I’ve never even heard of it but just looking at the poster, it’s uhhh… that’s no from me. I’m not sure i have enough mental energy to devote to such a thing.
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The show was always… mixed, but that was its high point. It was on a steady decline after that. Each subsequent iteration of the show was significantly worse than the one before. The pattern continues.
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Like many cartoons which started out as theatrical shorts, the advent of TV and “limited animation” was its death knell.
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It’s even more awful than the poster promises. A collection of every tired, lazy negative stereotype in the book. Not something anyone should ever have considered entertainment or funny. I know these cartoons were aimed as much at adults as children where first screened, but the idea that kids were exposed to this at all is just gross.
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The question: Is this trip to the movie theater really necessary?
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So I take it in that era it was not just two creatures being violently mean to each other just for the sake of it? Because that is most of what I remember, and it felt like a pretty strange thing to show to kids, even back when I was a kid.
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There was pretty disturbing stuff back in the day. This scene of waterboarding a dog with gravy in one of the Warner Bros cartoons made it into the movie Conspiracy Theory during some sort of brainwashing sequence.
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Itchy & Scratchy > Tom & Jerry. But it would have to be rated NC-17.
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I want anvils falling on heads, smith’s hammers bashed into heads, TNT stuffed into ears, nails stepped on…college debt! Foreskin removal! HAROLD LLOYD!!!
It can’t be violent enough for us old boomers raised on these.
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Yes, that ending and the cat’s last line and its delivery was very memorable. I have yet to meet someone who saw that cartoon and thought the cat’s and mouse’s final revenge against the bullying dog was run-of-the-mill WB fare even by the studio’s violent standards. That’s probably one of the reasons it didn’t make it into TV syndication.
“Birds Anonymous” is also pretty dark, especially the sequence at 4:41 where Sylvester effectively has the D.T.s as he tries to kick his addiction cold … errr … turkey.
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Oddly enough, MGM produced a “censored” version of the Tom and Jerry cartoons at the time, which didn’t include the racially caricatured cartoon humans. This was the version that made it into the home video releases that I had as a kid.
Unfortunately, these versions weren’t produced to be less racist. Apparently, some cinemas and TV stations used these versions, so as not to depict black characters at all.
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Have you tried Woody Woodpecker?
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Oh my goodness, that was great!!! The violence was too fantastical to bother me. The auto-generated English subtitles only added to the strangeness (I’m assuming they were in no way accurate…or were they??)
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Even in portuguese the subtitles are strange. It looks like a drunk man with aphasia trying to sing the national anthem.
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Yeah no.
Hard pass for me. I grew up watching Tom and Jerry cartoons as a kid, and this feels… off to me. Hard to say why. Its not even the insulting blandness of it, it feels wrong. The Tom and Jerry franchise has been dead for years, so this is a bit like digging out the corpses of these characters to let them dance for money in a forgettable cash grab.
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Somehow the most dated thing about this entire trailer is the “__________ and ________ in the big apple!” plot.
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“Watch: First trailer for Tom & Jerry, the live action film”
LIve-Action??
They’re literal cartoons… right there in the trailer; cartoon cat, cartoon mouse.
They’re not even “photorealistic” animated characters like Disney’s remakes of Lion King etc. They’re just straight up cartoon characters in the real world.
I think this technique/genre is called “hybrid.” Whatever the case, we need to get away from calling so many animated things Live-Action. It’s a disservice to all the artists and techs who work so hard to make animated things.
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