TOM AND JERRY REVIEW MOVIE

Or, as celebrity groom-to-be Ben (Colin Jost) puts it when the seriesвЂ™ familiar bulldog, Spike, makes his over-excited entrance, вЂњHeвЂ™s a little animated.вЂќ No, вЂњTom & JerryвЂќ wonвЂ™t be winning any Oscars, even if Hanna-Barbera shorts in which they starred racked up seven during the seriesвЂ™ 1940-58 run.

TOM AND JERRY REVIEW MOVIE

Yes, this movie is a hybrid, which means Tom and Jerry have a full cast of flesh-and-blood co-stars, but Story set a simple rule from the opening scene, and he sticks to it: Every single animal in the movie, from singing pigeons to an executive-suite goldfish, is presented as an endearingly designed cartoon character. (IвЂ™m looking at you, вЂњScooby-Doo,вЂќ вЂњGarfield,вЂќ вЂњYogi Bear,вЂќ вЂњAlvin and the ChipmunksвЂќ and вЂњThe SmurfsвЂќ - movies that give their beloved characters ghastly CG makeovers, then awkwardly integrate them into the вЂњreal world.вЂќ) Truth be told, the movieвЂ™s a pretty faithful extension of the frenemiesвЂ™ long-running feud - basically, the two cannot peacefully coexist under the same roof - and as such, we should be grateful to director Tim Story (вЂњShaftвЂќ) and screenwriter Kevin Costello (вЂњBrigsby BearвЂќ) for not dropping a two-ton anvil on our nostalgia, the way so many big-studio toonsploitation projects have in recent years. Shifts 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Tom and Jerry' Release Dates Tim Story on the Feuding Characters in His 'Tom & Jerry' Reboot: 'It's Not War It's Sibling Rivalry' 'Tom and Jerry' Set As First Foreign Film to Hit China Post-Chinese New Year has tried to position the animated duo alongside a live-action ensemble (led by a pair of daffy performances from ChloГ« Grace Moretz and Michael PeГ±a) in вЂњTom & Jerry.вЂќ But these two pests have taken far worse - frying pans to the face, waffle irons to the tail - and managed to shake it off.

The erstwhile MGM stars got bad reviews when Film Roman tried to go the feature route in 1993 (that movie never should have given them voices), and theyвЂ™ll probably get skewered again now that Warner Bros. 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 have withstood critiques from all corners, including parents who think such animated violence could be a bad influence on kids. 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.

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