The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Tee for Two (1945)**** (out of 4) One of the very best in the series has Tom on the golf course when he notices Jerry causing him some trouble. Soon the two are getting into all sorts of trouble as Tom tries to golf the perfect game but Jerry just won't let that happen. TEE FOR TWO is one of the funniest films in the series because there's just so much wacky violence that you can't help but laugh throughout. There are so many highlights here but one has to be the scenes where Tom upsets a large group of bees. Another terrific sequence deals with Tom getting his teeth knocked out. The animation is great as you'd expect but the golf course just gives the writers so much material and it's very creative.

As this short opens we see what appears to be a golf course; it is hard to be sure though as somebody has taken out so many divots it looks more like an artillery range! That somebody is of course Tom. When he finally does get the ball to the hole it keeps bouncing out; at first he can't see why, it soon becomes apparent that it is because Jerry is at the bottom of it and he doesn't enjoy being disturbed. When Tom realises what is going on he grabs Jerry with the intention of using him as a tee! What follows is the usual stream of violent gags viewers expect from the duo. Jerry gets hit by the ball a couple of times and hammered into the ground but as always Tom who suffers the most; he gets his teeth knocked out, attacked by an irate woodpecker, stung by a swarm of bees and even blown up by an exploding golf ball.This was a fairly standard Tom and Jerry short; plenty of violence and some good gags; I particularly liked the fully grown woodpecker hatching from an egg and attacking Tom and the introduction where we see just how bad Tom is at golf... although that doesn't explain how he can hit Jerry with a ball as he runs off! The animation is of a high standard and the jokes come thick and fast so if you don't like one it doesn't matter as there will be another one along in a matter of seconds. This might not be as good as some of their other sporting outings but it is still well worth watching and to my mind beats 'My Bunny Lies Over the Sea'; Bugs Bunny's golfing short.

The cartoon begins with Tom in the middle of a VERY bad game of golf. Already about 86 over par he, for some reason, uses Jerry as a Tee. Not taking kindly to this Jerry turns the table and plays tricks on Tom. And that's pretty much it for the rest of the cartoon. This one has quite a thin premise but gets enough mileage out of it I guess. The visual jokes are all rather amusing but I do feel sorry for Tom when he's victimized in such a way. Whether it's being stung by a hoard of bees or having his teeth smashed out by a rogue ball, Tom seems to get more than his usual share of pain in Tee for Two. Does that make me a bad person for thinking that it's funny?

This is a golf story that begins show a golf course being ruined with divots the size of craters. Of course Tom is the guilty party, hacking away - literally. When he finally sinks a putt, the ball pops back up out of the hole! That signals of arrival of Jerry who is underneath in the hole shoving the ball back out.Once out, Tom captures and for awhile the reverse that usually happens occurs: Jerry takes a beating. He gets roughed up in the ball washer, gets used as a tee and as a ball. Finally Tom is the one that gets physically abuse on the course through various means, including bees and a woodpecker!It's typical Tom-and-Jerry trying to kill each other, usually in clever and humorous ways. Golfers will get a bigger kick out of this than others, but everyone should get a fair share of laughs out of it.