This Tom and Jerry cartoon celebrates the Space Age by setting the cat-mouse rivalry in a laboratory on another planet. Tom uses a robot cat against Jerry, who fights back with more than matching violence (at one point he pounds Tom to a fraction of normal height with an electromagnet and hammerhead). A particularly powerful explosion disintegrates the station and everything in it, but the miracle of reincarnation allows T. to resume his pursuit of J. in a primitive mode.
Apart from the too-long electromagnet bit, this episode is brisk and stylish. As in other Chuck Jones productions of the 1960s, the animation is above average for the time and the backgrounds are handsome. The alternate title alludes to the movie drama "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" -- an odd but sophisticated touch. Overall, "Guided Mouse-ille" is the best of Tom and Jerry's 1966-7 outer-space trilogy (which also includes "O-Solar-Meow" and "Advance and Be Mechanized").
-Tony
Apart from the too-long electromagnet bit, this episode is brisk and stylish. As in other Chuck Jones productions of the 1960s, the animation is above average for the time and the backgrounds are handsome. The alternate title alludes to the movie drama "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" -- an odd but sophisticated touch. Overall, "Guided Mouse-ille" is the best of Tom and Jerry's 1966-7 outer-space trilogy (which also includes "O-Solar-Meow" and "Advance and Be Mechanized").
-Tony
