![]() Kayla (Chloe Grace Moretz) is trying to secure a job and lies her way into an interim position at a tony New York City hotel the very week that it's hosting an enormously fancy wedding. Much of the plot of Tom & Jerry hinges on characters who are, in a fascinating but not terribly wise choice, not named Tom or Jerry. Do kids care about Tom & Jerry? Maybe not, but it's existing IP and WarnerMedia needs to mine it for all it's worth. ![]() Whether younger audiences are familiar with the eponymous cat and mouse who constantly get into outsized scuffles is immaterial both the audience and these cartoon icons are ill-served by a movie that appears to have been conjured out of whole cloth by an executive drive to exhume intellectual property come hell or high water. ![]() The story is dull, the characters are single-dimensionally bland, and the performances are stiff. But it fails in so many basic ways of cinematic storytelling. Tom & Jerry is, in many ways, aiming to be a live-action cartoon.
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