Tom and Jerry: Hijinks and Shrieks
Tom and Jerry: Hijinks and Shrieks
| 19 August 2003 (USA)
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The chase continues as Tom the cat pursues Jerry the mouse through seven vintage cartoons. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera directed the best of these: "The Flying Cat" (1952); "Missing Mouse" (1953); "Two Little Indians" (1953); the Oscar-nominated "Touché, Pussy Cat" (1954); and "The Flying Sorceress" (1956). The latter finds Tom tormenting his rodent nemesis from the air after borrowing a magic broom of a witch voiced by June Foray -- a.k.a. Rocky of Rocky & Bullwinkle -- among others. While the mayhem quotient is still high, these are less violent than the duo's 1940 cartoons. This collection also includes two lesser cartoons directed by Chuck Jones, "Is There a Doctor in the House?" (1964) and "Haunted Mouse" (1965).

Reviews
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.
Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.