Sorry Safari

Director: Gene Deitch
Release Date: October 1962
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★
Review:

In ‘Sorry Safari’ we meet the fat man from ‘Down and outing‘ and ‘High Steaks‘ for the last time. In this cartoon he is on a safari in Kenya.

Tom and Jerry perform uninspired antics reminiscent of the former two cartoons. Never sympathetic in the Gene Deitch cartoons, Jerry is particularly nasty in this one. The whole affair is a tiresome watch and one has ample time to gaze at the charming cartoon modern background art of the jungle. The cartoon’s only highlight is its strangely designed elephant.

But notice the piece of animation when Tom tries to get Jerry out of one of the guns: suddenly he looks and moves like his old self again. This sequence does only last a second, but how did the marvel get in there? Did the animator trace a Hanna-Barbera cartoon for just these few frames? I guess we’ll never know.

Watch ‘Sorry Safari’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 125
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Tall in the Trap
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Buddies Thicker than Water

‘Sorry Safari’ is available on the DVD-set ‘Tom and Jerry – The Gene Deitch Collection’ and the European DVD-Box ‘Tom and Jerry Collection’