Tom & Jerry | |
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Directed by | Tim Story |
Written by | Kevin Costello |
Based on | Tom and Jerry by William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Produced by | Chris DeFaria |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Alan Stewart |
Edited by | Peter S. Elliot |
Music by | Christopher Lennertz |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
Country | United States[2] |
Language | English |
Budget | $50–79 million[3][4] |
Box office | $136.5 million[3][5] |
Tom & Jerry (marketed as Tom & Jerry: The Movie)[6] is a 2021 American live-action/animated slapstick comedy film based on the cartoon characters of the same name created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Warner Animation Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the second theatrical film based on the characters, following Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992), and the third to combine live-action and animation, following Anchors Aweigh (1945) and Dangerous When Wet (1953). Set in a world co-populated by humans and cartoon animals, the film follows Tom enlisted to catch Jerry, whose presence threatens New York City's fanciest hotel and its planned high-profile Indian-themed wedding.
The film is directed by Tim Story and written by Kevin Costello.[7] It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, Pallavi Sharda, Jordan Bolger, Patsy Ferran, and Ken Jeong in live-action roles, with Nicky Jam, Bobby Cannavale, and Lil Rel Howery in voice roles. The titular characters are voiced by William Hanna via archival recordings, with additional vocals from Kaiji Tang and André Sogliuzzo (though the characters are listed as themselves in the credits). Starting with a live-action film in 2009, to an animated film in 2015, and to a hybrid film combining live-action and animation in 2018 (with filming beginning in 2019),[8] the film languished in development hell as the studio spent years finding a writer to pen the most faithful take on the franchise and characters for a feature film.[9][10] It also draws inspiration from silent cinema, such as Charlie Chaplin films, as reference for the filmmakers to explore a lot of the humor and storytelling associated with silent characters.[10][11] Other cited influences for the film's story also include Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Dunston Checks In.[12]
Warner Bros. executives wanted the film to “be what Tom and Jerry is”,[13] as the studio “understands how much of its history is rooted in these iconic characters”.[14] Many elements from the original cartoons were featured in the film, such as their sound effects, Tom being a jazz pianist, Tom's Rube Goldberg mouse trap, Jerry's heartbeat, Jerry's theft of food and items, and some of William Hanna's voice tracks for the titular duo. Examples of many classic Tom and Jerry cartoons the movie draws inspiration from include Mouse Trouble (1944), Mouse in Manhattan (1945), and The Cat Concerto (1947).[15]
Tom & Jerry was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on February 26, 2021, alongside a one-month streaming release on HBO Max. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the screenplay for its human cast and lack of ambition, while some praised its blend of animation and live-action, performances, score, entertainment value, nostalgic tone, and faithfulness to the source material. It had grossed $136.5 million worldwide, on a $50‒79 million production budget.
Plot
Tom Cat, who dreams of being a jazz pianist, moves to Manhattan and buskes in Central Park, while Jerry Mouse is in search of a new home. After Tom's piano is destroyed in an altercation, he chases Jerry, but accidentally tackles a young woman named Kayla Judith Forester, causing her to lose her job. Down on her luck, Kayla wants to prove her talents and looks for a position at New York's fanciest hotel, the Royal Gate, where Jerry moves in and Tom fails to break in. Kayla, with a stolen resume, is hired to help plan a high-profile wedding and gets a tour of the hotel, while Jerry's usual antics involve stealing food and items to ramp up his new home, and Tom plans more strategies to enter the hotel and capture Jerry.
Local celebrities Preeta Mehta and her fiancé Ben are greeted, as they arrive, along with their pets Spike and Toots. All, except for Spike, are unaware of Jerry stealing from Preeta's handbag. As the couple and their pets are escorted to their room, Jerry's presence is revealed, which puts the wedding and the hotel at risk. Kayla offers to catch Jerry, but fails and realizes that he'll be hard to catch. After many failed attempts, Tom successfully enters the hotel, and his ensuing chase after Jerry wrecks a hotel room. Due to noise complaints, Kayla comes to check, but she befriends Tom, due to their shared goal of catching Jerry. Owner Mr. Dubros hires Tom to exterminate Jerry, while Tom and Kayla's boss Terence threatens to fire them if Tom can't catch Jerry.
After many failed attempts, Tom designs an elaborate mouse trap that gets Jerry out of the hotel. Meanwhile, Kayla helps with the wedding plans and learns that Preeta's engagement ring is missing. Jerry returns, to clash with Tom on the piano, and reveals to Kayla that he had Preeta's ring and agrees to give it back to her if she lets him live in the hotel. Before Kayla can agree, Terence returns from walking Spike and notices Tom looking for Jerry hiding in Kayla's coat pocket, creating a scene that causes Spike, Tom, and Jerry's chase to destroy the hotel's lobby. Terence is suspended, while Kayla is promoted to event manager, for returning Preeta's ring. Kayla tells Tom and Jerry that they will have to get along and spend the next day bonding if they want to stay in the hotel, to which they reluctantly agree.
While Kayla takes care of the hotel and manages the wedding with the crew, Tom and Jerry explore the city, but are imprisoned at a pound, after inadvertently committing fan interference on a New York Yankees baseball game. A vengeful Terence separately visits Tom and Jerry and feeds them lies about what they said about each other behind their back, inciting them to a battle at the ceremony that throws the wedding into carnage and destroys the rest of the hotel. After Kayla comes clean and leaves in humiliation, Terence evicts Tom, and Preeta renounces the wedding. A sorrowful Tom and Jerry put their differences aside, and convince Kayla and the hotel crew, including a skeptical Terence, to salvage the wedding. The pair lure Preeta and Toots to Central Park, where the wedding is held.
Kayla promises to Preeta that Tom and Jerry have atoned for their behavior, and Ben apologizes to Preeta for his extensive expenses, in light of impressing her dad. Kayla and the stolen resume's owner reconcile with each other and get jobs at the hotel, while Tom becomes a jazz pianist and plays the piano for Toots, with Jerry joining the party until a mishap causes them to fight again. In the post-credit scene, Ben receives a bill for both weddings.
Cast
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Kayla Judith Forester, a young inexperienced wedding planner of the Royal Gate Hotel who enlists Tom to catch Jerry
- Like the humans in the cartoons, she enlists Tom's help to get rid of Jerry and promises to reward Tom (here being the hotel's piano), if he succeeds in catching Jerry.
- Michael Peña as Terence Mendoza, a mean deputy general manager of the Royal Gate Hotel, and the boss of Tom and Kayla
- Like the humans in the cartoons, he threatens to evict Tom, if he ends up causing destruction and fails to catch Jerry.
- Colin Jost as Ben, the groom of the Royal Gate Hotel's planned wedding and Spike's owner
- Pet Peeve was also the first cartoon to showcase Spike having an owner.
- Rob Delaney as Mr. Henry Dubros, a wealthy, friendly general manager and owner of the Royal Gate Hotel
- Pallavi Sharda as Preeta Mehta, the bride of the Royal Gate Hotel's planned wedding, and Toots' owner
- Puss n' Toots also revealed that Toots has an owner.
- Jordan Bolger as Cameron, a bartender at the Royal Gate Hotel
- Patsy Ferran as Joy the Bell Girl, a socially awkward Royal Gate Hotel bellhop
- Ken Jeong as Chef Jackie, a chef and baker of the Royal Gate Hotel who hates mice
- Paolo Bonolis as Wedding guest
- Ozuna as Assistant hotel staff
Voice and animated cast
- Tom as Himself, an adult, persistent and accident-prone blue/gray bicolor cat who is enlisted by Kayla to get Jerry out of the Royal Gate Hotel
- He does not have a speaking role, but T-Pain voices his natural singing that mimics Ray Charles,[16] with archived vocals from the late William Hanna,[10] and additional vocals by Kaiji Tang.[17][18]
- Jerry as Himself, a young, cheeky and clever brown house mouse who moves in at the Royal Gate Hotel
- He does not have a speaking role, but his vocals are archived from the late William Hanna, with additional vocals by André Sogliuzzo.[19]
- Bobby Cannavale as Spike, Ben's muscular, brutish, yet goofy gray American bulldog who is the stereotypical dumb brute that clashes with Tom
- Nicky Jam as Butch, a disgruntled black cat who leads an alley cat gang and teases Tom
- The Plastic Cup Boyz as the Alley Cats, an alley cat gang led by Butch that claim to live on the Royal Gate Hotel's alley:
- Lil Rel Howery as Angel/Devil Tom, Tom's shoulder angel and shoulder devil
- Utkarsh Ambudkar as Real Estate Rat, a rat who works as a real estate agent
- Tim Story as Pigeon Announcer, a singing pigeon
- Jeff Bergman as Droopy (uncredited cameo)
- Droopy also makes another cameo appearance, via a billboard in the background, during the film's opening sequence.[20]
Other Tom and Jerry characters who appear in non-speaking roles include Toots, Preeta's shy fluffy beige cat and love interest for Tom, Goldie, the Royal Gate Hotel's goldfish, and Clyde, a large cat in Butch's gang.
Production
Development and Writing
On January 22, 2009, Warner Bros. Pictures announced plans for a new Tom and Jerry theatrical movie, as a live-action/CGI hybrid film produced by Dan Lin with a script written by Eric Gravning,[21] following the success of Alvin and the Chipmunks.[22] It would've followed Tom and Jerry's origins over a Chicago backdrop, where they reluctantly work together to get back home.[23]
On April 6, 2015, plans shifted to a CGI-animated film, with a script written by Bryan Schulz and Cornelius Uliano, who co-wrote The Peanuts Movie with Craig Schulz.[24][25] It was about a young family who moves into a New England country house inhabited by Jerry and adopts Tom to get rid of him, until they team up to protect the family and their house from an outside threat, and learn the meaning of family and friendship.[26][27] Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up! recycled parts of the script.
On October 15, 2018, Tim Story was hired to direct a Tom and Jerry film combining "classic animation and live-action",[28][29] inspired by Who Framed Roger Rabbit's technique,[30][31] which would begin filming in 2019, with a script written by Kevin Costello that was pitched in 2017 and purely influenced from the original cartoons.[32][33] When in discussions with Warner Bros. executives about what he was interested in directing next, Story "immediately mentioned his admiration for the characters and how he'd love tackling that property", after they mentioned the project as an option.[34] Claiming that it was his dream project to direct a Tom and Jerry film.[35] While Costello's idea was to place the cat and mouse in a fancy New York hotel set to plan an Indian wedding,[36][37] as "a much bigger canvas" for the duo and their antics than their usual average-sized house backdrop.[29] The fancy hotel backdrop and the setting in New York City, where some of the classic cartoons were set, also gave the creative team more opportunities to expand Tom and Jerry's world and shenanigans.[38] That, and the opportunities for the animators to animate more animals in the classic Tom and Jerry style and animation, were also why the Indian wedding was in the script.[39] Director Tim Story, producer Chris DeFaria, and writer Kevin Costello all agreed to use the old shorts, even pictures of them taped in the production office, as reference material for the film, which the studio gave them access to.[40][41][37] In addition to the original Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the film also pays tribute to silent cinema.[11] During production, Story also ran through the classic shorts from memory,[42][43] went back to read about the franchise's history,[44] and even re-watched some Charlie Chaplin, for more inspiration in the film's humor and storytelling with silent characters.[10] Story was against the idea of making Tom and Jerry fluently talk, because they only sparingly spoke in the original cartoons and that their charm comes from their non-verbal activities and interactions.[11] He also hoped the film will appeal to longtime fans and a new generation of audiences,[37] and quotes "Fingers crossed, if they [William Hanna and Joseph Barbera] are looking from above, they’ll be proud of what we made.”[45] Warner Bros. also played a part in supervising the film, ensuring it stays as true to the source material's original roots as possible,[13] which includes ensuring it doesn't tone down the cartoon violence.[29]
Working on Tom and Jerry was a hugely exciting and intimidating experience. There’s a reason these characters are still so popular, 81 years later, all over the world, and I wanted to be extremely careful to honor that. Tom and Jerry had to be themselves, look like themselves, not talk like themselves, and obviously, engage in absurd, gleeful, over-the-top cartoon violence. I had so much fun going through the old shorts, trying to break everything down on a character level, and finding ways to recontextualize classic elements in a way that felt nostalgic but new.
— Kevin Costello
Casting
In March 2019, it was reported that Zoey Deutch and Olivia Cooke were frontrunners for the lead live-action role of Kayla, "who teams up with Tom to stop the pesky Jerry from ruining an important event for herself." Additionally, Sofia Carson, Elle Fanning, Jennifer Lawrence, Ariel Winter, Naomi Scott, Meg Donnelly, Hailee Steinfeld, Yara Shahidi, Kelly Marie Tran, Becky G and Isabela Moner were all in consideration for the role.[46] In April, Chloë Grace Moretz was in final negotiations to star in the film.[47][48] Moretz described Kayla as "a lot like Jerry" and as "a girl who gunned for what she wanted to achieve but realizes that time and honesty is what will prevail in the end", as well as "a total goofball", the latter aspect which allowed Moretz to "lean into who [she is] in real life".[49] She also said Kayla is "a little unlikeable with some of the decisions she makes", yet she still wanted the character to feel likeable.[11] Moretz was inspired in her performance by Bob Hoskins' performance as Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as well as by actresses Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Aniston, Lucille Ball, and Meg Ryan.[11] Moretz, an avid fan of the source material, says the film "really does harken back to the Tom and Jerry we love.".[50] When she was first given the script, she was openly anxious about the film and worried that a more modern take on the characters wouldn't work. She ended up being proud of the film's faithfulness to the material and characters, and felt it's a great way to introduce them to a new generation of audiences.[51]
Later that month, in March 2019, it was reported that Peter Dinklage was considered for the role of Terrance, Kayla's boss and the human antagonist of the film.[52] In May 2019, Michael Peña joined the cast in the role Dinklage was eyed for.[53] Colin Jost, Ken Jeong, Rob Delaney, Jordan Bolger and Pallavi Sharda were added to the cast in July.[54][55] Patsy Ferran was revealed to be part of the cast in September 2019.[56] Besides Moretz, Peña, Jost, Jeong, Delaney, Bolger, Sharda and Ferran have also all grown up with Tom and Jerry, and were thrilled to take their roles.[40][57][58][59] According to director Tim Story, "Everybody knew exactly what this movie is about. Everybody knew those characters. Everybody was starting with a shared knowledge of these characters and kind of got what the movie should be.".[37]
In November 2020, Nicky Jam and Lil Rel Howery revealed that they have been cast in the film in voice roles.[60][61] On December 2, 2020, Jam revealed that he will be the voice of Butch Cat in the film.[62]
Filming and production design
Principal photography began in July 2019 at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in Hertfordshire, England.[63] The film was shot by cinematographer Alan Stewart, on the Sony VENICE cinema cameras and Panavision Primo 70 and Primo Artiste Lenses.[64] Animators were present during filming, allowing cast members to improvise, while figures of the animated characters were designed to match their exact size and were handled by puppeteers, to help make the animation and live-action integration more seamless.[65][11] Filming ended in September 2019,[66] before the industry's temporary shutdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[67]
Production designer James Hambidge decided to go for a color palette that would avoid causing the animated characters' colors to clash with it. Also willing to pay homage to the original Tom and Jerry cartoons' world and set pieces, Hambidge, director Tim Story, and cinematographer Alan Stewart, all aimed for the film to keep a "bright, poppy and upbeat" look and feel, akin to the classic shorts, thus avoided to make the film look and feel "dark".[68][69] Stewart also acknowledges Who Framed Roger Rabbit as a reference for the film's seamless live-action interaction with animated characters, alongside the 1945 short “Mouse in Manhattan” as inspiration for its cinematography, via its breathtaking sense of Manhattan and regarding how it was more realistically-shot than the usual Tom and Jerry cartoon (which Story knows were usually shot in a rather flat and profile way),[70] when shooting the film.
As we were talking before about design, there's a homage to the older world that we wanted to bring. There's a famous short where Jerry goes to Manhattan – I think it's called "Mouse in Manhattan" — and he goes to Manhattan, and he sees New York for the first time and the skyscrapers. We wanted to be sure that we were able to kind of recreate the sense of that.
— Tim Story, in an interview to Below the Line [13]
Visual effects and animation
Both visual effects and animation services were provided by Framestore, who took inspiration from the original cartoons' world and animation, and films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Mary Poppins, for the movie's blend of classic animation and live-action.[13][30][31][71] They hired 3D animators with a past experience in 2D animation to animate the animals, to replicate 2D.[72][73] The animators created 3D models and classic 2D animation techniques for them, like their weight, rendering, shading, outlines, line of action, inbetweening, and squash and stretch, to maintain and recreate the original 1940s-1950s Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts' 2D-animated character designs, art style, movements, and expressions.[74][75] The animators also used the shorts, including many pictures of them taped all around the production office, as reference for the animation, ensuring they completely stay true to the original cartoons' art direction and character animation, as well as the original cartoons' animated comedic timing.[76][77][40] Animation work was done remotely during the pandemic, with the filmmakers doing creative exploration on certain shots, and finalizing material through production groups.[78][67] Numerous animators from films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam have also been involved with its animation, and have even been close friends with William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.[40] Experimenting something new with CGI to create a classic 2D effect, director Tim Story passionately coined the term "2D+ animation".[79] Story also refused to adapt the characters into 3D/CGI animation, realistic or stylized, as he feels that recreating their classic 2D art direction and character animation respects the characters' beloved cartoon state, and that "people would have a real nostalgia experience with the film".[13][80][81] Having computer animation mimic another form of animation isn't unusual for the Warner Animation Group team, as their past attempt with The Lego Movie involved imitating stop motion. Additional animation work was also done to some of the backgrounds, like shading the vibrant sky with 2D animation and saturating the colors.[82] Animation director Michael Eames also emphasized that Story "favored Tom and Jerry as they appear in the Hanna-Barbera shorts of the ’40s and ’50s", and worked hard to research and incorporate the classic 2D art style and animation from these shorts into the film's art style and overall animation for the characters.[83]
One of the first questions was what were they expecting them to look like? I was a big fan of those cartoons, and there’s been other films in success that have also tried a different approach in terms of look, 3D, sometimes making them basically real inside the world and still just a cartoon look to them. But I was really interested in making sure that these characters look like the original material. By doing that, I think people would have a real nostalgia experience with the film, so that was important.
— Tim Story, in an interview to Below the Line [13]
Music and sound design
On July 22, 2020, it was announced that Tim Story's recurring collaborator and music composer Christopher Lennertz will compose the film's score.[84] The album was released by WaterTower Music on February 12, having 30 tracks.[85] The soundtrack also includes some songs by various artists, including Allen "BizKit" Arthur in his jazz saxophonist roots.[86] For the film's music, Story and Lennertz revisited the original cartoons' orchestral music (and their usual use of jazz music) as reference and inspiration, but also added more genres (such as Indian music and some "hip-hop" which was largely jazz-based) into the mix, to be inclusive to more cultures in every generation possible.[37] An exclusive Tom and Jerry theme tune also played in the movie's end credits,[87] while a short version of it is also available on the soundtrack.[88] More music inspiration from the original cartoons even involves the film's portrayal of Tom as a jazz pianist, such as Tom playing jazz pianist Eric Reed's piece "Soft Shoe", when busking in Central Park.[11]
For the film's sound design, Story was able to get the rights to archive many sound effects from the MGM Cartoon library, such as William Hanna's high-pitched screams for Tom, Jerry's musical laughs, and the impacts of the characters being hit, which were edited by Peter S. Elliot (another recurring collaborator of Tim Story) to sound beefier.[10] Wanting to stay as faithful to the original Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts as possible, Story promised that "audiences will hear the sound effects they’re used to, as Tom and Jerry chase after each other and destroy everything in their path."[29]
Release
Theatrical and streaming
Tom & Jerry was released in the United States on February 26, 2021, by Warner Bros. Pictures, in theaters and for a month streaming on HBO Max. The movie coincidentally released on Tex Avery's birthdate; the movie has cameos of one of Avery's characters, Droopy, in an animal shelter and on a Joker parody billboard.[89][90][91] It is the first film to officially debut the new Warner Animation Group logo to match with the new shield that Warner Bros. debuted in November 2019.[92] It was originally scheduled to be released on April 16, 2021,[93] but was pushed up to December 23, 2020.[94] The film was then pushed back to March 5, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before moving up a week in order to avoid competition with Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon.[95] Samba TV estimated that 1.2 million U.S. households streamed the film over its opening weekend on HBO Max.[96] By the end of its first month, the film was watched in over 2.6 million U.S. households.[97]
On March 8, 2021, some HBO Max viewers who attempted to watch the film were accidentally shown Zack Snyder's Justice League, a movie which was supposed to release 10 days later. HBO Max quickly fixed the issue within two hours.[98]
Marketing
A float of the characters appeared in the 94th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to promote the film.[99]
On September 1, 2020, it was announced that Australian toy company Moose Toys made a deal with Warner Bros. to make merchandise for the film.[100]
On February 20, 2021, Warner Bros. released two new shorts onto HBO Max titled Tom and Jerry Special Shorts to honor the 81st anniversary of Tom and Jerry, as well as to promote the film. These shorts share the same animation style and come from the same crew of HBO Max's new Looney Tunes Cartoons, also produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[101][102][103] The shorts were removed a month later for unknown reasons, but were brought back on July 8, 2021.[104] The film's writer, Kevin Costello, has also seen the shorts and acclaimed them.[105]
On March 6, 2021, Rob Delaney had been the star guest Announcer for Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, whereas the titular characters made an appearance themselves with Sir Tom Jones.[106][107]
Home media
The film was available for rent on April 16, while Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released it on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital on May 18, 2021.[3][108][109]
Reception
Box office
Tom & Jerry grossed $46.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $90 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $136.5 million.[3][5]
In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $4 million from 2,479 theaters on its first day of release. It went on to debut to $14.1 million, the second-best opening weekend of the pandemic behind Warner Bros.'s December release Wonder Woman 1984 ($16.7 million). The opening weekend audiences were 51% female and 46% under the age of 17, while 35% was Hispanic, 33% Caucasian, 21% African American, and 11% Asian.[4] David Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research, said of the figure: "With half of theaters still closed, the pandemic still a threat, and Tom & Jerry available at home, this is a very good opening."[110] In its second weekend the film grossed $6.6 million and in its third made $4 million, finishing second behind newcomer Raya and the Last Dragon both times.[111][112]
The film was initially released in seven international markets, grossing $1.45 million; Singapore led with $457,000.[113] By its second weekend of international release the film was playing in 16 markets, including debuting at number one in Brazil ($746,000) and Mexico ($395,000).[114]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 30% based on 130 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "It isn't the worst of the long-squabbling duo's feature-length adventures, but Tom & Jerry is disappointingly short on the anarchic spirit of their classic shorts."[115] On Metacritic, the film a has weighted average score of 32 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[116] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported 79% of audience members gave it a positive score, with 60% saying they would definitely recommend it.[4]
Early reviews for the film reportedly noted its nostalgic appeal for adult audiences, but criticized the script for its human cast and lack of ambition. The hybrid live-action/animation style got mixed reactions.[117] The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore said that audiences should just "rewatch Roger Rabbit instead" and wrote: "Tim Story's Tom & Jerry is five to ten minutes of action that might have worked in one of the cartoon duo's shorts, surrounded by an inordinate amount of unimaginative, unfunny human-based conflict."[118] Kevin Maher of The Times gave the film a score of 1 out of 5 stars, writing: "nothing will prepare you for the tone-deaf nature of this live-action abomination that inserts our cartoon protagonists, Who Framed Roger Rabbit-style, into a crass Manhattan misadventure about a celebrity wedding gone awry."[119] Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent gave the film a score of 1 out of 5 stars, describing it as "the cinematic equivalent of a sausage casing stuffed with mystery meat", though she praised Moretz's performance.[120] Benjamin Lee of The Guardian gave the film a score of 2 out of 5 stars, writing: "While there's little to truly loathe in Fantastic Four and Ride Along director Tim Story's frantic new take on Tom & Jerry, there's also an equal lack of anything to truly love; this is a serviceable, if entirely forgettable attempt to relaunch an old property for a new audience."[121]
Some critics, however, were generally positive on the film. Matt Fowler of IGN gave the film a score of 6/10, and wrote: "Tom & Jerry is a sufficient family offering with a cool cast, a sparkling soundtrack, and occasional fun. It's too bad that Tom and Jerry often feel like afterthoughts in their own film and that there wasn't much more for them to do other than serve the story of others."[122] Charlotte O'Sullivan of the Evening Standard gave the film a score of 3 out of 5 stars, and wrote: "Ignore catty reviews that present this caper as soulless. Though horribly flawed, its internal organs are in the right place."[123] Brooke Price at The Banner, who also mentions the film's production as a reference, praised the film and found it entertaining, nostalgic, beautifully-animated and blended with live-action, and faithful to the source material.[124] Peter Debruge of Variety was also positive on the film and said: "Truth be told, the movie's a pretty faithful extension of the frenemies' long-running feud — basically, the two cannot peacefully coexist under the same roof — and as such, we should be grateful to director Tim Story (Shaft) and screenwriter Kevin Costello (Brigsby Bear) for not dropping a two-ton anvil on our nostalgia, the way so many big-studio toonsploitation projects have in recent years."[91]
Accolades
Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
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2021 |
Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Time Waster Remake or Sequel Award | Tom and Jerry | Nominated | [125] |
She Deserves a New Agent Award | Chloe Grace Moretz | Nominated | |||
People's Choice Awards | Favorite Family Movie | Tom and Jerry | Nominated | [126] | |
2022 |
Golden Raspberry Awards | Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel | Nominated | [127] | |
Worst Screen Combo | Tom & Jerry (aka Itchy & Scratchy) | Nominated | |||
Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Movie | Tom and Jerry | Nominated | [128] |
Future
Television spin-off
Tom and Jerry in New York is an HBO Max original animated series produced by Warner Bros. Animation (outsourced by Renegade Animation, the team behind the 2014 Cartoon Network TV series The Tom and Jerry Show) that is a follow-up to the film, which follows Tom and Jerry as new residents of the Royal Gate Hotel, with their usual antics and mayhem to follow them all over the hotel, across Manhattan, New York City and going beyond. It was released on July 1, 2021.[129]
Possible sequel
Director Tim Story and writer Kevin Costello have reportedly expressed interest in creating a sequel to the movie. They hope to include even more characters from the original Tom and Jerry cartoons in it, such as Cousin Muscles and Uncle Pecos.[130]
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