Tom & Jerry are finally getting the live-action film treatment – and seeing the animated cat and mouse interact with the real world is a bit weird.
There was a period of time in Hollywood where the popular thing to do was introduce animated characters into live-action films. Think Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Space Jam.
That animated/live-action trend has been out of fashion for quite some time now but it looks like it’s trying to make a comeback using two of the most famous animated characters of all: Tom and Jerry.
Following in the footsteps of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the upcoming Tom & Jerry live-action film sees the famous cat and mouse be ushered into the real world where they get up to their usual shenanigans while crossing paths with a young event planner played by Chloe Grace Moretz.
After watching the newly released official trailer for the film, one can’t help but wonder a few things about this movie.
Flimsy sounding premise aside, one big question is how these two animated characters got transported to the real world in the first place. Did they walk through a portal and get dropped into our world or something?
Even more importantly, how exactly will Tom and Jerry’s antics play out in the real world given that they have to obey our laws of physics rather than their own? Well the trailer depicts Tom getting hit by a bus so it seems like the answer is a bit of column A and a bit of column B.
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But all in all, it’s a little jarring to see the violent animated antics of Tom and Jerry playing out against a real world backdrop.
Will this work like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Space Jam or flop like 2003’s Looney Tunes: Back In Action?
Guess we’ll find out when Tom & Jerry drops on March 2021 (unless it gets delayed like every other film so far).
Check out the trailer for the Tom & Jerry live-action film:
