The fatal flaw of “Tom & Jerry”? It’s shockingly unfunny. Tom and Jerry is five to ten minutes of action that might have worked in one of the cartoon duo's shorts, surrounded by an inordinate amount of unimaginative, unfunny human-based conflict. Instead, it’s just a lazy way for a studio to capitalize on some famous characters it happens to own. These details wouldn’t matter in a movie that had some kind of vision, or even in one that was consistently funny, but “Tom & Jerry” is neither of those things. It does feel as if the filmmakers may have been pressured to have Tom and Jerry kiss and make up in the end, but rest assured, if the movie does well enough, they’ll be back at each other’s throats. They still raise a ruckus, of course, but they don’t speak, relying on pantomime and sight gags to communicate.

Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Rob Delaney, Colin Jost, and featuring archival recordings of William Hanna, Mel Blanc, June Foray and Frank Welker as Tom and Jerry.īut they remain the Tom and Jerry we’ve always known, right down to the decision to keep them silent.

It isn't the worst of the long-squabbling duo's feature-length adventures, but Tom & Jerry is disappointingly short on the anarchic spirit of their classic shorts.

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