Tom and Jerry & The Little Engine That Could

Tom and Jerry & The Little Engine That Could is a upcoming 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).

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, Spike Bulldog, Tom and Jerry are working at the train station and 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.

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 two cues 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. Jebediah turns down his offer to pull the train because of his age, and returns to the roundhouse. Chip, Tillie, Tom, Jerry and Tuffy, a photographer, 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 while an old track with a crossing gate on it, so Tom switches the birthday train to the old track.

During the journey, Tillie is set by two wolves, one who tells her she'll never make it. One the way to the "Crying" Cave 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 cave where Butch Cat, Lightning Cat, Meathead Cat, Topsy Cat, Cousin George, Tin, Pan and Alley 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 tricks Tom into throwing a bowling ball at him, sending him slingshot and pushing one of the wagons back on 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 and Jerry that she did what she could. Mr. Grimm is sent to prison and 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.

Characters

 * Tom Cat (one of the three main protagonists)
 * Jerry Mouse (one of the three main protagonists)
 * Tillie (one of the three main protagonists)
 * Chip
 * Nibbles Mouse (Tuffy)
 * Spike Bulldog
 * Tyke Bulldog
 * Droopy
 * Tower
 * Casey Junior
 * Georgia
 * Farnsworth
 * Jebediah
 * Pete
 * Doc
 * Rollo the Clown
 * Jeepers
 * Stretch
 * Missy
 * Handy Pandy
 * Perky
 * Grumpella
 * Eric
 * Jill
 * Butch Cat (one of the minor antagonists)
 * Lightning Cat (one of the minor antagonists)
 * Meathead Cat (one of the minor antagonists)
 * Topsy Cat (one of the minor antagonists)
 * Cousin George (one of the minor antagonist)
 * Tin, Pan and Alley (one of the minor antagonist)
 * Butch Dog (one of the minor antagonist)
 * The Big Wolf (minor antagonist)
 * The Little Wolf
 * Eagle (minor antagonist)
 * The Cave's Voice (secondary antagonist)
 * Mr. Grimm (main antagonist)

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
 * 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

Trivia/Notes
The train scene is used from "Kitty Foiled" while Eric and Jill watching a TV.
 * The original voice actors from the original film will reprise their roles.
 * Cabooses now have been added to Pete's freight train, Jebediah's milk train and Georgia/Tillie's birthday train.
 * The toys and Mr. Grimm reappeared from How the Toys Saved Christmas.
 * Tower uses Tom's scream when Tom hurts him with a cue.
 * Farnsworth uses Tom's scream when he sees Rollo waving his red flag to stop him.
 * 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.
 * In Transformers: Universe, during Chris' first duel with Bandit Keith, Téa told Joey that the duel mob returned to see Tom and Jerry & The Little Engine That Could.