Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure

Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure
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Directed bySpike Brandt
Tony Cervone
Written byPaul Dini
Based onTom and Jerry by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Tex Avery's characters and Barney Bear by Rudolf Ising and MGM cartoon studio
Jack and the Beanstalk
Produced bySpike Brandt
Tony Cervone
Sam Register
StarringJacob Bertrand
Tom Wilson
Grey DeLisle
Garrison Keillor
Paul Reubens
Edited byKyle Stafford
Damon P. Yoches
Music byMichael Tavera
Production
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Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
  • August 6, 2013 (2013-08-06)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure is a 2013 animated fantasy comedy direct-to-video film starring Tom and Jerry, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Tom and Jerry are the faithful servants of Jack, son of the founder of a struggling storybook amusement park that gets a much-needed boost thanks to some mysterious magical beans.

This marks the latest Tom and Jerry cartoon to feature Red Hot Riding Hood, who has not appeared in anymore cartoons since.

Plot

Tom and Jerry live with Jack and his mother in Storybook Town, a fairy tale-inspired theme park. The park has been ailing since the death of its founder, Jack's father. Young Jack is desperate to save the park from the hands of greedy billionaire Mr. Bigley who bought the park's mortgage, setting out with his loyal cat and mouse friends to sell his performing cow to make the next mortgage payment. Too late to sell it to a nearby circus, they trade the cow to a mysterious farmer named Farmer O'Dell for a handful of magic beans. What follows is a journey up a beanstalk to Fairyland, a magical land ruled by a greedy giant named Mr. Ginormous and home to all manner of fabled characters, some portrayed by classic MGM cartoon characters such as Droopy as Old King Cole and Screwy Squirrel as Simple Simon's pieman. Now, Tom and Jerry must put an end to their furry feud long enough to save both Fairyland and Storybook Town.

Cast

Reception

Chaz Lipp states the film is "a harmless hour of fun that should ably hold the attention of its target audiences," but confused about the lack of "fighting, chasing and general struggle between the title characters."[1]

Follow-up film

Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon was released on September 2, 2014.

References

  1. ^ Lipp, Chaz (August 4, 2013). "Blu-ray Review: Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure". The Morton Report. Archived from the original on May 10, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2020.