Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

***Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring*** is a 2001/2002 comedy-fantasy animated direct-to-video movie that stars Tom and Jerry. It is the first direct-to-video and the second animated movie of _Tom and Jerry_ animated movie to only be released only on video and never in a movie theater. Also, it was the final cartoon and the last _Tom and Jerry_ cartoon to be co-executive produced by both, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, as Hanna died on March 22, 2001, a few days before the movie's release.

## Plot

Tom and Jerry live in a gloomy mansion with a wizard named Chip. While Tom, as usual, chases Jerry, in the basement Chip is preparing a magic potion using his enchanted ring. However, he needs the milk of a Calcutta cow: replacing it with normal milk from the supermarket causes the potion to evaporate. Later, Tom ends up in the cellar. Chip orders him to guard his magic ring while he goes to Calcutta to milk a cow. If Tom does a good job, Chip will reward him with a large succulent salmon fish, but if not, he will throw him out of the house for good. Chip then sets off for Calcutta on his flying motorcycle.

Tom starts guarding the ring. Without noticing, Jerry climbs up on the table and puts the ring on his head as if it was a crown. Tom sees him and orders him to give it back, but Jerry runs out of the house and the cat chases him. After losing Tom, Jerry tries in vain to extract the ring from his head. He decides to have it removed by a jeweler, who is going to lunch. Tom, using a disguise, sneaks into the shop as the jeweler leaves. As Tom tries in vain to extract the ring, a spell causes the disguise to fall off. Unmasked, Tom chases Jerry throughout the shop. However, the two must leave when the jeweler returns.

Jerry runs away to the house of the fortune telling Droopy, whose secretary is an Irish dog named Butch. Fascinated by Jerry's ring, Butch tries to take it away from him, but another spell locks him in Droopy's crystal ball. Jerry, chased by Tom, ends up in an alley where he comes across a feral stray American Curl cat who wants to eat him. Tom saves Jerry, and uses the ring on his head to make various kinds of objects fall on the cat. However, Butch soon arrives, and together with the stray American Curl, begins to chase Tom.

After losing his pursuers, Tom slips on a banana peel enlarged by the ring and ends up against the door of a pet shop. The owner Margaret takes them inside. Jerry ends up in a cage with three other creatures; the little Nibbles and the two marauders Freddie and Joey, while Tom is put in a cage with the villainous Spike and Tyke, who attack him. The thuggish mice torment both Nibbles and Jerry, so Jerry uses the ring to turn Freddie and Joey into cheese and enlarge Nibbles, who breaks out of the cage and chases the two ex-villains out of the shop.

A little boy named Danny enters the store and asks his mother Lewis to buy him Jerry. Danny plays with him until the ring allows Tom to escape from his cage, then snatches Jerry from the child's hand. Danny tells Lewis. She asks for help from a policeman who sends three patrol cars after Tom, who also has to escape from Butch and the stray curl cat from earlier.

In the meantime, Spike and Tyke also leave the store; the latter is trampled by Tom, so the two bad guys also join the chase, along with two other cats who happened to be on the path; a Scottish Fold and a Munchkin. After a daring chase, Tom ends up in a dead end, so Jerry uses the ring to block the enemies.

Back home, Tom wants to use a blowtorch to remove the ring, so Jerry runs away and finds a ring-removing liquid, thanks to which he can finally free himself. Tom discovers him and asks for the ring, but Jerry throws him into a pipe that leads to the basement. Tom tries to take it, but the ring gets stuck on his finger, and that's when an unstoppable disaster strikes.

When Chip arrives, he finds Tom with the ring on his finger and, believing that he tried to steal it, kicks him out of the house. The ring comes off his finger and falls to the ground, producing a spell that teleports all the pursuers from before along with Nibbles, Freddie and Joey, forcing Tom to flee all of these villains.

Chip then gives Jerry the salmon, but the mouse turns it into a piece of cheese.

## Voice cast

- Jeff Bennett as Tom Cat (a house cat), Droopy Dog and Joey
- Frank Welker as Jerry Mouse (a house mouse) and Tyke
- Charlie Schlatter as Chip, a wizard which is kind to Tom until the end, where he becomes the final antagonist and kicks Tom out after believing Tom stole the ring.
- Jim Cummings as Butch, an Irish Bull Terrier.
- Maile Flanagan as Danny (credited as an unnamed Boy in many sources and in the credits)
- Jess Harnell as Police Officer
- Maurice LaMarche as Spike Bulldog and Butch Cat (credited as an Alleycat)
- Tress MacNeille as Margaret and Lewis (credited as an unnamed Mom in many sources and in the credits)
- Tara Strong as Nibbles Mouse
- Billy West as Freddie