Overrated and overhyped

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

"Texas Tom" is an American 6.5-minute cartoon from 1950, so this one is already over 650 years old and as an MGM production by Hanna Barbera, it is of course another Tom&Jerry cartoon and the title here gives away that it is a very rare journey by the world's most known cat-and-mouse duo into the western genre. Fittingly Tom looks like a cowboy for the most part. But while, I love myself a good western for sure, this was not working out at all here. The duo at the house is just far more poignant and funny, even if I can kinda understand they were trying to add new aspects to the long-running cartoon series. Another thing I did not like as usual is when they are talking, even if it is singing, and as some of the comedy here, like a crucial joke on Tom's voice changing, results from the speaking component, it had a negative impact on the overall outcome here. Yes here and there was an okay moment, but as a whole it was certainly not entertaining enough for me to recommend checking it out. The rating here on IMDb seems far too high. And the ending was another letdown as Jerry in love is fine, but please not with a cat regardless of her being Tom's love interest or not. This is really only for T&J completionists. I give it a thumbs-down.

Down on the ranch, Tom is happily wiling away the hours tormenting Jerry when he finds himself distracted by the arrival of a sexy cowgirl cat. Tom sets about trying to impress the pretty puss, but Jerry isn't about to make things easy for his nemesis.Texas Tom's unique Western setting provides plenty of opportunity for hilarity. There's a terrific scene in which Tom serenades the cowgirl cat by miming to a record, but runs into trouble when Jerry starts messing around with the speed control on the record player; Tom accidentally catching an angry bull with his lasso also leads to some very funny moments.At the end of the cartoon, Jerry is the one that gets lucky with the girl, the cheeky mouse planting a big smacker on her lips (Jerry also snogged a cute female cat in the 1942 short Puss n' Toots—bizarre!!).

Tom, now a cowboy (or cowcat) on a farm somewhere in Texas is involved in his usual pursuit of Jerry when a gorgeous girl cat arrives. He is immediately smitten and falls in love, hoping to impress her with a tough guy act, and serenading her with a mimed song.Not taking too kindly to being treated as a slave in his love game, Jerry messes up Tom's plans and gets him on the wrong side of the farmyard bull. It's a pretty funny cartoon, especially when Jerry tampers with the speed of the record Tom is miming to, and there's quite a bit of inventive visual humor too. I just wish that Tom would get the girl for once.

Dude Ranch is the place where 'Texas Tom' is set. Tom, busy fooling around with Jerry in his usual manner, suddenly notices a car drop off a very pretty cow-girl cat with whom Tom immediately falls for. Jerry, however, has other ideas...This cartoon is cool! It's dead funny, especially when Tom starts miming to a turntable record playing 'If You're Ever Down In Texas, Look Me Up', but I won't spoil that bit.Recommended!