Movies like Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass

“Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass (2025) is a Chinese 2020s family-animation time-travel adventure that retools a classic chase into a collaborative displacement narrative. It stages the central conflict as an antagonist-to-ally dyad forced to solve a compass-driven dislocation, using chiaroscuro museum setpieces and elastic squash-and-stretch animation to calibrate tone. The result is a formally assured, family-oriented spectacle that situates familiar slapstick in a mythic Chinese-animated register and makes cooperative problem-solving the story's engine.”