High Steaks

This "Tom and Jerry" short from 1962 called "High Steaks" is one interesting and fun one. It involves Tom's owner a gruff and tough looking big guy who decides one day by the pool to grill out and do some steaks and grill barbecue. So Tom cat decides to join in only then little mouse Jerry notices and crawls out underneath from his little hidden mouse hole and you guessed it the chase antics begins in the backyard! The drama is around the grill which involves steak knives and pitch forks! Not one of the better ones still it was fun and interesting seeing a backyard style chase between the two that involved a cookout!

I saw this one and Sorry Safari when I was a kid and they've stuck in my head. I just plain hated it then and hate it now. It isn't just that the animation is bad and the sound effects like something out of a nightmare; these cartoons have a sadistic streak a mile wide. When I watch these entries in the Tom and Jerry series I can't help but dislike Mr. Deitch, not just for the shoddy production values but for even thinking these things up in the first place. Jerry is just plain evil here and in the others, and Tom exists to be tortured. In the Deitch year Tom and Jerry really was about like the Itchy and Scratchy cartoons on The Simpsons. The only one of the lot that's any good at all is the Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit.

This ain't no way to treat Tom and classifies as animal cruelty. Person who made that episode should have been banned from TV networks for lifetime.

Level of aggression in this episode is unbearable and doesn't compare at all to early HB episodes where black lady was the villain.

For me it appears that Gene Deitch had some kind of a grudge against cats and wanted to visualise his trauma on the screen. Maybe childhood trauma, I don't know, a psychologist should examine it. Otherwise I find no reason to picture Tom like this, no child watching this episode will learn good things from it, it only perpetuates vigilantism on cats.

Gene deitch who made these shorts thought these were better than Hanna and Joe's shorts. Sorry this short has bad music as well as bad jokes. At least the owner is not as bad as he is in sorry safari. Still this is a bad cartoon.

I am a fan of Tom and Jerry as I have already said in many of my reviews, but I know that within this great franchise there are many series that are complete garbage as well as "The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show" or also the one that for me is overrated "Tom and Jerry Kids" this last 2 series lost the charm of the originals (just like the Deitch era) but despite that they had good episodes and moments and the Deitch era too!, but this is not a good time of the age of deitch.

Here comes the Fat Man from Down And Ouiting who wants to prepare a Barbecue with his Cat (Tom) but Jerry ends up spoiling everything and Tom's Owner without knowing anything Reprimands Tom in Horribly Cruel Ways (Yes Blue Cat Blues was Cruel to Tom but this is more), the Violence is Disgusting, very exaggerated and too Explicit for a Tom and Jerry Cartoon, and I know that this series stands out for its Violence but exaggerating it too much shows that this type of Violence is not going with Tom and Jerry.

Here Jerry behaves like a Mean and Dirty man who only does everything to see his Adversary suffer, but he reaches the point where Tom is Beaten and Abused in Horrendous Ways because of him, and this is not the Jerry that we know and Love so much!, the Original Jerry was also cruel at times but in a not so exaggerated way and here the character has a disastrous personality that just wants to see Tom suffer.

The Animation is Horrendous and too Limited, the backgrounds are Empty like a Desert and with Boring colors that do not Draw Attention, the Character designs are poor and they deform too much to the point that they look completely horrible (although they do not deform as in Switchin Kitten), the Movements are Jerky, Tom's Torture Scenes are poorly animated and that makes the scenes look even more horrendous than they already are.

As I said before the Backgrounds are Limited and too ugly (even Down and Outing had better Backgrounds), the Colors are very faded and too Ugly making the scenarios look completely boring and very Basic.

The music sounds really horrible and is poorly orchestrated, it sounds too generic and is very out of place for a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Voice performances are Deficient, Allen Swift as always gives us the Privilege of only hearing Cries and Screams Badly Acted that makes the Cartoon petty and very Cruel to watch.

Like the voice acting, the Sound Effects are Repulsive and too Annoying, poorly synthesized and too out of character for a cartoon like this!

That's why for everything I said before I crown this as the Worst Tom and Jerry Short in general and one of the worst animated shorts that Gene Deitch produced ( if not the worst), the Music, Animation and Voice Acting results in a poor cartoon that is just a Torture Scenario for Tom, the fat owner does too many cruelties against Tom and that should not go in a Tom cartoon and Jerry!, Mammy Two Shoes also reprimanded Tom but she reprimanded him justly since the cat on those occasions did deserve the punishment!, Jerry was spoiled and was modified to a Mouse that only serves to harm Tom and that one does not He is the Jerry we know, for everything I said before, I rate this short with a 4!