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The Tom and Jerry Movie from 2021 just released on Netflix. It starts out with two storylines. One with girl who lost her job steals some highly qualified woman's resume and then gets the job she was going for at the hotel. Another is where Tom is repeatedly trying to break into the hotel, and Jerry lives in the hotel and steals a bunch of stuff.
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Feb 26, 2021 · Tom & Jerry: Directed by Tim Story. With Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Tom, Jerry. A chaotic battle ensues between Jerry Mouse, who has taken refuge in the Royal Gate Hotel, and Tom Cat, who is hired to drive him away before the day of a big wedding arrives.
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Rated: 5/10 • Jan 21, 2023. Rated: 1.5/5 • Sep 11, 2022. One of the most beloved rivalries in history is reignited when Jerry moves into New York City’s finest hotel on the eve of “the ...
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Feb 26, 2021 · Shenanigans ensue. The director Tim Story (of “Barbershop” and the execrable 2019 “Shaft” reboot) and the screenwriter Kevin Costello, reimagine Tom as a shades-wearing street musician ...
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Nov 3, 2022 8:40 pm
Posted: Feb 26, 2021 8:01 am
Tom & Jerry premieres on HBO Max, and in select theaters, on February 26.
Tom and Jerry, the perpetually feuding feline and rodent who've been warring for our amusement in over 160 animated Hanna-Barbera shorts (plus numerous TV shows and movies) since 1940 -- not to mention serving as the inspiration for The Simpsons' Itchy and Scratchy -- are now starring in their own big city-set, hybrid live-action/animated adventure. And it doesn't quite hit the mark.
Filled with frequent flashes of fun, Tom & Jerry ultimately gets bogged down with an overload of, well, let's just call it humanity. In an effort to bring together the world of cartoons and real life, the headlining duo often feels sidelined, and supplemental to the story of Chloë Grace Moretz's Kayla and her schemes and scams to keep a job that she conned her way into at a luxurious Manhattan hotel. The cat and mouse vanish for long stretches of the film while Kayla's constant crucibles too often feel like they should exist elsewhere, in a different movie.
To be fair, Tom and Jerry are both non-speaking characters and it's challenging to craft a full story around that. There aren't too many hard and fast rules to this specific world, except that all animals are cartoons and, randomly, some can speak (understood by other animals and maybe some humans). It's a loose enough setting that Tom and Jerry can carry on with their chaos, with some moments nicely lifted from old routines from the shorts. There are segments of mirth that land really well but the story's a bit too choppy to maintain momentum.
As both Tom and Jerry arrive in New York and begin squabbling in Central Park (from a situation that Jerry is 100% to blame for), hustler Kayla lies her way into a temp gig at The Royal Gate, a landmark hotel that's hosting a huge celebrity wedding. Kayla's frank homespun ways endear her to many, except Peña's rigid hospitality nerd, Terrence. Through Kayla's drive to keep a job she's unqualified for, and Terrence's need to expose her as a fraud, Tom and Jerry, and their penchant for punching each other, get used as pawns in larger human plots.
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Which is the main reason they both feel underutilized. So much of what they do isn't in service of their own story. Of course, neither one's given an abundance of internal wants or needs. Jerry desires a nice, warm home and Tom dreams of - er - playing keyboard as an opening act for John Legend? Regardless, they're the thinnest part of the movie. Director Tim Story's got some interesting elements here, filling the film with tunes from old school hip hop legends like A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, and the solid choice to make Jerry a super troll, but the end result is a mixed bag of good intentions, sporadically spirited moments, and an imperfect utilization of the title characters.
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.
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Tom & Jerry (released as Tom & Jerry: The Movie in the United Kingdom) [6] is a 2021 American live-action/animated slapstick comedy film based on the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry 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 ...
Feb 26, 2021 · “Tom & Jerry” is a live-action/animated hybrid that takes place in a world in which all animals are animated but all humans are real. But the film barely explores this dynamic in favor of centering a New Yorker named Kayla (Chloë Grace Moretz), who basically cons her way into a hospitality job at a fancy Big Apple hotel the week before a high-profile wedding there between household names ...
