Tom & Jerry

 Everyone's favorite cartoon cat and mouse duo are back. 

Tom & Jerry talked and sang in a 1993 animated movie that some people want to forget. This live-action movie has them mainly mute save for some stock sound clips. The end result is not a classic, but it's not a total loss either.

Tom and Jerry find themselves in New York City. Their shenanigans lead them to the fancy Royal Gate Hotel. There, our human lead, Kayla (Chloe Grace Moretz), steals a resume to get herself a job as event planner. The main event is the wedding of the apparently-famous Ben (Colin Jost) and Preeta (Pallavi Sharda). It's sure to go wrong if the staff finds Jerry living there. So Kayla hires Tom as the Hotel Mouser to get rid of Jerry. It all goes destructively wrong for her.

The title characters are the best part of their film in many ways. Every animal in the film is a cel-shaded cartoon character like them. The integration of animation and live-action here is as flawless as Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Tom and Jerry also get the best comic bits. Tom crosses a wire to get to Jerry, deals with his conscience (Lil Rel Howery voices both his inner angel and devil), and co-operates with Jerry for a high-speed chase on a skateboard. A few other cartoon animals, including Spike the Bulldog (Bobby Cannavale) and Butch and his Alley Cat gang (Nicky Jam and The Plastic Cup Boyz), are decent antagonists.

The least interesting part of the film are the humans. Kayla zaps away her likability by conning away that resume. She gets some of it back in the end once she owns up. Not all of it. The subplot with Ben and Preeta was pretty dull; the film spends so little time explaining who they are. A few other humans, Terrance (Michael Pena) and Mr. DuBros (Rob Delaney), were just there. The film spends so much time on them instead of the ones the movie is named for.

Tom & Jerry is an OK movie. The uninteresting humans and sometimes crude jokes aren't appealing, but the animated effects are. The animation keeps it from becoming a total failure. See it once if you have nothing to do. Whether to see it again is up to you.

Or, not at all.