![tom and jerry series rating tom and jerry series rating](https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Tom-And-Jerry-Time.jpeg)
Tom’s a dirt-poor cat trying to make his way in the world by busking for money (and pretending to be blind, though that’s not advertised: the gag seems to be that the folks watching him play piano think he’s blind because he’s got sunglasses on), only for his gig to be busted by a mischievous mouse by the name of Jerry.
What’s worse, the characters you’ve come to see - the ones your kids never knew - come on screen in a form you hardly recognize.Īnd lo, in 2021, we get Tim Story‘s Tom & Jerry, a certifiable squeakquel of a motion picture that feels as much a throwback to that earlier generation of crappy kid’s movies as it is the more charming original-recipe versions we used to watch in short film form on Nickelodeon.Īs is the fashion for films like these, Tom & Jerry transplants the classic Hanna-Barbera slapstick duo from their rightful place in vaudevillian shorts to modern-day (pre-COVID) New York.
![tom and jerry series rating tom and jerry series rating](https://images.immediate.co.uk/remote/images.atlas.metabroadcast.com/pressassociation.com/webANXtomjerry1.jpg)
Who actually wants movies like Tom & Jerry? Think back to the dregs of the Alvin & the Chipmunks movies from the aughts: the awkward blend of live action and animation, the creaky dragging of baby-boomer cartoon mascots awkwardly into present-day pop culture, the incessant noise of it all.