Director: Chuck Jones
Release Date: June 9, 1965
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
Director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese reuse their story idea from their classic Warner Brothers cartoon ‘Mouse Wreckers‘ (1949), with Jerry and an anonymous mouse replacing Hubie and Bertie, and Tom replacing Claude Cat.
Like in the former cartoon, the two mice try to convince the unhappy cat he’s insane. The gags are different, though, as is the ending, for unlike Claude Cat, Tom gets his torturers and punishes them in the end.
Although ‘Mouse Wreckers‘ is much to be preferred above ‘The Year of the Mouse’, the inspired story works once again, and results in one of the better Tom & Jerry cartoons by Chuck Jones’s unit.
Watch ‘The Year of the Mouse’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 142
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Tom Thump
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Cat’s Me-ouch
http://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/437/tom-jerry-the-year-of-the-mouse.html
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December 28, 2017 at 20:25
Steve Carras
This gag was reused for WB’s (Bob McKimson) Goofy Gophers cartoon with the beagle from Foghorn shorts, “Gopher Broke”(1958), and Hanna-Barbera (themselves) Quick Draw/Baba Looey short “Slick City Slicker” (1959), both of which used the famous Capitol John Seely stock music (which for WB shorts seemed odd in others but worked here, and was only used to that music strike..five others shorts and parts of the original 1960-61 Bugs short used that as well..the “Gopher Broke” stock score of coruse was used for years in HB cartoons, namely before Hoyt Curtin took over…Mike Maltese wrote all of these except Tedd Pierce’s Gopher story.)