If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Tom and Jerry: The Movie is a brutal film with a poorly developed plot and a reasonable voice cast. It takes two well beloved characters who seemed like a sure fire success in having their own movie. However, it then ignores any and everything that made Tom and Jerry a success in the first place, having the characters talk and teaming up rather than being nemesis's, the first ten minutes of this film should have been the whole thing. The film is jam packed with musical numbers, all of which are bland and poorly written. It did not seem like there was much thought put in to creating these songs, each one is uninspired and annoyingly catchy. What frustrates me the most about this movie is that the whole thing would make perfect sense without Tom and Jerry, all of their dialogue and actions serve as no development to the plot of a young girl trying to escape from her evil aunt and find her father. I would not be surprised if this movie had been originally written without the cat and mouse in mind, and Warner Bros. just threw them in to make it a more marketable project. I watched this movie cause I loved it as a child, it does not hold up at an older age. Uninspired in literally every sense, Tom and Jerry: The Movie will still probably be a lot of fun for children, but adults with childlike sensibilities like myself should stick to the original cartoons. Tom and Jerry team up with a young girl to help her find her long lost father.

I love Tom and Jerry, I'm a big fan of their shorts - I HATE Tom and Jerry the Movie! How did Joseph Barbera agree to this idea in the first place? Basically this story is about a cat and mouse who are helping the main character, Robin Starling find her father and escape her Aunt Figg. You heard me right, Tom and Jerry, the title characters are the side kicks of the story! When Tom and Jerry are the title characters we expect to see Tom and Jerry, not some ripoff brat from the Rescuers. They should have renamed it Robin's Wild Ride, since that's who the focus is on!And to make matters worse, if you know Tom and Jerry, then you know that they are mainly about slapstick and silent humor (not counting the few times they talk or Tom's hilarious screams). These guys would make me laugh so hard that I could burst! This movie robs that formula and makes them talk throughout the entire movie. My ears bleed when I hear them talking, not just because they usually don't talk but because the voices just don't work for the characters. Not to mention their dialogue is horribly written making the two sound childish, clichéd, and prove my point on why silent humor (from them is stronger). Tweety and Sylvester at least knew how to make conversations and slapstick work well together, but this movie outside of the fact Tom and Jerry mostly don't talk, made them sound way too childish. Oh and just to make matters worse, they're trying to work out how to be friends. SOMEBODY KILL ME AND END MY MISERY!!!! They're mortal enemies and that was why we loved them in the first place! They were meant to hate, chase, and try killing each other! That is just one of the many ways this movie ruins Tom and Jerry.It's a musical and the songs all sound like a five year old write these songs. The rhymes are silly, and the plot of each of the songs (all sung by villains except for two songs) and scream, "I'm the obvious villain" and have some of the most childish and lamest lines. For example Aunt Figg sings, "Money is such a beautiful word, it soars in my mind like a beautiful bird." The way these songs are sung, written, and composed is just unbearable and don't move the story along. You could cut out these songs and it wouldn't change the story. The villains are all over the place and their names (Aunt Figg, Mr. Lickboot, Dr. Applecheeks, etc) scream "I'm evil" and shove it in your face. Even the animation on them looks blatantly obvious. You can just tell when they're bad just by looking at them, listening to them talk, their songs, and those stupid names. I find the plot to be so predictable also, considering how "careful" Hollywood has been in giving time and effort to being so faithful to the original characters. Of course they would throw in the "juicy" plot of Tom and Jerry being friends, a girl in trouble being helped by them, the multiple villains, making it a musical, and so on. I wouldn't mind as much except for the fact that Tom and Jerry (the characters) were made for both kids and adults to laugh their heads off at for screams, sound effects, Tom getting smashed, priceless facial expressions, Jerry being a jerk, and more. But this movie was clearly made for kids only, which I wouldn't mind as long as they weren't making a movie like this to just keep kids quiet (which is what this movie was). It sucks out the fun out for many loyal Tom and Jerry fans. This is one of many films where I've given up hope of Hollywood ever trying to make a good story or being faithful to something so beloved. It's like what happened in Batman and Robin and how unfaithful it was to the original Tim Burton story. If you'll pardon me, I will now go to see a Tom and Jerry episode (where they're nonverbal!).

If I could, I would give this a 0 out of 10. It ruins childhoods.First of all, there are 3 things that make Tom and Jerry enjoyable. 1: Tom and Jerry must not talk 2. Tom and Jerry must fight. 3: There should always be humor. They did not follow those three rules. Second, this actually a musical. Seriously, who would want to see a Tom and Jerry movie where Tom and Jerry are friends, they talk, and have it be a musical. I watched only a little bit of this movie, and it was no laughing matter. Whoever directed it was horrible. If you thought Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry wasn't that good, then you could give Chuck Jones an Oscar because this was much, much, much, worse. Watch the original Tom and Jerry instead because that is funny. It's much better than this disgrace to the franchise.

I liked this film as a child. I know, what was wrong with me!? Tom & Jerry speak and try to be friends? A story that's been heard several dozen times before? And money. Yes. I just cannot comprehend what I saw in this movie anymore. Except maybe the animation's nice and colourful, and the music's pretty dandy. But the latter would probably have been better off in some other movie. Anyway, the film does seem to focus more on Robyn's story, and that's not a good thing - if Robyn was the main focus, why bring the great cat and mouse duo into it? No, something like Tom & Jerry does not translate well into a 90-minute feature... as this attempt at it shows.