Una Gran Batalla

This "Tom and Jerry" short from 1943 called "The Yankee Doodle Mouse" is one that was done clever and highly memorable. The duo battle it out of course only this time it's in the house basement and it's an all out war mode! As food and house supplies are used as war gear! The fire and explosions are felt as fire comes from up above as little mouse Jerry does his best to outsmart Tom, you name it eggs, light bulbs, flour, and firecrackers are all used to bring smoke! Still in the end it's honor and the patriot way for a little mouse! Fun enjoyable short one of the better and earlier ones!

This cartoon is perfect excellent slapstick violence. Love that they used house filled objects to kill each other in a war.

In this Oscar-winning cartoon (a fact that they're modest enough to mention in the opening credits) Tom and Jerry wage war on each other in the basement of a house. Using household objects as weapons in a variety of imaginative ways, they advance and retreat on each other, desperate to win their mini-conflict.

I suppose this was one of MGMs entries into the pro-WWII cartoon efforts that Disney and Warner seemed to be having a blast with. It's got a very patriotic feel to it and makes war out to be fun. I have no problem with this kind of propaganda at all, but I am surprised that PC-thug groups haven't forced outrage over this, since their lot have ruined many other Tom and Jerry cartoons. Maybe their so blinkered that they cannot really see the subtext.

Anyway, it's a surprisingly good cartoon and really did earn the Academy Award it was honored with.

Hanna-Barbera's dynamic cartoon duo, Tom and Jerry, dominated the Academy Awards Best Animated Short Film category during the 1940s, beginning with June 1943's "The Yankee Doodle Mouse." It was the first of seven Oscars the rival cat and dog took home, and was the first of four straight trophy wins for the two. Produced during World War Two, "The Yankee Doodle Mouse" uses the conflict as an allegory to the battle between Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse. Set in the basement of Tom's owner, the Oscar-winning cartoon follows the cat in his pursuit of Jerry, only to be defeated by the diminutive mouse at every turn. The WW2-themed cartoon opens with Tom discovering Jerry's abode behind a hole in the wall labeled 'Cat Raid Shelter.' The rodent uses his entire cache of weaponry of common items found in the household, capped off by firecrackers. Included is the mouse's arsenal are his 'hen grenades' (eggs), champagne corks fired off as artillery shells, and a cheese grater converted into a jeep, where Jerry drives it under Tom's belly, spilling blood everywhere.

"The Yankee Doodle Mouse" was the third Tom and Jerry cartoon to be nominated for the Academy Awards. The pairs' 1940 animated film debut "Puss Gets the Boot" and 1941's 'The Night Before Christmas' were both previously Oscar nominees.

This cartoon was the first of seven Oscar winners in the Animated Short category. While it is the least of the seven, in my view, it speaks more to the quality of the others than to any weakness in this particular cartoon. Sort of "Jerry Goes To War", it is a reflection of the times and is very well executed and funny. Shows frequently on Cartoon Network. Recommended.