Tom and Jerry play with a bratty baby.Tom and Jerry play with a bratty baby.Tom and Jerry play with a bratty baby.
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Babysitting in the park
The Van Beuren Tom and Jerry (as said already not the famous cat and mouse, this is a human duo that lasted for just under 30 cartoons, between 1931 and 1933) series was interesting but uneven and not easy to rate as an overall whole. At the series' best, the cartoons were good, very good in a few cases. At its worst, they were really bad.
'In the Park' is one of the series' weakest cartoons if not the worst ('Plane Dumb' gets that dishonour). It is sad that after one of the series' best 'Magic Mummy', which is one of their very good efforts, that between that and 'In the Park' (and including the latter) there are three misfires and series low-points in a row. The best thing about 'In the Park' is by far the music score which is the high point of even the worst cartoons. Here it is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated and full of energy, doing so well with enhancing the action.
Of the characters, although the ahead-of-the-time sexiness of the baby-sitter is interesting, the only one to work is the policeman. He also has the cartoon's best gag at the end involving a kiss on the behind.
Conversely, once again, the animation is very unappealing to look at. A vast majority of it is crude and simplistic with a fair share of static moments. Tom and Jerry look primitive and all the movements would be more at home in the 20s in silent film melodrama. Likewise with Tom and Jerry's antics.
While the Tom and Jerry cartoons are absurdist and weird in their style of humour, this doesn't come through here in 'In the Park' (for this series, the humour here is pretty subdued) in a cartoon where the number of gags also aren't enough. The timing is limp and lacks energy, while it's all too predictable, sometimes repetitive and disjointed.
Story is paper thin once again, true of pretty much every cartoon in the series (with only about four being successful in making one forget that due to executing most of everything else well), with everything feeling like filler. Tom and Jerry are bland, but other than it being visually unappealing and very bland humour-wise the worst thing about 'In the Park', very like 'Puzzled Pals', is the baby. Even for a character that is meant to be a brat the cartoon goes too far in that direction so the character is really irritating rather than cute.
To conclude, dull and unappealing but not a waste. 3/10 Bethany Cox
'In the Park' is one of the series' weakest cartoons if not the worst ('Plane Dumb' gets that dishonour). It is sad that after one of the series' best 'Magic Mummy', which is one of their very good efforts, that between that and 'In the Park' (and including the latter) there are three misfires and series low-points in a row. The best thing about 'In the Park' is by far the music score which is the high point of even the worst cartoons. Here it is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated and full of energy, doing so well with enhancing the action.
Of the characters, although the ahead-of-the-time sexiness of the baby-sitter is interesting, the only one to work is the policeman. He also has the cartoon's best gag at the end involving a kiss on the behind.
Conversely, once again, the animation is very unappealing to look at. A vast majority of it is crude and simplistic with a fair share of static moments. Tom and Jerry look primitive and all the movements would be more at home in the 20s in silent film melodrama. Likewise with Tom and Jerry's antics.
While the Tom and Jerry cartoons are absurdist and weird in their style of humour, this doesn't come through here in 'In the Park' (for this series, the humour here is pretty subdued) in a cartoon where the number of gags also aren't enough. The timing is limp and lacks energy, while it's all too predictable, sometimes repetitive and disjointed.
Story is paper thin once again, true of pretty much every cartoon in the series (with only about four being successful in making one forget that due to executing most of everything else well), with everything feeling like filler. Tom and Jerry are bland, but other than it being visually unappealing and very bland humour-wise the worst thing about 'In the Park', very like 'Puzzled Pals', is the baby. Even for a character that is meant to be a brat the cartoon goes too far in that direction so the character is really irritating rather than cute.
To conclude, dull and unappealing but not a waste. 3/10 Bethany Cox
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Nov 27, 2017
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