To me, this movie is perfection.

How sad is this?

Good movie but grossly overrated

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

This is a fairly decent Tom and Jerry cartoon. the setting is good and is creative with the female, crab, bathing suits, gags etc. Tom eating a clam and consuming sand make for a good laugh, as well as tom's attempts at impressing the girl. The ending with the beach toy and tom's flying trip was a great way to exit the cartoon. The only negative I have however is that I feel the first chase scene, where the crab attacks tom and then he gets himself stuck in a brolly, is completely filler and unnecessary. when jerry was seen tossing out food it should've cut straight to tom slamming the bottle cap over his head. Though with the first chase we did see the crab in action and poor tom all closed up inside the parasol. Fairly decent cartoon, not too bad and not too great either. 6/10

"Salt Water Tabby" is an American cartoon from 1947, so this one is already over 70 years old, but still not among the oldest Tom and Jerry cartoons. Here the duo not only has to deal with each other, but also with a vicious crab and Tom is struggling to get an attractive female cat interested in him. It is all a day at the beach, but far from as chilly and harmonic as everybody may have wanted it to be. This cartoon is one of these where Tom also occasionally triumphs over Jerry, like the bottle scene, and where he is humanized enough to have no interest in catching Jerry, let alone eating him. All he wants is to get rid of him and have his calm and quiet and a sexy time with the woman (you can call her that I guess) of his choice. But no way he is gonna get it. I felt kinda sorry for Tom here. Even his honorable intentions to save somebody in danger in the water are just a prank being pulled on him by Jerry. Overall, story, comedy and wit are inferior in this one compared to many other T&J works. The animation and looks are still good enough and we should not take that for granted given the perhaps best era for animation when this was made, but it cannot make up alone for mediocrity in other fields. I give it a thumbs-down and don't recommend checking it out.

Tom's trip to the beach starts badly; he rushes out of his beach hut and gets is bathing costume caught in the door which sends him catapulting backwards, then in his second attempt the water goes out as he dives in leaving him 'swimming' in a variety of garbage! It looks as if things will be better out of the water when he spies Toodles, his favourite female, on the beach. He doesn't get chance to put his moves on her though as scraps of food start getting thrown out of the picnic basket and landing in him; of course it is his nemesis Jerry! Inevitably violence ensues and Tom gets the worst of it; especially when a particularly angry crab gets involved! While this isn't a classic episode it is still pretty funny; featuring plenty of their trademark violence. This things they do to each other are inventive; I particularly liked Jerry's use of a beach umbrella and the effects of Tom swallowing an inflatable beach toy. The crab was a good addition to the regular cast; angry and just as likely to snap at Jerry as Tom... unlike most small creatures who tend to team up with Jerry.

Wow, I love this short. This is about the best Tom and Jerry cartoon you can find, as it is absolutely tops in both quality of animation and laughs. In fact, I think that Tom and Jerry cartoons of the 40s are highly underrated and in many cases are superior to those of Warner Brothers--especially in regard to the quality of the animation.Tom is at the beach trying to woo a cute lady cat. And, to help woo her, he brings along Jerry as his slave. Jerry is throttled again and again by Tom until finally Jerry escapes and decides to get revenge. And in this case revenge includes shoving an angry crab on Tom's tail, nearly drowning Tom and finally making the moves on Tom's girl. The film is nearly non-stop action and fun.