FilmBuff1994 Tom and Jerry: The Movie is a brutal film with a poorly developed plot and a reasonable voice cast. It takes two well beloved characters who seemed like a sure fire success in having their own movie. However, it then ignores any and everything that made Tom and Jerry a success in the first place, having the characters talk and teaming up rather than being nemesis's, the first ten minutes of this film should have been the whole thing. The film is jam packed with musical numbers, all of which are bland and poorly written. It did not seem like there was much thought put in to creating these songs, each one is uninspired and annoyingly catchy. What frustrates me the most about this movie is that the whole thing would make perfect sense without Tom and Jerry, all of their dialogue and actions serve as no development to the plot of a young girl trying to escape from her evil aunt and find her father. I would not be surprised if this movie had been originally written without the cat and mouse in mind, and Warner Bros. just threw them in to make it a more marketable project. I watched this movie cause I loved it as a child, it does not hold up at an older age. Uninspired in literally every sense, Tom and Jerry: The Movie will still probably be a lot of fun for children, but adults with childlike sensibilities like myself should stick to the original cartoons. Tom and Jerry team up with a young girl to help her find her long lost father.

gavin6942 Tom and Jerry must save a girl from her evil aunt.Most people think the film's biggest weakness is allowing the main characters to talk. And I have to agree that this was probably a misstep. For the first 15 minutes or so, I was impressed that the creators decided to make a full-length film with two leads who never speak. And then they dropped that. At least they got Richard Kind.Tom and Jerry, although around for a long time, have never been the most beloved of cartoons, and this movie is not terribly beloved by just about anyone. If someone were to say that it has been forgotten, they would have a serious point... I have very little interest in ever seeing it again.

Bonnie O'Connor I love Tom and Jerry, I'm a big fan of their shorts - I HATE Tom and Jerry the Movie! How did Joseph Barbera agree to this idea in the first place? Basically this story is about a cat and mouse who are helping the main character, Robin Starling find her father and escape her Aunt Figg. You heard me right, Tom and Jerry, the title characters are the side kicks of the story! When Tom and Jerry are the title characters we expect to see Tom and Jerry, not some ripoff brat from the Rescuers. They should have renamed it Robin's Wild Ride, since that's who the focus is on!And to make matters worse, if you know Tom and Jerry, then you know that they are mainly about slapstick and silent humor (not counting the few times they talk or Tom's hilarious screams). These guys would make me laugh so hard that I could burst! This movie robs that formula and makes them talk throughout the entire movie. My ears bleed when I hear them talking, not just because they usually don't talk but because the voices just don't work for the characters. Not to mention their dialogue is horribly written making the two sound childish, clichéd, and prove my point on why silent humor (from them is stronger). Tweety and Sylvester at least knew how to make conversations and slapstick work well together, but this movie outside of the fact Tom and Jerry mostly don't talk, made them sound way too childish. Oh and just to make matters worse, they're trying to work out how to be friends. SOMEBODY KILL ME AND END MY MISERY!!!! They're mortal enemies and that was why we loved them in the first place! They were meant to hate, chase, and try killing each other! That is just one of the many ways this movie ruins Tom and Jerry.It's a musical and the songs all sound like a five year old write these songs. The rhymes are silly, and the plot of each of the songs (all sung by villains except for two songs) and scream, "I'm the obvious villain" and have some of the most childish and lamest lines. For example Aunt Figg sings, "Money is such a beautiful word, it soars in my mind like a beautiful bird." The way these songs are sung, written, and composed is just unbearable and don't move the story along. You could cut out these songs and it wouldn't change the story. The villains are all over the place and their names (Aunt Figg, Mr. Lickboot, Dr. Applecheeks, etc) scream "I'm evil" and shove it in your face. Even the animation on them looks blatantly obvious. You can just tell when they're bad just by looking at them, listening to them talk, their songs, and those stupid names. I find the plot to be so predictable also, considering how "careful" Hollywood has been in giving time and effort to being so faithful to the original characters. Of course they would throw in the "juicy" plot of Tom and Jerry being friends, a girl in trouble being helped by them, the multiple villains, making it a musical, and so on. I wouldn't mind as much except for the fact that Tom and Jerry (the characters) were made for both kids and adults to laugh their heads off at for screams, sound effects, Tom getting smashed, priceless facial expressions, Jerry being a jerk, and more. But this movie was clearly made for kids only, which I wouldn't mind as long as they weren't making a movie like this to just keep kids quiet (which is what this movie was). It sucks out the fun out for many loyal Tom and Jerry fans. This is one of many films where I've given up hope of Hollywood ever trying to make a good story or being faithful to something so beloved. It's like what happened in Batman and Robin and how unfaithful it was to the original Tim Burton story. If you'll pardon me, I will now go to see a Tom and Jerry episode (where they're nonverbal!).

Bob Hope Some idiot in a previous review just asked whether it really mattered that TnJ could talk and weren't always trying to kill each other. A bit like saying that it wouldn't really matter if you took the witch out of Wizard of Oz or Snow White out of the movie of that name.It is probably OK for kids at a certain level but the crime is in defacing an iconic and ballsy classic. If this was a KFC franchise, the head office would be nailing the front door shut and suing the franchisee or maybe even having him bumped off, depending on the location.Interestingly, the movie does borrow some action shots (the alley cat beating up scene is one) from the real TnJ cartoon as well as from several other sources but this only serves to underline the gap between this and the real thing.