But the slapstick employed in this film is mostly a rehash of what we’ve previously seen in the Tom and Jerry cartoon series. The extremely passe storyline aside, one would expect at least the humour to work. The issue with Tom and Jerry is that the film itself is so familiar and typical that you’re left to look for such nibbles of gratification. And did I tell you that we also get to see other known characters like Butch, Spike, and Toodles Galore? One of the mouses even goes meta when he calls a property ‘mouse house’ and asks if that term, which usually refers to Mickey Mouse and Disney, is copyrighted. There are references to Batman, Dalmations, and in one scene, we even see Droopy in a straitjacket and mask similar to Hannibal Lecter. When the initial excitement of watching two of our most beloved characters on the big screen wears out, what really works are the small pop-culture references and easter eggs that are strategically placed all through the film. But this time, they also have to face the consequences of the carnage they create and that’s where the fun ends - for them as well as for us.

What we get in Tom and Jerry is our beloved cat and mouse doing what they do the best running amuck and causing destruction to anything and everything in the vicinity. Interestingly, the hotel in that film is owned by a family named Dubrow, which also happens to be the name of Royal Gate Hotel’s owner. The set-up is eerily similar to 1996’s Dunston Checks In - a film where an orangutan is let loose inside a five-star hotel. On paper, Tom and Jerry follows the regular ‘don’t you dare mess this up’ plot that we’ve seen in countless films. The rest of the film follows this cat and mouse chase, quite literally, and revolves around whether the event happens the way it’s meant to. Thanks to a high-profile event that’s coming up in a few days, the hotel’s manager orders Kayla to handle the pest infestation.

just regular boring humans, Kayla (Chloe Grace Moretz) fakes her resume to land a job at New York’s Royal Gate Hotel which Jerry has made its home and Tom, as always, badly wants to get into. In a world where all animals are animated characters and humans are.

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