The cartoons are known for some of the most violent cartoon gags ever devised in theatrical animation: Tom may use axes, hammers, firearms, firecrackers, explosives, traps and poison to kill Jerry. Despite their endless attacks on one another, they have saved each other's lives every time they were truly in danger, except in The Two Mouseketeers, which features an uncharacteristically morbid ending. At other times, the pair set aside their rivalry in order to pursue a common goal, such as when a baby escapes the watch of a negligent babysitter, causing Tom and Jerry to pursue the baby and keep it away from danger, in the shorts Busy Buddies and Tot Watchers respectively. However, on several occasions, they have displayed genuine friendship and concern for each other's well-being.
Despite Tom's clever strategies (whether they work or not), determined and energetic mindset, large size, and exceptional overall intelligence, he rarely succeeds in getting the best of Jerry, mainly because of Jerry's cunning abilities, luck, and his lack of tendencies in being a bit too reckless. The plots of each short usually center on Tom and Jerry's numerous attempts to have the best of each other and the mayhem and destruction that follows.
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The series features comic fights between two lifelong enemies, a cat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry).
Best known for its 161 theatrical short films by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series centers on the rivalry between the titular characters of a cat named Tom and a mouse named Jerry.
10 Worst: Tom And Jerry Blast Off To Mars! (6.Tom and Jerry is an American animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. So, here's a look at the five best and five worst Tom and Jerry films, according to IMDb. In spite of the enduring success of the show and the continuing of the films, some of the films were better received, and therefore better rated, than others but all films still tend to have lower ratings. With some exceptions, the Tom and Jerryspin-off films typically are adaptations of different aspects of popular culture from The Wizard of Ozto The Fast and the Furious, but with Tom and Jerry in them. Related: The 10 Most Powerful Hanna-Barbera Characters Ever, Ranked The short films and the subsequent spin-offs follow Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse and the antics that come from adding a cartoonish spin on the cat-and-mouse chase.
It has since led to a number of spin-off television shows, a theatrically released film, as well as direct-to-video films, with another theatrically released film set to come out in December of this year, after originally being scheduled for 2021. Tom and Jerry is a series of cartoons that started out as shorts that were produced by Hanna-Barbera and MGM Cartoons in the 1940s.