You are unlikely to see this on Netflix - for one there isn't room on the screen for all the trigger warnings needed.
In the first three minutes you get breast feeding, domestic violence, child cruelty, animal cruelty, underage drinking, bare knuckle boxing and a severed pig's head.
If your child can handle that (and the tortiously long credit sequence that has the charm and pomp of a death march to a gulag) they will need to be patient for another 30 minutes before they get some cartoon.
The animation is quaint and simple - or, if you like, just plain bad. The acting is quite hammy too.
The songs are the stars of the show (and the leads hilarious cockney voice over) High-Cockylorum is especially catchy and gets the blood pumping.
The story is very basic but fun enough and effort is made to match cartoon to live action.
I watched this as a child in the 80s and I was enthralled by this - the songs still linger with me.
Watching it again in 2022 was probably a mistake.
It has an 80s charm about it that modern audiences might find fascinating for a short period, but the pacing is too slow (Tom's chase scene goes on for so long I expected him to traverse deserts and tundra - I think he at least made it to Scotland) and is so nonsensical (it even rains under water)
With such huge catalogues of cartoons on offer now it may be best to leave this one sink in to the depths.
In the first three minutes you get breast feeding, domestic violence, child cruelty, animal cruelty, underage drinking, bare knuckle boxing and a severed pig's head.
If your child can handle that (and the tortiously long credit sequence that has the charm and pomp of a death march to a gulag) they will need to be patient for another 30 minutes before they get some cartoon.
The animation is quaint and simple - or, if you like, just plain bad. The acting is quite hammy too.
The songs are the stars of the show (and the leads hilarious cockney voice over) High-Cockylorum is especially catchy and gets the blood pumping.
The story is very basic but fun enough and effort is made to match cartoon to live action.
I watched this as a child in the 80s and I was enthralled by this - the songs still linger with me.
Watching it again in 2022 was probably a mistake.
It has an 80s charm about it that modern audiences might find fascinating for a short period, but the pacing is too slow (Tom's chase scene goes on for so long I expected him to traverse deserts and tundra - I think he at least made it to Scotland) and is so nonsensical (it even rains under water)
With such huge catalogues of cartoons on offer now it may be best to leave this one sink in to the depths.