Tom & Jerry
Warner Bros. | Release Date: February 26, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
9
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganFeb 26, 2021
While the movie is often adorable and overwhelmingly wholesome, it lacks the true essence of Tom and Jerry cartoons: Goofy, slapstick barbarity perpetually enacted between the two characters. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 26, 2021
The target demo here is the same as it ever was — 8-and-under. There’s plenty of slapstick and critter gags for them, crashing furniture, trashed hotel rooms and wedding party mishaps. The rest of us? “Cute” it is and cute these two forever will be. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 26, 2021
No, Tom & Jerry won’t be winning any Oscars, even if Hanna-Barbera shorts in which they starred racked up seven during the series’ 1940-58 run. But it’s good enough to go down easy. Read full review
60
IGNMatt FowlerFeb 26, 2021
Tom and Jerry hit the big screen for a hybrid live-action romp that too often feels like it's not even their movie. Read full review
52
PolygonJesse HassengerMar 1, 2021
Tom & Jerry feels freer in its moments of unbridled cartoon silliness than it ever does when it’s attending to its human plotting. It’s yet another hybrid where the overlit crumminess of live-action tries and fails to rescue animation from its own artistry. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesTracy BrownMar 1, 2021
The slapstick physical comedy does provide some laughs, and coupled with the toilet humor “Tom & Jerry” will likely appeal to some members of the family audience. Still, if you’re in a mood for this flavor of cartoon violence, you’re better off hunting down the classic shorts or episodes of Tom and Jerry’s past TV shows. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubErik AdamsFeb 26, 2021
It’s as though Tom And Jerry was intended to be enjoyed from home all along: Not only are you free to poke around on your phone between the set pieces, but you can use that phone to call up the 90-odd Tom And Jerry cartoons that also come with your HBO Max subscription. Read full review
42
IndieWireSteve GreeneFeb 26, 2021
Tom and Jerry manages to prove that it’s possible to be stretched thin and overstuffed at the same time. It’s a specially calibrated kind of chaos not so much meant to be a movie but something designed to hold the attention of a child. Read full review
40
EmpireIan FreerMar 26, 2021
Tom & Jerry: The Movie joins Garfield , Yogi Bear and The Smurfs as misfiring attempts to combine popular ’toons with live action. Our kids deserve better. They deserve Tom & Jerry 1940-’58. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMar 26, 2021
Very young kids might find some enjoyment in the brightly hued, fast-paced mania of it all, but those with any real affection for the pair of violently opposed animals will leave unimpressed. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerMar 1, 2021
There are some great sequences of just Tom and Jerry that feel like Tom and Jerry. There's just so much else, too much else, going on, and most of it involves the cast staring at animated animals added in post. Read full review
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ConsequenceBlake GobleFeb 27, 2021
The dispiriting thing is that Tom & Jerry is far from the worst family film in the world. It’s just a familiar, by-the-books, vertically integrated product to ensure continued IP visibility for the film and television arm of a corporate portfolio. Here’s the latest and laziest IP for you to become disenchanted by, should you feel so inclined. Read full review
30
SlashfilmJosh SpiegelFeb 26, 2021
Tom & Jerry is, in many ways, aiming to be a live-action cartoon. But it fails in so many basic ways of cinematic storytelling. The story is dull, the characters are single-dimensionally bland, and the performances are stiff. Read full review
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The New York TimesJason BaileyFeb 26, 2021
The de rigueur slapstick scenes for the title characters don’t even play, as the integration of animation and live action is so clunky that it feels like we’re watching special effects demonstrations rather than gags. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeFeb 26, 2021
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. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFeb 26, 2021
A few sequences of classic T&J comedy aren’t nearly enough to make up for the dull plotting and flat characters in this soulless product, one that will fail equally for adults who grew up on Tom and Jerry, and their kids who have never heard of these characters. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonFeb 26, 2021
A movie that seems to have been made by people who don’t understand the history, true nature or appeal of their iconic characters. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinApr 1, 2021
Essentially – astonishingly – the Tom and Jerry sections of Tom & Jerry are a sideshow, used to punctuate the human scheming and blundering around Preeta and Ben’s forthcoming nuptials. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriFeb 26, 2021
Tom and Jerry is so busy, so desperately unfunny, so clunkily cacophonous that it makes you long for the simple, brain-numbing charms of the one thing it pretty much refuses to give you: a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Read full review
20
Rolling StoneDavid FearFeb 26, 2021
As for viewers, well … whoever won in the endless round-robin of interspecies chicanery, we all lost. Read full review
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