Tom and Jerry: The Movie

A severely dull animated feature. After a brief reprise of the duo's antics, they talk... then become chums! The cutie-pie script has them leave the white-frame house to unite orphan Robyn Starling with her long-lost dad. Spot the sources: Robyn's aunt has traces of Cruella de Vil and Snow White's stepmum; lawyer Lickboot could be a George Sanders pastiche; Dr Applecheek behaves uncannily like the doctor from Altman's The Long Goodbye (and, surprise, the voice is Henry Gibson's). Very poor.