Baby Puss

One of the funniest Tom & Jerry cartoons ever made. Tom getting dressed up as a baby by a little girl is priceless in itself. Add Jerry, and a few alley cats to the mix, and you got one funny cartoon. Not to be missed!

There may be the odd joke that I agree could be perhaps a little on the mean-spirited side of things, but this is occasionally. Overall, Baby Puss is very well animated and very funny, well to me it is. Tom is great here and takes his humiliations well, while Jerry is as cunning as usual, and the girl and alley cats are good support. Even more impressive than the characters is the animation and music. For me, Baby Puss in terms of animation is one of the best-looking Tom and Jerry cartoons, with the backgrounds and colours stunning. The music has a lot of energy and beauty, while the cartoon goes at a cracking pace and while there is the odd sadistic gag(though none of them are as sadistic as the Gene Dietch cartoons) Baby Puss is very funny and makes the most of a somewhat unoriginal but never predictable story. So overall, very enjoyable, well animated and funny. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Baby Puss (1943)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

One of the best in the series has Tom being dressed up as a baby by the little girl who lives with him. This leads to Tom being picked on by Jerry but things get even worse for the poor cat when a group of alley cats show up to continue the abuse. BABY PUSS is without question the best film in the series up to this point and it manages to feature one great laugh after another. For starters, the voice of the little girl is just so perfectly annoying that you really can't feel Tom's pain. The comedy aspect is extremely high and especially with the various abuses that Tom receives at the hands of the other cats. The diaper changing sequence is just a classic as is the scene where Jerry does some cross-dressing. Fans of the series will certainly love this one.

The first Tom and Jerry cartoons always caught my attention because of the Character Designs and obviously because it was the beginning, there were excellent shorts and my favorite was "The Night Before Christmas", Baby Puss although a little more Cruel and Sadistic than normal, I loved it both Visually and Musically.

Here we see an Evil Girl named Nancy who Forces her Cat (Tom) to dress up as Bebe, Jerry provokes Tom but the Girl threatens the Cat that she will give him Castor Oil if he moves from there.

That Part of the Cartoon is Favored by the First appearances of the Alley Cats which, although they give Tom the Suffering, is the funniest Part of the cartoon.

Of course, it was the beginning, the Character Designs are strange, especially the Stray Cats, but even so, the Animation is Phenomenal and Even to the degree of Disney, I liked the backgrounds, they are quite colorful and quite well drawn.

The Music is at its Maximum Splendor, obviously it is fun and Frenetic but the Part where the Alley Cats sing "Mamãe eu Quero" is the Funniest Part and at the same time, one of the best musical scenes of the Entire Series, It is Accompanied by scenes Funny and the Musical Brilliance is at its Maximum Potential.

Baby Puss can be Sadistic, petty and Annoying but it really is a Good Cartoon of Tom and Jerry, it has a Funny Setting and the Alley Cats steal the Spotlight from Tom and Jerry, the Musical scene of the Cats is Incredible and the Cartoon looks Benefited from quite a few funny gags.

In itself, it's not the Best Tom and Jerry Cartoon, but it's not the Worst either, it's fun and has excellent animation and music, it has memorable scenes like Jerry Bathing in the Dollhouse and the Stray Cats singing "¡Mamãe eu Quero!" it's just fascinating, a little sadistic but Jerry ends up getting what he deserves when he swallows castor oil and is forced to Vomit it out the window with Tom, the Cats, although they didn't get their Deserved, they contributed a lot to the Cartoon and this is Tom and Jerry in Pure state!.

For everything I said above, Baby Puss gets an 8.

Even by Tom and Jerry's own violent standards, Baby Puss is disturbingly callous. It begins with an unusual premise - the usual 'owner', the plump black maid, is nowhere to be seen, and Tom appears to have been catnapped by an annoying little girl who wants to play mummy-and-baby with him. Tom puts up with this nonsense because he loves the bottled milk she feeds him, but this cosseted life comes to an end when Jerry invites Tom's alley cat friends to see how their leader is being humiliated. This leads to a lengthy slapstick sequence in which Tom is bullied relentlessly, and maybe it's because he's dressed as a toddler that I found this quite hard to take, especially the part where his head is blown up like a balloon and later stamped on repeatedly. I'm no wimp and I usually love violent cartoons, but this seemed too close to child abuse for comfort. Having said that, there are plenty of laughs and even - unusually for a 1940s cartoon - a couple of jokes about vomiting!