A tired exploitation of intellectual property that became passé the night The Simpsons aired its first Itchy & Scratchy Show (if not decades earlier), Tim Story's Tom & Jerry is five to ten minutes of action that might have worked in one of the cartoon duo's shorts, surrounded by an inordinate amount of unimaginative, unfunny human-based conflict.
Slumming in the central role of this 'toon/live-action hybrid, Chloë Grace Moretz understandably invests as little as possible, maybe wishing she could be acting opposite physical Muppets, at least, instead of figures that will be drawn in at a later date.
Moretz plays Kayla, a victim of the gig economy with flexible morals. Stumbling into an opportunity for a temp job at a tony Manhattan hotel,.
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