Love this guy. I couldn’t agree with him more. I love that he used the terms “douchebaggery” and “sucks assballs” as those are phrases that frequently come out of my own mouth. Anyway while I agree with him 100% in spirit and am now glad I never saw this movie in theaters (or at all) he is factually mistaken on one point: Jerry actually did speak, and sing and dance for that matter, at least once during the golden years. It was in ‘Anchors Aweigh” when he played the “mouse king” who sung and danced with Gene Kelly. Other than that, Bravo Glasses guy. I look forward to more of your work.

Saw the first ten minutes once – this was much better than sitting through the rest of it would have been!
And that was obviously the Tom Selleck version of Indiana Jones.
Tom talked a couple of times in the cartoons. If memory serves, the lines were: “Help! a mouse! Eeeeeee!” (faking an hysterical woman while phoning mouse exterminators) and “One custard pie?? Lemme have it!!”

I unfortunately saw this in the cinema, what a waste of my time! I remember then thinking “This is not Tom and Jerry!”

There was an uncharacteristically large amount of gab in “Zoot Cat”.

ACH! Curse you Jerry, you’ve forced me to watch clips of this dreadful film in the guise of an excellent review!

BTW does anybody else think Aunt Figg is a blatant ripoff of both Ursula and Gerald Scarfe’s design of Pink’s mother (on whom Ursula was based anyway)?

I don’t know how this could be broken down any further. How did the creators of this loose sight of what Tom and Jerry was all about. Then again, if you think about it, it’s exactly what was killing the industry where they added “realistic” violence, and tried to follow the old disney aesthetic. Usually that’s really good, but not for Tom and Jerry..I’m kinda glad I didnt see this movie.

I think this guy is related to Weird Al.

There was a TOM AND JERRY theatrical movie?

well, and he forgot to tell how the characters slowly got into decadence after their MGM years. It didn’t happen from one moment to another. I just saw yesterday the Popeye’s DVD containing the character’s history, and looks pretty similar. They’ve destroyed EVERYTHING.

Oh, geez, lighten up. As bad as the clips were, they were funnier than Guy with the glasses. Freaking out over an admittedly sad attempt to bring an antique back to life. The sensibilities have changed since Tom and Jerry’s heyday, and the filmmakers tried to adapt. Yep, they failed, but has the new Saturday morning toon which adheres to the no-talking, hit-each-other-a-lot formula any better? Of course not. The slapstick in the original series was occasionally funny (when it wasn’t appalling) because of comic timing. A concept apparently unheard-of today, even in dialogue-driven toons. Anyway, this guy’s a pain. He almost makes the dreadful cartoon look good by comparison.

Apparently the best thing about that movie is that it made such a funny review possible.

Shame… looked like some semi-attractive animation and backgrounds. Sigh, if only real film makers got to use the resources of a studio to make such things.

As much as I hate the movie, I love this number:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNbw1kUDp5M

Joseph R. Barbera was more than a consultant on this film. He turned up at Film Roman nearly every day during its production, then accompanied director Phil Roman on a worldwide publicity tour upon its release. Despite everything, “Tom and Jerry the Movie” was the number one film in Sweden! And Henry Mancini should not get a free pass. The songs, both music and lyrics, were his. This was not the first time Barbera married an Oscar winning composer with what would turn out to be questionable material. He hired another musical legend to write the score of “Heidi’s Song”, which the Guy with Glasses thankfully hasn’t yet reviewed.

I’d like to point out that this isn’t the first time Tom and Jerry have been defiled. In Anchors Aweigh, Jerry talked, sang, and danced with Gene Kelly.

This movie looks terrible, though not badly animated. I haven’t seen it, but the creators had an unenviable task. Is there a successful animated film based on characters from shorts (Roger Rabbit doesn’t count)? Walt Disney was right; when he decided to make a feature, many thought it would star Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, and he said that they were best for shorts.

“9″ was an award winning short that was supposed to be made into a feature, but looks like it’s in development hell, even with Tim Buton’s involvement. And what ever became of the feature based on the Oscar wining “The Chubb Chubbs”?

This movie is particularily strange. Why do adults with money think that kids like singing so much? Is it because Disney first came out with really-well-done musicals and nobody thought the format of an animated film could change?

I remember being insulted when I was a kid watching this, because of all the nonsense they managed to pack the film with.

Wonder what would happen if somebody put this “guy with glasses” in charge of making an animated flick.

Well, not having a decent script didn’t stop Chuck Jones from making a ton of Tom and Jerry shorts in the ’60s.

What’s the fun of making a feature of the Chubb Chubbs once the red herring that the pay-off was based on is well known?

And that wasn’t a really tough red herring to figure out either.

Too much of them “sentence enhancers”!

Even if I swear someday, it was just plain teenage cool internet slang anger.

Sure there was swearing in classic cartoons with “Jack*you-know-what*”, misuse of “the bad place”, and the oppisite of “Darn” , but I think there’s way too much swearing in this society.

If he really wanted to rant about the T&J movie, then he’d better dress up like a stereotypical old man and say silly non-insulting words that are used in wacky preschool shows.

“The Simpsons”, “Family Guy”, and “South Park”, among others, are giving kids a message that “Adults are stupid and immature”, but really, they’re good people in general.

The movie review’s final words sound like a Youtube user insulting Viacom just because the Viacom people are capitialists.

ParamountCartoons, please. put the Kool-aid down. rub your eyes and take a 14-year long shower. the movie sucked.

I remember seeing the storyboards at Film Roman years ago. It looked bad on the boards — so it wasn’t going to get any better in production.

I’m still amazed how many people with bad ideas can still find financing. I suppose that’s the real achievement, after all.

The film in general feels like Phil Roman all over, stock movement, expressions, side characters, and bland colors. What was the point of adding more villians to the plot, Captain Kiddy and Dr. Applecheeks ? Just for it to make the 90 minute mark ?

Roberto, I’d say Mickey Mouse’s THREE MUSKETEERS is pretty close to successful. At any rate, lots of the comedy is good, the timing is first-rate, and Mickey in particular is deliberately keyed close to his Floyd Gottfredson comics persona, enabling him to engage in both dramatic and slapsticky scenes. It’s quite awhile since an animated Mickey was in wild swordfights or wrestling matches with Pegleg Pete, as we see him here.

For better or worse, there are songs, most delivered by singing narrator Toby Tortoise in an Allan-a-Dale-like troubador role. They’re based on classical and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and are genuinely funny. Still, even when they’re done right, one senses that they were rammed in by request from on high. It’s easy for me to imagine a long-form Mickey film based on Gottfredson’s “Mickey Mouse Sails for Treasure Island,” “The Phantom Blot” or “Island in the Sky,” needing no songs whatsoever.

This Guy with No Glasses should interpret all media for the blind.

Ha I beat you guys to it!
But, yes this is an excellent reveiw.

The review was pretty funny!

I have no trouble with Tom & Jerry talking, as they talked before (though Spike and Nibbles/Tuffy spoke commonly, go figure!), and think they needed better, funnier voices like Bill Hanna, who did their original vocal effects. But overall, Tom & Jerry still deserved much better than this derivative mess of a film.

Most short cartoon characters (slight exceptions) don’t translate when they last ninety minutes or so.

That’s why I’m amazed Warner Bros. is going through with that Marvin Martian movie. Didn’t they learn from THIS piece of *bleep*?

ParamountCartoons, cartoons like “The Simpsons”, “Family Guy”, and “South Park” are not kid shows in the first place. Your whole comment screams “I’m old! Get off my lawn!”

This movie wasn’t made by Warners. It was a Miramax release. Miramax was then a division of Disney.

wow…. thanx internet, you made “Gene Deitch era” of T&J seem so much better by comparison

tho I’m still nerd-raging on the edited DVDs *rage rage rage*

speaking of blood in teh cut-up Tom there – wasn’t one of the original MGM rules for the series “no blood! They aren’t to be “seriously” hurt ever” ????

Good thing the worst of those million dollar failed Warner Looney Tunes shorts meant to accompany “Back in Action” never saw release. Larry Doyle’s karma.

Jerry speaks in one of the shorts, Blue Cat Blues, narrating the story with the voice of Orson Welles (Paul Frees). Marv: Leslie Bricusse wrote the song lyrics of Tom & Jerry the Movie. Henry Mancini never wrote lyrics.

Funny how That Guy with the Glasses doesn’t know Hanna and Barbera did an even worse revival of Tom and Jerry in 1975. And they were friends in every short there, too.

“It’s Robyn’s father Indiana Jones!”
I always laugh at that.

‘Funny how That Guy with the Glasses doesn’t know Hanna and Barbera did an even worse revival of Tom and Jerry in 1975. And they were friends in every short there, too.’

True, true. Overall, i like his reviews. In addition to this, ‘Space Jam’, and the ‘Super Mario Bros’ movie, he also trashed ‘Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue’

Should be of note this was back when most animated movies outside Disney often felt they had to be Disney in order to rake in the cash, and yes, we also went through that period when taking classic characters like Felix and putting him in a movie was done out of sheer indulgence and no care given to those that may have a different opinion about their usage in recent years.

I’m not to big into Nostalgia Critic/Guy With The Glasses’ reviews personally, often seeing it as an off-shoot to what was being done with video games spear-headed by Angry Video Game Nerd. True Henry Mancini shouldn’t be let go of being mentioned here, but at times I wonder how much research was needed in order to do these in the first place. In his “Cartoon All Stars To The Rescue”, he mentions this was aired on ABC when in fact, all the Big Three had it on the same time that Saturday morning around April ’90 when I first saw it from. He’s not too into the little details as it is much to look at these films from a perspective of someone who just re-awaken his nightmare after so many years of lying dormant in an attic. I’d probably be the same too if I subjected myself to some ugly piece of celluloid I wanted to deny it ever existed on the face of the earth.

Wonder if he did see Heidi’s Song? Love to see how he’d react to that one (and me having actually enjoyed it at an impressionable age).

Phil Roman, Joe Barbera, Roger Mayer, Justin Ackerman, Henry Mancini and rest of the film’s crew did alot of running around during production of the picture even it did not made that much cash at the box office a decade ago.

I can’t believe people think Tom and Jerry the movie wasn’t even as good as the Gene Deitch episodes, which I think are the least good of all Tom and Jerry cartoons, though the Tom and Jerry Comedy Show isn’t much better!

The guy w/ the glasses may hate this movie but the guy who’s had laser eye surgery, which am I, certainly doesn’t!

Tom & Jerry’s definitely better than Road Runner or Tweety & Sylvester. For one thing it’s not repetitive & predictable.

That guy w/ the glasses better not look for me in a dark alley! Just kidding! He’s entitled to his own opinion but it’s a shame he can’t see the fun of T&J the movie & neither can most people. It’s a bigger shame that they don’t see the fun of those T&J cartoons where they’re friends; for instance I believe they have the best theme song of any cartoon ever made.

The 1975 version of T&J is so good it makes it hard for me to understand the popularity of Bugs Bunny, not that I don’t have trouble understanding that anyway. Unlike Bugs Bunny those T&J cartoons are very cute & they have much better music than Bugs Bunny cartoons or any other WB cartoon. Call me crazy but I think those T&J cartoons are, by far, the best cartoons ever made!

Yes, indeed, Tom & Jerry the Movie was great! Yes, indeed, the main thing that made it great was them becoming friends!