Kitty Foiled (1948) User Reviews (13)

tom and jerry at their most pure

[movieman_kev · 9/10 · 31 May 2005]

Tom is chasing Jerry when the mouse befriends a small canary. A lot of the gags work and hearing Tom's laugh is infectious. And the canary is one of the third characters that I like, unlike the buzzard for Flirty Birdy or the fish from Cat Fishin'. All in all this is a pretty funny violent Tom and Jerry short. This hilarious cartoon can be found on disc one of the Spotlight collection DVD of "Tom & Jerry"

My Grade: A

DVD Extras: Commentary by historian Jerry Beck on how this is his favorite Tom and Jerry cartoon, talks about Jerry's sidekicks, and the animators (kinda sparse, with some silent parts)

Cat Vs. Mouse and Canary

[looneythad · 9/10 · 31 March 2000]

Tom tries to catch both Jerry and a canary. Jerry and the bird trick Tom by dressing as an Indian and making him think he got shot. Tom catches Jerry and ties him to toy train tracks, but the canary sends the feline down to the ground with a bowling ball.

Tom gets a new foe

[Tweekums · 7/10 · 23 July 2012]

This Tom and Jerry short opens with a shot of a canary in its cage; in the background we can hear the sort of mayhem that can only mean Tom and Jerry are at it again! We then see Tom is in hot pursuit of Jerry, smashing things as he goes. It soon looks as if Jerry is done for but the canary comes to his rescue. The rest of the short involves Tom chasing the canary, who is then rescued by Jerry and Tom chasing Jerry who is rescued by the canary and Tom chasing both of them. Inevitably Tom comes off much worse as he is battered by the two creatures he is trying to catch.

There is no real plot to this short; just a succession of chases and comic ways for Tom to get hurt. Probably not politically correct these days but I couldn't help laughing when Jerry disguised himself as an Indian and said 'How' in a really deep voice! Another highlight was when Tom tied Jerry to the tracks of a model railway and prepared to run him over with a train only to be foiled when the little bird dropped a heavy bowling ball on the tracks... utterly ridiculous but still funny! Overall its not the best Tom and Jerry cartoon but it has plenty of good laughs; I'm sure youngsters will love it along with those who enjoyed it as a child.

A Great Example Of Why These Tom & Jerry Cartoons Were So Well-Received

[ccthemovieman-1 · 10/10 · 24 January 2007]

Tom is wrecking the house, smashing everything in sight with a broom while trying to hit Jerry. The little canary in the bird cage sees Jerry in big trouble, gets out his cage and comes to the mouse's rescue. Jerry then chases the bird, and he when he's got him and ready to move in for the kill, Jerry returns the favor and rescues the little yellow-feathered guy.

Those two then escape for a breather in Jerry's mouse hole. They shake hands and become a team, doing battle with the cat.

The whole cartoon has a lot of funny and clever scenes. This is one of the better Tom and Jerry efforts and makes me realize once again how talented there writers were on these animated short subjects. This is "Exhibit A" why these cartoons were so popular.

Any friend of Jerry's is a friend of mine...

[TheLittleSongbird · 10/10 · 4 May 2010]

I thoroughly enjoyed Kitty Foiled, never once did I find it generic and bland but that is just me. The sight gags are plentiful, and all of them work thanks to primarily the fast pacing. The best of them is when Tom ties Jerry to a railway track, and the canary saves Jerry's life by making a bowling ball fall through the track(and Tom falls through the hole of course), though everything else is on the money. As per usual, the production values and music are top notch, and while Tom is more sadistic than usual he is fun. And you really feel sorry for Jerry, but I had real admiration for the cute canary, anybody who saves Jerry's life is a friend of mine, that's what I'd say. Overall, thoroughly enjoyable and a lot of fun. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Two Against One

[StrictlyConfidential · 6/10 · 1 July 2021]

"Kitty Foiled" was originally released back in 1948.

Anyway - As the story goes - Jerry teams up with a canary to fight off the attacks of house cat, Tom.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[llltdesq · 10/10 · 5 October 2003]

Tom can't seem to catch a break-he not only has Jerry to chase (difficult in and of itself, as witness his monumental failure rate), but a little yellow bird sticks his beak in matters at the most inopportune (for Tom) moments. An important object lesson is taught to the two allies at a point of seeming success: premature celebration may be hazardous to one's longevity of health and/or life. Save the congratulations for a safer time and place. Most entertaining and executed short from when Tom and Jerry were definitely in flower. Well worth watching and most highly recommended.

One of my favorite Tom and Jerry shorts

[anonymus887 · 10/10 · 8 July 2019]

This is was the first Tom and Jerry decent episode after Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Mouse in my opinion! This episode is really good and funny in my opinion, this episode has a good animation and sountrack. This episode is a way better than the 1947 crappy episodes, they were too bad and bald in my opinion!

I would rate this as 10/10

Fast and fun canary chaos

[Horst_In_Translation · 8/10 · 30 January 2018]

"Kitty Foiled" is an American cartoon from 1948, so this one has its 70th anniversary this year. It was written and directed by Hanna Barbera and this makes this another Tom and Jerry production of course that runs for over 7 minutes slightly as they do most of the time. They are going with the usual formula of adding a new supporting character to spice things up between the cat and mouse and this time it is a canary. And he is great fun, makes a nice little cute couple with Jerry and the two are just fun together while Tom isn't too shabby either and honestly you must have wondered when Tom will finally find another target and here he does. You can see that western films were really popular around that time as the part with the gun, the Indian scene and the final train scene all stood for that and they were all pretty hilarious. Tom's looks up on that train near the end were so hilarious as if insanity has gotten the better of him and he turned into Ca(p)tain Ahab eventually. I enjoyed this little film really a lot and it is far better than all the WB Sylvester/Tweety stuff, especially as this canary here is 100 times better than Tweety. It does not need the Oscar attention for me to say that here we have one of my favorite Tom and Jerry works and it gets even better on rewatch. Nice inclusion of Auld Lang Syne too. An absolute must-watch, not just for lovers of old cartoons.

One of the worst.

[CuriosityKilledShawn · 3/10 · 29 May 2007]

Kitty Foiled is one of the blandest and most generic T&J shorts I have ever seen. I don't think I laughed once. Every gag is a rehash lifted from another cartoon. How many times has Tom's teeth been smashed like a window now?

The short has T&J already involved in a pointless chase as soon as it starts. A canary (an annoying new character) witnesses what appears to be Jerry's potential demise and interrupts to save him by attacking Tom, Jerry then saves the canary in a similar way. The bird and the mouse then team up to make the kitty's life hell with lots of boring assaults on Tom. And I just don't care.

Cheep laughs; bird-brained plot.

[BA_Harrison · 5/10 · 29 June 2008]

Another routine Tom and Jerry escapade, Kitty Foiled is given the 'new character' treatment in an effort to disguise the fact that we've seen most of the gags before.

This time around, Jerry is given a hand (or, rather, a wing) in his fight against Tom by a cute canary; together, the little bird and the plucky mouse are more than a match for the cat, repeatedly teaching him to pick on someone his own size by violently smashing, bashing and generally hurting the poor moggy (who, let's face it, is just following his natural instincts!!!).

Towards the end of this rather tedious episode there are one or two moments that shine (the cat caught in the bear rug gag, and the bowling ball bomb), but, in general, this is one of the duo's lesser efforts.

Many if not most of the Ladies of Putin's Party (USA Chapter) . . .

[oscaralbert · 5/10 · 22 March 2017]

. . . (aka, the Pachyderm Plotters, aka, the Rich People Pack, aka, the Red State Rotters) either yearn to or actually DO pack on the pounds to elephantine proportions so that they can strip down to their lingerie (at most) and strap on spike heels in order to stomp someone's innocent little furry pets such as hamsters and guinea pigs violently to death while making their infamous "Crush Videos" as the only viable means of getting off their Deplorable Men Folk. This is all brought to you in Real Life courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court, controlled this entire 21st Century by the Rigged Selection of an Appointee Majority from Putin's Party, and about to be doomed to another 40 years of "Crush Video" Legalization by Putin's next young SCOTUS pick, the Russian-sounding Gorsuch (UNLESS some Normal Patriotic Loyal True Blue Americans see to it that a few of these Fraudulent Fake Justices are quickly PELICAN BRIEFED). So where does KITTY FOILED come into this conversation? Animal Rights experts assert that Tom & Jerry cartoons such as KITTY FOILED inspired the Decadent Excess of Crush Videos and the like. From its earliest GONE WITH THE WIND days, Tom & Jerry's MGM movie studio has been a key Putin Party Propaganda Organ for the dispensing of Fake Facts, False News, Prurient Perversions, and Doom to any remaining remnant of Red State Decency.

Not Funny

[jhshifris · 1/10 · 2 October 2022]

I wouldn't want to let my daughter see it because it's not for kids to sit down and see, as in with gun that they put in there and also with the look that was on Tom's face when he was on the train.

I wouldn't want to see it again because it's not funny.

I did see this one when it was on TV long before I started high school and I don't believe that I laughed when I saw it back then. The ones(that wrote this one)probably got ideas from other cartoons.

What you have here is too violent and STILL too violent, so, that's why I only gave it a 1star review. I'm sorry if I did it but I had to do it.

And it also wasn't fun for me to see.