Tom & Jerry (2021 film)
Tom & Jerry | |
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Chris DeFaria | |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Alan Stewart |
Edited by | Peter S. Elliot |
Music by | Christopher Lennertz |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
Country | United States[2] |
Language | English |
Budget | $50–79 million[3][4] |
Box office | $136.5 million[3][5] |
Tom & Jerry (released as Tom & Jerry: The Movie in the United Kingdom)[6] is a 2021 American live-action/animated slapstick comedy film based on the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Warner Animation Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the second theatrical film based on the characters, following Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992). The film is directed by Tim Story and written by Kevin Costello.[7] It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, Pallavi Sharda, Jordan Bolger, Patsy Ferran, and Ken Jeong in live-action roles, with Nicky Jam, Bobby Cannavale, and Lil Rel Howery in voice roles. The titular duo are voiced by William Hanna via archival recordings, with additional vocals from Kaiji Tang and André Sogliuzzo (though the characters are listed as themselves in the credits). Set in a world co-populated by humans and cartoon animals, the film follows Tom enlisted to catch Jerry, whose presence threatens New York City's fanciest hotel and its planned high-profile Indian-themed wedding.
Warner Bros. executives wanted the film to "be what Tom and Jerry is",
Tom & Jerry was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on February 26, 2021, alongside a one-month streaming release on
Plot
A cat named
Local celebrities Preeta Mehta and her fiancé Ben are greeted, as they arrive, along with their pet dog
After more failed attempts, Tom designs an elaborate mouse trap that gets Jerry out of the hotel. Meanwhile, Kayla helps with the wedding plans and learns that Preeta's engagement ring is missing. Jerry returns, to clash with Tom on the piano, and reveals to Kayla that he had Preeta's ring and agrees to give it back to her in exchange for letting him live in the hotel. Before Kayla can agree, Terence returns from walking Spike and notices Tom looking for Jerry hiding in Kayla's coat pocket, creating a scene that causes Spike, Tom, and Jerry's chase to destroy the lobby. Terence is suspended, while Kayla is promoted to event manager, for returning Preeta's ring. Kayla tells Tom and Jerry that they will have to get along and spend the next day bonding if they want to stay in the hotel, to which they reluctantly agree.
While Kayla takes care of the hotel and manages the wedding with the crew, Tom and Jerry explore the city, but are imprisoned at a pound, after inadvertently committing
Kayla promises to Preeta that Tom and Jerry have atoned for their behavior, and Ben apologizes to Preeta for his extensive expenses, in light of impressing her father. Kayla and the stolen resume's owner reconcile with each other and get jobs at the hotel, while Tom finally becomes a jazz pianist and plays the piano for Toots, with Jerry joining the party until a mishap causes them to fight again. In a
Cast
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Kayla Judith Forester, a young inexperienced wedding planner of the Royal Gate Hotel who enlists Tom to catch Jerry.
- Like the humans in the cartoons, she enlists Tom's help to get rid of Jerry and promises to reward Tom (here being the hotel's pianist), if he succeeds in catching Jerry.
- Michael Peña as Terence Mendoza, a mean deputy general manager of the Royal Gate Hotel, and the boss of Tom and Kayla.
- Like the humans in the cartoons, he threatens to evict Tom, if he ends up causing destruction and fails to catch Jerry.
- Colin Jost as Ben, the groom of the Royal Gate Hotel's planned wedding and Spike's owner.
- Pet Peevewas also the first cartoon to showcase Spike having an owner.
- Rob Delaney as Mr. Henry Dubros, a wealthy, friendly general manager and owner of the Royal Gate Hotel.
- Pallavi Sharda as Preeta Mehta, the bride of the Royal Gate Hotel's planned wedding, and Toots' owner.
- Puss n' Tootsalso revealed that Toots has an owner.
- Jordan Bolger as Cameron, a bartender at the Royal Gate Hotel.
- Patsy Ferran as Joy the Bell Girl, a socially awkward Royal Gate Hotel bellhop.
- Ken Jeong as Chef Jackie, a chef and baker of the Royal Gate Hotel who hates mice.
- Paolo Bonolis as Wedding guest.
- Ozuna as Assistant hotel staff.
Voice and animated cast
- Tom as Himself, an adult, persistent and accident-prone blue/gray bicolor cat who is enlisted by Kayla to get Jerry out of the Royal Gate Hotel.
- He does not have a speaking role, but T-Pain voices his natural singing that mimics Ray Charles,[18] with archived vocals from William Hanna,[13] and additional vocals by Kaiji Tang.[19][20]
- Jerry as Himself, a young, cheeky and clever brown house mouse who moves in at the Royal Gate Hotel.
- He does not have a speaking role, but his vocals are archived from Hanna, with additional vocals by André Sogliuzzo.[21]
- American bulldogwho is the stereotypical dumb brute that clashes with Tom.
- Nicky Jam as Butch, a disgruntled black cat who leads an alley cat gang and teases Tom.
- The Plastic Cup Boyz as the Alley Cats, an alley cat gang led by Butch that claim to live on the Royal Gate Hotel's alley:
- Lil Rel Howery as Angel/Devil Tom, Tom's shoulder angel and shoulder devil.
- Utkarsh Ambudkar as Real Estate Rat, a rat who works as a real estate agent.
- pigeon.
- Jeff Bergman as Droopy. (uncredited cameo)
- Droopy also makes another cameo appearance, via a billboard in the background, during the film's opening sequence.[22]
Other Tom and Jerry characters who appear in non-speaking roles include Toots, Preeta's shy fluffy cat and love interest for Tom, Goldie, the Royal Gate Hotel's goldfish, and Clyde, a large cat in Butch's gang.
Production
Development and writing
On January 22, 2009, Warner Bros. Pictures announced plans for a new Tom and Jerry theatrical film, as a live-action/CGI hybrid film produced by Dan Lin with a script written by Eric Gravning,[23] following the success of Alvin and the Chipmunks.[24] It would have followed Tom and Jerry's origins over a Chicago backdrop, where they reluctantly work together to get back home.[25]
On April 6, 2015, plans shifted to a CGI-animated film produced by Warner Animation Group, with a script written by Bryan Schulz and Cornelius Uliano, who co-wrote The Peanuts Movie with Craig Schulz.[26][27] It was about a young family who moves into a New England country house inhabited by Jerry and adopts Tom to get rid of him. The duo would team up to protect the family and their house from an outside threat, and learn the meaning of family and friendship.[28][29] Cate Adams and Jesse Ehrman, who remains an executive producer on the final film, were set to oversee it.[30][31] Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up! recycled parts of the script.
On October 15, 2018, Warner Animation Group hired
Working on Tom and Jerry was a hugely exciting and intimidating experience. There's a reason these characters are still so popular, 81 years later, all over the world, and I wanted to be extremely careful to honor that. Tom and Jerry had to be themselves, look like themselves, not talk like themselves, and obviously, engage in absurd, gleeful, over-the-top cartoon violence. I had so much fun going through the old shorts, trying to break everything down on a character level, and finding ways to recontextualize classic elements in a way that felt nostalgic but new.
— Kevin Costello
Casting
In March 2019, it was reported that
Later that month, in March 2019, it was reported that Peter Dinklage was considered for the role of Terrance, Kayla's boss and the human antagonist of the film.[61] In May 2019, Michael Peña joined the cast in the role Dinklage was eyed for.[62] Colin Jost, Ken Jeong, Rob Delaney, Jordan Bolger and Pallavi Sharda were added to the cast in July.[63][64] Patsy Ferran was revealed to be part of the cast in September 2019.[65] Besides Moretz, Peña, Jost, Jeong, Delaney, Bolger, Sharda and Ferran have all grown up with Tom and Jerry, and were thrilled to take their roles.[47][66][67][68] According to director Tim Story, "Everybody knew exactly what this movie is about. Everybody knew those characters. Everybody was starting with a shared knowledge of these characters and kind of got what the movie should be".[44]
In November 2020, Nicky Jam and Lil Rel Howery revealed that they have been cast in the film in voice roles.[69][70] On December 2, 2020, Jam revealed that he will be the voice of Butch Cat in the film.[71]
Filming and production design
Principal photography began in July 2019 at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in Hertfordshire, England.[72] The film was shot by cinematographer Alan Stewart, on the Sony VENICE cinema cameras and Panavision Primo 70 and Primo Artiste Lenses.[73] Animators were present during filming, allowing cast members to improvise, while puppeteers handled figures of the animated characters that were designed to match their exact size, which helped the filmmakers with framing and helped the animators with lighting and other cues. This resulted in a seamless integration of animation and live-action.[74][14] Filming ended in September 2019,[75] before the industry's temporary shutdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[76]
For the film's production design, production designer James Hambidge went for a color palette that would avoid causing the animated characters' colors to clash with it. Hambidge, director Tim Story, and cinematographer Alan Stewart also ensured the film looks "bright, poppy and upbeat" yet colorful and realistic, "in keeping with the original cartoons", and avoided making it look drab and dark.[77][78] Story also avoided putting the characters in the human world. He acknowledges that Tom and Jerry were set in a realistic yet colorful universe, where their cartoony rules co-exist with humans who also have their own set of rules to live by, and aimed to bring their world to life.[79][80] Who Framed Roger Rabbit was also acknowledged as inspiration for the film's live-action worldbuilding interaction with cartoon characters.[81][82] When shooting the film, Stewart also took inspiration from the 1945 short “Mouse in Manhattan”, to recreate how it was more realistically-shot than the usual Tom and Jerry cartoon (which Story knows were usually shot in a rather flat, profile way), for the film's setting in Manhattan.[83]
As we were talking before about design, there's a homage to the older world that we wanted to bring. There's a famous short where Jerry goes to Manhattan – I think it's called "Mouse in Manhattan" — and he goes to Manhattan, and he sees New York for the first time and the skyscrapers. We wanted to be sure that we were able to kind of recreate the sense of that.
— Tim Story, in an interview to Below the Line [8]
Visual effects and animation
Both visual effects and animation services were provided by
To maintain the original '1940s-’1950s Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts' 2D-animated character designs, art style, movements, and expressions,
One of the first questions was what were they expecting them to look like? I was a big fan of those cartoons, and there's been other films in success that have also tried a different approach in terms of look, 3D, sometimes making them basically real inside the world and still just a cartoon look to them. But I was really interested in making sure that these characters look like the original material. By doing that, I think people would have a real nostalgia experience with the film, so that was important.
— Tim Story, in an interview to Below the Line [8]
Music and sound design
On July 22, 2020, it was announced that Tim Story's recurring collaborator and music composer
For the film's sound design, Story was able to get the rights to archive many sound effects from the MGM Cartoon library, such as William Hanna's high-pitched screams for Tom, Jerry's musical laughs, and the impacts of the characters being hit, which were edited by Peter S. Elliot (another recurring collaborator of Tim Story) to sound beefier.[13] Wanting to stay as faithful to the original Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts as possible, Story promised that "audiences will hear the sound effects they're used to, as Tom and Jerry chase after each other and destroy everything in their path."[33]
Release
Theatrical and streaming
Tom & Jerry was released in the United States on February 26, 2021, by
On March 8, 2021, some HBO Max viewers who attempted to watch the film were accidentally shown Zack Snyder's Justice League, a movie which was supposed to release 10 days later. HBO Max quickly fixed the issue within two hours.[117]
Marketing
On September 1, 2020, it was announced that Australian toy company Moose Toys made a deal with Warner Bros. to make merchandise for the film.[118]
On October 28, 2020, it was announced that an animatronic float of the titular duo will appear in the 94th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, to promote the film.[119]
On February 20, 2021, Warner Bros. released two new shorts onto
On March 6, 2021, Rob Delaney had been the star guest Announcer for Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, whereas the titular characters made an appearance themselves with Tom Jones.[125][126]
Home media
The film was available for rent on April 16, while
Reception
Box office
Tom & Jerry grossed $46.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $90 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $136.5 million.[3][5]
In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $4 million from 2,479 theaters on its first day of release. It went on to debut to $14.1 million, the second-best opening weekend of the pandemic behind Warner Bros.'s December release Wonder Woman 1984 ($16.7 million). The opening weekend audiences were 51% female and 46% under the age of 17, while 35% was Hispanic, 33% Caucasian, 21% African American, and 11% Asian.[4] David Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research, said of the figure: "With half of theaters still closed, the pandemic still a threat, and Tom & Jerry available at home, this is a very good opening."[129] In its second weekend the film grossed $6.6 million and in its third made $4 million, finishing second behind newcomer Raya and the Last Dragon both times.[130][131]
The film was initially released in seven international markets, grossing $1.45 million; Singapore led with $457,000.[132] By its second weekend of international release the film was playing in 16 markets, including debuting at number one in Brazil ($746,000) and Mexico ($395,000).[133]
Critical response
Several publications reported that Tom & Jerry received mostly negative reviews, upon release.
The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore said that audiences should just "rewatch Roger Rabbit instead" and wrote: "Tim Story's Tom & Jerry is five to ten minutes of action that might have worked in one of the cartoon duo's shorts, surrounded by an inordinate amount of unimaginative, unfunny human-based conflict."[138] Kevin Maher of The Times gave the film a score of 1 out of 5 stars, writing: "nothing will prepare you for the tone-deaf nature of this live-action abomination that inserts our cartoon protagonists, Who Framed Roger Rabbit-style, into a crass Manhattan misadventure about a celebrity wedding gone awry."[139] Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent gave the film a score of 1 out of 5 stars, describing it as "the cinematic equivalent of a sausage casing stuffed with mystery meat", though she praised Moretz's performance.[140] Benjamin Lee of The Guardian gave the film a score of 2 out of 5 stars, writing: "While there's little to truly loathe in Fantastic Four and Ride Along director Tim Story's frantic new take on Tom & Jerry, there's also an equal lack of anything to truly love; this is a serviceable, if entirely forgettable attempt to relaunch an old property for a new audience."[141]
Tom & Jerry received some positive reviews, among other critics. Matt Fowler of IGN gave the film a score of 6/10, and wrote: "Tom & Jerry is a sufficient family offering with a cool cast, a sparkling soundtrack, and occasional fun. It's too bad that Tom and Jerry often feel like afterthoughts in their own film and that there wasn't much more for them to do other than serve the story of others."[142] Charlotte O'Sullivan of the Evening Standard gave the film a score of 3 out of 5 stars, and wrote: "Ignore catty reviews that present this caper as soulless. Though horribly flawed, its internal organs are in the right place."[143] Matthew Bond of Daily Mail gave the film a score of 3 out of 5 stars, writing "they’ve retained their mute, indestructible, 2-D animated personas and the end result is much funnier than expected."[144] Brooke Price at The Banner, who also mentions the film's production as a reference, praised the film and found it entertaining, nostalgic, beautifully-animated and blended with live-action, and faithful to the source material.[145] Peter Debruge of Variety was also positive on the film and said: "Truth be told, the movie's a pretty faithful extension of the frenemies' long-running feud — basically, the two cannot peacefully coexist under the same roof — and as such, we should be grateful to director Tim Story (Shaft) and screenwriter Kevin Costello (Brigsby Bear) for not dropping a two-ton anvil on our nostalgia, the way so many big-studio toonsploitation projects have in recent years."[110]
Accolades
Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
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2021
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Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Time Waster Remake or Sequel Award | Tom and Jerry | Nominated | [146] |
She Deserves a New Agent Award | Chloe Grace Moretz
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Nominated | |||
People's Choice Awards | Favorite Family Movie | Tom and Jerry | Nominated | [147] | |
2022
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Golden Raspberry Awards | Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel
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Nominated | [148] | |
Worst Screen Combo | Itchy & Scratchy )
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Nominated | |||
Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Movie | Tom and Jerry | Nominated | [149] |
The movie was also nominated for the "Best VFX in Feature Film" award, at the 2021 Australian Effects & Animation Festival.[150][151]
Future
Television spin-off
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External links
- Official website
- Official website at warnerbros.com
- Tom and Jerry at IMDb
- Tom and Jerry at AllMovie