mickey Mouse and the Looney Tunes have proven that characters can still talk and be relevant the fact that Tom And Jerry are silent characters is something that has made them stand out even all of these many years later.

Silent characters like Mr. Bean have proven that there is still a market out for these types of characters as when they are done right like they are with Tom And Jerry you usually end up getting gold. On top of that it would have the added the benefit of making the comedy feel timeless as now your not bogging it down with modern day lingo your just doing what has always been funny with these cartoon and even the Mr. Bean sketches being very easy to translate across the world as once again the characters are silent and therefor everything is visual with this being something that means kid in say Asia could find the same Tom And Jerry cartoon that a kid in America or in other parts of the world also loves and yet for one reason or another Hollywood today seems to shy away from doing this type of comedy when it's a proven hit. With this cartoon again being a good example of this as all of the jokes ad the story are told visually whereas alot of the other Tom and Jerry cartoons have someone getting across what the set up is for the cartoon where as here none of that happens and we have to rely solely on what we see happening in the cartoon with this being something that does make the cartoon feel like it does have that universal feeling to it as while alot of people wont know what a dude ranch is or if they do it's more then likely because they've seen it on TV but the idea of Tom doing anything to get the attention of this attractive cat all the while Jerry is just messing with him that is something that alot of people can relate and it is something that we see in a lot of silent comedy films and shorts, again the Mr. Bean episodes are a good example of this as alot of the time they do have this extra ordinary character doing these mundane things with it being how he does them that makes them funny and timeless and yet alot of the comedy that we have today isn't timeless where as the silent comedy of Tom and Jerry will always be timeless.   


Doing the animation for this cartoon is the legends and the greats that are Kenneth Muse , Irven Spence , Ray Patterson and Ed Barge. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon 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 cartoon was in all honesty really good. This cartoons animation was of a really good quality with all of the cartoons backgrounds looking really good but at the same time tho the backgrounds do feel a little bit empty as there's really nothing to hit home that the point that the characters are meant to be at dude ranch granted this might gave been for budgetary reasons which would be fair enough but there did still need to be something to make the the cartoons backgrounds stand out all the more. Where the cartoons animation does stand out is with the characters movements as all of the characters are not only given these really fluid movements but there are also given this really zippy animation that does work well with the series sense of comedy, yet there was one thing that did slightly let the cartoons animation own and that's the fact that they recycle a scene from earlier on in the cartoon where Tom throws his rope and it chases Jerry around a corner which was fine the first time that they did it as then it was being use to set up the cartoon but using it again later on in the same cartoon does scream budgetary issues which is something that doesn't really harm the cartoon or it's animation but it does make the makers of this cartoon be all the more lazy as it's a only a few seconds they very easily could have animated a different scene but the fact that they didn't do that it does mark down the animations quality.


As with alot of the cartoons from the same time period this one was censored altho not as much as others where. As the only scene that got removed at the very least in the UK version of the cartoon is the scene where we see Tom smoking and that's it and just to be clear this cartoon does also have a scene very early on where Tom is show to be using a gun and yet that scene and the joke following it for that matter never got cut from the UK version of the cartoon whilst it is understandable as to why the scene of Tom smocking was cut as they didn't want to put kids onto smocking then surely they should have cut the scene with him using a gun as that is a weapon that kids could get ahold off and use either on each other or on a loved one or friend. Fair enough not having the scene with Tom smocking in the cartoon wouldn't effect the cartoon at all but it does make weird that censors chose to fixate on that one small scene when odds are that kids would be exposed more to smocking due to having either a parent of a family member that does smoke but as was said it was understandable as to why it was cut in the first place much like how it was understandable why the makers of this cartoon thought that it was a good idea to include it in the first place as back in the fifties when this cartoon was being made smocking would have been seen a being the in thing to do at the time and with these cartoons reflecting the thoughts and attitudes of the time that they were made in which in this case does include showing smoking as being a cool and popular thing when in reality it's not cool and it's never the popular thing to do.

Much like with alot of Tom and Jerry cartoons the person starting the fight this time around is Tom himself. This is something that will always work as it means that Jerry does have a reason to actively fight Tom where as in some of the cartoons its Jerry that's that presented as being the bad guy due to the fact that he would start the fight with Tom and while it could be argued that the same thing does happen here due to the fact that the cartoon does start with them fighting but due to the fact that we see Tom acting more like a bad guy towards Jerry it is safe to assume that he is the one that started the fight and heck we even see him drag Jerry back to him by his rope at the start of the cartoon therefor Jerry is actually totally justified in his hatred of Tom in this cartoon. With the fact that they do get up to there usual schtick all the while Tom is still trying to impress this girl with singing off of a record only serving to hit hm the fact that the two of them really can't stand each other this time around as it does feel like that they are trying to one up each other interms of the things that they do to each other which is something that does make the cartoon alot of fun to watch as you never really no just what it is that the characters are going to be doing to each other next with the only things that we know for sure is that it's going to hurt and it's going to be funny. However tho there should have been a scene later on in the cartoon where Jerry does something to extreme to the point where it does make Tom want to genuinely hurt him as that is something that these two characters not only would do to each other but have done to each other in other cartoons and it therefore wouldn't seem out of place in this cartoon.


However the thing that does seem out of place in not only this cartoon but just in general is the fact that it's revealed that Jerry also has feelings for the cat. Granted this is a cute and funny way to end the cartoon but given the fact that he's just spent the entire cartoon trying to get rid of one cat it doesn't really make sense for him to want to impress another one as that just feels out of character if it was revealed that the cat had an attractive mouse friend or an attractive mouse pulled up outside the dude ranch then it would work as it would make sense for Jerry to try and go after a female mouse but him going after a female cat just because she's beautiful doesn't change the fact that she is still a cat which by this franchises own logic implies that she would want to eat Jerry. The female cat who according to the Tom And Jerry fandom wiki is called Tara really doesn't do all tat much as all she does is just sit there why the guys fawn over her which is fine for a cartoon like this one but it doesn't give us a reason to like her character due to the fact that like alot of the love interests in this franchise he doesn't really do anything to move the plot forward rather she is to start the plot and that's really it yet it would made just as much sense if we got to see play more of an active role in the cartoon just by having her turn Tom down during the cartoon or just not notice thus forcing him to make his attempts to win her over more and more extreme something which he has shown to perfectly willing to do with other love interests in the past and yet by not having her do anything other then it there for some odd reason the makers of this cartoon have instead just made what could have been a funny character into someone who is just there for the sake of the cartoon needing a female character.

Now then this carton has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly six minuets and forty two seconds. Which is kind of the bogstandard running time for a Tom And Jerry cartoon as they never typically ran over seven minuets and to be fair these cartoons don't really need longer running times in order for them to work in the first place as alot of the time they do have simpler plots that don't really require a longer running time in order for them to work and while this cartoon could have benefitted from being a few minuets longer as that would allow for more jokes to be packed unto the cartoon it wasn't something that was needed in the first with this cartoon having more then there interms of plot to cover this amount of running time in the first place. While the cartoon doesn't really use its running time all that wisely as the cartoon doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot given the fact that the plot of his cartoon as is simple as it is it really doesn't need to as all it needs to do is give us the basic set up of the cartoon and that's it and that is something that really doesn't require plot development would have been nice if there was some plot development yes of course it would but it's not needed when the plot is this simple with the makers of this cartoon being far more focused on giving Tom a musical number then they were in giving this cartoon some plot development. The same thing is also rue for the cartoons character development as both Tom and Jerry don't really need any character development as there usual schtick doesn't require it as the only thing that we need to know is who is the bad guy of the cartoon and that's really it with the only character who did need some  development being Tara and even then given how simple the plot is it's debatable on if she really needed character development with the makers of this cartoon being alot more focused on making Jerry fall in love with a cat then they are in giving the characters some actual character development but I really will admit that this very cartoon really dos have some really good pacing to it tho.


So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very cartoon 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 cartoon was in all honesty really good. The cartoons comedy whilst it is really good does oddly enough feel like it's holding itself back as there's none of the top violence that we think of when we think of Tom and Jerry and while that's not always a bad thing but given the fact that this cartoon is set at a dude ranch then it does make you wonder why the makers of this cartoon didn't go as all out as they normally would have done in a Tom And Jerry cartoon. With the best joke in the whole cartoon being when Tom does first capture Jerry and he brings Tom back with his rope does taunt him by almost threatening to shoot him only for Jerry to not only turn the tables on Tom but also blow ll of the the bullets out of his gun into Tom's mouth and then hitting the bullets so they explode with Jerry then escaping only for Tom and to once again drag him back with his rope only this time Jerry has a cactus in his hand which he then uses to whack Tom in the face and escape again with Tom this time hitting himself in the face with a pole when he tries to give chase, what makes this joke work is the fact that it does feel like classic Tom And Jerry with then getting as violent as they want to do with Jerry hitting the bullets in Toms mouth with this joke being a fine example of just how funny that the jokes in this cartoon be with the rest of the cartoons jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall this was a really fun cartoon that does do a solid up of giving us the violence that we love in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and while the comedy does feel like it's holding itself back alot when it does go all out that's when we get to see just how funny that this cartoon really is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very cartoon in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very cartoon really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images 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 episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Sunday, 13 April 2025

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.

Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Tom And Jerry Snowman's Land Film Review

 


Tom And Jerry fans the duo have made alot of holiday themed specials in the past most notably their Thanksgiving episodes. However the duo have to my knowledge at the very least never made a Christmas themed special well now that's been rectified since a Christmas themed Tom And Jerry movie has just been released which for some strange reason meant that despite this film being released both digitally and on DVD and Blu-Ray Warner Bros. have seen it fit to release this movie in the middle of November and so then join me as I review the film that is basically Tuffy: The Movie with the film in question being called simply just "Tom And Jerry Snowman's Land" enjoy.

The plot of this film is Tuffy makes and befriends a snowman that magically comes to life and so then it's up to him and Jerry to get him to the mythical and magical Snowman's Land before he melts away for good. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot 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 plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue because it's not that good either since this film just drops plotlines for no reason and it's main plotline is very predictable for the most part in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  


Starring in this film is voice acting legend Kath Soucie as Tuffy and voice acting legend Kevin Michael Richardson as Larry. Also starring in this film is Laraine Newman as Mrs. LePage , Stephen Stanton as Doctor Doublevay and Lightning , Rick Zieff as This Films Narrator and Meathead , Carlos Alazraqui as Floyd , Kimberly Brooks as The Snow Cop and The Little Girl , Joey D'Auria as Butch and Regi Davis as Snow Mayor.

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 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. With all of this films cast turning in some really good performances and doing their absolutely best to make this films weak script work for them in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.



Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Renegade Animation and Slap Happy Cartoons. Now then interms 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 pretty bad for the most part since there are some scenes with decent animation in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


To me this film feels like it's ripping of The Snowman only it doesn't have the courage to go all the way with it's storyline. Since in the The Snowman they have the titular character die thus teaching us kids that death is a thing that happens where as this film which is aimed at the exact same audience as The Snowman doesn't do that for absolutely no reason whatsoever in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Not only does this film rip off The Snowman but for some strange reason it also rips off a villain from Robocop with ED-209. Which is weird when you take into account that Robocop is a very adult film and so it seems weird that the film makers would rip off one of that films main villains when they very easily could have come up with an original design and yet for some reason they just don't do it which makes the makers of this film seem to be lazy and rather uncreative in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Just like with the previous film this film is a musical Vivek Maddala and co-writer Jase Ricci however this films songs just aren't that good. Even for a kids film this films songs are pretty bad with the opening song between Tuffy and Larry the snowman being the best song in the entire film and even then that songs not that good since it's just the stereotypical best friends type of song and nothing more then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fifteen minuets and fifty three seconds. Which is the perfect amount of time for this film to last since this film really doesn't have alot interms of either plot or story to last anything even near one hour and thirty minuets and so having the film last as long as it is means that it doesn't overstay it's welcome in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.



So now then since this is a comedy that means that I 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. Since there are some decent jokes in this film but what lets this films comedy down is the fact that the slapstick in this film is really bad which for a Tom And Jerry film isn't a good thing at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while it is nice to see the famous cat and mouse duo back in yet another new movie I just wish that this movie could have been better because it had all of the potential to be good if not great Tom And Jerry movie 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 means that this very film erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review 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 review from the official Tom And Jerry fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.

Monday, 24 January 2022

Tom And Jerry: Cowboy Up Film Review

 


Tom And Jerry fans the world's most famous cat and mouse duo are finally back with a brand new direct to DVD animated movie. I will admit that I straight up forgot about this film even coming and so I was shocked to say the least when I found out that this film was released on digital platforms and so then join me as I review the newest Tom And Jerry movie with the movie itself being called simply just "Tom And Jerry: Cowboy Up" enjoy.

The plot of this film is Tom , Jerry and whole other bunch of animal friends are forced to team up when an evil land owner wants to buy the land that Tom And Jerry's house currently sits upon. and so the cat and mouse duo and all of there animal friends have to save the day before it's far to freaking late to do so. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's featured / presented to us in this very film in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that's featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty just average at best and not really helping things is the fact that this films plotline just comes and goes whenever it wants or even chooses to and is freaking thin that it might as well as not even be there in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this film is George Ackles as The Marshal , Sean Burgos as Bumpy and Trevor Devall as Duke. Also starring in this film is Chris Edgerly as August Critchley , Georgie Kidder as Scruffy , Justin Michael as Bentley , Kaitlyn Robrock as Betty , Isaac Robinson Smith as Zeb , the great Kath Soucie as Tuffy , Stephen Stanton as Virgil , the great Fred Tatasciore as Clem , the great Kari Wahlgren as Duffy and June and some unknown voice actors as both Tom and Jerry.

Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then 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 the best part of this film film. Which isn't saying much because the acting that's in this film is pretty bad but when you have actors and actresses like Kath Soucie , Fred Tatasciore and Kari Wahlgren then of course you are going to get some pretty good performances out of those people in my freaking personal opinions anyways / at least.



Doing the animation for this film is Slap Happy Cartoons Inc and don't worry if you haven't heard of them because I haven't either. Now then in terms 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 film was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue because it's also not that very good either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Now then believe it or not this film is actually the first direct to DVD animated Tom And Jerry movie since the now infamous Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory and well while is definitely a step up in terms of quality that's not really saying all that much since Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory is a pretty freaking bad film. However tho on the upside tho this film isn't a team up movie featuring Tom And Jerry meeting another famous character or a group of characters for that matter and that is most definitely a freaking good thing in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

So now then while this film is indeed a huge freaking step up in terms of quality from Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. This film a pretty bad film simply because outside of the name and a few characters there's next to nothing that would make you think that this is a Tom And Jerry movie heck it even takes a while for the pair to meet up for the first time in this movie and that is never a freaking good sign in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Now then this film is also a musical film and while the songs that are in this film aren't that bad there also the very freaking definition of filler songs. Simply because you could remove the songs from this film entirely and you'd loose absolutely nothing of actual importance to the actual plot and plus this films are purely freaking just to pad this films already incredibly freaking short or small running time which is not a freaking good thing at all in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

So now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fourteen minuets and fifty eight seconds and so then let's all just round that up to exactly one hour and fifteen minuets shall we. Either way tho this films running is the exact right amount of running time for this film simply because this film really doesn't have enough there in terms of either plot and or even storyline for that matter in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Now then since this film is also a comedy film after all that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film and 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 was in all honesty really freaking bad. Which isn't a good thing for any movie let alone a Tom And Jerry movie where the key selling point is always going to be the freaking comedy in the film that your about to or even going to see in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while this film this very much freaking better then Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory this film is sadly still not that good of a film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now 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 means that this very film erns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review 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 review from the official HBO Max fandom wiki page ,the official Tom And Jerry fandom wiki page and google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.  
















Thursday, 13 May 2021

Tom And Jerry: The Two Mouseketeers Review

 


Tom And Jerry fans it's been at the very least two years since i've talked / spoken about some of the classic Tom And Jerry shorts and well I wanted to put that to an end today. As such I went out and I think that i've found perhaps the darkest al all heck ending to a Tom And Jerry cartoon ever and yes i'm counting the ending the ending to "Blue Cat Blues" in there as well and so join me as I review the 1952 Tom And Jerry cartoon with the cartoon / short film in question being called simply just "The Two Mouseketeers" enjoy.

The plot of this Tom And Jerry cartoon is that Tom is tasked with guarding the French King's banquet table and all seems to be going swimmingly that is until Jerry and his friend Nibbles show up looking for some food. In terms of what I thought about the plot of this Tom And Jerry cartoon / short film in all honesty the plot of this cartoon was really simple that works great for Tom And Jerry since the Tom And Jerry cartoons were never about telling complex stories and so seeing that this cartoon had a rather simple story is in my opinion at least a step in the right direction / a very good thing indeed.


Starring in this cartoon is animation legend and Tom And Jerry co-creator / co-writer and co-director William Hanna as Tom Cat , Jerry Mouse and possibly what I think is the King's butler and Francoise Brun-Cottan as Nibbles. As is very well known at this point in time Tom And Jerry cartoons never use voice actors in alot of the Tom And Jerry cartoons / shorts with Tom And Jerry themselves remaining silent apart from the occasional yell from either Tom or Jerry and as such it honestly makes the acting in this short hard to judge since there are only two actors appearing in this cartoon and trust me i've looked pretty much everywhere online to find a complete cast list and there simply isn't a complete cast list for this cartoon out there.

As for what I personally thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this cartoon in all honesty the acting that's featured / presented to us in this cartoon was really good. Since Francoise Brun-Cottan does turn in a good performance as Nibbles even tho her voice isn't heard that much in this cartoon and it's always a delight to hear William Hanna yell as loud as he can as Tom Cat and yes William Hanna does also turn in a really / pretty good performance as both Tom Cat and as well as Jerry Mouse.


Doing the animation for this film are the animators Irven Spence , Ed Barge and Kenneth Muse who I really feel did a good job with the animation in this cartoon. Since in my opinion at least the animation that's featured / presented to us in this cartoon / short cartoon is really good with all of the characters having really fluid movements and the backgrounds are highly detailed and I have to give props to whomever animated Nibbles on top of the moving canon near the end of the cartoon because that would have been hard work back in the very early nineteen fifties and heck it still would be hard work to this very day but they pulled it off in this cartoon and in my opinion at least it honestly does indeed look great.



As you can all work out by the title of this cartoon the name of this cartoon is a play on The Three Musketeers however apart from parodying the title and having this cartoon being set in seventeenth centaury France this cartoon has nothing really in common with Alexandre Dumas novel. I honestly feel that only parodying The Three Musketeers title is perhaps the only way that you could tell the story of even use the characters of The Three Musketeers in a Tom And Jerry cartoon since using the actual three musketeers would make Tom And Jerry feel more like side characters in their own cartoon / short film / series.

Now then boys and girls i've been giving this cartoon alot of praise but there are a  few things that I personally didn't like with the first thing being the fact that for a Tom And Jerry cartoon that features alot of food this cartoon is pretty freaking tame and the fact that this cartoon makes Jerry and Nibbles out to be the villains. Now I can handle the lack of extreme violence that's in this cartoon simply due to how this cartoon ends (however that is still an issue for me personally) however I cannot ignore the fact that Jerry and Nibbles are being portrayed as the bad guys in this cartoon since neither Jerry nor Nibbles are bad guys they just like to have fun and so having them be the straight up bad guys is out of character for both characters but that's just what I think and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways. 


Now then boys and girls you see when I said that this cartoon was dark as all heck I really did mean because the ending to this cartoon is super freaking dark. Since this cartoon ends with Tom straight up getting killed by getting his head chopped of and no they don't reveal that Tom was somewhere else and Jerry and Nibbles saw someone else getting beheaded so that makes the ending to this cartoon alot , lot , lot , lot , lot , lot darker then the ending to "Blue Cat Blues" since in this cartoon a main character actually does end up dying.

Now then boys and girls this cartoon / short film has a grand total running time of seven minuets and five seconds and well I have to say that this is the perfect running time for this particular cartoon / short film. Simply because there really isn't enough story to even get this cartoon / short film to say twenty two minuets or even ten minuets for that matter and having this short film / cartoon come in at seven minuets and five seconds means that we can put a little effort on this particular cartoons / short films story and as well as put a lot of effort into the comedy and violence that's featured / presented to us in this particular cartoon / short film.


Now then boys and girls this cartoon is a comedy after all and that means that we / I have to talk about the actual comedy that's featured / presented to us in this / the actual cartoon itself and well if i'm being honest the comedy that's featured / presented to us in this cartoon / short film is at best pretty funny. Which for a Tom And Jerry cartoon simply isn't good enough but there are one or two good jokes in this cartoon / short film and some of the slapstick is in my opinion at least pretty freaking funny.


Overall this is a really good and deeply disturbing cartoon (since who seriously wants to see Tom Cat getting beheaded that's like saying that you want to see a sequel the 1992 animated film Tom And Jerry: The Movie) but with that said there is some good to be found in this cartoon / short film just not much sadly. Now then boys and girls since i've talked about both of the good things and as well as both of the bad things that are in this cartoon in this very review that means that this cartoon gets a solid 7.5 out of 10 from me.

As for where I got all the images that I used in this review well then boys and girls I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Tom And Jerry fandom wiki page and since I only went to one website for the images that I used in this very review. I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official Tom And Jerry fandom wiki page if you guys want to use any images that are to do with Tom And Jerry but fair warning even tho the images that are on the official Tom And Jerry fandom wiki page might not look either high quality or as well as high definition the images that are featured n the official Tom And Jerry fandom wiki page actually are both petty high quality and well as being pretty freaking high definition.