10/10
One flustered cat, one persistent and highly inventive mouse and of course one grand piano equals one truly great classic landmark in cartoon history!
30 September 2014
I love this one to bits, I really don't see how anybody with even the slightest appreciation of the characters ever could not t, as it's undeniably the gosh-darned Citizen Kane of all Tom and Jerry adventures! Even though there are others I enjoy just as much, I still really can't in all honesty deny that this is probably the very greatest example of this legendary duo's particular brand of magic, and maybe even what they're best remembered for. You might think that it'd be somewhat limited by the confines of the setting simply, being a piano and its two players, but it actually has a feel to it that's rather immense! I love its pitch-perfect pacing, how it begins small and gradually builds as the choreography of the action flows along with the music till by the end it becomes something so epically artful in its madcap grandeur and a real animated tour-de-force that is such greatness to watch! I love all the gags that they managed to come up with out of just the piano keys - or the things on the underside of the keys, they did a spanking key, golf club key, even a bucking bronco key! I think what could have made the ending of it even better for me would have been if instead of the crowd only cheering for Jerry, they were cheering for them both and then the still furious Tom would have heard the applause and been happy that Jerry inadvertently ended up giving him a helping hand and then they'd both take a well-earned bow. The musical score gives things a real extra passion as well as a touch of class. And the way everything that occurs goes together so incredibly well with that music is so charming and funny and it makes me think that there's just no possible way they could've ever found another tune that would have matched the hi-jinx of those two so perfectly. So bravisimo indeed, they gave their best performance ever!!! 🌟
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