Tom and Jerry are in the Wild West where they help save a ranch from the hands of a greedy villain. The rivals team up to help a cowgirl and her brother save their homestead from a greedy land-grabber.
Tropes in the film:
- Adaptational Heroism: Tom is at his most heroic here. Upon making friends with Jerry, he does genuinely seem to care for and look out for his new "brothers".
- All There in the Manual: The Benson family ranch is apparently named UUB, pronounced as "double UB" rather than "WB".
- Alliterative Family: Betty, Bumpy, Bentley, and Boyd Benson. This is how Critchley's forged deed is exposed, misspelling Boyd's name as "Lloyd".
- Big Bad: August Critchley, a greedy land grabber wanted for bank robbery and forgery who is after the Benson family's ranch.
- Bull Seeing Red: Addressed by Jerry's nephews, who point out that bulls are actually indifferent to colors and it's the motion of the cloth that riles them up. Jerry using the usual red cape against the bull is merely for convenience.
- Commonality Connection: As Jerry's nephews point out, he and Tom are the pets of siblings, and thus in a way, they should technically also consider each other to be siblings.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Lightning is introduced as slow and dopey, but when he is called to action, he suddenly limbers up and demonstrates that he does in fact have Super-Speed as his name implies.
- Engineered Heroics: Once Jerry and Tom start getting along, they arrange a deal where Jerry and his nephews will pretend to get caught in order to help Tom make his owner Bentley happy.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Very early on, Jerry saves Tom from a bull and the two agree to work together for the rest of the movie.
- Furry Confusion: Besides the cat and mouse duo, there are both Talking Animals and non-Talking Animals in this movie. For instance, Butch and his alley-cat gang don't talk, but every one of the prairie dogs do.
- Human-Focused Adaptation: The film is mostly about a cowgirl and her brother reuniting to spend time in their ranch, which is threatened to be taken over by a greedy land-grabber. The cat and mouse are depicted as their pets, who help them save their ranch.
- I Owe You My Life: After Jerry saves Tom’s life early on, he decides to help the mouse save the ranch.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Subverted with Clem. Though his boss sees him as one compared to his horse Diablo and his Establishing Character Moment is epically failing to capture Duke, Clem proved to be more competent than he appears, to the point where he would've won for his boss if it wasn't for Critchley's Villain Ball, while it's implied that Clem gets away with abetting him.
- Mouse World: The prairie dogs apparently have an underground civilization, which Jerry and his nephews stumble upon after being evicted from the ranch.
- Near-Villain Victory: Critchley successfully evicts the Benson family from their ranch, but Jerry finds his wanted poster and reveals it to the marshal, who places him under arrest.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Tom and Jerry are successful in chasing off Clem and his hench-cats from the ranch, but in doing so, start a fire which destroys it and the deed, which is what Clem was trying to do to begin with. Fortunately, things take an upturn when gold is discovered in the ruins under the ranch, along with the reward money from Critchley's arrest.
- Self-Disposing Villain: Critchley ultimately causes his own defeat by throwing away his wanted poster instead of destroying it, leading for Jerry to find it and expose his crimes, even slipping up about his forgery of the Bensons' family deed.
- Theme Twin Naming: Jerry's triplet nephews' names are Tuffy, Duffy, and Scruffy, which the latter two are Color-Coded Characters of the former.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
- City Mouse Bentley is terrified of rodents, which his sister and uncle are housing, and they are forced to relocate Jerry and the triplets after Clem captures them at his request. Thankfully, he gets over it at the end of the movie.
- Clem has a similar dislike specifically towards prairie dogs, which he and Bentley acknowledge.
