Yep, they went to the red rock.
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars is a 2005 Direct to Video film about Tom and Jerry accidentally getting sent to Mars during one of their trademark chases, and accidentally starting an alien invasion.
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars contains examples of:
- 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Most of the movie is traditionally animated, but the Invince-a-tron is a cel-shaded CGI model.
- Adults Are Useless: None of the scientists or authorities on Earth can deal with the alien invasion.
- The Ahnold: The president of the United States is based off of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Alien Invasion: The whole point of the movie.
- And Mission Control Rejoiced: Mission Control celebrates when the rocket with Tom and Jerry returns. Little do they know what's coming for them.
- Attentive Shade Lowering: The President of the United States briefly lowers his glasses when sternly thanking Tom and Jerry for ending the alien invasion.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: The titular duo spend most of the movie in outer space without helmets, yet neither suffer any ill-effects (although Tom's head does get bigger when it's stuck outside of the rocket).
- Big Ball of Violence:
- When Biff and Buzz (along with a scientist and their boss) try to catch Tom and Jerry this happens with Tom and Jerry peacefully walking out as the four foolish men beat each other.
- When Biff and Buzz fight each other on the shuttle this happens.
- Caring Gardener: The first two NASA employees Tom and Jerry meet are a pair of men who have artistically decorated the lawn and nearby hedges, and are deeply upset when Tom and Jerry's antics start destroying their work.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Spike is seen early in the movie being annoyed by Tom and Jerry's antics, but then he proves to be instrumental in defeating the Invince-a-tron during the climax.
- Colossus Climb: Spike defeats the Invince-a-tron by climbing up its body to retrieve his bone, which Jerry threw into its head.
- Covers Always Lie: Nothing close to the scenario depicted on the page image happens in the movie proper: Tom does wear a space suit, but it's white instead of red and he loses it before he even gets into space, Jerry doesn't get a suit at all, and Mars isn't nearly as small as the cover makes it look.
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear: The last scene has Tom chased by the mech off into the sunset.
- Faeries Don't Believe in Humans, Either: Until the events of the movie, it's been a long-standing belief by the Martians that their neighboring world of Earth doesn't harbor any sentient life.
- Human-Focused Adaptation: The plot is mainly about Biff Buzzard and Buzz Blister traveling to Mars to investigate if any aliens reside there, while the alien invasion itself gets caused by Tom and Jerry's usual antics, once they find themselves on Mars.
- Humans Through Alien Eyes: The Martians think the humans are hostile when Tom accidentally wrecks their city.
- Humanoid Aliens: The Martians are these, albeit really small.
- Humongous Mecha: The Martian weapon, the Invince-a-tron, which is a mech with a giant vacuum.
- Interspecies Romance: Peep falls in love with Jerry.
- Jet Pack: In the climax, a minor NASA scientist unsuccessfully attempts to use a jetpack to escape from the giant robot's vacuum cleaner.
- Little Green Man: The Martians are, well, little, green and humanoid.
- Marilyn Maneuver: During the climax, a female reporter has her skirt start to lift up due to the giant robot's vacuum cleaner and quickly pushes it back down.
- Overly Long Gag: King Thingg falling down the stairs, which lasts so long a pair of Martians meet up, get Happily Married and have several children, all before he lands.
- Shaped Like Itself: Commander Bristle's speech about the Mars mission notes that an undertaking "of this expense is very ... expensive."
- Shout-Out: The black monolith on Mars.
- Small Role, Big Impact: The Martian scientist who discovers that Tom and Jerry are from Earth only has about a minute of screen time. Nonetheless, his revelation triggers the Martian invasion of Earth, and he later jump starts the broken giant robot to send it to Earth after the fleet.
- Spinning Paper: Announcing Tom, Jerry and Peep as the heroes who stopped the Alien Invasion.
- Vicious Vac: The Invince-a-tron, the Martian’s giant robot, uses a vacuum cleaner as a weapon, gleefully sucking up the people around the International Space Place. One step of defeating it is even to open up its back and burst the vacuum bag, simultaneously rescuing those who were sucked up earlier.
- Weird World, Weird Food: Peep is perfectly fine with eating the food at the Martian kingdom's buffet, but Jerry isn't.
- What Happened to the Mouse?:
- Prominent Martian character Grob abruptly disappears from the story right before the invasion of Earth.
- All of the Martians besides Peep suddenly vanish from the story after she gives Jerry the means to revive those who were turned into ash by the martians’ weapons and right before the Invince-a-tron arrives on Earth.
