
Local celebrities Preeta Mehta and her fiancé Ben, along with their pets Spike and Toots, arrive at the hotel, where they are met by Kayla and Terence, who both greet them, unaware of Jerry stealing from Preeta's handbag. Meanwhile, Tom comes up with various strategies to enter the hotel in order to pursue Jerry but failing every time and gets an alley cat gang led by Butch caught by animal control. At the same time, Jerry takes up residence at the hotel, where his regular shenanigans involve stealing food and items to ramp up his new lifestyle. Looking for a position at New York's fanciest hotel, the Royal Gate, Kayla is tasked with helping event manager Terence Mendoza to set up a high-profile wedding, after presenting a stolen resume as her own. Kayla Forester, a street-smart young woman doing odd jobs while living by her wits, ends up bumping into Tom while he is chasing Jerry. During one of Tom's performances, Jerry picks a fight with him which ends with Tom's keyboard destroyed, followed by a chase. In Manhattan, Tom Cat, who dreams of becoming a pianist, plays in Central Park, while his longtime rival Jerry Mouse is in search of a new home.

The film received generally negative reviews from critics and has grossed $107 million worldwide, making it the eighth highest-grossing film of 2021. Pictures in the United States on February 26, 2021, along with a one-month simultaneous streaming release on HBO Max. Tom & Jerry was theatrically released by Warner Bros. The film again became a live-action/animated hybrid in 2018, with animation produced by the Warner Animation Group, and filming beginning in 2019. Plans eventually shifted to producing an entirely animated film, in the same vein as the original theatrical shorts, in 2015. Originally announced as a live-action/computer-animated film in 2009, the film languished in development hell for several years. The titular characters are voiced by William Hanna, Mel Blanc and June Foray via archival recordings, alongside Frank Welker, Kaiji Tang and André Sogliuzzo, though the characters are listed as themselves in the credits. It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, Pallavi Sharda and Ken Jeong in live-action roles, with Nicky Jam, Bobby Cannavale, and Lil Rel Howery in voice roles. The film is directed by Tim Story and written by Kevin Costello. The film follows Jerry taking refuge in a fancy hotel, which has a young employee teaming up with Tom to exterminate Jerry before an important wedding takes place.


It is the second theatrical film based on the characters following 1992's Tom and Jerry: The Movie. Titular cartoon characters of the same name created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by the Warner Animation Group and distributed by Warner Bros.
