Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

Plot synopsis:
The story starts out with a haunted, creepy-looking crawlies mansion house, where Tom Cat, as usual, chases Jerry Mouse and breaks everything in the house. Meanwhile, in the basement, a wizard named Chip is making a magical potion. He uses his magic ring to make his potion, until he realizes that it doesn't work. Chip checks the milk carton that he used on the portion, but there is no substitution for the milk of a cow that lives in Calcutta.
Later, Tom ends up being thrown into the basement, and Chip orders him to guard his magic ring while he goes to Calcutta to milk a cow. If Tom does a good job, he'll be rewarded with a big juicy salmon, but if not, ("there will one less kitty to clean up after here") which meant that he shall be kicked out of the house with no return for good. Chip leaves for Calcutta by using his motorcycle, leaving Tom to guard the ring in the basement. Unbeknownst to Tom, an interested Jerry finds the ring, while climbing the table and puts it on his head. Tom spots Jerry, and orders him to give back the ring, but to no avail. Soon, Jerry runs out of the house, and Tom frantically attempts to find and hunt down him.
After losing Tom, Jerry goes through different situations, like trying to pull the ring off his head, but it gets stuck, much to his horror. He attempts to get it removed by going to the jewelry store of a diamond cutter, and meeting a ring loving dog and Droopy in a fortune telling house. However, the store is closed and the owner has left to get some lunch. Tom sneaks into the store and disguises himself as a worker, using his tail for a mustache and attempting to help Jerry get the ring off, but meets with no success. He fails as well and he blows his cover when his mustache--and his tail--fall off, revealing his true identity. Tom chases our mouse throughout the store, and soon, the diamond cutter returns. Tom and Jerry exit the store. Tom destroys the store and ends up getting chased away by the owner.
Jerry runs off into a fortune-teller home, where an Irish dog Butch and Droopy from the Tex Avery cartoons are residing in. After seeing how lovely Jerry's ring looks, and including the fact that Jerry wants it removed, Butch attempts to pull it off, but fails. Tom comes in, and Jerry runs out, with Butch chasing after him as well. Soon, they end up in an alley, where an alley cat (Also known as Butch Cat) happens to be taking a nap. He wakes up and tries to grab Jerry for his dinner. Tom successfully grabs Jerry in time, and by flicking the ring on his head, makes random objects fall on a horrified alley cat. Butch then comes and is able to get the ring off Jerry's head after Jerry bites Tom's hands, which only causes him to be sent flying to the dog. Tom and the alley cat then chase Butch and then wind up spinning and rolled toward Jerry, and unfortunately, the ring gets stuck back on his head. When Tom is running away from Butch and the alley cat, he takes a shortcut to lose sight of them until he accidentally slips on a banana peel, which Jerry's ring then increases the size of; Tom slips on it again and rides on it toward the door of a pet store, leaving Tom unconscious.
A kind old lady comes out and brings the two inside, putting them in two separate cages. However, Tom is paired with Spike and his son Tyke while Jerry is left with two mice named Freddie (better known as Muscles from Jerry's Cousin) and Joey (Muscle dumber partner) who bully a younger mouse, cute and dimwitted ]Nibbles. At first, Jerry proves to be unsuccessful in trying to stop the mouse bullies from hurting Nibbles until he uses the ring to turn them into hunks of cheese. When the cheese mice escape the cage and Nibbles fails to catch up with them since he intends to eat them, Jerry uses the ring to make giant Nibbles grow into a giant mouse capable of breaking free from the cage as he grows and catch up with the cheese mice as they escape the store. An unnamed boy (only known as Junior) comes and buys Jerry as his pet. The boy plays Jerry until the ring produces magic, melting Tom and escaping the cage, he sneaks outside and snatches Jerry from The Boy's hand. The upset boy tells his mother and she tells the police officer, who sends police cars after the cat. Then, the alley cat and Butch, while still looking for Jerry, find Tom and they chase him. Meanwhile, Spike and Tyke get out of the building as well, but right when Tom steps on Tyke. At this point, Spike and Tyke are added in the chase. They run everywhere and Tom and Jerry escape by riding a bus. Suddenly, the bus stops and it reverses, causing Tom and Jerry to panic. The driver is Droopy, and then they are lost until the boy finds Tom and whistles, and the cat and mouse end up cornered in a garbage dump. This leads to about 15 minutes of the movie of a long chase of silliness.
Fortunately, Jerry uses the magic ring to freeze the dogs, alley cat, and police cars. Now that they are saved, Tom and Jerry return home, where Tom once again tries to get the ring off, but every time he fails. Jerry hides in a kitchen cupboard and uses Furniture Ring Remover to get the ring off before throwing the ring in the basement. Tom gets the ring, but panics with fear because he realizes it is stuck firmly on his finger.
Tom hears his master Chip coming and tries to get the ring off, with no prevail. Tom quickly tries to trick Chip into thinking Tom has done a good job protecting his ring, but his plan failed when Chip discovers that his ring is on Tom's finger. Chip, believing that Tom attempted to steal his ring, becomes extremely enraged and angrily kicks him out of the house with his magic fury, where the ring immediately falls off Tom's finger, and as he is pleased to see this, it unfreezes all who chase him to his horror. Nibbles manages to join the chase as he is still chasing the mice who both turned into cheese. Jerry receives the salmon from Chip, which he then turns into a cheese by the ring's power.

Tags: paranormal, comic

Review:
the right feel but something is lacking.
This is the first T&J cartoon since Hanna Barbera days to recapture at all the look and feel of the Kenneth Muse animated originals.Here are rich backgrounds, visual gags coming one after the other and a decent plot to pull it all together.
Too often, later T&Js are reduced to plot less itchy-and-scratchy violence with the cat always coming off worst.
The Hanna Barbera cartoons were never so predictable.But for all that, something is lacking.
The pace in the action sequences is never as breathtaking.
Perhaps stretching T&J to the longer length simply spreads out too thin the ideas.In the end, while watchable, this is equally missable..
Great movie.
I watch Tom and Jerry a lot, including this movie.
I had no idea I would love this movie so much.
To start off, the animation is clean and smooth, like in an ordinary Tom and Jerry cartoon.
The characters are designed well and the voices are fun to listen to.
I thought that the plot of the movie was funny: Tom has to guard a magical ring and Jerry steals it and it gets stuck on his head.
A lot of you might like the old Tom and Jerry better, but I like the new cartoons and movies of the series, too.
I have watched this movie countless times and it never gets old.
You don't have to like the new Tom and Jerry shows, but at least give them some support..
Best Animation/Action for 2002!.
This is a great movie for anyone, with original gags from Tom And Jerry series, but adding more action sequences and adrenaline rush.I saw this on Cartoon Network when it premiered on Cartoon Theatre and was blown away!
Not many animation movies include so many chases and action scenes, alongside enjoyable comedy with one of the two most famous characters in cartoon history!If your'e in need of a enjoyable action cartoon comedy, this is surely the one!
My childhood.
This movie literary changed my life...
It motivated me to learn English (English is my second language).
I wanted to know what the characters were saying, because it was sounded so interesting to me (hearing a foreign language that i didn't understand ).
so much so that it inspired me.
I don't care how good or bad this movie is, i'd still give it a 10.
Besides the point that it made my childhood awesome..
Easy to like.
Tom and Jerry is one of my all time favourite cartoons, and for a movie, after the disappointing Tom and Jerry: The Movie, this was a pretty decent kids movie.
Yes, it is too short, and the story is predictable, but it is compensated by the colourful animation, likable characters, and a remarkably good voice cast, such as Diagnosis Murder's Charlie Sclatter, and voice veteran Jim Cummings.
And Jerry I've always found really cute.
Also, while adults may find it a bit too predictable and repetitive, and that is a big may, children will love it, and as a 17 year old female, I found it easy to like, and pretty funny.
7/10 Bethany Cox. tom and jerry are funny and great i think.
I have seen this show it was a great movie.
I bet it's for the whole family.
Jim Cummings voice of Butch is between the voice of Tiger and Pete from Mickey Mouse.
It looks like that it was from the old school show in Tom and Jerry series.
but except of it where different voices in the series, the movie, and the magic ring.
My favorite part when Jerry laughs and then tom laughs historical then jerry went away.
Well that show in the series was my favorite show and the other cartoon favorites.
I wonder if there was more episodes if it was a new voice?
I knew a episode of the white mouse that it was going to explode but they think its not going to explode but Tom kick the white mouse then it explode.
If your kids love Tom and Jerry watch it because it's the best..
a good movie.
Tom and jerry the Magic Ring is a great movie to see, Toms owner Chip leaves Tom to guard his magic ring while he milks a cow for his potion.Tom however wasn't expecting Jerry to pop out of the wall and get it stuck to his head.
This movie however ISN'T hilarious its quite funny but NOTHING to the show and I'm a huge fan of Tom and jerry,all the old characters are there like Spike and Tyke, Nibbles(who can talk) and cousin Muscles(Freddie is this).
The voices in this movie really SUCK yes S-U-C-K suck.
Tom sounds stupid and so does Jerry Spike however sounds PERFECT its got a lot of colour in it and a lot of effort i think was put into it.
But sadly compared to the Show this isn't great better luck next time Hanna-Barbera or whoever made it 8/10.
Surprisingly Good Tom and Jerry Movie.
*This review contains some spoilers.* I cringed when I heard that a new Tom & Jerry movie had been made and released to video.
The cat and mouse's track record since William Hanna and Joseph Barbera left MGM hasn't been very hot.
Chuck Jones and his animators were okay, but only made a few stand-out shorts;  there were some awful T & J cartoons made in the 1970's; and there was the unpleasant Tom and Jerry Kids.
Oh, and don't forget the disastrous, universally panned `Tom and Jerry: The Movie.' With this uneasy mindset, I sat down to watch `The Magic Ring' with my fangs bared and claws ready to shred.
But to my surprise, `The Magic Ring" was actually good, giving us new things while honoring what fans love about the duo's past.
The plot is so simple it is hard to believe they managed to stretch it to a whopping 62 minutes.
Tom is ordered by his owner, who happens to be a wizard, to guard a ring until he gets back from a trip.
As Tom is standing guard, Jerry gets his hands on the ring and jokingly fits it over his head.
The ring gets stuck and Tom, naturally, chases Jerry to get the ring back.
They wind up taking the chase into the city, where various characters come out of the woodwork and join in, wanting either the ring, Jerry, or Tom. And that is everything.
What's interesting is that, while the gags aren't nearly as good as most of the classic shorts, they aren't at all groan-inducing.
Many are actually quite funny, seeing as how whenever the ring is nudged a magical beam of light will emit and cause a mishap.
Even better is the appearance of a bunch of familiar faces.
Spike & Tyke, Droopy, and Nibbles all show up in the film.
They even threw in a likeness of Jerry's cousin Muscles (here a different character named Freddie).
The best added character is Butch, the Irish-accented dog that vied with Droopy in some great MGM cartoons.
He's voiced by the wonderful Man-of-a-Million-Voices, Jim Cummings, one of the best vocal performers ever.
Just to let you know, `The Magic Ring' isn't all magical.
While its simplicity is majestic, it is also a problem.
Development in the beginning would have been helpful, for instance.
The wizard is interesting.
They deck him in an outfit and give him a voice that are so silly no one would fear him.
It is the perfect touch, except that his face is never visible.
But it never really makes sense why he gave Tom the ring instead of taking it along on his trip.
And I also could have done without seeing a carbon copy of the ending of the1949 Tex Avery classic `Bad Luck Blackie.'  But kids won't care about these things and most older people won't mind them much either.
There is one major gripe I have, though.
The makers of `The Magic Ring' were wise to avoid the huge mistake of `Tom and Jerry: The Movie' when it came to letting our silent duo speak.
However, we do get to hear Tom and Jerry make some sounds.
Tom, voiced by Jeff Bennett, was perfect, usually restricted to cries of pain or laughter, reminiscent of the Chuck Jones era.
Jerry, however, makes far too much noise.
Whenever he sees Tom, he lets out an annoying shout.
Frank Welker is another one of the all-time great voice actors, and I love hearing him in cartoons, but his Jerry cries get old very fast.
The worst comes in the film's only terrible scene, where Jerry is sitting on a curb, looking at various stores to generate ideas on how to get the ring off his head.
Not only are the ideas in this thought balloons unfunny, but he ends the thought by saying `No no no no!' in a very annoying manner each time.
Still, I was impressed that someone managed to pull off a good updating of Tom and Jerry, with the past history being studied to see how not to make Tom and Jerry come to life.
I am glad I watched `The Magic Ring,' and I welcome more from this production team.
Just as long as Tom and Jerry don't start talking again.
Score: 8 out of 10.