![]() Especially considering HBO Max released a tie-in animated Tom and Jerry short that takes place in the same location to coincide with the recent home-video release of the movie.Ī lot of the fight scenes have been rehashed from several shorts, although these make great references to the original cartoons and TV shows. ![]() The story feels more like a feature-length Tom and Jerry cartoon than a feature-length movie. The use of the " Liar Revealed" trope for Kayla's character arc feels off-putting, generic and cliché since Kayla is the film's main protagonist.This usage of the Liar Revealed story shows this cliché itself is already done to death that it's tiring and grating. Some product placement, with the mentions of TikTok and Instagram (as a boomer joke), and showings of Boosted Boards, Apple, and John Legend.Not helping was that Boosted, the company that made the Boosted Boards, went out of business a year prior to this film's release. ![]() While many fan-favorite characters are back, some of those characters, such as Tyke, Quacker, and Tuffy/Nibbles, are still absent from the movie. The trap score, while decent in theory, sounds very out-of-place and unfitting considering it is a Tom and Jerry movie. There is something about the comedy that needed major tweaking. Some of the humor is a mixed bag, with Spike farting, Jerry twerking, the unnecessary use of internet memes such as the scene with Tom flossing, Tom singing full sentences in autotune, the rapping pigeons in the opening scene and the inclusion of some internet slang from the elephants. However, it isn't as noticeable as in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Back in Action and the 1992 film, Tom and Jerry are still the most important characters to the plot and its central conflict with the largest character arcs. ![]() Just like the 1992 original film, Thomas and the Magic Railroad and even Looney Tunes: Back in Action, it tends to focus a bit more on the lead human characters, rather than the main focus who is Tom and Jerry themselves. ![]()
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