Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz is a 2011 American animated direct-to-video musical fantasy comedy film starring the cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Turner Entertainment Co., the film is an animated adaptation of the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz (which in turn is based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum), with the addition of Tom and Jerry as characters and told through their point of view.
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 23, 2011 by Warner Home Video, and received mostly positive reviews from audiences, who praised the animation quality, vocal performances, and faithfulness to the source material. A sequel, titled Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz, was released in 2016 and A third, titled Tom and Jerry: Ozma in Oz.
== Plot: ==
Dorothy Gale is a girl living in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry as well as farmhands Hunk, Hickory, and Zeke. She owns a dog named Toto, a cat named Tom and a mouse named Jerry. Aunt Em asks Tom and Jerry to put their differences aside, and watch over Dorothy; the two reluctantly agree. Later, Miss Almira Gulch, who was bitten by Toto earlier, arrives at the Gale farm and takes him away to be put down. Witnessing this, Tom and Jerry give chase and successfully free Toto. Dorothy runs away from home with Toto shortly afterwards. As Tom and Jerry return home, a tornado strikes the area and the two seek refuge in their house after failing to join Aunt Em, Uncle Henry and the farmhands in the storm cellar. Tom and Jerry are knocked out while trying to get inside the house.
Once they wake up, they find themselves in Munchkinland. The two encounter a grey Munchkin mouse named Tuffy, who tries to keep Jerry safe from harm, assuming Tom wanted to eat him, but Jerry clears up the misunderstanding. Tuffy informs them that the house they arrived in a few hours ago landed on and crushed the Wicked Witch of the East. As gratitude, the Good Witch of the North, Glinda, gave the witch's ruby slippers to Dorothy, but the Wicked Witch of the West appeared and swore to claim the slippers for herself. Glinda sent down Dorothy the yellow brick road to reach the Emerald City and find the famed Wizard of Oz in order to get back home. Tuffy advises them not to follow, but Tom and Jerry keep their promise to protect her and insist on following her. Tuffy wishes to be taller, so he decides to accompany them as he wants to see the Wizard as well.
Tom, Jerry and Tuffy soon reunite with Dorothy and Toto, meeting the Scarecrow who has no brain, the Tin Man who has no heart and the Cowardly Lion who has no courage. They make it to the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, who decides to grant their wishes on the condition they kill the Witch and bring back her broomstick. While walking through the haunted forest to get to the Witch's castle, Dorothy, Tom, Jerry and Toto are captured by the Witch's flying monkeys, but are pursued by the others. Jerry bites a flying monkey, setting himself free, but he and Tom are discarded by the monkeys. At the Witch's castle, the Witch puts Toto in a basket and threatens to drown him in a river if Dorothy refuses to give her the slippers. Although she complies, the Witch is shocked when she tries to take them off. When she remembers that the slippers won't come off as long as Dorothy is alive, the Witch places an hourglass, stating that Dorothy has only hours to live. Jerry manages to free Toto, who escapes from the castle to get help.
Jerry is seen by the Witch and thrown through a window with Tom. They encounter two of the Witch's guards, Droopy and Butch, who accidentally mention the Witch's weakness is water. A chase ensues until Tom and Jerry manage to knock Droopy and Butch out, and they reunite with Tuffy, the Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Lion, disguised as guards and led by Toto. While Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion rescue Dorothy, Tom, Jerry and Tuffy try to fill a bucket with water from a well and later from the moat, but their attempts to get it back inside the castle are unsuccessful. Eventually, they manage to get hold of a rain cloud and use it to fill the bucket. The Witch and the guards corner Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion and the Witch sets the Scarecrow on fire. Dorothy, with Tom and Jerry's help, puts out the fire with the water, destroying the Witch, who melts when Dorothy accidentally splashes her.
The soldiers celebrate the Witch's death and allow Dorothy to take the broom. They return to the Emerald City and present the broom to the Wizard, but he still refuses to grant their wishes until tomorrow. Although the Wizard turns out to be an ordinary man behind an illusion, he nevertheless promises to grant their wishes. Scarecrow gets a diploma, Tin Man gets a testimonial, Lion gets a medal, and Tuffy gets stilts. The quartet is left in charge of the Emerald City as the Wizard takes Dorothy, Tom, Jerry, and Toto back to Kansas in his hot air balloon. As the balloon is about to take off, Tom spots a chick and jumps out of the balloon to eat it, prompting Jerry and Toto to stop him. Dorothy runs after them and they are unable to get back to the balloon before it takes off with the Wizard. Glinda then appears and tells her another way to get back home, by tapping her heels together and repeating the phrase "There's no place like home". Dorothy, Tom, Jerry, and Toto bid farewell to their friends.
They all awaken in Dorothy's bedroom back in Kansas, surrounded by family and friends (Tuffy's revealed to be a farmhand, Droopy's revealed to be the local haberdasher, and Butch's revealed to be someone's pet dog). Dorothy tells them of her adventures, but they insist it was all a dream, though Tom, Jerry and Toto are the only ones who believe her. As Dorothy promises never to run away again, Tom and Jerry resume their old antics and give a chase outside the house
== Voice cast: ==
* Spike Brandt (uncredited) as Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse
* Grey DeLisle as Dorothy Gale (Nikki Yanofsky provides Dorothy's singing voice)
* Joe Alaskey as Professor Marvel / The Wizard (the former having only a cameo at the end of the film), Butch, Droopy
* Michael Gough as Hunk / The Scarecrow
* Rob Paulsen as Hickory / The Tin Man
* Todd Stashwick as Zeke / The Cowardly Lion
* Frances Conroy as Aunt Em, Glinda
* Laraine Newman as Miss Almira Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West
* Stephen Root as Uncle Henry, Crows
* Kath Soucie as Tuffy the Munchkin Mouse / Tuffy the Country Mouse
== Follow-up film: ==
Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse was released on September 28, 2012.
== Sequel: ==
A sequel, titled Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz, was released on June 21, 2016 and A third, titled Tom and Jerry: Ozma in Oz.
== Trivia: ==
* Rated G (General Audience Suggested): Contains mild threat.
* Suggested Running Times: 59 Minutes (NTSC), 57 Minutes (PAL).
* While Dorothy and the others are in the Haunted Forest adjacent to the scene where the deleted "Jitterbug" musical number would occur, the Tin Man holds a giant wrench as Tuffy holds a lead pipe in a parody of Milton Bradley's board game Clue.
* The Kansas scenes, shown in sepia tone in the original film, are shown here in color. There is, however, an alternate version of the film with the Kansas scenes in sepia tone.
* This is the second Tom and Jerry film to have a female main antagonist. The first being Tom and Jerry: The Movie with Aunt Figg as one of the main antagonists.
* This is the first Tom and Jerry film where Tin, Pan and Alley don't appear.
* This is the first Tom and Jerry film since Tom and Jerry: The Movie to play a song in the credits.
* This is the first Tom and Jerry film to be a crossover with another franchise. The second being Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest, a crossover with Jonny Quest and the third being Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a crossover with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
* Following from this film, Tom's fur color has changed from grey to a more lighter bluish color, which will continue to be seen in the rest of the Tom and Jerry direct-to-video films in the 2010s decade
== External links: ==
* Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz at IMDb
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