Great special effects. Great comedic acting, especially and expectedly from comedy fan favorite Michael Peña (shout out to my Dora Poo Hole Song truthers). Another comedic performance was especially and unexpectedly top notch, seeing as how she's totally new to me, the fairly new comer, show stealing scene thief, Patsy Ferran... who is a gas. She will, in Napoleon Dynamite-esque hillari-oddity, leave you a gasp, with both hands knee slapping in your lap.
But she's way funnier and less corny than all that. I blame the cat. Not you, Tom.
Most consistently funny to me, however, was the mostly cleverly subtle and sometimes overtly, but perfectly goofy performance from the star, a grownup Hit-girl lookalike lead actress. Spoiler Alert: It actually is the grownup KICK ASS Hit-girl actress, Chloë Grace Moretz. Who BTW stars in another recent Gremlin-laced film, which too is great.
Noteworthy about that flick is that it's brewed deeply in a seemingly similar concoction to, but is luckily just a tepid facsimile of, the modern girl power-aide steeped films like Black Christmas 2020, tainted by feminazism (Also See: Women Against Feminazis). Nope, that unofficial Gremlins sequel and real paranormal history inspired gem is just drenched in regular old-school female liberating OG feminism. Served with a side of good acting, special effects, action, UNIQUE/ORIGINAL story, and war-hero glory. Like Goldy lock's porridge, perfection-atory, not too timid or too gory. Unlike...
The acting chops! "Pork chops" rather you say?! I'm out to lunch?! The amazing range on this young woman. Femnazi's feel her punch! Don't get your panties in a bunch!
You're welcome for the quick extra film review-oetry, but I digress. The cat and mouse drama-laden film being discussed at hand, also features a chuckle producing couple of animated/real world species rivals. They are as sharp as ever, but still duped by the likes of knives and cheddar.
The film indeed exemplifies the tired film critic headline turned adage for those seeking wholesome moving picture shows... IT'S FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! It is genuinely fun though. It (color me boringly overused idiom phrase enraged again) had kids of all ages cracking up in the theatre I was in. Adults and children people types were laughing, that is. Also, like any good family film, sometimes the lols came in unison and other times at separate "funnies" aimed a bit lower or higher for respective baby or grown folk intellects. You get classic Tom and Jerry hijinks and even a little unexpected character development, beyond...
The acting chops! "Pork chops" rather you say?! I'm out to lunch?! The amazing range on this young woman. Femnazi's feel her punch! Don't get your panties in a bunch!
You're welcome for the quick extra film review-oetry, but I digress. The cat and mouse drama-laden film being discussed at hand, also features a chuckle producing couple of animated/real world species rivals. They are as sharp as ever, but still duped by the likes of knives and cheddar.
The film indeed exemplifies the tired film critic headline turned adage for those seeking wholesome moving picture shows... IT'S FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! It is genuinely fun though. It (color me boringly overused idiom phrase enraged again) had kids of all ages cracking up in the theatre I was in. Adults and children people types were laughing, that is. Also, like any good family film, sometimes the lols came in unison and other times at separate "funnies" aimed a bit lower or higher for respective baby or grown folk intellects. You get classic Tom and Jerry hijinks and even a little unexpected character development, beyond...
They aren't any worse for wear from age actually, but did they always drink alcoholic beverages or is that a new development? I forget for some reason...
Tom and Jerry has just a wee bit of gender related identity politics material, but it fades just about as soon and the involuntary rolling of the eyes that might result. Forced diversity seems suspiciously afoot, but filling in diversity quota boxes alone without regard to who is best for the role or the overall storytelling was obviously not the MO here, like in other films. New Star Wars widely faces this criticism for instance. In other words, diversity as a goal can not overpower good actors and storytelling as a goal. These filmmakers, if they were indeed diversity conscious, as opposed to good old color blind, performance and overall presentation focused movie makers, managed to juggle things perfectly. If they wanted a very specific type of actor just for the sake of being "everything is racist" mob pitchfork proof, then they made damn sure that goal was only achieved after first finding the very best top notch actor to achieve the other goal. After having these unaided thoughts of mine on this topic, I found this piece of evidence AKA piece of shit article entitled: Tom & Jerry Wasn't Just Racist, It Was Sexist Too
This outrage mob, cancel culture, ridiculous rag of a publication's yellow journalism hitpiece proves my point and is exactly the type of tripe that likely and needlessly influenced these movie makers in particular and others generally.
Tom and Jerry has just a wee bit of gender related identity politics material, but it fades just about as soon and the involuntary rolling of the eyes that might result. Forced diversity seems suspiciously afoot, but filling in diversity quota boxes alone without regard to who is best for the role or the overall storytelling was obviously not the MO here, like in other films. New Star Wars widely faces this criticism for instance. In other words, diversity as a goal can not overpower good actors and storytelling as a goal. These filmmakers, if they were indeed diversity conscious, as opposed to good old color blind, performance and overall presentation focused movie makers, managed to juggle things perfectly. If they wanted a very specific type of actor just for the sake of being "everything is racist" mob pitchfork proof, then they made damn sure that goal was only achieved after first finding the very best top notch actor to achieve the other goal. After having these unaided thoughts of mine on this topic, I found this piece of evidence AKA piece of shit article entitled: Tom & Jerry Wasn't Just Racist, It Was Sexist Too
This outrage mob, cancel culture, ridiculous rag of a publication's yellow journalism hitpiece proves my point and is exactly the type of tripe that likely and needlessly influenced these movie makers in particular and others generally.
One less apparent clue that forced diversity was being employed is the film's near exclusive reliance on hip-hop music and related culture throughout. Some musical and cultural diversity would be welcome to this particular fan of the movie here, who also in large part loves the film's chosen genre of music/culture and specifically some of the party, semi-intellectual, hip-hop music that both kicked off the film and in part my childhood beginning for love of such art.
