These are questions that we perhaps wouldn’t be forced to ask if the film itself were more engaging. Starring: June Foray, Chlo Grace Moretz, Michael Pea, Ken Jeong, Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, Mel Blanc, William Hanna. (Why, for example, can some animals talk but not others? Violence seems to cause no harm to animals, so would humans also be immune?). The decision to combine live action with animation often jars (every human is real, every animal is animated) and, within the realism of Manhattan, we’re then left with questions about the rules that have been haphazardly set up.

With a script that feels lazily retrofitted to revolve around the two animals rather than designed directly for them, this is basically a kids’ movie about antics in a New York hotel that pauses every so often to feature a sanitised fight between the pair. Very young kids might find some enjoyment in the brightly hued, fast-paced mania of it all, but those with any real affection for the pair of violently opposed animals will leave unimpressed.

While there’s little to truly loathe in Fantastic Four and Ride Along director Tim Story’s frantic new take on Tom & Jerry, there’s also an equal lack of anything to truly love this is a serviceable, if entirely forgettable attempt to relaunch an old property for a new audience.

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