#tom and jerry: the movie

[birdaquarius]

JORDAN BOLGER GIF PACK

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Gifs feature: Chloë Grace Moretz.

Warnings/triggers: Alcohol.

[mrawkweird]

History will say 1992's Tom & Jerry: The Movie was a great departure from their characters and having them actually talk was a mistake but as someone whose first exposure to them was this film it's always going to hold a special place to me. You can't ever convince me that this was just full blown bad because this was my shit. Do I miss you, count the stars; multiply by 10? Nah; those are bars.

[theanimationalley]

[tubapun]

I am this movies one defender

[davekat-sucks]

worst musical youve ever sat through?

I don't attend live musicals, sadly. Only listen to them via soundtrack or through recordings/filming, be it cartoons that have musical elements like Disney or live-action stage ones based on anime. But if I had to choose, it probably be the Tom and Jerry: The Movie in 1992. Aside from some moments in the movie that are memey, the songs don't really click to me.

[adamwatchesmovies]

Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)

If you know your internet memes, you’re probably aware of the best scene in Tom and Jerry: The Movie. It’s got you wondering if there are other hidden gems within its running time. Could this movie be so bad it’s good? I'm sorry to say it isn’t. This animated musical comedy is an ordeal. The plot is worthless, the animation ok at best, the songs horrid, characters bland, and as a big-screen adaptation of the classic cartoon characters, it’s a knife in the back. The movie is fun to talk about, however. If you and your friends are bad movie sadomasochists, it may be worth checking out.

After her father disappears during a Tibetan expedition, 8-year-old Robyn Starling (voiced by Anndi McAfee) - and her family’s fortune - are given to her abusive guardian “Aunt” Pristine Figg (voiced by Charlotte Rae). She conspires with her lawyer, Lickboot (voiced by Tony Jay), to keep all of that beautiful money for themselves. When Robyn runs away and bumps into Tom (voiced by Richard King) and Jerry (voiced by Dana Hill), she brings them back home and learns her father may still be alive somewhere.

Let’s begin with that title. This is hardly a “Tom and Jerry movie". For one, the cat and mouse are not the main characters. I wouldn't even call them important to this plot. Robyn is the protagonist. Without her, there is no story, no conflict, no villains. This means films like Tom and Jerry and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz - in which the titular duo are dumped in a plot they have little impact upon - are proudly upholding a tradition that began in 1992. It’s a shocker - almost as much as the scene in which the characters begin talking. They rarely - if ever - spoke in the cartoons. That was part of their appeal. It was all about these opponents trying to violently kill each other. Here, they sing a song about how good a pair of friends they are.

This movie wants to be ‘90s Disney so, so bad. To stretch its paper-thin plot (which is essentially ripped off from The Rescuers) we have one bad song after another. Each of these tunes is destined to be forgotten the second they end. That’s a relief. The rhymes and lyrics are so awful you’d curse yourself for remembering them if you did. However, this does bring us to the one - intentionally - good moment in the entire film: the villain’s song. (Money is Such) a Beautiful Word is exactly what you think it is. Minutes upon minutes of bad rhymes detailing how greedy Aunt Figg and Lickboot are. It’s pretty funny to see, but only if preceded by Tony Jay saying “We��ve got to have… money!”. The irony is that this blatant acknowledgment of greed is exactly what the executives must’ve told their lackeys when the film was green-lit.

There are obvious flaws in every scene. At one point, Robyn nearly drowns and is rescued by Captain Kiddie (voiced by Rip Taylor), the owner of a deserted amusement park whose right hand is always busy manipulating a puppet - an avatar for his split personality. Every sign points towards “child molester” but that wasn’t the intention, which is also pretty funny. When he's introduced, Aunt Figg and Lickboot desperately want Robyn back, so they're offering a $1 million reward to anyone who can find her and plaster her photo onto milk cartoons to spread the word. They do this on the same day she goes missing, which is impossible, but even the “we don’t care” team of director Phil Roman and writer Dennis Marks had to realize distributing these cartons would take a while, which is why Captain Kiddie explains to Robyn that she’s been out cold for 6 days. Anyone else would’ve called the police but evidently, he’s planning on chaining her up in his dungeon. Cut to a scene where he offers to pour Robyn a glass of milk. You can see where this is going. The carton has her picture on it, prompting his stupid bird to go ballistic and dollar signs to flash before his eyes. Here’s what I’m wondering. When did he buy that milk carton? Did he not recognize her before this very moment?

Another mistake in this train wreck is the character designs. They’re all over the place. When Tom and Jerry find themselves homeless (don’t ask), they meet a dog and his best friend, a flea. Both are dressed in real clothes and look like they come from a completely different movie. The next animals we meet are a gang of tough cats, who are also clothed and look as different from Puggsy and Frankie da Flea as. they do from Tom & Jerry. They also look nothing like Mrs. Figg’s dog, an ugly creature so fat it can’t even walk. It’s like a bunch of rejects from other animation studios were brought together to help fill space.

There’s a lot to complain about if you've seen Tom and Jerry: The Movie. This does make it sort of fun to tear apart, though to do so you’ll have to waste your time by watching the movie. I can’t say I’m sorry I sat through this mess - the “We’ve got to have… money” scene is funny enough that I will treasure it - but I doubt you would feel the same. (April 23, 2021)

[carmenell]

my favorite genre is tom cruise getting fucking manhandled

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Gene Kelly and Jerry Mouse - Anchors Aweigh (1945)

[spaghettimoll]

Guilty of fighting like a cat and a mouse 🐱🐭

[animegalaxy123]

this is what gonna happen when I hear my favorite Fandoms (the video does not belong to me)

[ciegeinc]

Tom Cruise as Cole Trickle in Days of Thunder (1990)

[somegrumpynerd]

Imagine Nightmare sending his henchmen after the stars, maybe at their base or somewhere where it should be easy to catch them off guard, but they just keep eating shit in hilariously slapstick ways.

Like Killer is chasing Blue with a knife but Blue opens the fridge door and clotheslines him with it. Horror appears around a corner fast to catch Ink but he misjudges it and trips over an armchair and falls. Dream pushes Dust down the stairs.

[hyunpic]

hyunjin got his burger crumbs on lino and the karma got to him instantly

[rainbowsuitcase]

My favorite bits from Top Gun Memos

which is a really cool book about the making of Top Gun! I did my best to make this post accessible, but please tell me if something could be better. Emphasis is mine.

This is a part 2, find part 1 here!

Tom Cruise almost fucking died. And "self-induced CPR" is my new favorite phrase.

(Transctiption: “It was a really nice sequence that Tony designed, and we executed, and it didn’t get into the film.”

Robert G. Willard, who worked on special effects, said the dummy made to look like Goose helped pull Cruise underwater. “They just got a dummy, and stuffed a picture in the face card, behind the glass, and it was enough to look like Goose.” It was made of foam, and when he saw them adding water to make it sink lower in the raft, and even weights, he said he warned them. “I told them, too much weight and you will lose it. I was overruled.” End Transcription.)

(Transcription: He saw what happened from the ship. “All of a sudden the dummy starts to sink, waterlogged, and Cruise’s leg is wrapped around one of the shrouds of the parachute.”

Kauber saw it happen but was too far away to react. Two other Navy rescue swimmers, Daryl Silva and John Butler, were closer. “They free-dove down there and cut Cruise loose. It’s lucky they got to him in time.”

They had knives as part of safety gear, which they used to cut him free.

In the roughly 40 seconds it took to bring him back up, Kauber had swum closer to the life raft, and was there when they surfaced. “Cruise had inhaled a lot of salt water and we threw him up into the Zodiac. “He looked like he was unconscious, but he came to. I think he landed either on his stomach or his chest, because once he hit the side of the rubber boat, it was like a [bold] self-induced CPR, [end bold] and it forced all that water out.”

They got Cruise to the ship and out of the costume. The actor was still struggling to regain his strength when Scott — unaware of the severity of what had occurred — yelled that he wanted to get another take. Cruise began yelling at the director that he wasn’t going to do it, using some “choice words” for Scott. “It’s the only time I saw Cruise lose it with Tony Scott,” said Wade. “He was pissed.”

“I remember Cruise being adamantly opposed,” said Kauber, with a degree of understatement. “He was raising his voice to Tony Scott. As far as the actual conversation, it revolved around whether he’d get back in the water,” said Kauber. “It scared the heck out of Cruise. He was that close to being crab bait in San Diego Bay.” End Transcription.)

2. He isn't making a documentary, you guys.

(Transcription: It was also out of the realm of possibility, which irked the Navy guys.

Technically it was possible for an F-14 to fly inverted, but it wasn’t something they would do and they would never be that close to another aircraft. The pilots — increasingly comfortable around the director, who was in their milieu — told him as much. Scott revived the line he’d used earlier in production: He wasn’t making a documentary. [bold] Pilots would sometimes restate it to each other: “He isn’t making a documentary.” [end bold] End Transcription.)

3. Again, I need to know who. Just for my personal amusement this time.

(Transcription: Everyone was shown aerial clips, without sound, including film shot of the actors when they flew in the F-14s. G-force had not been kind to them, and the shots documented a fair amount of airsickness. Baranek said he could hear the young men in the room cajoling each other. [bold] When one of the images showed a particular actor vomiting, another called out, “That’s some of your best work, right there.” [end bold] End Transcription.)

4. On shooting the cockpit close-ups.

(Transcription: Meanwhile, something had gone awry with the gimbal, which controlled the cockpit set. They had designed it to operate hydraulically, Willard said, “but we bent something the first day.” That didn’t change the fact that the heavy cockpit set had to be moved, and with an actor inside. “We ended up doing it all by manpower,” Willard said. The faux cockpit was held up mechanically but shifting it was hard physical work.

[bold] “There were six guys jockeying Cruise and Edwards around like Egyptian pharaohs,” [end bold] recalled Heatley, who was there to help work on dialogue. “There was a circular light around them and Art Scholl’s photography in the background. It was incredible.” End Transcription.)

5. Now I want to watch it again, just to see if I can hear this.

(Transcription: Hall began building a library of “great animal sounds” that were more dynamic. She focused on animal roars, specifically lions and tigers, and mixed in monkey screeches and parts of an elephant trumpet to get a slight scream. [bold] “So if you see a jet flying across the screen it might be a mix of 15 or 16 monkeys and elephants,” [end bold] she recalled. “It was a lot of fun.” End Transcription.)

6. The only sex scene I ever felt the need to look away from didn't need to happen.

(Transcription: Exhibitors thought the relationship with Maverick and Charlie was too light. [bold] “We felt we needed that sexual thing, for Maverick to bonk Kelly,” [end bold] Scott said in an interview years later, although by all accounts the director was not part of the “we” when it happened.

[bold] “Nobody thought it needed that,” said Weber. “‘We’ were done.” [end bold] End Transcription.)

7. Reviews!

(Transcription: “An empty-headed technological marvel,” wrote Michael Wilmington in the Los Angeles Times. The overall impression left by the movie was that of a “Disco War,” he continued. “Like disco, it evaporates from your mind minutes after you leave. Even though it’s an irresponsible movie (but one that has hit written all over it), it’s hard to get offended. [bold] The deepest impulses behind Top Gun are not political but sexual. You can tell by the number of scenes set in the shower.” [end bold] End Transcription.)

(Transcription: Reviews abroad echoed a similar theme to the early reviews stateside, but with some cheeky British perspective. “For a classic American hero, you couldn’t find anyone better than fighter pilot Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell,” columnist Pauline McCleod wrote when the movie was released in Great Britain on Oct. 3, 1986. [bold] “He’s about as manufactured as American processed cheese and his fellow countrymen just LOVE him!” [end bold] Cruise had played the role “with great skill,” she wrote, noting it was the No. 1 film in the U.S. End Transcription.)

8. Is Tom Cruise one of the most hated men in the American acting community? It's not impossible!

(Transcription: During a 2014 appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Kimmel asked Cruise about the first time he had traveled the world to promote a movie.

The actor said that it was during the foreign press junket tour for Top Gun, which he said took four months. They’d spend weeks in every city they visited in Italy, France, and Japan. Cruise told Kimmel he was the one who came up with the idea of premiering films in other countries, though he said, “It took me a few years to get it going.” Kimmel quipped, [bold] “So all these other actors must want to kill you.” [end bold] End Transcription.)