Mouse in Manhattan

This cartoon has T&J living a quiet life out in a cosy country cottage. Tom is bored with country life and decides to leave for the Big Apple one night. Writing a goodbye note to Tom, he catches the next train to his new, exciting life.

When he gets there he discovers that Manhattan is not so inviting to small rodents. Everywhere he goes, from Grand Central to posh dinner parties, he is tormented with the rude idiosyncrasies of big city life. Eventually landing in a dirty alley, he is run out of town by an army of hungry stray cats.

Back the cottage, the still sleeping Tom (who does nothing else in this cartoon) has not yet read the note, which Jerry promptly tears up before going back into his mouse-hole. Better the Devil you know huh?

Jerry, bored with life in the country house where he and Tom are staying, leaves a note under Tom's paw while he is sleeping, saying that he is leaving to check out the city life... This cartoon is more charming than funny, although there's enough of the latter to please loyal fans. Scott Bradley's music is among the best he has done in the series, and some bits are quite sweet. Check it out!

Mouse in Manhattan (1945)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

This is one of the lesser Tom and Jerry shorts as it pretty much has the mouse going solo. The short starts off with Jerry leaving a note saying that the country life has him bored so he's off to the big city. Once in the big city he enjoys what he sees but soon realizes that it can be scary. As I said, this short pretty much has a brief appearance by Tom at the start and end so it's basically a showcase for a solo Jerry. The end results aren't bad but there's no question that there aren't too many laughs and at times you can't help but wish the cat was around to jack up the action. I will say that the animation is extremely good and I really liked all the details during certain scenes including the skyline when Jerry is dancing on the table.

Tom and Jerry is undoubtedly one of the Best Series in all of History, although it is not spared from having bad Shorts, but that is not the case here!.

Mouse In Manhattan is possibly one of the best Tom and Jerry Shorts and enters my Top 20 best shorts, visually it is splendid and impressive as any Tom and Jerry cartoon from those years.

The plot is Original but simple, Jerry gets fed up with country life and goes to Manhattan at the bottom of a Subway and when he arrives in Manhattan the Fun is not lacking!.

Tom has almost no appearance in the short, he only appears in the beginning and in the end, but making a short only starring Jerry is interesting and at the same time too much fun!.

The animation is wonderful, one of the best animated shorts of the entire series, the backgrounds are exquisite in detail and too wide, which makes your eyes marvel, the movements are Incredibly Fluid, the character designs are Impressive and adding the animation and how colorful the short is make the short a Visual Wonder.

Scott Bradley makes masterful music that fits very well to the Sensation of a city of the 40s and at the same time it is impressive to Listen, of course it is not his best work in the Series those would be The Cat Concerto, Blue Cat Blues, Cat Fishing etc. But his work in the short is impressive.

For everything that is obviously a perfection, one of the best in the entire series and surpasses any Short from the era of Chuck Jones, Gene Deitch and the other television series, and this is saying a lot! Everything is basically perfect and to any Fan of animation and especially of Tom and Jerry I recommend them 100%.

As I had already said in the previous point, this is basically Perfect, its Great animation, Backgrounds and Colors are pleasant and very beautiful, the Great music of Scott Bradley does its thing, resulting in this Audiovisual marvel.

For everything I said before, this short gets a well-deserved 10!.

Those who choose to write off the Tom and Jerry series as a violence orgy should be directed toward any television playing this little jewel, which is practically a solo endeavour for the rodent half of the duo, and which suggests that Jerry's finest moments of dancing may not have been with Gene Kelly. See this one. Own it if you can.