Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars
| Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bill Kopp |
| Produced by | Tom Minton |
| Written by | Bill Kopp |
| Starring | Jeff Bennett Corey Burton Kathryn Fiore Jess Harnell Brad Garrett Tom Kenny Rob Paulsen Frank Welker Billy West |
| Music by | Julie Bernstein Steven Bernstein Elmer Bernstein |
| Studio | Turner Entertainment Toon City Warner Bros. Animation |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 18, 2005 |
| Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars is a Tom and Jerry outer-space-themed direct-to-video film produced by Warner Bros. Animation.
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[edit] Plot
Tom is chasing Jerry around using established plot and action devices until they arrive at the "Space Place". The staff there is testing dehydrated food (food that is disintegrated until it gets wet and then it turns into food). It is announced that Buzz Blister (voiced by Jess Harnell) and Biff Buzzard (voiced by Billy West) are going to Mars. Tom and Jerry knock over the cup in the process, and all the food comes to life, and as a result, the food goes all over the place in an explosion and they are chased into a rocket ending up at Mars. They discover a giant black wall, similar to the black monolith in the Space Odyssey series. A green female alien named Peep (voiced by Kathryn Fiore) arrives with an alien dog, Ubu and two more Martians arrive. Jerry is mistaken for the “Great Gloop”. After much calamity and a discovery that Jerry is not the Gloop, the two steal a flying saucer, so they can get back to Earth and warn everyone about a potential attack by the Martians. They manage to stop them, but the “Invince-a-tron” eventually arrives on Earth and begins to suck everyone up with its vacuum. Tom, Jerry, and Peep stop Invince-a-tron, using a bone to make it malfunction. At the end they are thanked and awarded with a Hummer by Arnold Schwarzenegger as the U.S. president. Before they could even drive it, they are attacked by the Invince-a-tron again but this time controlled by Spike (mad for the destruction of his precious bone) who chases after them. Peep comes with the ship but Jerry is only rescued, they left Tom behind as Peep kisses Jerry with him being blushed as the iris closes in. At the ending cutscene, Biff and Buzz are seen cleaning the mess for lying that there is no life on Mars, soon they start to argue about it as Tom is being chased by the Spike controlled Invince-a-tron in the background.
[edit] Music
Music for this feature was written, performed and produced by Steve Bernstein and Julie Bernstein.
[edit] Widescreen
This was the second Tom and Jerry film to be filmed in widescreen (the first being Tom and Jerry: The Movie, in its theatrical release in 1993) and the first one to be filmed in the high-definition format, although the Region 1 DVD was in full screen (cropping the left and right of the image), though not pan and scan as the camera stays directly in the center of the image. The film was rated G by the MPAA. Like television shows filmed in high-definition and other films filmed in high-definition, the monitor the animation team would have worked from would have 16:9 and 4:3 safe areas so that the full screen version would not crop off too much of any important visual elements (such as characters). However, the film is broadcast in widescreen on Cartoon Network HD.
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