Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1540 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-06-28
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Animated, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 180 minutes

Synopsis
More cat and mouse action from the world's best loved cartoon chasers. Features 25 classic cartoons including Tom & Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl, Cueball Cat, Casanova Cat and The Two Mouseketeers.

Customer Reviews

More P.C cuts, but still a bargain!
For under a fiver (just!) I think this series of Tom and Jerry DVD's are excellent value. The DVD itself is double-sided, which helps to pack all those great cartoons in, and thankfully their are no adverts at the start; you can be playing in under 20 seconds from when you've put the disc in!

Unfortunately, as I've found with all the Tom and Jerry DVD's so far, is that they've suffered the finger-wagging of middle class citizens who feel the need to place the title of 'Politically Incorrect' or certain aspects of the cartoons. This has resulted in the Black Mama (maid) having her voice completely re-dubbed in many of the cartoons, replaced by a woman who speaks each word in the clearest, most perfect notion, to take away any idea that she has Black Afro/carribean origins. This is very sad - are Warner Brothers trying to dismiss a piece of history?
Other P.C cuts include shots being re-framed, shots being cut out, and most bizarrely on "His Mouse Friday". The cartoon is set on an island full of Cannibals, and at the end, they zoom the shot into Jerry to take away the image of the small Cannibal. Yet moments later, when he runs away from it, the Cannibal is clearly seen, but timed so that we can't see its face... just bizarre.

I've been watching Tom and Jerry all my life, so apart from the odd distortion in picture when the frame zooms in, I was able to tell instantly when something was not right. But, for those of you who haven't been watching this for donkeys years, or who have young children, these cuts shouldn't make too much of a difference, so I still recommend you buy this DVD! But if you want the original animations in their entirety, think about getting the VHS collection's from the 90's.

More T&J classics!
This cool collection features the cartoons from 'Tom And Jerry In The Hollywood Bowl' (1950) to Just Ducky (1953), encompassing 26 episodes including the Oscar-winning 'The Two Mouseketeers' (1951) and the end of an era as the black maid Mammy Two Shoes makes her swansong in 'Push-Button Kitty' (1952).

One cartoon that I was expecting to be heavily censored for implied racism (given that a bit of censorship had affected some of the cartoons on the previous two volumes) was 'His Mouse Friday', which features black cannibals and many scenes where Jerry disguises himself as one. This was actually more complete than the previous video version that I had seen, where the cannibal dialogue from Jerry and the cannibals was completely removed (but you could still see their mouths moving) in that version it has been restored in this (yet Mammy was still redubbed in 'Push-Button Kitty'!), although one small segment of 'His Mouse Friday' on this DVD has been reframed to put a little cannibal out of shot, which was a bit stupid as you could clearly see him just moments later!

Some great cartoons on here. Still no sign of the missing 'Million Dollar Cat' (which by rights should have appeared on Volume 1).

Guaranteed to give you stomach-ache (through laughing)!
This DVD is a must for all true T&J fans. Every cartoon in this volume is from in my opinion the best period of the Fred Quimby era. Such gems as Cueball Cat & Fit To Be Tied are sheer genius, and are guaranteed to make the viewer laugh until it hurts - and then some more! All the favourite extra characters are in this compilation... the duckling, soldier ants, Toodles, Spike etc.

There isn't much in the way of extras on the DVD, and one rather irritating feature of all the volumes in this T&J DVD series is the fact they're double-sided which means you have to eject the disc & turn it over to see the remaining episodes. That said, the menu system is fairly intuitive and there isn't much in the way of legal mumbo-jumbo to wade through to get the the selection menu.

If you enjoy Tom & Jerry, just buy this volume - you won't regret it! I still give it 5 stars in spite of the gripes above.

The DVD contains the following T&J cartoons:-
Side A: T&J At The Hollywood Bowl, The Framed Cat, Cue Ball Cat, Casanova Cat, Jerry & The Goldfish, Jerry's Cousin, Sleepy-Time Tom, His Mouse Friday, Slicked-Up Pup, Nit-Witty Kitty, Cat-Napping, The Flying Cat, The Duck Doctor. Side B: The Two Mouseketeers, Smitten Kitten, Triplet Trouble, Little Runaway, Fit To Be Tied (my favourite), Push-Button Kitty, Cruise Cat, The Dog House, The Missing Mouse, Jerry & Jumbo, Johann Mouse, That's My Pup & Just Ducky.