Tom and Jerry (2021)

Why, I hear you ask. Well, it’s what happened to be on at the cinema when my daughter and I went last week. Why was it made in the first place? Well that’s easy of course, cold hard cash. Can it possibly be any good? No, of course not, but having read some pretty scathing reviews, my expectations were extraordinarily low, meaning that I got more from it that I thought. Throwing the 2D cartoon figures of Tom and Jerry into the live action world of New York was, depressingly, only a matter of time, so it is at least good news that the film is drizzled with some fine actors, Chloe Grace Moretz and Michael Pena amongst them. They do the best they can with the fairly flimsy material on offer; there’s a famous couple getting married in a high-class hotel, and the staff are losing the plot with the arrangements, Michael Pena at the forefront of that. Moretz lies her way onto the staff, and eventually befriends Tom and Jerry in an effort to correct the mess they’ve predictably created. It’s nonsense, but it doesn’t basterdise the origins in the way I feared it might, and it’s more harmless than anything else. 4.5/10