Rating  - Tom and Jerry's Greatest Chases DVD
Excellent a must for all Tom and Jerry fans (Adults or children).
We love it, expecially the children they just can not get enough of it.
Rating - A Great Collection for Cartoon Fans
Tom and Jerry cartoons are some of the best and most endearing representatives of animation and this collection shows why. 12 classic shorts from the cat and mouse duo that, up until this tape was released, I was relying on Cartoon Network programming to provide. Now, all I have to do is pop this tape in my vcr and wham!, instant cartoon royalty. My favorites on this tape are:
The Cat Concerto (Tom and Jerry duel it out in the middle of a piano concert)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (a nice little twist on the classic tale)
and
The Little Orphan (Jerry teams up with Tuffy, at least that's the name I know him by in a hilarious plot to sneak past Tom to the refrigerator)
Any fan of cartoons will know that Tom and Jerry cartoons are some of the best and here is an affordable collection of some of the famous cartoon pair's work. A definite must have for fans of classic cartooning.
Note: this review reflects the vhs version, apparently there is also a dvd with one more cartoon as well as expected features, which is even more reason to go out and buy a dvd player(:=
Rating  - "The Little Orphan" is heavily edited
This DVD would have got 5+++ stars if "The Little Orphan" had not been butchered. I really do not see a reason for this. Other cartoons that are included here have even more "politically incorrect" and "violent" bits. So, why they did that to "The Little Orphan" and left the remaining 13 cartoons intact is beyond me. They could have simply released the 13 unedited cartoons and, believe me, everyone would have appreciated this DVD much more. This injustice to the H-B masterpiece infuriates me every time I watch these toons. Because of that unacceptable, unreasonable, ridiculous flaw this DVD gets only 3 stars from me.
Rating  - Welcome to Tom & Jerry's wacky world of cat-and-mouse games!
Being firstborn brainchildren to the great kartoonie-makin' duo, Hanna and Barbera, Tom The Cat very merrily chased Jerry The Mouse through a long line of many successful animated shorts and into The History of Golden-Age Cartoons.
Meet Tom, a very mean-spirited but gullibly innocent kitty with his such endearing birthmark: a white blaze so tenderly drawn onto his forehead (though it doesn't always appear). And here comes poor Tom's archrival, Jerry the achingly cute and irritatingly heroic little brown rodent. Now just watch the unfortunate old cat get squashed, burned, slashed into two, mangled, roasted, frozen, blown up, and even beheaded at one time at the hands of the pesky little Jerry who fiercely struggled to save the lives of his innocent critter friends and his diapered infant cousin, Tuffy The Mouse (once named Nibbles). Ironically, it makes you feel sorry for the poor long-suffering old Tom, who after all is only responding to his hunger pangs and pedatory instincts. In fact, though Tom is usually placed in the villain role, he really has a very good heart right underneath his very savage white breast, thus you do eventually grow to love him ... and uh, hate Jerry for shoving him into such painful situations in the first place. But sometimes, Tom gets to turn the tables, thus Jerry is the one who winds up getting just the desserts! Sorry, but fair's fair for the famous cat-and-mouse team!
In the later years, when the television overtook the visual entertainment of the old-time films in the theater, the reowned Chuck Jones overtook the Tom & Jerry studio. As a result, he produced very charming new cartoons with his very own personal touch, though they weren't met with very resounding success due to artistic differences. Another director to guide the cat and mouse through the Sixties is the notorious Gene Detrich who made many UPS-style cartoons - most of them just plain awful. Poor Tom gets victimized even more brutally by a very unfunny and very abusive owner and the increasingly annoying Jerry, who may make you hate him even more than ever. And along comes even more cartoons about The Cat-And-Mouse Duo through the '70s, the '80s, and even the '90s, including a feature-length movie produced in the remarkable vein of Don Bluth but completely forgotten and the cute kiddie stuff, Tom and Jerry The Kids. Though they may not have come up so successful as the original and more acclaimed cartoons of the Golden Age, this nevertheless accounts for the continuing popularity of Tom The Grey Cat and Jerry The Brown Mouse possibly into the new millennium for the future children and the diehard cartoon fans.
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