Who framed roger rabbit is still the only movie that genuinely nailed this

Better idea for a Tom and Jerry movie plot: Tom is owned by a rich snobby couple going on a vacation to the Bahamas in a private jet. Unknown to them however, Jerry stows away on the plane and pisses off Tom. This leads to the two getting into a chaotic scrap that eventually leaves them stranded in the middle of the ocean. With no sense of direction, the two are forced to choose between beating the shit out of each other because of the parts they played in getting them stranded, and working together to survive and get back to their home. Thus begins a wacky cross-country film about the two getting into mischief, meeting a variety of quirky side characters Mr. Bean’s Vacation style, and eventually deciding that being on the run and meeting new people is better than being restrained by snobby assholes. Simple plot, minimal need for dialogue from the main two, plenty of environments that can provide more unique setpieces, and side characters that are kept at a healthy enough distance to avoid taking up screen time while still spicing things up so it isn’t an endless barrage of slapstick for an hour and a half.

I was expecting this to be honest. Why doesn't Hollywood get it through their heads that we want 2d animated movies? This is why anime is profiting so well, there's barely an competition in the West.

This feels like a film from the 2000s.

Franchise: has not had a major installment for 10-30 years Company: *come my child, you’re ripe for the picking*

Tom and Jerry is suffering from Seasonal Rot ever since they started doing Direct-to-DVD, it's time for this franchise to go on a hiatus.

There was a video essay that explains why the animated segments don't land. It boils down to the fact that the original shorts were incredibly creative with their scripts, but the movie just has Tom chasing Jerry and little else.

the original movie from the 90's is more notable as it attempts to do smething the original cartoons wouldn't touch upon: 1) have tom and jerry talk for the first time and 2) have the pair actually become friends. Sure it may not be good, but I feel a movie version of a cartoon or tv show has to do something unexplored in the original to justify its existence, otherwise it's JUST a movie-length episode of that thing.

Who could have guessed that a live-action and CG hybrid movie would be bad. This has never happened before.

"Some are just able to *ignore* the live-action segments." Emphasis on *some*.

If you want an example of how much the writers seemingly cared more about the humans than Tom & Jerry themselves, here are some of the things that weren’t in the script that the director himself added to stay true to the cartoons: -Tom meeting Spike -Tom meeting Butch and The Alleycat gang in the alley BEFORE meeting them at the going prison -The animal tornado Now, apparently one of the writers had a ten minute house destruction opening sequence planned in the script. That part in the trailer where Tom and Jerry are at the bus WAS actually part of that ten minute opening. First off, WHY THE HELL WAS THAT CUT?! Like I get you have to establish the world of the movie somehow so people get what you’re trying to do, but between that and the rapping pigeons the former would’ve been SO much more fitting for a Tom and Jerry movie. Secondly, with that knowledge known, I still don’t think it would’ve changed much because the movie ultimately still would not be about Tom and Jerry.

My brother, who's disabled, went with his personal assistant to see this movie in theaters. My bro didn't care for the human parts, if not hated it XD He's really good in movie theaters and when it gets to Tom and Jerry bits he had a lot more fun. Even the pa was like "yeah this movie was boring until Tom and Jerry came on". It was hilarious since my bro is a huge Tom and Jerry fan and I was expecting for him to like this movie XD Though he has taste in movies so it's possible for him to not like the movie XD (he loves Mad Max: Fury Road, it's one of the few R-rated movies he'll get excited over. Super adorable to watch with him)

the problem with the movie also is that tom and jerry feels like side characters in their own movie

The animation managed to be both adequate looking and cheap looking at the same time. It gives the movie a straight to video quality

This actually made me really want a Smurfs review.

This film should have been about Tom and Jerry both wanting to be in the hotel (for their own separate reasons) so they end up competing and completely causing chaos for the people inside. The pair could then settle their differences and both go their own ways or agree to live together in the hotel. It seems we got half of the story we should have got

Shoutout to all the early people trying to comment relevant stuff without even watching the video first

The definition of an unbridled “Meh”....

Wall-e handled this a million times better. Even with the humans, the movie made it very clear that Wall-e and Eve were the integral characters and we understand and enjoy everything about them and what they go through, even if they don’t talk.

This movie had the same problems as the Godzilla 2014 movie. Spending too much time on the humans that we don’t give a crap about. We don’t want to watch humans and their boring selves. We want to see Tom and Jerry fighting! Like they are known to do!

If kids didn't like non-talking characters, then there wouldn't be so many shows like that. Canimals comes to mind. (Cans with animal heads and legs)

I'm pretty sure Jerry has always been an asshole mouse invading a house, and Tom is usually the cat that's just trying to defend the house from a vermin like Jerry. The dynamic of helpless small animal being bothered by a cat just trying to eat it would be Tweety and Slyvester. It's why I don't like Tom and Jerry. Tom barely deserves the violence given to him.

I've always loved Rebeltaxi's Idea of Tom & Jerry x John Wick. It sounds stupid, but people watch John Wick and Tom & Jerry for the same reasons, the action. A loosely made story to thread all the action/slapstick scenes together. "All the cats are after Tom for accidently runing the Cat Bazaar, and flag Jerry as an accomplice. Now they must survive from 8PM until 5AM when the assassin guild opens up to clear their name."

Tom and Jerry: a creative slapstick comedy about a mouse and a cat Warner bros: let me stop you right there

Who framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam will always be my pick for the ones that blended 2d and live action really decently.

Hotel Hijinks featuring Tom and Jerry Would have been a better title in my opinion

Interestingly, we tried watching this with my nieces (ages ranging 5-8) during dinner. They did NOT like it. They kept asking where was Tom and Jerry? Why are we following these grown ups! Im sure plenty of kids are enjoying the movie, maybe my nieces are just little baby movie snobs (which I'm so proud of XD), but I feel even kids know when something is not quite right. Kids do have big imaginations and they can feel when a piece of media is quite reaching that expectation, even if they can't always quite put it into words how it isn't meeting the expectation.

Ironically, she was talking about the humans characters so much in the review that halfway thought, I forgot this was a Tom and Jerry movie review!

I keep on thinking of Bealistock and Blume in stuff like this: What is the business AROUND the movie. The actors? Trying to run out contract obligations. The animators? tax write off for the computers. The IP? Saves money on advertising and renews the copyright for another 70 years. The Script? If you are paid by the hour, they hire you for a week. If you are paid by the word, the make the dialogue chunky. The producers? "Please, put Tim on that kid's movie so he does not badger me into adding dog shit jokes around Superman".

Oh well. At least we still have Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

A protagonist that doesn’t talk, Wall-E.

You know the part where the wedding is ruined and Kayla gets fired? It's meant to be the saddest scene in the movie, but considering she committed fraud to get her way, it felt more like karma.

We put them into a musical. That didn't work. We put them into others movies. That didn't work. We made an original live action animated hybrid movie, and it still didn't work. How can we make Tom and Jerry work on the big screen?

Even i'll admit the new Tom and Jerry film had it's ups and downs, i mean to be honest i'm not saying i hated it but i'm not saying i liked it either.

YES GIMME THE TEAAAAA ive been so excited for this. Can't wait to see if it's better or worse than Tom and Jerry and willy wonka

I was just thinking about how you felt about this film.

This is exactly what modern kids movies are now: pop culture references and cringe humor. Which is why The Peanuts Movie is more of a faithful adaptation of its source material. It didn’t do any of that stuff.

I didn't know I needed to see Emma Stone tap dancing with Tom and Jerry, but I'm grateful I did.

When the main female protagonist steals a resume and job. Even Daffy Duck would say: You’re Despicable. I mean geez even I wouldn’t do something like that.

Space jam is one of my favorite movies

Tom and Jerry Movie in A nutshell: A girl constantly lies to people to achieve her dream only for it to be ruined by an antagonist who was better than the girl anyway. Oh, and Tom and Jerry are here too. I guess.

The best part of the movie was Tom & Jerry themselves

I watched a separate video about this movie and they mentioned how a lot of the "Tom and Jerry chasing" scenes in this movie didn't work because it was just the two running around the environment and destroying stuff uninterrupted to trendy-sounding hip-hop music, whereas in the original cartoons, there was good pacing and timing and stuff other than just the two breaking one thing after another as the cat tries and fails to catch the mouse and that's it, which i just thought was a good point to bring up as well.

The only things I remember about this movie are the dead mouse chalk outline at the beginning and Jerry looking offended when he's told that Tom thinks he's emotionally unavailable. I don't know why that makes me laugh but it just does. 🤣

Considering all the modern iterations of Tom and Jerry have just been Tom and Jerry walking around in the background of classic movies with no rhyme or reason, this live action movie is surprisingly consistent with their brand.

The problem with kids movies is, well, that That they're "kids movies" Because if they were actually any good they would be categorized as a family movie Basically if ANYTHING was created with the intention of being for kids or was categorized fully as for kids, its not good, i dont care what anyone says

The Rocky and Bullwinkle movie is fantastic, I don't care what anyone says. "How dare Robert De Niro play a silly character and mock his own role that literally everyone else has mocked" Also, Back In Action is pretty good as well.

Even if the human parts aren't really that good , all that truly matters to me is that they got the character of Tom and jerry right (which was done much better than some other adaptations).

Christopher Robin was perfection too

I wish that every time someone tried to add a boring main story with live action actors in what’s supposed to be a fun animated movie for kids I could materialize in the room and shake said person while yelling “NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR REJECTED SCREENPLAY, JUST GIVE ME THE CARTOONS”

Seeing the up close of the alley cats makes them look like video game characters from a Wii game. And I grew up on and love Wii games

Honestly, if Warner Bros wants to bring Tom and Jerry back into the mainstream, they should just make new shorts and put them in front of their films. Heck, they kind of did that on HBO Max

I had a feeling it wouldn't, even though I was hoping it would turn out good 😥

A lot of movies need to focus more on what the movie is about, or literally named, on the human characters. An example is Godzilla. Everyone wants to see the spicy iguana fight things, but it focuses on the human subplot instead

It sucks when they dont turn out cause the idea in the first place is so good. When they do good though they are memorable. Christopher Robin and Detective PIkachu come to mind. THEY WERE REALLY GOOD

1:00 whoa, hold up! Since when is Space Jam 'less well regarded'? That's a nostalgic classic for most of us 30somethings!

If the theatre full of kids I went to didn’t laugh once during the movie, that’s already a bad sign

The original Tom and Jerry movie will always be a classic to me it had great character development, an actual plot, creative villains, we got to actually know Tom and Jerry, had some catchy music, and was an actual movie not to mention it was animated and not live action

There are some good Tom and Jerry movies. Magic Ring and Fast And The Furry come to mind

Why isn't there more Tom and Jerry? Because these types of live action/animated hybrids focus on the humans to save money. Even the live action Sonic movie did that; it's just that focusing on Dr. Robotnik/Eggman worked better because he was the villain, so it wasn't as bad. But they _all_ follow the same formula: take cartoon characters, pluck them from their world and put them in New York City, focus on the humans, put in references to the original only when necessary for the sake of nostalgia baiting (to its credit, it looks like Tom and Jerry didn't do this), have a road trip/driving scenes, and treat the cartoon characters as a "pet" of the humans. It's a formula Hollywood repeats because it brings in money.

I forgot how much I was routing against the protagonist for most of the movie. The fact that the antagonist was correct for most of the movie certainly made for an *interesting* dynamic.

They should've taken inspiration from stuff like Wall-E

We got to have *MONEY* .....again!

Movie idea: Among Us the movie Plot: Red who is a detective who has never had a case that is worst than a stolen lunch but is still loved by the crew, but when the crew leaves their home Mira HQ and goes on a long trip on the Skeld to colonize a new planet they have found that is called Polus, suspicious murders start happening and the evidence points toward Red being the impostor, he starts investigating and searches for evidence to clear his name and to find the impostor among them. Characters: Red (Detective) Orange (Captain) Cyan (Doctor) Blue (Scientist) Brown (Engineer) Purple (Police Officer) White (Chef) Black (Inventor) Green (Farmer) Pink (Commander) Style: Animation Genre: Comedy/detective/adventure Rating: PG-13 Distributor: Warner Bros

It's ironic to say, but Willie's Wonderland did the whole silent protagonist really damn well, same for this other horror film about a deaf woman who was also a writer trying to keep herself alive from a home invader. Both had silent protagonists, but also had it where the visuals did the talking for them in more ways then one.

0:24 hey hey thanks for including my tweet!!... can we also talk about how Kayla had to apologize for ruining the wedding, which she had no hand in doing?

As long as there is good meme potential with Tom, things are fine Not good, just fine

When I saw the time and Jerry movie trailer I was like, “ I don’t care less about anything ever.”

What’s your background music here? It’s so relaxing

I miss you girl 😇 I’m so glade you’re back

THANK YOU for mentioning the Jerry thing. When I was a kid, I HATED Jerry and I wanted Tom to win because he deserved it

Figured I'd just leave it to Celly... Thanks for taking this one for the team... Need a bandage?🩹

i just finished watching your 2021 trailer review and this comes out heh

8:40 You don’t know how badass it makes you look when you BS your way with your whole life, and get away with it. Trust me, it’s satisfying Edit: Watching this review almost gave me flashbacks to Strange Magic and Norm of the North. Cells was getting there, but we all know we can’t deal with another abomination like that. Come to think of it, when was the last time we had an abomination animated movie?

The fact that Tom and Jerry don't speak this film makes it 100 times better than the 92 film in my eyes .

I’m still waiting for that Tom & Jerry film that will top The Fast & the Furry.

This only makes me worried how Space Jam 2 is going to turn out.

What I seen so far KZfaq:I hated it -_- Tik tok:wow I like it Me:hold up Also my brother loves Tom and jerry so of course he liked the movie ;-;

When it came to the human story, I couldn’t stop thinking, “Why out of all stories is this in a Tom and Jerry movie???”

This movie honestly looks like the unholy fusion between the Smurfs movie and that crappy live action Fat Albert movie

Oh God... I keep losing hope in Warner Bros... In the next years they're gonna animate a book series that I really like, the problem is that it's kinda gruesome, especially at the beginning, and I'm worried they'll censore it a lot and fuck everything up

This Video came out on St Patrick’s Day. So...... Go Watch Secret of Kells Song of the Sea And Wolfwalkers.

Half the movie isn’t even Tom and jerry It’s mostly that hotel employee Kayla person and The wedding

Was I the only one that thought the animation looked unfinished? Like during the trailer I was like "the movie's not out yet, they're probably still touching it up." Nope.

That vindicating moment for fans when the Sonic movie is one of the best animation live-action hybrid... Second only to the Paddington films of course! Those are genuinely some of my favorite movies and I think the second on is a rare but deservedly perfect film. I love it so much.

3:17 I felt this sentiment EXACTLY so much as a kid when watching a lotta the Tom n Jerry shorts, I felt that Tom was just minding his own business and Jerry started ruining it completely. And Jerry still has the audacity to win and rub it in Tom's face. i was quite salty about that damn you simpsons

the funny thing about Tom and Jerry movies now a days: they can be hit and misses. for every Robin Hood movie, there's a Willy Wonka movie. just because Tom and Jerry are at their best doesn't mean the film has a good plot, characters or humor. seriously, i was just bring it up for an example, but if you want a good movie from the duo look up that Robin Hood one. it's really good.

It's essentially the Godzilla fallacy... No human problems, just monster fights I hate how they never learn this.

A successful Tom and Jerry movie could happen if said movie was an adaptation of the shows memorable episode Heavenly Puss with Tom reincarnating each time to get a contract to allow Tom to get into heaven.

I hope Sonic 2 shows more of Sonic’s world. But with lessons learned and money gained, as well as the critical and financial success of Sonic 1, it might be good!

Oh God, why did you have to remind me about the Artemis Fowl abomination? They took one of my favorite book series as a child, literally gutted everything expect the names, and put in a ton of horribly written crap. It kills me every time I reminded.

So, when are we getting a Tom and Jerry supercut that's just the Tom and Jerry parts

I used to and still love not only the old episodes, but the old movies. Once I saw the trailer for the new one, I literally knew from that moment it was bad.

If I was to make a guess. It would be the cost of doing the live-action "Tom & Jerry" parts started to add up. So someone who wanted to keep their job decided to give more of the people who were already getting paid I assume really well to be the background. Since better to have a cheaper flop, that makes money, than a very expensive success that loses money. Just makes me mad that things like this and the Smurfs movie are going to hold up things that could actually be good using the same tech.

“When will you learn, ThAt YoUR aCTiOnS HaVE COnSeQuENcES!”

I'm extremely disapointed, at least I didn't saw it on theaters

My theory that the original script of the movie was to some comedy drama that didn't go anywhere and at last minute added Tom and Jerry into the story. Idk just a guess.

so either I haven't heard the term or am just spacing. What do you mean by ADR when talking about specific lines in the protag's scenes?

"I am shocked. SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked."

Yeah I was so mad when I covered this on the podcast I cohost. I was so mad about how much screentime the humans took. I even watched it a second time to count how much time in total, the duo was on screen and it was essentially 37 mins of the entire 101 min runtime they were on-screen either together or by themselves. Every actor there looked like they didn't want to be there.