Tom and Jerry: The Movie

Plot synopsis:
While moving house with their owners, Tom and Jerry get into a chase, and Tom nails Jerry inside his mousehole with floorboards, and is pleased to have kept the mouse from coming with him, but misses the moving van and is forced to stay in the house after angering a nearby bulldog. The house is demolished the next morning with Tom going back inside to rescue Jerry, leaving them both homeless. Wandering through the city, they meet a dog, Puggsy, and his flea friend, Frankie, who try to persuade them to be friends. While finding food from some nearby bins for a feast, Puggsy and Frankie are captured by two dogcatchers, while Tom and Jerry end up in a tussle with some alley cats. They escape after Jerry fools them into falling into the sewer.
They then cross paths with a twelve-year-old girl, Robyn Starling, who has run away from home. She tells them that since her mother died in childbirth and her father was apparently killed in a recent avalanche, she has been living with her evil guardian, "Aunt" Pristine Figg, her scheming lawyer and boyfriend, Lickboot, and her overweight skateboarding dog, Ferdinand, but ran away after Figg threw Robyn's locket out of the window. Despite Robyn's misgivings, Tom and Jerry persuade her to return home and they are taken in as pets. Tom and Jerry, however, end up in a massive food fight with Ferdinand, and stumble across a telegram confirming that Robyn's father is still alive which Figg hides from Robyn. Figg sends them to an animal shelter run by Dr. Applecheek, who turns out to be a cruel animal kidnapper, and the true employer of the two dogcatchers who caught Puggsy. Reuniting with Puggsy and Frankie in the cells, Tom and Jerry tell them all that has happened, then stage an escape and free all of Applecheek's captured animals, among them Droopy, and rush to tell Robyn the news. Elated, Robyn becomes determined to find her father in Tibet and they escape the city on a raft in the river, but the raft is struck by a ship and they end up separated. Figg places a $1 million bounty on Robyn without even planning to give that kind of money, while Mr. Starling is alerted of his daughter's situation and rushes back to America to find her.
Robyn is found by Captain Kiddie, the owner of a failing amusement park, and he houses her until seeing an ad for the reward on a milk cardboard with the help of his parrot puppet Squawk, upon which he traps Robyn on the ferris wheel and contacts Figg. Tom and Jerry also find Robyn and they flee in a paddle boat as Figg, Lickboot, Applecheek and the dogcatchers arrive. A long chase ensues, in which the dogcatchers end up trapped in the ferris wheel and Kiddie and Applecheek are left stranded in the river. Following the river, Tom, Jerry and Robyn arrive at Robyn's summer cabin (Build by her father), but Figg, Lickboot, and Ferdinand have arrived first. In the ensuing scuffle, a lantern is knocked over and the cabin is set on fire. As Figg, Lickboot, and Ferdinand end up stuck on Robyn's boat which goes off out of control, Tom and Jerry manage to get Robyn to the roof just as Mr. Starling arrives in his helicopter. Robyn is saved, but Mr. Starling is unable to reach Tom and Jerry in time before the cabin collapses. They only barely survive and are reunited with Robyn.
In the aftermath, Robyn takes Tom and Jerry in as her pets. Just when it appears that they have found friendship, old habits die hard and the duo resume their antics. The film closes as Tom chases Jerry once again.

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Review:
Tom and Jerry then meet an eight-year old girl named Robyn Starling, whose mother died of pneumonia when she was a baby and is left behind with her horrid and evil guardian Aunt Figg when her dad goes away to Tibet.
I'm still a teenager right now, so around the time Tom and Jerry the Movie was released, I was around 5 or 6.The wonderful melodies and songs in that movie are still haunting to me ( in a good way) to this day.
I love Robyn's song "I miss you" and every time I hear it I feel like crying because it makes me think of my dad and how sad I would be if he wasn't there.I loved every character in the movie.
Tom and Jerry may be a short cartoon that likes playing dirty tricks on each other, but this film really expanded on that and I don't think there was any other script that could have made it better.Who cares if none of the grown ups liked this movie?
I recently showed it to my nieces and nephews and just hearing the laughter that comes out of them lightens me up.An advice to those who has never seen this film and is watching it for the first time: Set aside what you think should be a Tom and Jerry movie!
It probably seemed like a good idea, (much emphasis on 'seemed' there), however the makers seemed to have missed the point entirely of what Tom and Jerry is all about, I'll break it down for you, first off, they talk, if they ever talked to each other in the animated shorts, it would either be as a joke or to convey a scene or maybe sing, but here, they talk.
This sort of departure doesn't work for two cartoon characters who were all about fighting, PLUS it happened before in 1975, when a TV Series called The Tom & Jerry Show, where they were friends, (apparantly to comply with TV rules on violence!!
Tom and Jerry Become friends for the first time ever and must team up to rescue a girl in peril from an evil woman and her band of idiot bad guys.This is a good film, a good Story behind it.
The songs aren't quite as bad as people say they are, though cheesy nonetheless, and the jokes feel a little dry if you've been watching Tom and Jerry all your life, but it passes.The plot's alright, but nothing special.
This Film Roman production however made too many missteps in an attempt to be different, and instead became an underwhelming experience.Tom and Jerry: The Movie marked the cat and mouse's first and only theatrically released film; made at a time when American traditional animation was rebounding from stagnation, experiencing a classical revival that lasted for most of the 1990s.
Although the movie has some highlights with its 2D art and music score by Henry Mancini, they are largely overshadowed by poor choices in the script and direction, along with many unnecessary and unmemorable songs.Tom and Jerry begin their movie in a suburban home not unlike the ones where they would wreck havoc in the original shorts.
The musical numbers (for which virtually every character has one) further stretches the story which is too thin to last 84 minutes.The biggest problem however comes later, when the movie introduces Tom and Jerry to a girl named Robyn Starling, and a plot that seems heavily inspired by Disney's The Rescuers.
Once the main plot resolves itself, Tom and Jerry return to their traditional antics, and you wonder why they couldn't have been more like themselves in a shorter running time (as they later would be in direct-to-DVD movies).
Instead they were made into supporting characters in their self titled movie, to support a musical buddy comedy, with a plot too reminiscent of a better developed plot from an older Disney title.Tom and Jerry: The Movie has not affected the cat and mouse duo in the long run however, as their continued success on DVD and television has left the 1992 movie as more of a footnote in an otherwise dynamic career, which will likely continue for many years to come..
The surmounting lists of objections to "Tom and Jerry: The Movie" have been understandably consistent: the famous cartoon cat and mouse actually start talking, they go on good behavior, do not chase each other around with every makeshift club or projectile known, and most of the narrative consists not of what we usually get from them in a seven or eight-minute cartoon.
So I'm marginally grateful they tried something new.The opening ten minutes of "Tom and Jerry: The Movie" effectively capture the charm of the long-running cartoon shorts, utilizing silent humor and cartoon violence to a gut-splitting max.
Instead, they end up playing second-fiddle, disappearing for obnoxiously long stretches of time, and the little girl, Robyn (though sweetly voiced by the talented Anndi McAfee) is a complete bore.As a result, the story becomes insufferably slow starting around the thirty-minute mark.What I could not stand at all in this movie—the one thing I thought could not work in the least bit—were the songs.
With amazing sound effects, those silent cartoon characters made me laugh throughout the rest of the episodes they were in.When I heard that Hollywood made a film about it that I've recently seen in the 1990s, my family got a DVD of it and I watched, betting that it was gonna be good.Boy was I wrong.After viewing it, I was so disgusted at how this movie ruined a once great cartoon classic by pointing a few things that were wrong.The story has nothing to do with Tom and Jerry, the characters were boring (I mean, Aunt Figg?!
The Animation in the film well some of it is good work but the rest is pretty much like watching a coloring book come to life.The music in the film is not even really convincing to sell the story.Even the story itself isn't all it crack up to be it just pretty much this film was made just to get some money and from what I learned it wasn't even a box office success.So pretty much stay away from this film if you love Tom and Jerry you will avoid this film.I give Tom and Jerry: The Movie a 2 out of 10.
This movie is certainly not a continuation of the short cartoons for different reasons pointed out by many people here (such as Tom and Jerry talking, their unusual attitude towards each other which arguably lacks the original essence etc...) but it is a very good cartoon itself standing alone.
And I don't mean simply saying whether or not it appealed to you but really vicious, I spit on your grave, rip your beating heart out of their chest, damn you forever to the pits of oblivion for failing to live up to my happy expectations...Seriously get over it.I remember this film from when I was a kid and while admittedly its nothing spectacular, its an enjoyable, funny movie that most kids will love(because lets remember it is a kids film.) Heres a little info on some of the "controversial" aspects of the film.Tom & Jerry talk - Seriously I don't see what the big deal is, the voices chosen for these two characters are suitable and funny more so than their various speaking voices in the old cartoons (thats right people they did speak in the cartoon.) Its really the highlight of the film as you'd expect.Tom & Jerry sing - Why not?
Tom & Jerry don't fight - In fact they become friends 'sort of' which isn't such a bad message to convey when you think about it, and really at least give the filmmakers some props for trying to do something new with the material.So the point is just get over yourself and enjoy it.PS.
Tom and Jerry don't do those things, well in the old ones, they did say some words, but had better voices, and the chase sequences of the game of cat and mouse were very much missing, there were only a few, but weren't all that brilliant.
Ho man what was I thinking watching this film as a kid and Yes I saw this films at day care center it was an old VHS tape that we watch afternoon at day care I just really hated how a great show got this poor made movie that makes no sense and why do Tom and Jerry talk I don't care about their actors the story is about Tom and Jerry helping this girl find her dad and one of her family members with this lazy dog on a skate bored which she is the bad guy of this film but I did not really care for her it was wasting time and money and this movie has to be one of the worst films but not worst movie ever this movie has nothing to do with the show what so ever its pointless charmless unfunny cheesy film that ruined a good show this was the started of the down hill to the Tom and Jerry TV series so please don't make sequel to this awful film they don't need it by the way I wish the movie could of been better and be more about Tom and Jerry the movie was just waste of time I don't care about the low budget but it was a box office flop I got to say the only good thing was the songs and the soundtrack 2 out of 10..
When I originally heard that there was to be a Tom & Jerry feature film, I was more than a little worried...After all, when you look at feature length films adapted from short-subjects (animated or otherwise) the law of averages dictates that, on the whole, they are not that good (with few honourable exceptions).However, when the film was in the early stages of production, the BBC series on animation "Stay Tuned" got a sneak preview, and my spirits lightened.The rough footage looked pretty good, the animation was high quality, and even though I was apprehensive about our fave cat and mouse being able to speak, I felt able to give the makers the benefit of the doubt.Hey, I could even say I was actually looking forward to it.Oh, how foolish I was...Now, can anyone explain to me why film-makers, when revisiting classic characters and situations, seem insistent on removing all the things which made the formula a success to begin with?
However, it then ignores any and everything that made Tom and Jerry a success in the first place, having the characters talk and teaming up rather than being nemesis's, the first ten minutes of this film should have been the whole thing.
What frustrates me the most about this movie is that the whole thing would make perfect sense without Tom and Jerry, all of their dialogue and actions serve as no development to the plot of a young girl trying to escape from her evil aunt and find her father.
Uninspired in literally every sense, Tom and Jerry: The Movie will still probably be a lot of fun for children, but adults with childlike sensibilities like myself should stick to the original cartoons.
OK I watch Tom and Jerry the movie at first it was just some not funny slapstick humor I thought to myself maybe there will be more humorous stuff once the movie goes on until this happens "I'm Tom" "I'm Jerry" *Spit water all over the place* WHAT THE HECK DID TOM AND JERRY MY FAVORITE SILENT DUO JUST TALK I can't believe this is happening we got from trying to find a home then met a dog and a flea and now we go to some orphan story now come on this is not like Tom and Jerry I know it's horrible just horrible how there's too many song no slapstick what so ever and how there's no humor that much in this story and plus the plot is so confusing and it won't make sense unless you see the cartoon for yourself just GOD WHAT AN TERRIBLE MOVIE..
Scooby-Doo, Inspector Gadget, The Flintstones, Fat Albert, Thunderbirds, Thomas & Friends.These are just some of the many beloved shows from our childhood that those greedy maniacs at Hollywood have butchered and turned them into soulless cinematic drivel of the highest order...Whenever it's being turned into bug eyed, dead looking CG maniacs that look more right at home in a local asylum, to completely ignoring everything what made the original so great in favour of making a quick buck, none of these poor poor shows were sacred.Yet out of all of these classic childhood shows, I think the entire population can agree that our dear cat and mouse team Tom & Jerry had it the worst.Literally some right winged idiot either at Miramax, Turner or Film Roman had the bright idea of breaking a golden rule in Animation and that rule was "Thou shall not make Tom & Jerry talk." Those maniacs, they went ahead and broke it.
And what we got was the most painful and quite shocking 84 minutes in the history of animation.To see these two animated icons talk and become friends with each other should not be considered fun, it's heartbreaking to say the least.The song they sing "Friends To The End" is enough to make even the most avid Tom & Jerry fan cry in their sleep.But these fools decided to go the extra mile and make a film....
that isn't even focused on Tom & Jerry at all.Aunt Figg, Lickboot (with his memorable Money quote and for some odd reason I like), Captain Kiddie are some of the characters they meet...
and quite frankly (besides Lickboot) none of these so called "characters" are likable in any sense of the word.And so off Tom & Jerry go to save a little girl (they even go the extra mile and rip off the Rescuers just to tick Uncle Walt of) and they sing a whole ton of crap songs, talk and talk and do a whole bunch of other things and I DON'T CARE, drinking bleach would be a far more enjoyable option than ever seeing something as joyless at this again.Forget The Smurfs, forget Rocky & Bullwinkle, forget Thunderbirds and forget even those crap Chipmunk films, this is the ultimate middle finger to a beloved cartoon...And it's not even a live action or CG film.Thank god no one ever dared to try do something like this again.PS: The fact that Joseph Barbera acts as "Creative Consultant" and the fact he was alright with seeing his beloved show get destroyed in front of his eyes kinda bugs me a bit....
The film lacks the wit and the fast pacing of the short "Tom and Jerry" cartoons; the songs are poor and mostly unnecessary, and the predictable, rarely interesting story just meanders along.
Not to mention the fact that the orphan's father (who by the way, she cried and sung about for around 5 minutes) looked suspiciously like Indiana Jones..Don't watch it, unless you really want to watch a happy little film about an orphan who isn't really an orphan finding her long lost father, along with the help of the ruined, washed out characters from one of the most classic cartoon series of all time..
Tom and Jerry must save a girl from her evil aunt.Most people think the film's biggest weakness is allowing the main characters to talk.
Tom and Jerry still have their likability, Robyn is a very charming character, and the animation is serviceable on the most part, but shoddy in other places.However, there are a number of things that make this film disappointing.
But after the promising start, as soon as the other major characters are introduced, the movie degenerates into a musical with the now-talking duo relegated to the role of background supporting characters and turned into firm friends- the main plot, as it turns out, has very little to do with Tom and Jerry.
Well sadly, the result was terrible.This movie starts out like a regular Tom & Jerry short, but then we are introduced to a dog named Pugsy and his flea who are best friends despite being creatures that usually hate each other.
Jerry sounds like a little kid, but in the shorts, on the rare occasions where he'd sing or speak he had a typical high-pitched rodent voice.Later they meet an orphan girl named Robyn who is searching for her father who is believed to be dead by most people.
This movie is my favorite because it is Tom and Jerry, and everyone else is acting like complete crybabies saying the film was bad, that needs to stop now because it is making me cry.
Things start like a typical T&J cartoon but there are some one-time changes for this special occasion: Tom and Jerry talk and put their differences aside to help a little girl.
That is just one of the many ways this movie ruins Tom and Jerry.It's a musical and the songs all sound like a five year old write these songs.
It's as if the people who wrote this had never seen a Tom and Jerry cartoon, or it was written by some stupid, ignorant, politically correct soccer moms who hated the idea of seeing their children watch two animals beat the living crap out of each other.Now I know what some of you are thinking "Huh?!" well the thing is there is virtually no slapstick ANYWHERE in this movie.
Tom and Jerry talking can be very jarring to some, and i'm not going to lie their voices take some time to get used too, but i can guarantee that you will enjoy watching this movie.
when you think of the great tom an jerry, you think slapstick cartoon violence, little to no voices and good humor....this movie had none of those at all.