Two Little Indians (1953) User Reviews

Two Little Brats

[ccthemovieman-1 · 7/10 · 12 February 2007]

Scoutmaster Jerry is given the assignment of taking two orphans from the "Bide-a-wee- Mouse Home" on a hiking trip. Boy these orphans are brats.

Poor Tom is the innocent victim, as he tends to be on occasion. He's just lying under a tree taking a snooze when these little wise-guys take potshots him. Jerry isn't pleased with that, either, trying to stop them, but no avail. Soon, the chase is on with Tom going against all the mice. He captures Jerry but the little orphans come to his rescue with some inventive, humorous methods.

Another fun episode.

Two Little Indian Boys coming out to have fun!

[TheLittleSongbird · 8/10 · 7 March 2010]

By all means this episode is not a favourite. It is fun, nice and worth watching but a classic? Personally I think not. The sight gags are funny, the animation is beautiful once again and the music is excellent. The two little orphans are bratty of course but somewhat cute and very mischievous. What didn't work as well was the pacing, a little rushed for my taste, and the plot from which this episode takes its basis from is not the most original one from the Tom and Jerry canon. Tom and Jerry however are still their likable selves, and the episode is in general fun to watch. Overall, good episode but not the best. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Tom gets scalped!

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 1 August 2012]

This 'Tom and Jerry' short opens with two orphaned mice, dressed as Indians, turning up at 'Scout Master Jerry's' house. They appear to be a danger to themselves as one of them sets off to attack Spike the bulldog; no sooner than Jerry has resolved that situation the other is off attacking Tom. When Tom wakes he sees Jerry standing in front of him with a bow and arrow but it soon becomes apparent that he can't use it; the two little mice can though and are soon shooting arrows into the poor cat as well as attacking him with tomahawks. The conflict soon escalates as Tom gets a gun; it doesn't help him much though two young mice continue to get the better of him and ultimately he is forced to surrender.

This was a fun 'Tom and Jerry' cartoon even though it isn't the usual Tom versus Jerry story; it is the two little orphan mice that provide most of the entertainment. There is the usual violence on expects with Tom getting shot with arrows, scalped with a tomahawk and getting smashed in the face with a frying pan. I enjoyed the story; the two little mice were a good addition and made a nice change from just having Tom and Jerry fighting. The gags are the sort one expects but they are still pretty funny.

For this our Modern 21st Century, Major League . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 8/10 · 15 September 2022]

. . . Baseball has officially changed the name of this picture, branding anew a previously iffy title to the less controversial heading of TWO LITTLE GUARDIANS. Feel better already? If you send a polite letter to the Commissioner of Diamonds, as I did, he'll probably also send you a set of correction stickers to slap over the bad old insensitive name and make everybody in your viewing circle tickled pink. He also did this for the Cleveland baseball team's equipment manager, but in far greater volume. If Bob Feller, Buddy Bell and Joe Jackson can be reconfigured as Guardians at the stroke of a pen, surely such treatment is befitting for Jerry the Mouse.

A role model cartoon

[Horst_In_Translation · 6/10 · 22 May 2016]

Sadly, with this description, I am not referring to the great quality, but mostly to the fact that it is an okay watch, with lots of noise and a funny moment here and there. But I believe that overall "Two Little Indians", from almost 65 years ago, could have been better and funnier especially. It is a Tom & Jerry cartoon that did not get any awards attention, that time had passed, and I would say it is not among their best or their worst. Maybe the reason is that I agree with what another reviewer already wrote. This does not look like a Tom & Jerry film for the most part. The duo rarely goes against each other, but it is more the little Indian mice against everybody here with Jerry trying to keep them from making even more chaos. That is what it is. Also, on the cuteness level this does not make an impact like some of the Nibbles cartoons, even if there is basically two Nibbles in here. All in all, a decent watch for people that like Tom and Jerry, but everybody else can skip it.

This one has me feeling sorry for Tom.

[BA_Harrison · 6/10 · 20 November 2016]

After Quacker the duckling, Nibbles the baby mouse is my least favourite of Jerry's sidekicks. In Two Little Indians, Jerry, a scoutmaster, is put in charge of two orphan mice, both of whom resemble Nibbles in Red Indian costumes. I should, by all rights, hate this cartoon, but there is so much inventive violence (most of which is perpetrated against Tom, minding his own business for a change), that I can't help but enjoy it.

As Jerry tries to control the little mice, with very little success, Tom gets an arrow in his butt, two in his nose, is scalped, has the end of his tail cut off, and gets hit with a frying pan (resulting in his nose being pushed inside his gun barrel). Jerry joins in with the fun, belting Tom over the head with a post box. Eventually, after being blown up with gunpowder, Tom has no choice but to smoke a peace pipe with the mice, but even this doesn't go right for the poor cat.

Back in the 1900's, Tinsel Town was really blatant . . .

[pixrox1 · 6/10 · 13 September 2022]

. . . in their money-grubbing product placement practices, no matter how anti-Social and nefarious were the cartels slipping the payola under their tables. Poverty Row outfits such as the House of the Groaning Fat Cat with its Tom and Jerry franchise were particularly pernicious in their desperate pursuit of cash from questionable sources. Big Tobacco saw to it that Tom smoked like a bonfire of vanities, in such pictures as TEXAS TOM, SMITTEN KITTEN and TWO LITTLE INDIANS. Naturally, most tykes weaned on Tom and Jerry cartoons were hooked on coffin nails before they had any chance to think for themselves, which was the whole point of aiming the Devil's weed commercials such as Joe Camel or Tom Cat directly at America's doomed youth--all for the sake of making a mountain of blood money.

didn't feel like a tom vs. Jerry cartoon

[movieman_kev · 5/10 · 3 June 2005]

Jerry the mouse is going to take two little orphan mice on a camping trip as their scoutmaster, but they only want to act like Indians attacking a dog, a canary, and finally Tom the cat, who fights back only to get tortured more. Less a Tom vs. Jerry short than it was a Tom vs. two mice tale. And it my mind it was worse because of it. Not to say it wasn't funny, as it was. It sadly just wasn't as good as most Tom and Jerry animated shorts tend to be.This humorous animated short can be found on disc 2 of Warner Brother's 2-DVD Spotlight Collection set.

My Grade: C