High Steaks and Down and Outing until now were the only shorts that reached the edge of Cruel and unpleasant and unfortunately here they returned to the same plot but with another Character.
The new character is completely Forgettable, he is a simple French Woodpecker that horrendously draws and produces annoying and poorly synthesized sounds, just like Jerry they are complete Evils since they Torture Tom in an Unpretty (without saying disgusting).
The story, besides being simple, is too forgettable since it is only about Tom trying to catch Jerry and the Bird, but these 2 take revenge on him in horrible and unfunny ways.
The Animation is still Terrible, choppy movements and scenes, the designs are constantly deformed among many more problems, the Backgrounds are just as empty as in High Steaks and are Boringly colored, the colors are not very conspicuous as well as the design of the Backgrounds. Which are completely simple and bad.
The music is an improvement over Mouse Into Space but still just as bizarre and creepy as Down and Outing, Its Greek To Meow and Switchin Kitten, most of these shorts always have the same swing and have as always the same unpleasant and bizarre tone (in fact in Its Greek To Meow there was a part with a scene with a musical theme almost the same as one of this Short).
The Sound Effects are Awful as is the Voice acting, the effects (especially Tom's Screams and Horrendous Bird Sounds) are horribly bad and are a complete aural disgust, Tom's screams are already nauseating and too Cruel and Forced, although there are times when the acting is unintentionally funny but that doesn't take away from how lousy it is, the sounds are simple and too strange to listen to due to how inconsistent they are and how badly placed they are.
Tom's tortures range from throwing him into a cauldron full of burning water ending with Tom crying and leaving the place screaming and arriving with the lower part of his body literally burned, causing a Hose to explode and ending up injured and with his body tied to the hose for some reason and also the absurd ending where he gets hit by a plane and falls from a height just to put an Airmail sign on it before a surrendered Tom makes a Hand Sign.
As you must already realize, Landing Stripling is of a lousy quality with nauseating effects and animation, Horrible voice acting and boring Backgrounds and too empty to look at and be a complete Audiovisual disgust but you will wonder why I qualify it like that?, no I find it as bad as High Steaks or Sorry Safari but together with Down and Outing and Calypso Cat it falls into the Mediocre category, it shares the same mistakes as High Steaks and Down and Outing but it is not as badly done as High Steaks, the stages are not as meager as High Steaks and the cruelty is slightly less.
In itself, a mediocre short on a par with Down and Outing and Calypso Cat that isn't as bad as High Steaks and Sorry Safari but isn't Deitch's best, those would be Buddies Thicker Than Water, The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit and Carmen Get It, but those will already have their review apart, the animation and everything else is still devastating and lousy for its time and even worse today and this did not age well like Puss Gets The Boot, this aged just as badly as most short of this era because of how lousy they are.
For everything I said above Landing Stripling I rate it a 5.
