A poignant class conflict exposé, this mainstream film is allowed to be so blunt by dressing up as a fantastical comedy using a famous existing property—Tom & Jerry, a cartoon cat and mouse dropped into contexts forcing them to futilely fight each other.
Jerry and Tom, struggling with homelessness and joblessness, amongst the lowest classes in their world, somewhat like the roles of C3PO and R2D2 in Star Wars (1977) or the two peasants in Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, intermingle…