To me, this movie is perfection.

just watch it!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Tom is in a pool hall after hours practising his game when he accidentally disturbs Jerry's sleep, the stupid mouse having unwisely set up home in one of the pool table's pockets. Jerry isn't very happy at being woken up, and starts causing the cat trouble. This simple set-up allows for loads of pool-related high jinks, the animators going all out with the violence in their quest for laughs.With a cool setting that allows for lots of inventive gags, decent pacing, great animation (love the bit where Tom runs around all of the pool tables), and both characters experiencing their fair share of extreme pain, this Tom and Jerry caper is among my favourites. Funniest moments include Tom getting an 8-ball embedded in his face, a massive and very sharp pin in the backside, and a cue catapulted down his throat (I take it back: Tom seems to get the worst of it!).

This short opens with Tom approaching a pool table in a pool hall and taking a few shots; he isn't very good so has to cheat; tilting the table and even moving the pocket to ensure he pots the balls. This third ball goes into one of the corner pockets; which unbeknownst to him is where Jerry is sleeping. Not happy about being disturbed, and squashed by the ball, Jerry climbs out of one of the pockets only to find himself at the wrong end of Tom's cue. Tom suddenly becomes much better and plays a remarkable array of physics defying trick shots all of which batter poor Jerry. It isn't until three minutes in that Jerry turns the tables and it is Tom's turn to get battered.In typical 'Tom and Jerry' fashion this short is a series of violent gags that will either have you laughing at how funny it all is or shocked that such violent cartoons were ever made; I suspect most people will fall in the former category though; children are bound to enjoy the slapstick and adults are likely to enjoy them, partly for the same reason as children and partly for the nostalgia of watching something they grew up with. The gags may be fairly violent but there is no denying their inventiveness! Just one example of many; at one point Tom tries to force Jerry out of a pocket by japing a cue down it, the cue emerges from the next hole just inches from Tom's backside... Jerry ties a needle to it as Tom gives one last hard jab with inevitable results!

I really like Cue Ball Cat. The violence admittedly is excessive, that I am used to, but there are one or two parts that are rather unbelievable. Yes I am talking about Jerry getting an 8 ball rammed into his bottom(ouch!). Still it is hugely enjoyable, thanks to the fast delivery of the gags, the beautiful animation and the fun music, three elements that I expect to make a Tom and Jerry cartoon work.Tom is funny, there have been cartoons where he is a little stupid but I love him for it, and Jerry is sweet, dastardly yes but sweet. The cartoon is delivered at a breakneck pace, that can be a problem sometimes but I didn't mind it that much here.Overall, violent but as I have said, very well done. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Tom is playing pool in a pool hall, not realising that Jerry is sleeping in the depths of the table he is playing on, and the little mouse gets up to his usual tricks in turning the tables on Tom.This cartoon is hugely entertaining and very funny! Oh, how I laughed when I first watched it!