2021 · comedy · family · animation
Tom & Jerry
Directed by Tim Story1h 41m2021
Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before a high-class wedding at the hotel. Her solution? Hiring Tom to get rid of the pesky mouse.
Our read: Tom & Jerry (2021) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · family · animation entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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How Tom & Jerry feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want harmless cartoon slapstick wrapped in a breezy New York hotel caper.”
Skip it tonight — Live-action humans bore you and you only want classic two-minute shorts.
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