Review of Bad Day at Cat Rock

. . . when you're playing Paper-Scissors-Cat, the Rock always wins. Director C. Jones, brilliant creator of ONE F-R-O-G-G-Y EVENING and WHAT"S OPERA, DOC? (for Warner), would win the best animated short Oscar in 1965 for THE DOT AND THE LINE: A ROMANCE IN LOWER MATHEMATICS. However, as part of his Warner Bros. Revenge Tour, he uses his exact same geometrical skills from the latter film to make total buffoons and meaningless ciphers of the over-rated Tom & Jerry duo during BAD DAY AT CAT ROCK. Tom comes up a fulcrum short in trying to lever a boulder into the sky at Jerry. It's as if Schroeder is sitting at his piano, plunking out "Lucy Van Pelting the Sky with Diamond Drills."