Although they were cataract-inducing, "The Smurfs" and "Yogi Bear" actually performed well at the box office, thus encouraging studios to keep milking old properties and bringing them to the big screen. And they keep churning out pure crap, whether it's "The Smurfs," "Yogi Bear," or "Woody Woodpecker."
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That's where our favorite cat and mouse thrive.īut movie studios keep wanting to make movies out of aging cartoons for some reason. And it later moved to broadcast cartoons. This is why the original format for "Tom and Jerry" was short films. Whether Tom gets electrocuted or burned by an iron, or Jerry gets shot around a pool table, you're guaranteed laughs for eight to 12 minutes at a time. 1 thing fans love about "Tom and Jerry" is the slapstick humor and crazy violence that ensues as these cartoon rivals do everything they can to end each other. Sure, things left the realm of normal sometimes (like when Tom went to Hell and had to get Jerry to forgive him so he could be let into Heaven), but the narrative didn't need to involve other properties like "The Wizard of Oz" (they made two movies out of that storyline).Īnd that's the biggest problem with any studios trying to make films with "Tom and Jerry." There's just not enough material there to fill 90 minutes without adding in something extra that has nothing to do with the original concept of a cat trying to catch a mouse. The original cartoons all had somewhat normal stories, from Tom playing a string bass and trying to woo a female cat in the neighborhood to Tom trying to play golf and getting distracted by Jerry.
You know what all these movies have in common? They're all pretty bad stories that seem to have little to do with the original premise of a blue cat chasing an orange mouse. And there are 13 direct-to-video films about every random story from going to Mars to meeting Sherlock Holmes. There was one feature-length film released in 1992 about a girl trying to escape abusive guardians and find her missing father.
In fact, every "Tom and Jerry" movie has a weird story. If you're thinking the scenario sounds kind of weird (even for a cartoon), I don't blame you. Apparently, a big wedding is getting ready to take place at the hotel, and Tom is hired to deal with Jerry. The trailer seems to tell a story about Jerry moving into a fancy New York hotel and causing mischief by way of being a mouse in a high-end place. It's kind of like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" or those godforsaken "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movies. On Tuesday, a new trailer dropped for a bizarre "Tom and Jerry" movie that's partly live-action and partly animated. Studios need to stop making "Tom and Jerry" movies. Now that I've established I'm a big "Tom and Jerry" fan, allow me to stay something that seems contradictory. Some of my favorite episodes include Tom inheriting a million dollars as long as he promises to never hurt another living creature (and Jerry tormenting him), or the one where Tom wants to rest on the hammock, and Spike wants to grill a steak for his child, but Jerry gets involved and makes a mess of everything. If you poked through my memories, you could probably find I have dozens and dozens of episodes memorized. Thank God for those minds, or American cartoons today would look a lot different.
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The series made its debut in 1940 as short films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. By the time I was 5 years old, "Tom and Jerry" was 55! What I didn't realize growing up was just how old the cartoon I enjoyed was. So I spent many hours of my youth watching these two do things to each other that would absolutely kill them in real life. Seemed like those reruns were on Cartoon Network all the time when I was growing up.
Little Bear only came on once a day when I was a kid (as part of Nick Jr.), but Tom and Jerry used to run more often. The earliest cartoons I can remember watching as a kid were "Little Bear" and "Tom and Jerry." Unlike most adults in America, I continue to love them. As with most children in America, I grew up watching cartoons.