Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Chloë Grace MoretzKayla Forrester
- Michael PeñaTerence Mendoza
- Colin JostBen
- Rob DelaneyHenry Dubros
- Ken JeongChef Jackie
- Pallavi ShardaPreeta
- Jordan BolgerCameron
- Patsy FerranJoy the Bell Girl
- Bobby CannavaleSpike (voice)
- Nicky JamButch (voice)
Recommendations
- 63
Movie Nation
The target demo here is the same as it ever was — 8-and-under. There’s plenty of slapstick and critter gags for them, crashing furniture, trashed hotel rooms and wedding party mishaps. The rest of us? “Cute” it is and cute these two forever will be. - 63
Paste Magazine
While the movie is often adorable and overwhelmingly wholesome, it lacks the true essence of Tom and Jerry cartoons: Goofy, slapstick barbarity perpetually enacted between the two characters. - 60
IGN
Tom and Jerry hit the big screen for a hybrid live-action romp that too often feels like it's not even their movie. - 60
Variety
No, Tom & Jerry won’t be winning any Oscars, even if Hanna-Barbera shorts in which they starred racked up seven during the series’ 1940-58 run. But it’s good enough to go down easy. - 42
IndieWire
Tom and Jerry manages to prove that it’s possible to be stretched thin and overstuffed at the same time. It’s a specially calibrated kind of chaos not so much meant to be a movie but something designed to hold the attention of a child. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Tim Story's Tom & 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. - 30
The New York Times
The de rigueur slapstick scenes for the title characters don’t even play, as the integration of animation and live action is so clunky that it feels like we’re watching special effects demonstrations rather than gags. - 30
Slashfilm
Tom & Jerry is, in many ways, aiming to be a live-action cartoon. But it fails in so many basic ways of cinematic storytelling. The story is dull, the characters are single-dimensionally bland, and the performances are stiff.
