Joe Barbera (1911-2006) came back to direct his final film with his first creations, Tom and Jerry, and his final film before his 2006 death. With Spike Brandit, he co-directed, co-storyboarded, and wrote "The KarateGuard". Hanna-Barbera character-designer/creater Iwao Takamoto (1925-2007) storyboarded the cartoon with Barbera, while Brandit did the voice of Tom, Tony Cervone did Spike, and Keone Young did the Ancient Wise One. The cartoon has the same energy, fast-pace, and similar gags of the original cartoon, but with some modernized gags and storylines. They took the Spike being Jerry's bodyguard thing, but put a karate twist on it. The cartoon is a fantastic work of animation, when it came on Cartoon Network, but was in front of a live theatrical audience in 2005. See it on YouTube, but here are some images.
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