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After the fairies fight in the Spring Festival stalls, everyone's viewing needs have been greatly released. In the next "Lantern Festival", there will naturally be an adjustment after the excitement. It takes courage and self-confidence to choose a movie to be released at this time. No, here comes Tom and Jerry. Warners certainly have reasons to be confident. The success they achieved in "Space Jam" and "Warner Stars" by relying on their own "Bugs Bunny" (Tom and Jerry was an original by MGM, later acquired by Warner), there is no such thing as The reason cannot be replicated in this pair of "adopted sons". Feelings, someone will always pay the bill.
This isn't the first time Tom and Jerry have collaborated with real people on the big screen. It is even said that in 1945, their cameo appearance with the then king of musicals, Kim Kelly, in "Anchors Aweigh" was the earliest attempt to co-star live-action and animated characters in film history. That wonderful song and dance clip can still be seen on major video platforms to this day.
Yes, snippets. Our deepest impressions of cats and mice are often the fragments of slapstick, all kinds of accidents, and nonsense jokes. So, as a theatrical release, can a story movie with more than 100 minutes hold up? If you are not careful, will it become a small video collection?
Worry is never superfluous. This is a sloppy work that uses an old-fashioned story line, bluntly kneads and piles up old stalks, and sells feelings. Warner is sorry for the audience, and also for Tom and Jerry, who have accompanied CPs who have grown up for several generations.
Feelings, it has to be like a child. Not surprisingly, the film retains the traditional form of combining cartoons and real people in the visual effects processing. But advances in graphics technology are really visible to the naked eye. Animated characters are perfectly combined with real-life situations, and the images are also very realistic. For example, Tom is lying in front of Jerry's window in the rain, and the effect of wet hair on his body is full of light, shadow and texture; the cartoon character hits the wall, and cracks appear on it. These details are deliberate, allowing the audience to feel that these cartoon characters are really living in the real world. This is very worthy of affirmation, and it is the only highlight of the film. However, the world that was supposed to be real turned out to be false. The story of the whole film, as well as the performance of the live actors, is lackluster. The movie version this time is still following the same line as the cartoon that is less than ten minutes long. Tom and Jerry still interact like that. The way of slapsticking and funny are similar, and even some classic old bridges are all in the same way. been copied over. If you don't talk about nostalgia and don't treat it as a classic, for new audiences, these elements are too outdated and nothing new. Melting your own stalks by yourself may not be considered plagiarism, but at least it is suspected of being lazy and irresponsible. Even a die-hard fan like me can't buy it.
If you see the scene where Jerry smashes Tom's eyes (an old trick in the episode of "Firecrackers"), and you can still evoke memories and smile, then the real line, no matter the performance or the plot, is a bit of a disaster . The heroine, played by Clomorez, pretended to be an interviewer as soon as she appeared on the scene, forcing out the competitors and then winning the position. Do you really feel that the nerves of the Chinese audience have been completely paralyzed by the internal entertainment with this domestic Mary Sue's rotten appearance?
After that, it's the standard crap routine. The characters are thin, poker-faced, and forced to grow up, provocative, turn around casually, feel it, and make amends, let go of past suspicions, and then look happy from then on. Good works have their own shining points, and the sour and stinks of bad films have similar routines. Instead of being so perfunctory, it would be better to have a "Cat and Mouse Joke Collection", which would be more fun and less troublesome.
In general, the story of this film is very fake, the feelings are not real, and it can't touch people at all. It's just to play with Tom and Jerry. The perfunctory screenwriting and acting are really sorry for the efforts of the visual effects technology department. If you haven't bought a ticket yet, the nearly three-minute trailer online is delicious. After being embarrassed for 100 minutes, I walked out of the gate of the movie theater and finally took off my mask and took a deep breath. I really wanted to say something to my two old friends: "Tom and Jerry, it's hard for you this time...".
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