Tom and Jerry: Cooties

Tom and Jerry: Cooties is a 2017 American live action/animated horror comedy film directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion from a screenplay written by Ian Brennan and Leigh Whannell. The film stars Elijah Wood, Christy Carlson Romano Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, Jack McBrayer, Whannell, Nasim Pedrad, Richard Kind, Dana Hill (in her Return film role) Brennan, and Jorge Garcia as a group of elementary school employees who fight to survive an outbreak among students that turn them aggressive and cannibalistic. based on (Cooties 2014 film) produced by Turner Entertainment Co., Lionsgate Premiere SpectreVision Glacier Films Woodhaven Production Company and Warner Bros. Animation, Featuring Donald Duck

Plot
In Fort Chicken, Illinois, a batch of poorly prepared chicken nuggets containing a mutant virus arrives at Fort Chicken Elementary. A student, fourth grader Shelley Linker, consumes one of the tainted black-dotted chicken nuggets. Meanwhile, an aspiring horror writer named Clint Hadson substitutes at Fort Chicken Elementary, where he is reunited with his former high school crush Lucy McCormick, who he learned is dating the physical education teacher Wade Johnson.

During Clint's class, a boy named Patriot is attacked by a blister-ridden and increasingly feral Shelley after he inadvertently pulls a pigtail out of her scalp, with Clint being scratched by her before she runs. After Patriot is taken to the nurse's office, Patriot's friend Dink confronts Shelley while she attempts to dig her way out of the school. Shelley ends up infecting Dink, who spreads it throughout the playground by scratching the majority of the children before they proceed to kill several staff members including Mr. Peterson, Vice Principal Simms, and Sheriff Dave.

Later, Clint, Lucy, Wade, and the other surviving staff members (consisting of Doug Davis, Tracy Lacey, and Rebekkah Halverson) are forced to flee the faculty lounge when attacked by Patriot. After escaping to the library and joined by uninfected student Calvin, the staff barricades themselves in the music room. Wade notices Clint has been scratched by Shelley and quarantines him; meanwhile, Doug deduces that Clint is only experiencing symptoms of stomach flu as the virus does not affect adults like it does children.

The staff plans to head to the roof at the end of the school day to call out to the arriving parents for help, only to watch the first arriving parent to be killed by her child, before they are forced back into the school. As Wade is forced to kill Dink when he followed them into the auditorium, the group is joined by a teenager named Tamra, who they found was scratched by one of the infected kids. Doug concludes from his autopsy of Dink that the infected children are mostly brain dead and the virus only affects preadolescent children. As Patriot takes out the power, the group sees that Calvin starts passing out from diabetic shock as they escape with the school janitor Hitachi and take refuge with him.

The group sends Clint through the ventilation system to get a chocolate bar for Calvin, along with Wade's truck keys and their cellphones. Lucy joins Clint and they manage to secure a chocolate bar to bring Calvin out of diabetic shock. Clint and Lucy are separated from the group and get trapped in the library, where they confess their feelings for each other and kiss. Shortly after, Wade apologizes to Lucy for his behavior over a walkie-talkie. Clint knocks out several children with pills and he and Lucy reconvene with Wade and the others as they made themselves improvised weapons. The staff fight their way through the hallway and the parking lot, with Hitachi being overwhelmed by the infected children inside the school, while Wade stays behind to ensure the others get away. Patriot, having hidden in Wade's truck bed, attacks Clint and ends up being crushed against a tree.

The group continues to the nearby town of Danville before Wade's truck runs out of gas, finding the town similarly overrun while learning the viral infection has spread across the country. Several children ambush them, and they barricade themselves inside a children's entertainment building where they retrieve a contaminated chicken nugget for Doug to study in hope of developing a vaccine. They are later cornered in a playroom by Shelley and the infected children. Wade and Hitachi arrive in a van and help the group escape the room. Wade uses a massive beach ball to barricade the children inside while spraying them with a water gun filled with gasoline, lighting the gasoline trail to burn the building down. They manage to escape, driving out of the town to "someplace kids don't wanna go" as Shelley burns to death in pursuit.

In a post-credits scene, Hitachi is seen at the school, sitting in a chair and having a snack, and finishes telling a story he was telling the teachers earlier.

Cast

 * Elijah Wood as Clint Hadson
 * Rainn Wilson as Wade Johnson
 * Alison Pill as Lucy McCormick
 * Jack McBrayer as Tracy Lacey
 * Leigh Whannell as Doug Davis
 * Nasim Pedrad as Rebekkah Halverson
 * Ian Brennan as Vice Principal Simms
 * Jorge Garcia as Rick
 * Sunny May Allison as Shelley Linker
 * Cooper Roth as Patriot
 * Miles Elliot as Dink
 * Armani Jackson as Calvin
 * Morgan Lily as Tamra
 * Christy Carlson Romano as Kelly
 * Peter Kwong as Mr. Hatachi
 * Kate Flannery as Charman Hadson
 * Matt Jones as Sheriff Dave
 * Jake Brennan as Lincoln
 * Richard Kind (Voice) as Tom
 * Dana Hill (Voice) as Jerry
 * Tony Anselmo (Voice) as Donald Duck
 * Mark Christopher Lawrence as Mr. Pederson
 * Rebecca Marshall as Emily Dopkins
 * Aiden Lovekamp as Racer Dopkins
 * Laura Stovall as Moon
 * Jared Breeze as Safety Helmet Boy
 * Angela Bullock as Rhonda
 * Nikita Ager as Patriot's Mom
 * Elizabeth Bogush as Crying Mother
 * Boni Yanagisawa as Miss Nash
 * Lauren Katz as Mrs. Gordon
 * Brian Henderson as Mr. Henderson
 * Tammie Baird as Mrs. Birk
 * Ashley Rae Miller as Tricycle Girl
 * Isabella Revel as Angela
 * Sophia Strauss as Lipstick Girl

Trivia:

 * Rated PG: mild violence, threat, rude humour, language.
 * Suggested Running Times: 82 Minutes (NTSC), 94 minutes (PAL).
 * This is a crossover between Tom and Jerry and Cooties (2014).