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. . . screenwriter Hannah Barbara is totally illiterate. As any literate person well knows, there are FOUR musketeers (Charles de Batz de Castelmore--aka d'Artagnan, Comte de la Fere--aka Athos, Monsieur du Vallon--aka Porthos and Rene d'Herblay--aka Aramis). Furthermore, WHY is a "Tom" recast as Milady? Everyone knows that the highlight of the original story is when this scheming harlot, played by Bonnie Parker, is beheaded. And WHY is Ms. Barbara sending cartoon characters to the Guillotine in a children's film, anyway?

This was good, but I don't see it as Oscar-worthy, unless the competition was slim that year. What did strike me early on was the magnificent artwork regarding the inside of the palace: rich colors and nice detail. Once the story started, however, we saw mostly food. Man, this animated short made me hungry.

Anyway, we are in France in the days of the sword-wielding muskateers, er, "mouseketeers" in this case. Tom, employed by the ruler, is to guard the king's banquet table "especially from those mousketeers," says the king. "If you don't, off comes your head!" Tom looks outside the window, sees the guillotine, and gulps.

The two mice - Jerry and "Nibbles" (the orphan from a previous cartoon) - invade the room and start gobbling up the food. Jerry spots them and the battle is on the rest of the way. There are a few clever things in here, such as using the pig's tail as a corkscrew, Tom making a shish kabob out a food thrown at him, etc.

In all, a solid story but I didn't like the ending. The cat went to the guillotine and was beheaded (not shown) and the mice walk away coldly stating, "Well, that's war." Wow - that's cold, brother.

I have also seen this cartoon and it was terrible to watch. Jerry and Nibbles are 2 Mouseketeers who torment, bully and abuse Tom and make his life a living hell. They make a mess of the feast and get Tom in trouble. They both team up sword fight against Tom and gets him in trouble in the end by watching him get executed by the guillotine.

Why did Hanna and Barbara make this awful cartoon? I don't understand why it won an Oscar, there are better Oscar cartoons made in this year. The Donald Duck cartoon "Let's Stick Together" should've won that award instead.

I would've liked to see Jerry and Nibbles lose for once. I would've like to see Tom win as he was just trying to do the guard duty job. If anything they should've been executed instead of Tom or better yet the rotten king in this cartoon should've been overthrown from his throne for animal cruelty to Tom the cat.

There are much better Hanna and Barbara cartoons to watch. I'm very disappointed with this cartoon short. There's a better Tom and Jerry 1954 cartoon prequel "Touche Pussycat" which was better than this cartoon.

Set in 18th century France, Oscar-winning short The Two Mouseketeers sees Tom assigned to guard a lavish banquet from Jerry and Nibbles, a pair of swashbuckling swords-mice with massive appetites.

This might have won an Academy Award, but it is far from my favourite Tom and Jerry short: not only does The Two Mouseketeers feature Jerry's horrible little mouse sidekick Nibbles (whose sickeningly cute voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me), but it ends with poor Tom being beheaded by guillotine after failing to do his duty. I know it's only a cartoon, and that Tom would return alive and well for his next caper, but I find the idea of the poor cat having his head lopped off rather unsettling.

I rate this one 4/10 for the cruel ending (although I probably wouldn't have been so harsh with my score had it been Nibbles with his head in the guillotine).

I dont think it warrants a need for spoiler warning since this episode is decades old and its practically safe to assume that everyone whos got a television or a computer had watched this at least a hundred times.

So, it starts with Tom being briefed about guarding the feast table with his life and must he fails, he is to subject to the guillotine. Now Jerry, together with his sidekick, Nibbles are on their way to screw that up.. So like all other Tom and Jerry episodes, Tom suffers from falling short of plot armor and cartoon logic does him in that he would always be vulnerable to whatever that Jerry throws at him..

So in the end.. Tom dies by the blade and the duo strut away victorious ending the episode with Nibbles commenting "Cest la vie"...

-I was only 6 years old when I first saw this and for some reason, I was the only one who finds it disturbing...