I'm surprised it's rated yellow almost across the board. I'm sure if the cartoon music hall singer and her kissing scene with Jerry rates as a mild for sex, surely the pub scene scores the same for alcohol and smoking??? With an understandable orange for violence (surprised it wasn't a red on the scale they must be using), makes this the raunchiest thing I've watched in a long time! Of course it's not......
It took me back to Saturday, early evenings as a child. The BBC would run a few 5 minute cartoons, followed by The Pink Panther show and then Doctor Who, or Whorzal Gummage before bed time at eight. Something like that....
I enjoyed this cartoon. A few guest appearances from other classic cartoon pairings. The artwork does not have exactly the same look as the old short cartoons, the feel is a bit more Scooby Doo rather than old school Tom and Jerry. Having said that a 45 minute version of classic T&J would probably be a bit much. The story line was entertaining if not original - T&J meets Sherlock Holmes seems to be the originality quota used up for this presentation. Lots of flattened gags used, too many. I experienced those old feelings I used to get of feeling sorry for poor Tom as he got flattened yet again. Educational too, I'd never heard the word bumbershoot before - always needed another word for umbrella. It's a bit confusing as to which year it was set in, I'll let the reference to Queen Victory slip, must have been an old song .... Butch tells Spike that there had not been an attempt to steal the Crown Jewels since they had moved to the Tower of London in 1902 (Queen Victoria died Jan 1901), but ladies wearing dresses with bustles - Victorian, the particular bustle I spotted would have been 1885 ish. If they hadn't thrown in the 1902 fact I wouldn't have suddenly got fixated with the point in time the story was set. Morale - don't mention an actual date in your cartoon if you don't want to be fact checked. Overall, enjoyable.
It took me back to Saturday, early evenings as a child. The BBC would run a few 5 minute cartoons, followed by The Pink Panther show and then Doctor Who, or Whorzal Gummage before bed time at eight. Something like that....
I enjoyed this cartoon. A few guest appearances from other classic cartoon pairings. The artwork does not have exactly the same look as the old short cartoons, the feel is a bit more Scooby Doo rather than old school Tom and Jerry. Having said that a 45 minute version of classic T&J would probably be a bit much. The story line was entertaining if not original - T&J meets Sherlock Holmes seems to be the originality quota used up for this presentation. Lots of flattened gags used, too many. I experienced those old feelings I used to get of feeling sorry for poor Tom as he got flattened yet again. Educational too, I'd never heard the word bumbershoot before - always needed another word for umbrella. It's a bit confusing as to which year it was set in, I'll let the reference to Queen Victory slip, must have been an old song .... Butch tells Spike that there had not been an attempt to steal the Crown Jewels since they had moved to the Tower of London in 1902 (Queen Victoria died Jan 1901), but ladies wearing dresses with bustles - Victorian, the particular bustle I spotted would have been 1885 ish. If they hadn't thrown in the 1902 fact I wouldn't have suddenly got fixated with the point in time the story was set. Morale - don't mention an actual date in your cartoon if you don't want to be fact checked. Overall, enjoyable.