As a cartoon addicted child of the 1970's, I always valued the Tom & Jerry cartoons as an awful waste of a good Saturday morning. This idea of value was made all the more real when these dreadful cartoons were put up against the animated powerhouse that was 'The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour'. Tom & Jerry looked absolutely sterile by comparison when put up against the likes of Bugs, Daffy, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote?
Actually, Tom & Jerry did most of the same things the Looney Toons crew would do when it came to the art of the chase, it's just that Tom & Jerry did their chasing without any hint of humor that the Warner Brothers cartoons had in spades. That may sound a bit harsh to Tom & Jerry fans, but Tom & Jerry don't stack up against any two teamers offered up through the ranks of the Looney Toons.
When I happened to find one of Tom & Jerry's cartoons (Filet Meow) tacked onto the end of a movie I had TiVoed off of Turner Classic Movies, I decided to see if Tom & Jerry were really as sterile and dire as I remembered. This was their big chance at redemption. I was no longer a child, so this time around Tom & Jerry would have my undivided attention, Bugs and friends were not competing on another channel, and as luck would have it, it wasn't a Saturday morning.
There's no use in explaining the plot line of any cartoon, let alone this one. I think that if you've seen one of these 'chase around the house' episodes, you've seen them all. This episode is really no different, that is until a shark comes into the house via the outside garden hose. It's a cartoon, so you just have to go with it. But for some reason or another, I'm not in the mood to suspend belief to the length required of me. I have watched all 6 minutes of this cartoon and my only thought is that Tom & Jerry have failed me again. Blah
3/10 Clark Richards
Actually, Tom & Jerry did most of the same things the Looney Toons crew would do when it came to the art of the chase, it's just that Tom & Jerry did their chasing without any hint of humor that the Warner Brothers cartoons had in spades. That may sound a bit harsh to Tom & Jerry fans, but Tom & Jerry don't stack up against any two teamers offered up through the ranks of the Looney Toons.
When I happened to find one of Tom & Jerry's cartoons (Filet Meow) tacked onto the end of a movie I had TiVoed off of Turner Classic Movies, I decided to see if Tom & Jerry were really as sterile and dire as I remembered. This was their big chance at redemption. I was no longer a child, so this time around Tom & Jerry would have my undivided attention, Bugs and friends were not competing on another channel, and as luck would have it, it wasn't a Saturday morning.
There's no use in explaining the plot line of any cartoon, let alone this one. I think that if you've seen one of these 'chase around the house' episodes, you've seen them all. This episode is really no different, that is until a shark comes into the house via the outside garden hose. It's a cartoon, so you just have to go with it. But for some reason or another, I'm not in the mood to suspend belief to the length required of me. I have watched all 6 minutes of this cartoon and my only thought is that Tom & Jerry have failed me again. Blah
3/10 Clark Richards