Tom and Jerry & The Little Engine That Could

Tom and Jerry & The Little Engine That Could is a upcoming 2018 direct-to-DVD animated musical comedy film featuring the characters Tom and Jerry, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The film is an animated adaptation of the 1991 film The Little Engine That Could with the addition of Tom and Jerry being characters in the plot and as seen through their point of view. This is also the third time that a film in the Tom and Jerry franchise was an adaption of an original film (the first being Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz and the second being Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory). This is the fourth crossover film with Tom and Jerry after Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz, its sequel Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz, Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest, a crossover with Jonny Quest, Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Tom and Jerry: The Wind in the Willows.

This film is coming soon on Digital HD on June 12, 2018 and will be release on DVD & Blu-ray on July 31, 2018.

From the Studio that Brought you: Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz, Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz, Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest, Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the Directors of Tom and Jerry: The Wind in the Willows

Story
Eric, a young boy, is excited about his birthday after reading a book and believes that a train will come for him, despite his sister Jill's disbelief. A few hours later, Tom and Jerry, live in a mansions near the train yard, wake up to their alarm clocks, and stop their ringing before getting out of beds. They take a morning shower and eat breakfast with Tuffy, Spike Bulldog and his son Tyke Bulldog. Tom and Jerry arrive at the train station and insert their time cards into the timecard reader, thus beginning their work shift. The train station's control tower wakes up. In the roundhouse, Tillie, a young little blue switcher engine, along with her best bird friend, Chip, wakes up five other trains: Casey Junior, a young circus engine, Georgia, a kind all-purpose engine, Farnsworth, a stuck-up passenger engine, Jebediah, a worn-out old engine, and Pete, a gruff, burly freight engine. After the tower assigns Farnsworth and Pete their jobs and Tom's failed attempt to capture and eat Chip, Tillie tries to help with the milk train assigned to Jebediah, but is suddenly stopped when the tower insists that she is too small for the job. Georgia is assigned to pull the birthday train. A clown named Rollo leads the toys into the train, including Jeepers, a monkey, Stretch, a basketball player, Missy, a ballerina, Handy Pandy, a panda, Perky, an elephant, and Grumpella, a stuffed bird. Tom and Jerry meet the toys from the toy store and tell them about Mr. Grimm plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, which means the toys won't make it to the children who have been good all year and deserve them. The toys decide to ride the birthday train over the mountain.

During her journey, Georgia breaks down and is taken back to the roundhouse by Doc. Left behind, Rollo eventually takes Doc's advice of flagging down one of the other engines returning from their daily runs over the mountain. Farnsworth and Pete turn down their offers to pull the train. Meanwhile, Tillie asks Tower to rescue the stranded train, which he angrily tries to insist that Tillie will never do the job, but is luckily interrupted by Tom and Jerry's rivalry when Tom hits the tower's nose while chasing after Jerry with a spade. Tom then throws a javelin at the mouse, hitting the tower in the progress; the tower lets out a loud bellow in Tom's voice. Spike threatens to overthrow Tower and take over command if he bothers Tillie again, much to Tower's shock and disbelief. Casey Junior leaves the roundhouse on his daily run over the mountain, pulling the circus train. Jebediah turns down his offer to pull the train because of his age, and returns to the roundhouse. Chip, Tillie, Tom, Jerry, Tuffy, and Muscles sneak past the sleeping tower with Spike telling her good luck and pulls the birthday train up a mountain avoiding the heartless Mr. Grimm. During the excursion, she gets into conflict with a steamboat over the right of way on a drawbridge that spans the river, before overcoming him and causing the drawbridge to close on and push down on the steamboat into the water. Later on, Tillie encounters a streamlined train charging towards her and closing in fast, at which she desperately calls for a nearby railroad switch lever to wake up and change the track, which it did. She stops at a junction that Farnsworth and Pete use the new track over the mountain, so Tom switches the birthday train to the old track.

Butch Cat, Lightning Cat, Meathead Cat, Topsy Cat, Cousin George, Tin, Pan and Alley disguise themselves as a babies, place themselves in a booby-trapped carriages in a unused train car which the unsuspected Tom and Jerry tend to a babysit and take to a new homes. During the journey, Tillie is set by two wolves, one who tells her she'll never make it. On the way to the mountain tunnel during a rainstorm, she is advised by an eagle to turn back, she then tells the eagle that she can do it, and ignores the eagle's advice. Tillie crosses through the tunnel where the Ally Cats remove their baby disguises to ambush her in a attempt to eat all food in the Food Car. Tom and Jerry fight and beat the Alley Cats and Tillie crosses the bridge that partially collapses when a boulder slams into its support. Jerry saves the Reserve Car by pinching Tom with a needle in the butt and pushing the last train car back to the tracks while the Alley Cats fall into the river below. Tillie manages to reach the summit and meets a cave with a voice inside. Tillie attempts to go through the cave, but is knocked unconscious by an avalanche while Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy manage to escape. Eric is woken up by a thunderstorm and worries about Tillie and the birthday train. After getting revenge on Mr. Grimm and Butch Dog for sending a boulder, making a spooky voice and causing an avalanche, Tom, Jerry, and Tuffy get Tillie regain consciousness, who pulls the train out of the snow using her cowcatcher as a snowplough and down the mountain before they reach the town, much to Eric's delight and Jill's amazement. Tillie, who although very tired from her long and adventurous journey over the mountain, is very proud and happy and tells her best friend Chip, Tom, Jerry and Tuffy that she did what she could. Tuffy takes a picture of Tillie and the birthday train and sends a newspaper and Spike proves Farnsworth and the Tower that a little engine like Tillie can do big things. During the credits, the following photos are shown: Eric's birthday party, the toys with their new owners, Mr. Grimm is sent to prison along with Butch and the Ally Cats, Spike's Ticker-Tape Parade, Farnsworth taking a passenger train, Pete taking a freight train, Jebediah taking a milk train and lastly, Tillie taking the toy train over the mountain on the new track with Tom and Jerry as her crew.

Characters

 * Tom Cat- A grey-blue cat, In this movie; he works at the train yard. (one of the three main protagonists)
 * Jerry Mouse- A brown mouse, In this movie; he works at the train yard. (one of the three main protagonists)
 * Tillie- a young little blue switcher engine who dreams of pulled a train of her own. (one of the three main protagonists)
 * Chip- Tillie's best bird friend and Tom's victim.
 * Nibbles Mouse (Tuffy)- A young baby grey, diaper-wearing mouse and who is Jerry's Nephew and Tom's friend. In this movie; he is a photographer.
 * Spike Bulldog- Gruff but just bulldog and who is Tom and Jerry's friend, In this movie; he is Tom and Jerry's boss.
 * Tyke Bulldog- Spike's son.
 * Droopy- A droopy but noble bulldog; In this movie, he is a Conductor.
 * Tower- A control tower who is in charge of everyone in the train yard. He is bossing Tillie.
 * Casey Junior- A circus engine who offers advice to Tillie. In the flashbacks, he was pulling a passenger train to Cleveland, Ohio. He crashes after an effort to jump the chasm left by a broken bridge in a storm and taken to the repair yard by Doc.
 * Georgia- a kind all-purpose engine who was supposed to take the birthday train over the mountain to Eric's neighbourhood. She is red and can sometimes have accidents.
 * Farnsworth- a stuck-up passenger engine who pulls a fine passenger train.
 * Jebediah- a worn-out old engine who pulls a milk train.
 * Pete- a gruff, burly freight engine who pulls a freight train with a printing press.
 * Doc- the green doctor engine who takes Georgia back to the roundhouse when she broke down. He is the one who repaired Casey Junior after his accident.
 * Rollo the Clown
 * Jeepers
 * Stretch
 * Missy
 * Handy Pandy
 * Perky
 * Grumpella
 * Eric- Jill's younger brother
 * Jill- Eric's older sister
 * Butch Cat- Tom's rival. In this movie; he is the leader of the Ally Cats (one of the minor antagonists)
 * Lightning Cat- Tom's rival. (one of the minor antagonists)
 * Meathead Cat- Tom's foe. (one of the minor antagonists)
 * Topsy Cat- Tom's foe. (one of the minor antagonists)
 * Cousin George- Tom's cousin. (one of the minor antagonist)
 * Muscles Mouse- A super-strong cousin mouse in a yellow shirt with a black lines and green hat and who is Jerry and Tuffy's cousin
 * Tin, Pan and Alley (one of the minor antagonist)
 * Butch Dog- A enemy of Droopy and sometimes his friend. In this movie; he is Mr. Grimm's pet dog (one of the minor antagonist)
 * The Big Wolf (minor antagonist)
 * The Little Wolf
 * Eagle (minor antagonist)
 * The Cave's Voice- a cave resembling a demonic face with a very creepy voice inside that scares a trains that try to through. (secondary antagonist)
 * Mr. Grimm- A former toy store owner who robbing the toys. (main antagonist)

Song

 * Casey, Jr.
 * Nothing Can Stop Us Now

Cast

 * Don Brown as Tom Cat
 * Samuel Vincent as Jerry Mouse
 * Michael Donovan as Topsy
 * Colin Murdock as Butch Cat, Lightning
 * Spike Brandt as Spike
 * Jeff Bergman as Droopy
 * Jim Cummings as Butch Dog
 * Greg Ellis as Tin
 * Jess Harnell as Pan
 * Richard McGonagle as Alley
 * Brian George as Mr. Grimm
 * Cathy Cavadini as Casey Junior
 * Kath Soucie as Tillie, Missy and Tuffy
 * Billy West as Muscles Mouse
 * Frank Welker as Perky, Jeepers, Eagle, Farnsworth, Jebediah and Rollo
 * B.J. Ward as Grumpella
 * Neil Ross as Doc, The Big Wolf, Tower and Panda
 * Bever-Leigh Banfield as Georgia
 * Peter Cullen as Pete and the Cave's Voice
 * Scott Menville as Chip and Stretch
 * Billy O'Sullivan as Eric and The Little Wolf
 * Dina Sherman as Jill
 * William Hanna as Tom Cat's screams
 * Mel Blanc as Wile E. Coyote's scream

Changes

 * Cabooses now have been added to Pete's freight train, Jebediah's milk train and Georgia/Tillie's birthday train.
 * Caboose in the birthday train is similar one in the 1963 film The Little Engine That Could.
 * Although Jill's name wasn't revealed until the end credits, Eric uses his sister's name.
 * Unlike the original, the Reserve Car was saved from falling into the river by Tom.
 * In the original film, Tillie tells Chip that everything is all right, but is interrupted when she is confronted by a gigantic and scary-looking snowy cliff overhanging the rails. In the crossover version, Tillie lets herself finish her sentence before she comes across a scary-looking tunnel.
 * While this crossover has all of the script quotes from the original film with some being changed, this shows all of the script quotes from the original that have been changed and the new script quotes that have been added in this crossover.

Quotes

 * Jebediah the Old Engine: Yup, I'd love to. But my "cough" chug isn't what it used to be. And goin' over the mountain is too much for me these days. Sorry.


 * Chip: You did it, Tillie!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: Yes, I did it. I couldn't done it without Tom and Jerry. And it was worth it!


 * Rollo the Clown: Uh... it is my honor to say... that is, I'm pleased to announce... that it is time that we should... uh...


 * Grumpella the Bonnetted Bird: Oh, come on already! Let's go!


 * Rollo the Clown: [Falls into coal car] Uh... yes... let's... go!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: [Hooks up to Pete, and starts pulling him out of the shed] C'mon, Pete!


 * Pete: Careful, kid. Don't bust a boiler


 * Tillie the Little Engine: Ha! Are you kidding? Hold on to your smokestack!

[Starts puffing faster, taking Pete by surprise]


 * Chip: Boy, Tillie's sure fired up today!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: [Hooks up to Farsnworth] C'mon, Farnsworth!


 * Farnsworth the Passenger Engine: Hm, hm. Refined engines such as I should never get up this early. It's bad for our chug.


 * Tillie the Little Engine: [Pulling Farnsworth Out] Oh, that's silly, Farnsworth!


 * Farnsworth the Passenger Engine: And what would you know about it? You're just a little switch engine, pulling real engines around the train yard.


 * Tillie the Little Engine: Hey! What do you mean "real engines"?

[Uncouples from Farnsworth]


 * Control Tower: [Looking at Tillie] Stop squabbling! We can't waste a minute!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: [seeing a streamlined train coming fast] Hey! Pull the switch! Pull the switch! Wake up! Pull the switch! Hurry!


 * Casey Junior: [Climbing up] I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can! I thought I could, I thought I could, I thought I could, I thought I could! Whoo-hoo!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: [Pulling the Birthday Train up the mountain] I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

[Music Starts]


 * Tillie the Little Engine: I think I can, I think I can, i think I can, I think I can...


 * Rollo the Clown: [singing] When your feet are dragging on the ground Stand up and face whatever you're afraid of

[Stands up but gets blown back by smoke]


 * Rollo the Clown: When pandemonium is all around...


 * Missy: [singing] That's when you find out what it is you're made of.


 * Rollo the Clown: [singing] If you will just believe it's true Then there is nothing you can't do There's not a mountain that you can't climb There's not a river you can't make it over There's no tomorrow that you can't find if you try I know you're gonna make it Nothing can stop you now!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!


 * Entire Cast: [singing] There's not a mountain that we can't climb! There's not a river we can't make it over! There's not tomorrow that we can't find if we try! You know we're gonna make it! Nothing can stop us now!

[instrumental]


 * Entire Cast: Nothing can stop us now! Nothing can stop us now! Nothing can stop us now! Nothing can stop us now...


 * Tillie the Little Engine: [after waking up, she wakes up Chip, who hugs her. Tom and Jerry join in.] All board! [Tom and Jerry jump back to the cab.] One more try!

[Starts trying as hard as she can to get out of the snow]


 * Chip: You did it, Tillie!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: I did! I thought I could, I thought I could, I thought I could, I thought I could. I thought I could, I thought I could, I thought I could, I thought I could!


 * Entire Cast: [Everyone wakes up and starts singing] There's not a mountain that we can't climb! There's not a river we can't make it over! There's no tomorrow that we can't find if we try! You know we're gonna make it! Nothing can stop us now!

[instrumental]


 * Entire Cast: Nothing can stop us now! Nothing can stop us now!


 * Eric: [Sees the Birthday Train stop] Look, Jill! The little engine brought the Birthday train! I knew she would!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: I thought I could!


 * Control Tower: [Looking at his schedule] Jebediah! Get that Milk Train rolling!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: [Doing a bad impersonation of Jebediah] On my way, Tower.


 * Control Tower: [Notices Tillie attempting to sneak off with Jebediah's train] What kind of joke is this?


 * Tillie the Little Engine: It's no joke! I can do it!


 * Control Tower: Hey, you're too little, kid!


 * Chip: [Flies up to Tower and lands on his nose] What do you know, you overgrown stack of lumber? She is not too little!


 * Spike: Now just a minute, you overgrown stack of lumber!


 * Control Tower: Spike, what are you doing?

[Tyke poses as illustration for the words]
 * Spike: Never mind. How would you like my boy Tyke too small?


 * Control Tower: Tyke? But Spike, that's an entirely different matter.


 * Spike: Humph!


 * Control Tower: Different. Entirely.


 * Spike: Tillie's no different than my own son. Now leave her alone or I'm taking over command.


 * Control Tower: What? A dog maintaining order? Utterly preposterous.


 * Mountain Cave: Too little... too little... Bad old pussy cat...

[after Pete has left]


 * Grumpella the Bonnetted Bird: Well, I told you there wouldn't be any engines to pull us!


 * Rollo the Clown: There will so!


 * Grumpella the Bonnetted Bird: There will not!


 * Rollo the Clown: There will!


 * Grumpella the Bonnetted Bird: There won't!


 * Rollo the Clown: There will!


 * Grumpella the Bonnetted Bird: There won't!

[gets in his face]


 * Big Wolf: Turn back! That's an old track! You're too little! You can't do it!


 * Tillie the Little Engine: I think I can!


 * Big Wolf: You'll be

[howling]


 * Big Wolf: Yip, yip, yip, sorry!

[the wolf's howl echoes]


 * Little Wolf: Go for it, little train. I think you can.

Trivia/Notes

 * The original voice actors from the original film will reprise their roles.
 * G-rated for Very mild rude humour, threat, fantasy violence, scary scenes, very mild bad language. And it's running times in the workprint versions are from 83 Minutes to 79 Minutes.
 * The toys and Mr. Grimm reappeared from How the Toys Saved Christmas.
 * Tower uses Tom's scream when Tom hurts him with a javelin.
 * Farnsworth uses Tom's scream when he sees Rollo waving his red flag to stop him.
 * Tillie uses Tom's scream during an avalanche.
 * Tom's scream as he got shot into the air by Tower is Wile E. Coyote's scream taken from "To Beep or Not to Beep". The visual effect, referred to as eating the camera, is also part of this scene.
 * The train scene is used from "Kitty Foiled" while Eric and Jill watching a TV.
 * In Transformers: Universe, during Chris' first duel with Bandit Keith, Joey told Téa that the duel mob returned to see Tom and Jerry & The Little Engine That Could.

Release

 * This film is on Digital HD on June 12, 2018 and will be release on DVD & Blu-ray on July 31, 2018.

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