Texas Tom (1950) User Reviews

Tom trying to pitch woo

[movieman_kev · 9/10 · 2 June 2005]

Tom the Cat is having fun with Jerry the mouse in the old West lassoing him up. Until a girl cat comes along and sets Tom's heart on fire. He waists no time in trying to woo her. Of course Jerry doesn't want Tom happy. So he, along with some help from a bull, try to put the kibosh on Tom's chance at love. The hit to miss joke ratio in this one is greatly in favor of the hits. And it's very enjoyable throughout. Of course I'm biased as i pretty much love anything by the cat & mouse duo. This hilarious classic cartoon can be found on disc two of the Spotlight collection DVD of "Tom & Jerry"

My grade: A

Quite funny, well above average

[CuriosityKilledShawn · 8/10 · 13 October 2008]

Tom, now a cowboy (or cowcat) on a farm somewhere in Texas is involved in his usual pursuit of Jerry when a gorgeous girl cat arrives. He is immediately smitten and falls in love, hoping to impress her with a tough guy act, and serenading her with a mimed song.

Not taking too kindly to being treated as a slave in his love game, Jerry messes up Tom's plans and gets him on the wrong side of the farmyard bull. It's a pretty funny cartoon, especially when Jerry tampers with the speed of the record Tom is miming to, and there's quite a bit of inventive visual humor too. I just wish that Tom would get the girl for once.

One of the funniest

[rbverhoef · 8/10 · 6 January 2004]

Tom and Jerry are in Texas as cowboys. When a beautiful female cat arrives Tom falls instantly in love and tries to be really cool. Of course Jerry makes sure he has not got a single chance.

This is one of the funniest cartoons from Tom and Jerry. Every joke is a good one and the songs used are quite good as well and perfect for the story. Simply great.

Texas Tom Is One Smooth Dude!

[ccthemovieman-1 · 10/10 · 10 February 2007]

Tom is lying around on the porch at the Dude Ranch when he uncovers Jerry under a flowerpot. While Jerry races away, Tom lassos him, the rope even going around the corner of the building! Suddenly, a station wagon roars up and out comes a beautiful cowgirl, er catgirl.....whatever....Tom is smitten, big-time!

Tom runs back in the house and gets his best cowboy duds on and starts strutting in front of the girl, trying to impress her. He pulls out his tobacco and papers, has Jerry lick the paper, pulls out his gun and shoots it to light the cigarette. He then blows a smoke ring that says, "Howdy." Wow, is this dude s-m-o-o-t-h!! Tom then serenades her (with the cows singing the chorus!). Man, he's pouring it on. Jerry, however, is ready to puke watching this spectacle. He decides to put an end to it....and how! Poor Tom takes a beating, especially from an irate steer.

All in all, there are numerous laugh-out-loud scenes in this animated short - really good stuff. Great music, too, with amusing lyrics in some of the songs.

Great short, with music playing an important part in the action

[llltdesq · 10/10 · 2 October 2003]

This is one of the better Tom and Jerry cartoons to prominently feature music. For some reason, whenever music was a focus, the short was usually excellent (examples include, Solid Serenade, Johann Mouse, Pecos Pest and, obviously, The Cat Concerto). Here, there's a hilarious song at the outset, over the opening credits and a bit later, Tom does his best impersonation of a cross between Tex Ritter and Milli Vanilli. Jerry, for a good many reasons, does his best to destroy Tom's romantic intentions (hey, what are "friends" for?) and largely succeeds. At cartoon's end, we leave amid the strains of another musical interlude and a twisted variation on an old cliche of the western genre and a good time is had by all, except Tom, of course. Well worth tracking down and most highly recommended.

What a stunning cartoon!

[Antzy88 · 17 September 2001]

Dude Ranch is the place where 'Texas Tom' is set. Tom, busy fooling around with Jerry in his usual manner, suddenly notices a car drop off a very pretty cow-girl cat with whom Tom immediately falls for. Jerry, however, has other ideas...

This cartoon is cool! It's dead funny, especially when Tom starts miming to a turntable record playing 'If You're Ever Down In Texas, Look Me Up', but I won't spoil that bit.

Recommended!

Jerry gets the girl again.

[BA_Harrison · 7/10 · 29 September 2014]

Down on the ranch, Tom is happily wiling away the hours tormenting Jerry when he finds himself distracted by the arrival of a sexy cowgirl cat. Tom sets about trying to impress the pretty puss, but Jerry isn't about to make things easy for his nemesis.

Texas Tom's unique Western setting provides plenty of opportunity for hilarity. There's a terrific scene in which Tom serenades the cowgirl cat by miming to a record, but runs into trouble when Jerry starts messing around with the speed control on the record player; Tom accidentally catching an angry bull with his lasso also leads to some very funny moments.

At the end of the cartoon, Jerry is the one that gets lucky with the girl, the cheeky mouse planting a big smacker on her lips (Jerry also snogged a cute female cat in the 1942 short Puss n' Toots—bizarre!!).

Tom and Jerry in the Old West

[TheLittleSongbird · 10/10 · 28 November 2012]

I have always been a huge Tom and Jerry fan. Texas Tom was one of my favourites from them as a child and as a young adult it still is. Texas Tom is part of Tom and Jerry's best overall era(which was right up to 1956 for me) and the beautifully coloured and detailed animation reflects that perfectly. Another high point is the music, the orchestral music is very lively, and the songs are catchy with very clever lyrics. The gags are plentiful and are very inventive in how they're executed, especially the ones with the revolver and the turntable record, while the story makes a potential clichéd concept seem fresh instead and there is never a dull moment. Tom and Jerry are still likable and excel at just doing what they do best. Their chemistry is still inspired. In conclusion, an outstanding Tom and Jerry cartoon and one of their better ones in my opinion. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Very cute

[badfatty · 7/10 · 20 December 2005]

In this story Tom and Jerry are decked out in western wear as the setting is a Texas ranch. Tom as a cowboy is quite smooth, as demonstrated by his cigarette-rolling ability and flawless lip sync, while trying to impress cowgirl kitty. Jerry, of course, must thwart Tom's efforts to charm-in ways that provide lots of laughs. A bull gets involved, and as usual there is much trouble for Tom.

This is not one of my favorites, but by far still one of the better episodes.

What they were doing at a ranch is unknown, like many of the settings we see them in. But it really doesn't matter; they're enjoyable wherever we find them!

Apparently such a good episode that it can be found on both volumes 1 and 2 (disc 2 for each) of the Spotlight Collection DVD set.

The Cat and Mouse deep in the heart of Texas, Tom meets the bullseye and gets the horn!

[blanbrn · 8/10 · 8 June 2021]

This "Tom and Jerry" short from 1950 called "Texas Tom" is one fun and memorable cartoon from the duo as the cat and mouse finds themselves in the lone star state. Both are on a ranch and guess what the cute cat Toots arrives and Tom being a cowboy has his eyes and sights set on her. However this lasso and rodeo to reel her in will be tougher than normal and expected with Jerry mouse around. Now enter the wild card of the story a mean horned charging bull is after Tom so the cat's love is cooled in the Texas heat. Overall good well done "Tom and Jerry" cartoon that stays in memory.

Unusual surroundings, but typical Tom and Jerry quality

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 15 July 2006]

This isn't a particularly great Tom and Jerry cartoon, but considering it was made during the absolute best period of animation from MGM (1941-1956), it still is a very, very good cartoon. Tom and Jerry are out West and Tom is apparently a very capable Cowcat (he really can't be a "comboy", can he?). He spends much of his time tormenting Jerry with his rope tricks until a cute female cat shows up (the same one that periodically shows up in their cartoons). So, Tom wants to impress her but ends up being outwitted by Jerry--who then tries to woo the girl cat (that's kind of weird, huh?). Once again, the cartoon has excellent production values and I have no major complaints other than the fact this wasn't a particularly memorable cartoon--just an average Tom and Jerry toon.

Cowboy Tom goes wooing

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 23 August 2012]

This short finds Tom and Jerry on a Texas dude ranch where Tom is tormenting Jerry by lassoing him and dragging him over such thing as spurs and a cactus plant. Tom gets bored of this when an attractive female cat turns up and starts wooing her; first demonstrating his cigarette rolling skills then miming along to a record. This goes well until Jerry starts changing the speed causing Tom to mime very quickly then very slowly. The two of them soon end up fighting again but Tom comes off worse as Jerry enlists the help of the bull!

This short is packed full of great gags; my personal favourite was when Tom was about to shoot Jerry with a revolver; Jerry blows down the barrel leaving the six bullets in Tom's mouth, Jerry takes the pistol off him, hits him on the back of the head and all of the bullets fire! With such a quick fire succession of gags if one doesn't amuse you another will come along in a matter of seconds! The attention Tom have the female cat was pretty fun and even though a modern cartoon would never show a character being so cool by smoking that section was particularly funny. If you are a fan of Tom and Jerry this one is definitely worth watching.

Anyone whose ever set foot in Texas knows . . .

[cricket30 · 6/10 · 7 September 2022]

. . . that there is no way that a gent lets his arch enemy smooch his gal if he has a gram of strength left in his trigger finger. Unfortunately, TEXAS TOM does not reflect this truism. During about half of the entries in this series, Tom is packing heat of one kind or another. However, this faint-of-heart feline seldom if ever is depicted on the shooting range. Someone, probably Wyatt Earp, once said "Practice makes perfect," and better words have never been spoken when it comes to shooting irons. As the Good Book says, "What profits a man carrying a Peacemaker, if he cannot hit the broad side of the Alamo?" Perhaps Tom is indigent, and cannot afford to purchase practice ammo. If this is the case, it's an excellent reminder for viewers of this film to support their local chapter of BANGS: Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps.

Western genre not working out for the two

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 24 November 2017]

"Texas Tom" is an American 6.5-minute cartoon from 1950, so this one is already over 650 years old and as an MGM production by Hanna Barbera, it is of course another Tom&Jerry cartoon and the title here gives away that it is a very rare journey by the world's most known cat-and-mouse duo into the western genre. Fittingly Tom looks like a cowboy for the most part. But while, I love myself a good western for sure, this was not working out at all here. The duo at the house is just far more poignant and funny, even if I can kinda understand they were trying to add new aspects to the long-running cartoon series. Another thing I did not like as usual is when they are talking, even if it is singing, and as some of the comedy here, like a crucial joke on Tom's voice changing, results from the speaking component, it had a negative impact on the overall outcome here. Yes here and there was an okay moment, but as a whole it was certainly not entertaining enough for me to recommend checking it out. The rating here on IMDb seems far too high. And the ending was another letdown as Jerry in love is fine, but please not with a cat regardless of her being Tom's love interest or not. This is really only for T&J completionists. I give it a thumbs-down.

This picture concludes with a male rodent . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 7 September 2022]

. . . kissing a female cat on the lips and mouth. This brings to mind the most sordid, prurient, tawdry, crass and just plain wrong concentration camp films set during World War Two, which wrapped up not long before this controversial animation was created. Poor Judd perished during OKLAHOMA! A few years earlier just because he yearned for another member of his same species, albeit from a slightly "higher" social class than his own. His doom is eerily foreshadowed early in the musical by an eponymous song declaring that he is deceased--and he's even tricked into singing the refrain! Sadly, TEXAS TOM does not include a similar ballad about the brash vermin Jerry. If it did, many if not most viewers surely would rate POOR JERRY IS DEAD with a well-deserved perfect score of Ten.