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Life with Tom
Mail call. Nothing for Tom, but at Jerry's box, Tom finds a package; inside is a book, "Life with Tom" by Jerry Mouse. As Tom flips to chapters and hears, first a radio audience, then a group of alley cats, then Spike and Tyke, all laughing over the book, we see the clips from earlier shows that everyone is laughing at. Tom gets more and more irate about being the butt of everyone's jokes, and confronts Jerry, clobbering him with the book, when Jerry shows Tom the rest of his mail. The royalty checks have come in, and Jerry has split his $50,000 royalty with Tom. Suddenly, with $25,000 in his pocket, Tom is able to find the book funny.
| Release : | 1953 |
| Rating : | 6.9 |
| Studio : | MGM Cartoon Studio, |
| Crew : | Background Designer, Director, |
| Cast : | Paul Frees |
| Genre : | Animation Comedy |
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A waste of 90 minutes of my life
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Although a lot of the material is recycled, this is still a very entertaining cartoon. Plus, the recycled material thing really isn't a problem seeing as the material used is so good, "Cat Fishin'", "Kitty Foiled" and "The Little Orphan" are some of the better Tom and Jerry cartoons in my opinion. The artwork is stunning here, and the music is an absolute delight to the ears. The concept is also great, Jerry writing a book about Life with Tom is a truly great idea, and the sight gags are a lot of fun. To top it all, the ending was really quite nice, and the whole cartoon moves along very quickly. Overall, a very entertaining cartoon even with recycled material. 9/10 Bethany Cox
This is mostly "flashbacks," which mean re-hashed or retread materials, clips from previous Tom and Jerry cartoons. I hate it when that happens, whether it's The Pink Panther cartoons, or The Three Stooges short films....whatever....it's a lazy way to make a "new" animated or short film. For devotees of that particular character or characters, it's a total waste because we've seen this stuff before.In this cartoon, the "angle" to use this old material is a new book that Jerry has published called "Life With Tom," a play-on-words of the late 1940s film, "Life With Father," perhaps. Anyway, as Tom thumbs through this best-selling book, we get some of Jerry's favorite stories of the two rivals going at each other. A fishing trip comprises one story; a Thanksgiving Day is another is the day Tom tied Jerry's to some miniature railroad tracks. It's all good material, unless you've seen it before. The ending - which at least is new - makes Tom change his mind about the book.
Tom gets the mail and finds a package for Jerry. Instead of giving it to him, he opens it himself and finds a copy of a book Jerry wrote detailing all the stupid things Tom has done and all the mean things he's done to Tom. And, during the course of the cartoon, you are treated to a lot of vintage clips of the cartoons. While I really don't like these retread films, this one is pretty good because the original material is so good and because the story that ties together all these old clips is pretty good as well. While not exactly a great Tom and Jerry cartoon, it is entertaining and worth seeing. Plus, the animation quality and the rest of the production values are excellent.
I LOVE this. I have seen it sooo many times. Tom finds a book in Jerry's mailbox and it is all about the times Tom and Jerry have spent together. Well, the times that make fun of Tom. It is very funny and it is a classic with and ending that will surprise you. I give it an A.Chris
