I am a huge Tom and Jerry fan, and I like Chuck Jones. While I prefer his Looney Tunes cartoons rather than his Tom and Jerry cartoons, apart from some disappointments I don't mind them. Are they as good as the Hanna Barbera cartoons? No, those cartoons are classics. But are they better than the Gene Dietch ones? To hell they are. The Cat's Me-Ouch is actually for me one of the better Chuck Jones-directed Tom and Jerry cartoons. The animation is not always brilliant, one or two parts are predictable and the story on the routine side. However, it moves briskly, has a good soundtrack and some interesting sight gags. Tom and Jerry are good value, but it is the dog who steals the show, a dog whose bite is bigger than his size. Overall, entertaining and above decent cartoon. 7/10 Bethany Cox
4 Reviews
Mini-mutt to the rescue.
BA_Harrison29 May 2017
Okay, so this is still a long way from the brilliance of the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but it's a damn sight better than most of the Chuck Jones cartoons thus far, and waaaay more entertaining than any of Gene Deitch's abominations.
The Cat's Me-ouch sees Jerry ordering a vicious dog from a magazine (who knows where he got the cash from), that, on delivery, turns out to be no bigger than the mouse himself. Tom is pleasantly surprised, at least until the mutt proves his worth, his gnashers teaching the cat not to judge a dog by its size.
Yes, the gags are predictable, but the little dog is such a lovable little fellow, loyally protecting his owner from the nasty cat in a whirlwind of teeth, that the cartoon proves a whole lot of fun regardless. The animation is passable and the final gag a more than reasonable way to wrap things up (unlike some of the more abrupt endings of previous Chuck Jones T&J cartoons).
The Cat's Me-ouch sees Jerry ordering a vicious dog from a magazine (who knows where he got the cash from), that, on delivery, turns out to be no bigger than the mouse himself. Tom is pleasantly surprised, at least until the mutt proves his worth, his gnashers teaching the cat not to judge a dog by its size.
Yes, the gags are predictable, but the little dog is such a lovable little fellow, loyally protecting his owner from the nasty cat in a whirlwind of teeth, that the cartoon proves a whole lot of fun regardless. The animation is passable and the final gag a more than reasonable way to wrap things up (unlike some of the more abrupt endings of previous Chuck Jones T&J cartoons).
Animation historians consistently rate . . .
pixrox17 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
. . . THE CAT'S ME OUCH as one of the Top Ten Humorless Cartoons of all time. Along-came-Jones and his Warner crew continue their Tom & Jerry revenge tour by excising any hint of levity from a dull duo born of intellectual property theft. Gone are the ribald he's and involuntary haw's the plagiarist masterminds Joe and Bill occasionally extracted from viewers during their initial batch of 114 purloined Tom & Jerry episodes. Though the sorry tale behind the heist of RHAPSODY RABBIT is well known to anyone with an inkling of the T & J backstory, several books have documented the stolen source material for each and every one of the other 113 copycat travesties filched by Joe and Bill--with exhaustive footnotes, in most cases. Read it and weep.
Classic Jones
TheMan305119 November 2002
Directed by Chuck Jones this Tom and Jerry short sees Jerry ordering a vicious dog from a catalog and when it arrives it's a puny little dog but boy it sure gives Tom a HUGE beating! That little dog is definitely the real replacement of Spike from the Hanna-Barbera shorts! The gags here are classic Jones and it's definitely worth watching.
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