Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale.

 

                                Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale.

There are so many versions of the Nutcracker but not all of them are 

created equal, some are down right bad but this one is one of the best 

ones you will ever see plus who doesn't love Tom and Jerry. There movie 

proves why they have been a staple in family homes since they came on 

the cartoon scene. The animation and story are perfect they fit well 

together and if you know me that is a deal breaker, if they don't match 

or fit together they wont work but this one is perfect. So, with that, lets 

get to the story shall we:

Jerry and his nephew Tuffy watch the Christmas ballet in New York 

City while a group of cats, including Tom, sing a song for the Cat King in 

an alley overlooking the Empire State Building. Jerry goes to the now-

empty stage floor where magic begins to happen, such as toys coming to 

life, including a pony named Nelly and a pixie named Paulie. The magic 

then makes a music box ballerina come to life and Jerry dances with her.

The stage is transformed into a wintry wonderland where the toys all 

enjoy a dinner feast. Tom and the other cats ruin the feast and trap the 

toys while Jerry, Paulie and Nelly try to stop them but are shot out of a 

cannon, where they end up worlds away. Tom, as the Captain of the Cat 

Guards, traps the Ballerina in a cage then brings her to the Cat King, who 

unsuccessfully asks her to dance for him. Later on, Tom is called to 

gather other cats and stop Jerry, while Tuffy gives the Ballerina a string 

attached to a ring of keys and then goes to warn Jerry and stop the cats. 

Meanwhile, Jerry, Paulie and Nelly decide to follow a very bright star to 

an elderly man called the Toy Maker. They stop in front of a frozen river 

and all make it safely except for Jerry, who falls from a frozen waterfall 

and through the ice, becomes tangled in a weed and seemingly drowns. 

He is then revived and freed by the magic and then is pulled up by Nelly 

and Paulie. This makes Paulie unravel by melting the glue that keeps him 

together. Tuffy gets to Tom and dresses up as an angel and a devil to 

convince him not to harm Jerry, but inadvertently blows his cover when 

he ends up sticking the trident in Tom's eye, causing the tower of cats to 

fall off of a cliff. Tuffy continues on to Jerry, warning him of the cats. 

Tom and his friends, disguised as Christmas trees, surround Jerry but 

Tom gets attacked by squirrels and shredded in a tree shredder. The cats 

attack, but Jerry and the rest of the group escape inside a tree. The 

group then comes to a hill where Paulie's head is sent flying into another 

hole. They go into the hole, only to find a fiery world with lava pits 

and dragons; a flame fairy gives Paulie his head back. A dragon wakes 

up but is hypnotized by Jerry into lifting them out of the pit.

They launch a cannon which blasts Jerry and his friends into a house 

with clocks. The mice and toys are chased by the cats again and run into 

a fairground, where Tom is virtually beaten up after being thrown onto 

the carousel and the swirling cups and crushed again and again on 

the roller coaster after Jerry pulls out the pin that couples two of the 

cars together. They make it to a ridge, and Jerry blows up balloons with 

which they make it off safely. One cat shoots an arrow, bursting Nelly's 

balloon. Tuffy grabs on to her and unravels more of Paulie. Nelly is let 

down and chased by the cats. Jerry saves her, but his grip fails him and 

her string slips out of his hand. The cats pull her string and she tells 

them where the others are headed. The remaining three make it to the 

Toy Maker and, after initially looking like they have failed when Tom and 

the other Cat Guards cut them off at the door (only to be swiftly sent 

packing when the door smacks them away as the Toy Maker answers it), 

the Toy Maker fixes Paulie and gives them a key that allows them to 

awaken an army of toy soldiers. The three depart with their newly 

attained army in order to take back their kingdom.

When the cats attempt to escape the army of toy soldiers, the Ballerina 

appears with the other toys and she leads them in an army in rebellion 

against the Cat King. Tom vacuums up many of the soldiers, but the 

vacuum explodes and they are blown back onto the cats. As the Cat King 

orders his followers to retreat, Jerry activates a toy train that knocks all 

the cats on top of it as it crosses the stage and exits through the 

backstage door, hitting the wall of the building next door to the theatre 

and finally falling into a dumpster back in New York. The Ballerina hugs 

Jerry in victory and happily tells him that she never doubted him, but 

suddenly the wall next to them begins to crumble and collapses on Nelly 

as she shoves Jerry and the Ballerina out of the way, crushing and 

seemingly killing her. Jerry, Tuffy and Paulie are brokenhearted by this, 

but the magic revives her and removes her string, allowing her to finally 

talk without a string. Following this, Jerry and the Ballerina dance after 

receiving their crowns back. The Toy Maker and the ballerina from the 

Christmas play are then shown to be watching from the audience; the 

real ballerina throws Jerry a rose and the curtain is then let down, 

ending the show.