Tom and Jerry
Few rivalries have run as long as the cat and mouse William Hanna and Joseph Barbera created at MGM in 1940. The original theatrical shorts are the reason the brand endures: near-wordless, violently inventive slapstick, several of which (The Cat Concerto, Quiet Please!) won Academy Awards and still set the bar for animated timing.
What followed is a sprawling afterlife of diminishing but affectionate returns. Saturday-morning revivals kept the pair in front of new generations, while a long stream of direct-to-video features sends them improbably into Oz, Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes mysteries and outer space. The games and crossover appearances in MultiVersus extend the chase into interactivity. The shorts remain the masterpieces and everything after trades on their goodwill, but that goodwill has proven nearly bottomless.
The Tom and Jerry franchise spans 6 series, 2 games, 25 films in the CrossBinge catalog.
Films
- Puss Gets the Boot (1940)
- Baby Puss (1943)
- The Zoot Cat (1944)
- Quiet Please! (1945)
- The Cat Concerto (1947)
- The Invisible Mouse (1947)
- Mice Follies (1954)
- Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1993)
- Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2002)
- Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars! (2005)
- Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005)
- Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers (2006)
- Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (2007)
- Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)
- Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz (2011)
- Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse (2012)
- Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure (2013)
- Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon (2014)
- Tom and Jerry Santa's Little Helpers (2014)
- Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest (2015)
- Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz (2016)
- Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (2017)
- Tom and Jerry Cowboy Up! (2022)
- Tom and Jerry: Snowman's Land (2022)
- Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass (2025)