and Rakim's 'Don't Sweat the Technique' pulsates over the soundtrack - which makes this arguably the coolest version of 'Tom & Jerry' to date.

Director Tim Story ('Barbershop,' 'Ride Along'), meantime, hips things up: he runs a '90s hip-hop current through the film - a group of animated pigeons perform A Tribe Called Quest's 'Can I Kick It?' at the outset of the film later, Tom and Jerry destroy a hotel room while Eric B. Things get crashed, smashed and animal tornados ensue, and it doesn't take a genius to guess that as soon as the hotel's glorious glass atrium is gazed upon, it's only a matter of time before it comes raining down on the floor below.Īt least the cast has fun, and Rob Delaney ('Catastrophe,' Twitter) is fully in on the joke as a square hotel manager. (If it was that easy, Tom would have finished the job back in 1940, when the Hanna-Barbera duo first debuted.) Her solution: she teams up with Tom to exterminate the mouse. Meanwhile, the street smart Kayla (Chloë Grace Moretz) has just conned her way into a job on the hotel's staff, and she has taken on the assignment of ridding the building of its mouse problem (i.e., Jerry) before the Big Event.

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