![]() Set in New York City, (but filmed in England), Chloe Grace Moretz stars as Kayla, a street-wise con artist who steals the resume of a highly qualified applicant and lands a temp position with the upscale Royal Gate Hotel. Unfortunately, most adults have long since grown out of the slapstick violence of cartoons depicting Tom the cat chasing Jerry the mouse for several minutes at a time which showed incessantly on morning TV in their childhood, while kids might grow a bit bored by having to follow the antics of the live-action players who are the actual stars of the film. ![]() This marks the second attempt to catapult the cat and mouse to the big screen as a feature film after a not-so-successful effort by Miramax in 1992. If Tom & Jerry succeeds at anything, it’s in making entertainment every bit as mindless as they did back in the heyday of the Hanna-Barbera characters who appeared in a number of Oscar-winning short animated films for MGM in the 1940s and 1950s. The film languished in development hell for over ten years under a variety of different story directions and screenwriters, finally getting things together for a 2021 release, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is going out on two platforms: in select theaters and on the HBO Max streaming service. ![]() put into development a property they acquired in 2006, “Tom and Jerry”. Back in 2009, after the success of hybrid animated/live-action features that bring back old cartoon characters like 2007’s Alvin & The Chipmunks and the Scooby-Doo flicks from 20, Warner Bros. ![]()
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