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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe 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.
- 63Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganPaste MagazineNatalia KeoganWhile 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.
- 60IGNMatt FowlerIGNMatt FowlerTom and Jerry hit the big screen for a hybrid live-action romp that too often feels like it's not even their movie.
- 60VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeNo, 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.
- 42IndieWireSteve GreeneIndieWireSteve GreeneTom 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.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeTim 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.
- 30The New York TimesJason BaileyThe New York TimesJason BaileyThe 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.
- 30SlashfilmJosh SpiegelSlashfilmJosh SpiegelTom & 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.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonA movie that seems to have been made by people who don’t understand the history, true nature or appeal of their iconic characters.
- 25RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoA 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.