Overview: Warner Home Video (WHV) celebrates the most enduring team in animation history, Tom and Jerry, with the release of Tom and Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection.

DVD: 'Tom and Jerry' was one of my absolute favorite cartoons growing up. And this new Deluxe Anniversary 2-Disc Collection is worth every penny ... and then some. As soon as I received the DVD box-set for review from my wonderful editor, I popped them into the DVD player ... and soon, myself and my children were cracking up!

I will say they are much more violent than I remember but I personally never associated Tom and Jerry with violence, just a great cartoon that I loved to watch. For the most part, children know the difference between what is real and not. For 50 years, children grew up watching Tom and Jerry and to ban it now seems ridiculous to me. Especially compared to what is shown on TV these days.

I sat down and watched Cartoon Network with my 5-year-old daughter recently and was appalled at some of the inappropriateness of new cartoons!

Anyway, 'Tom and Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection' features seven shorts that became Oscar® winners for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. They include Yankee Doodle Mouse, Mouse Trouble, Quiet Please!, The Cat Concerto, The Little Orphan, Johann Mouse and Two Mousketeers.

The set begins with the short that started it all, the Oscar® nominated Puss Gets the Boot. Puss Gets the Boot, not only catapulted the then-unnamed Tom and Jerry to meteoric stardom but also served as the launching pad for the collaborative efforts of another gifted legendary duo, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Also included on the DVD is an excerpt from the 1945 live action film Anchors Aweigh, in which Jerry performs a dance routine with Gene Kelly. Another featured excerpt is from the 1953 musical film Dangerous When Wet, in which Tom and Jerry appear with Esther Williams in a dream sequence where they perform a synchronized swimming routine. This is a Full Screen Presentation (1.77:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

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