Comments on: Character evolution: Tom & Jerry

By: Jeff DeGrandis

Jeff DeGrandis — Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Gang: I gotta say I love the Tom and Jerry episodes that Hanna and Barbera directed at MGM the best. All do respect to my mentor and one of my best friends; Chuck Jones. I guess I’m a classic action cartoon kind of guy.
Take care and we’ll talk soon!
Your Cartoon Pal……Jeff

By: TV's Kyle

TV's Kyle — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I realize I’m in the minority here, but I’ve always just loved the Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry best. The expressions are, to me, the best in Chuck’s career, and they really captured my young imagination when I was a little kid watching them on a UHF Tom & Jerry package. Since so much had been done with the characters by then, Chuck so often went in bizarre directions with the characters, and I’ve always liked that.

By: EHH

EHH — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I love Chuck’s work too! He espesialy made Jerry look cute!

By: Floyd Bishop

Floyd Bishop — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

My least favorite were the strange ones with weird audio from Gene Deitch and his studio, Rembrandt Films. Those were done in Prague, Czechoslovakia. I think as cartoons, they were fine, but when you use an established set of characters and go so far away form what they were, it doesn’t work.