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Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)

If you know your internet memes, you’re probably aware of the best scene in Tom and Jerry: The Movie. It’s got you wondering if there are other hidden gems within its running time. Could this movie be so bad it’s good? I'm sorry to say it isn’t. This animated musical comedy is an ordeal. The plot is worthless, the animation ok at best, the songs horrid, characters bland, and as a big-screen adaptation of the classic cartoon characters, it’s a knife in the back. The movie is fun to talk about, however. If you and your friends are bad movie sadomasochists, it may be worth checking out.

After her father disappears during a Tibetan expedition, 8-year-old Robyn Starling (voiced by Anndi McAfee) - and her family’s fortune - are given to her abusive guardian “Aunt” Pristine Figg (voiced by Charlotte Rae). She conspires with her lawyer, Lickboot (voiced by Tony Jay), to keep all of that beautiful money for themselves. When Robyn runs away and bumps into Tom (voiced by Richard King) and Jerry (voiced by Dana Hill), she brings them back home and learns her father may still be alive somewhere.

Let’s begin with that title. This is hardly a “Tom and Jerry movie". For one, the cat and mouse are not the main characters. I wouldn't even call them important to this plot. Robyn is the protagonist. Without her, there is no story, no conflict, no villains. This means films like Tom and Jerry and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz - in which the titular duo are dumped in a plot they have little impact upon - are proudly upholding a tradition that began in 1992. It’s a shocker - almost as much as the scene in which the characters begin talking. They rarely - if ever - spoke in the cartoons. That was part of their appeal. It was all about these opponents trying to violently kill each other. Here, they sing a song about how good a pair of friends they are.

This movie wants to be ‘90s Disney so, so bad. To stretch its paper-thin plot (which is essentially ripped off from The Rescuers) we have one bad song after another. Each of these tunes is destined to be forgotten the second they end. That’s a relief. The rhymes and lyrics are so awful you’d curse yourself for remembering them if you did. However, this does bring us to the one - intentionally - good moment in the entire film: the villain’s song. (Money is Such) a Beautiful Word is exactly what you think it is. Minutes upon minutes of bad rhymes detailing how greedy Aunt Figg and Lickboot are. It’s pretty funny to see, but only if preceded by Tony Jay saying “We’ve got to have… money!”. The irony is that this blatant acknowledgment of greed is exactly what the executives must’ve told their lackeys when the film was green-lit.

There are obvious flaws in every scene. At one point, Robyn nearly drowns and is rescued by Captain Kiddie (voiced by Rip Taylor), the owner of a deserted amusement park whose right hand is always busy manipulating a puppet - an avatar for his split personality. Every sign points towards “child molester” but that wasn’t the intention, which is also pretty funny. When he's introduced, Aunt Figg and Lickboot desperately want Robyn back, so they're offering a $1 million reward to anyone who can find her and plaster her photo onto milk cartoons to spread the word. They do this on the same day she goes missing, which is impossible, but even the “we don’t care” team of director Phil Roman and writer Dennis Marks had to realize distributing these cartons would take a while, which is why Captain Kiddie explains to Robyn that she’s been out cold for 6 days. Anyone else would’ve called the police but evidently, he’s planning on chaining her up in his dungeon. Cut to a scene where he offers to pour Robyn a glass of milk. You can see where this is going. The carton has her picture on it, prompting his stupid bird to go ballistic and dollar signs to flash before his eyes. Here’s what I’m wondering. When did he buy that milk carton? Did he not recognize her before this very moment?

Another mistake in this train wreck is the character designs. They’re all over the place. When Tom and Jerry find themselves homeless (don’t ask), they meet a dog and his best friend, a flea. Both are dressed in real clothes and look like they come from a completely different movie. The next animals we meet are a gang of tough cats, who are also clothed and look as different from Puggsy and Frankie da Flea as. they do from Tom & Jerry. They also look nothing like Mrs. Figg’s dog, an ugly creature so fat it can’t even walk. It’s like a bunch of rejects from other animation studios were brought together to help fill space.

There’s a lot to complain about if you've seen Tom and Jerry: The Movie. This does make it sort of fun to tear apart, though to do so you’ll have to waste your time by watching the movie. I can’t say I’m sorry I sat through this mess - the “We’ve got to have… money” scene is funny enough that I will treasure it - but I doubt you would feel the same. (April 23, 2021)

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Lebreau from Final Fantasy XIII shares a voice actress with Phoebe from Hey Arnold!.

Voiced by Anndi McAfee

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Pretending for the camera to be recording walla for Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie at Salami Studios, circa 2017.

Back row, left to right: Craig Bartlett (on the frame line; ouch!), me, Anndi McAfee (Phoebe), Stu Livingston (co-director).

Front row, left to right: Jet Jurgensmeyer (Stinky), Laya DeLeon Hayes (Nadine), Olivia Hack (Rhonda) and Gavin Lewis (Eugene).

[thecinematicbandicoot]

Tom and Jerry: The Movie

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1992 What you just witnessed was a sample of one of the most beloved comedy duos of all time, right next to Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera during the golden age of animation, Tom and Jerry has remained one of the cornerstones of slapstick humor with the animation showcasing the pain characters go through when…

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Trudy singing three(as child)(Anndi McAfee as Cera)

[rideofbrunhelga]

"At the end of the day, Phoebe understands Helga. She always forgives her. And Helga is there to say 'You are smart, you are worth it.' So to me that's such a special relationship and it meant a lot to me recording it when I was a kid. Franny [Francesca Marie Smith] and I have known each other for a long time. We've been on other things together, so it's special for us to have that friendship that we could act out. So to come back to it all these years later...it was just such a gratifying experience." - Anndi McAfee (Phoebe)

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In preparation for Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie, Nickelodeon Studios invited Toonzone News to sit down with co-writer, executive producer and TV series original creator Craig Bartlett, as well as original cast members Francesca Marie Smith (Helga) and Anndi McAfee (Phoebe), who reprise their roles in the movie. TOONZONE NEWS: Is coming back to Hey…

“Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie” Interview with Craig Bartlett, Anndi McAfee, and Francesca Marie Smith was originally published on ToonZone News

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12.12.17 This was fine. Totally on edge waiting for the Zim movie though.

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Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie

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Bump in the Night -  ABC  -  September 10, 1994 - December 2, 1995

Animated (27 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Voices:

Jim Cummings - Mr. Bumpy, the Closet Monster (uncredited), Destructo (uncredited)

Rob Paulsen - Squishington, Sleemoth (uncredited), Dad (uncredited)

Gail Matthius - Miss Molly Coddle, Anti-Molly (uncredited)

Mary McDonald Lewis - The Mom, the Cute Dolls

Jeff Bennett - Gloog

Janice Kawaye - Little Robot/Big Robot, Little Robot's Sister/Big Robot's Sister, Yellow Bunny

Scott McAfee - The Boy

Anndi McAfee - Little Sister

Brad Garrett - Big Mike

Jennifer Darling and Valery Pappas - The Cute Dolls

Additional talent

Danny Mann - Phil Silverfish

Elizabeth Daily - Germ Girl

Gilbert Gottfried - Odiferous J. Stench

April Winchell - Auntie Matta, The Princess, The Dream Cute Dolls

Cheech Marin - Juaquin Gusanito Sin Manos

Cathy Moriarty - Destructette

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The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002)

I hope The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water is the worst this series gets. Any worse, I swear I'm going to quit. You can’t get much more contrived or pointless than this animated children’s movie.

When a long period of rainfall, Littlefoot (voiced by Thomas Dekker) and his friends Cera (Anndi McAfee), Ducky (Aria Noelle Curzon), Petrie (Jeff Bennett) and Spike (still mute, but “voiced” by Rob Paulsen) discover a large lake. Inside this “big water” lives Mo (also voiced by Rob Paulsen). When a chasm suddenly separates our heroes from their families, Littlefoot and the gang march forward to return Mo to his home while dodging a Sharptooth Swimmer.

I understand a certain number of stars must align for an adventure to take place. No one wants to watch a day where nothing goes awry. This movie takes the coincidences and convenient events to a whole new level. You'll be throwing your hands up in frustration. First, the precipitation is so extreme that a lake forms in the Great Valley. Second, the storm carries a salt-water reptile from the ocean, which is at least 2 days’ worth of a walk away - and upstream - to our heroes’ homes. It also displaces a 6 meter (21 foot) sea monster. Third, an earthquake creates a chasm so deep that a perpetual wall of hot air and steam rises from it, preventing Petrie from flying across. The same earthquake separates our favorite dinosaurs from their parents, opens a path from the lake to the world outside of the valley, AND traps the swimming sharptooth so they can all go on without a care in a world. This isn't happenstance. It’s the author forcing the hand of God to make things happen!

Once you get over the initial shock, you'll realize how annoying and empty a film this is. While I didn’t mind 2 of the songs included (there are four instead of the usual three, and then a second version of No One Has to Be Alone sung by Donny Osmond during the end credits) Imaginary Friend will have you tearing your ears off. It’s one thing to encourage children to use their imagination when playing, but a whole song dedicated to why make-belief friends are so awesome? That’s pushing it. Everything related to Mo is grating. The character has no real personality, only the quirk that he wants to play all the time and a voiced that reminds me of a dripping faucet at 1:00 am. The only way he could have been more exasperating is if they had added bubbly noises at the end of each of his sentences. Whenever he shuts up, it's medicinal lotion gently rubbed onto your sunburn. Too bad as the new character, he talks and sings constantly.

Journey to Big Water has a few minor redeeming qualities. The backgrounds are pleasant to view. The series is beginning to use computer animation to create some difficult objects (rotating logs, water, etc.) and this has given the artists time to refine the environment. Two scenes showing characters talking amongst themselves about their feelings and insecurities make them feel like real... dinosaurs. Finally, this chapter acknowledges “The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island” so it somewhat rewards those who have been paying attention to the series so far.

What's shocking is how little during these 75 minutes. The plot is so straightforward, with no real character development, a lot of repeated conversations (if not within the film, then between this and the previous movies), and other than traveling from point A to point B while dodging one bad guy, nothing else happens. If you hope the after-credit bonus will make it up to you, know it’s not even a music video by Donny Osmond or even a repeat of some popular LBT songs... it’s just three random tunes that lead into a commercial! (On VHS, April 15, 2015)

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My 20th Birthday!

On September 28th...

National Days:

Drinking Beer

Good Neighbor

Strawberry Cream Pie

Famous Birthdays:

551 BCE - Confucius (Philosopher)

1901 - Ed Sullivan (TV Show Host)

1934 - Brigitte Bardot (Actress)

1966 - Maria Canals Barrera (Actress, Wizards of Waverly Place)

1968 - Naomi Watts (Actress)

1969 - Karen Fairchild (Singer, Little Big Town)

1978 - Lucas Bryant (Actor)

1979 - Anndi McAfee (Actress, known as the voice of Cera on Land Before Time)

1982 - Matt Cohen (Actor)

1987 - Hilary Duff (Actress, Lizzy McGuire)

1988 - Hana Mae Lee (Actress, Pitch Perfect)

1992 - Keir Gilchrist (Actor)

1992 - Alex Landi (Actor, Grey's Anatomy)

Famous Deaths:

48 BCE - Roman Emperor Pompey the Great is assassinated in Egypt

58 BCE - Roman Empress Livia (wife of Augustus and mother of Tiberius)

935 - "Good King Wenceslas" is murdered

1953 - Edwin Hubble (Hubble Telescope)

1956 - William Boeing (Boeing Aircraft)

1964 - Harpo Marx of the Marx Brothers

1982 - Mabel Albertson (Actress, Bewitched)

2000 - Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister (father of Justin Trudeau)

2003 - Elia Kazan at 94 (Famed Director)

In History:

1066 - William the Conqueror invades England, starting the Norman Conquest

1448 - Coronation of King Christian I of Denmark

1687 - Venice takes Athens from the Ottomans

1760 - The Russian and Austrian armies occupy Berlin, Prussia/Germany

1781 - American and French troops siege Yorktown during the Revolutionary War

1785 - Napoleon Bonaparte graduates from the military academy

1787 - Congress sends the newly drafted Constitution to the individual state legislatures for ratification

1821 - The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted

1844 - Coronation of Oscar I as King of Sweden

1850 - The U.S. Navy abolishes flogging as a punishment

1867 - Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, Canada

1868 - Queen Isabella II of Spain is exiled to France

1887 - The Yellow River of China floods, killing 1 - 2 million people in one of the deadliest natural disasters

1920 - The indictment of 8 White Sox players for the Black Sox Scandal, for throwing the 1919 World Series

1928 - The United Kingdom passes the Dangerous Drugs Act, outlawing cannabis

1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers a mold that would later be known as Penicillin

1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland

1942 - German Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad, Soviet Union

1951 - CBS releases color televisions for sale

1958 - U.S. performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site

1961 - The United Arab Republic, a union of Egypt and Syria, dissolves

1961 - "Hazel" starring Shirley Booth airs on NBC

1965 - Taal Volcano erupts on Luzon in the Philippines

1968 - "Hey Jude" by the Beatles reaches #1 on the music charts

2018 - A 7.5 earthquake and its subsequent tsunami hit Indonesia

1973 - New York City bombing, related to a coup in Chile

1981 - Olivia Newton-John releases her single "Physical"

1982 - 1st death report of the cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules incident

1990 - Marvin Gaye gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

2015 - Trevor Noah takes over "The Daily Show" from Jon Stewart

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Anndi McAfee (Phoebe) and Jamil Walker Smith (Gerald) talking about what they've always wanted to know about their characters in Hey Arnold!