Mancini 's musical score on Tom and Jerry : The Movie was celebrated .
The film was a box office bomb , earning only $ 3.6 million worldwide against a budget of $ 3.5 million , and received predominantly negative reviews from fans and film critics for the film 's use of dialogue for the main characters ( although they rarely talked in most of the classic shorts ) , musical numbers , sub-par voice acting , dark content , lack of more focus on the title characters and slapstick and similarities to some Disney elements and villains from The Little Mermaid ( 1989 ) and The Rescuers ( 1977 ) , although the animation and Mancini´s musical score were generally praised.
Tom and Jerry-COLON- The Movie