Switchin' Kitten

Tom and Jerry is my Favorite Cartoon series of all time, Chuck Jones' Cartoons are my Favorites Along with Hanna Barbera's and what to say about Gene Deitch...

After 1954 the Tom and Jerry Cartoons gave their animation a slump as they were too Expensive to Produce, so the Method continued until William Hanna and Joseph Barbera ended their series of Shorts in 1958 with the Infamous " Tot Watchers" a mediocre short that did not have the same production quality as the previous ones but seemed decent enough to rate it a 6.

After the End of the Original Series in 1960, they hired the Czechoslovak Studio "Rembrandt Films Productions" with headquarters in Prague and at the hands of Eugene Merril Deitch, better known as Gene Deitch and William L. Snyder, this Studio that same year won an Oscar for the great Short Film "Munro" which seemed decent enough to deserve its Award, as for the Animators I had no Idea of the Original Characters, since Tom and Jerry had never been broadcast in Czechoslovakia besides they did not know the Characters They didn't know how to speak English!

These problems were made worse since these animators also had no idea of Comedy Short Films since they were more Accustomed to different Short Films, with more Complex Stories, when in Tom and Jerry it is a Simple Story but well handled. The humor was degraded a lot since they didn't know much about the humor of the Americans, so they included scenes of "Comic" Violence that sadly turned out to be Unpleasantly Horrible.

And in 1960 the Short Film "Switchin Kitten" arrived, well actually it arrived in 1961 but the copyright was from the year 1960, a Short Film destroyed in Critics but well received Economically, many hate it even one of my favorite critics "The Little Song Bird "I brutally criticize it for very Bad things, and I understand it, the short film is bad but it is not so Bad to label it as the Worst of the Series, for me the Worst would be "High Steaks" but that Short Film will have a separate review, this short As I said before, I don't think it's as bad as others from this same era, but it's not the Best of this Era either.

The Animation is a Massive Downgrade from the Original Shorts and Even the Animation of the Latest Hanna Barbera Shorts was much better, the Movements are Jerky and very Choppy, the Backgrounds are Decent but the Animation Doesn't Help, the Colors are Very Gloomy and Too Dark to look Good, the Animations being the First Tom and Jerry Short of this Studio is Too Ugly and the Designs are Deformed too much by the simplicity of the design to the Point that they look Completely horrible.

The Music is too different from that of the Original Series since Scott Bradley was a Composer of First Category Who Composed in a Phenomenal Way, but it is not that the Music of this short is bad, instead of it I quite like it despite of its Strange and Unpleasant Tone but it is also not as good as Scott Bradley's but if it manages to be Quite Decent and Fits in many scenes, Vaclav Lidl Regrettably Did Not Compose The Remaining 12 Shorts Of This Era But Stepan Konicek Replaced It With Even More Music Bizarre but just as decent.

The Voice Acts are horrible (no offense to Allen Swift) since they are only Horrible Screams to the Ear, his Interpretation as the Mad Scientist is so Bad that it made me laugh at how bad it is, but that does not take away that it sounds Horrendous and very, very Inferior to the Brilliant Performances of the Original Series.

The Sound Effects are just as horrible as the Voice Acting, Being Metal with screeching sounds that make my stomach churn, they sound Too Horrendous and are poorly Synthesized.

Itself "Switchin Kitten" is a mediocre short full of errors but despite that I came to like it, since it was not as mediocre as Tot Watchers since this one is more entertaining due to its slow rhythm than after it gets fast, the Animation and Effects Involuntarily manage to be funny in itself, it is not the best of Deitch and not Joke the Best of the Series, but a Quite Passable one and better than the Next 8 that Follow it, for everything I said previously to I give this short a 7.