THERE! I FIXED THE MOVIE! MINI - Tom & Jerry

 

I’m gonna be honest, this is a bit of an impromptu post. I wasn’t planning on making this one at all, but I have no idea why, but on Twitter, the 2021 movie Tom & Jerry has been making its rounds because of a certain critic who constantly praises it to no end. Granted, that’s not new in critiquing movies, but the way this guy talks about it and how much he does makes me think he wants Tim Story to come over to his house and suck out his smegma. And I gotta ask “really?” I mean, the movie is…harmless, I guess. It’s a vast improvement from the 1992 movie, its heart is in the right place and it has its funny moments, but if you go and watch it, you can easily see where the problems lie. But problems were made to be fixed, right? So, how would I fix the 2021 Tom & Jerry movie?

The common consensus I’ve seen around this movie is that the Tom and Jerry scenes are amazing, but the human scenes are quite bad. I have to agree, because yeah, whenever Tom and Jerry take the screen, the film’s pretty funny. They’re animated well, they come with two absolutely hilarious Droopy cameos, and the slapstick is pretty on point - it’s easily the best parts of the movie. But here’s the problem: they’re surprisingly barely in it. Most of the film focuses on a tedious “liar revealed” story about a celebrity wedding. Matter of fact, Twitter user @speedymctweet decided to do a count of how much screen time they have, the final estimate being a little over 28 minutes. How much do the humans get? An hour and eight minutes. That’s over half of what Tom and Jerry get. I in no way blame director Tim Story for this, he’s clearly a massive fan of the shorts and again, when he was allowed to actually show that, the film’s pretty great, I more so blame the executive meddling. So, easy fix here: the film should’ve been entirely about Tom and Jerry. I don’t think there’s any argument on that front. Because, let’s face it, who actually cares about the wedding plot? All it does is distract from the fantastic Tom and Jerry scenes. If it was about Tom and Jerry mucking about in a hotel, causing mayhem everywhere they go, that’d be pretty funny and keep true to the tone of the cartoons. Maybe I’d still keep the humans, but I’d reduce them to a way smaller role, like, side character at best. Maybe the exception would be the Rob Delaney character, who I think would’ve made for a better foil to the two of them than Terrence (the film’s been out for two years and I still don’t understand his motivation.) They could still utilise the human characters, like Kayla being more of a peacemaker to the two and the Ken Jeong chef whose name I can’t be bothered to Google just doing what he’s doing. I’d also swap out the post credits scene for that scene from the trailer with the two parting ways and Tom getting hit by a bus, because as is, what’s even the point of the credits scene? It doesn’t end on a joke, it’s just Colin Jost being handed a bill…and that’s it. But the point is, if you put the focus on Tom and Jerry and move the human plots to the side, then this could be considered one fixed movie. What do you think?

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