Diagonaldi Very well executed

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Oliver Thatcher Watson This movie, for me, is a mixed bag. I think it's a charming movie that has a ton of enjoyable moments and good entertainment, but it's also extremely anchored down by the fact that this film does an awful job staying true to the comics it's based off of. The only thing it did well with staying true to the comics is Garfield himself, as he looks great in this movie, and I think Bill Murray did a great job in his role. But, everything else just doesn't feel right. Nermal, instead of being the cutest cat in the world, is just an ordinary cat. Same thing goes for Arlene, as nothing about her is reminiscent to her comic counterpart. Jon is also completely different than what he should be. Jon's supposed to be a middle aged-ish, sometimes clueless and grumpy, yet good hearted pet owner, but in this film, he's a late 20s-early 30s shy guy that's more worried about getting a date than taking care of his pets. I mean, come on. Were the writers of this film even trying? Also, Garfield is the only one who's actually animated and looks most like his comic counterpart, while literally everyone else is just normal animals. I don't get it, because all the other animals were cartoon like too, but Garfield's the only one to get the treatment? I get that he's the main star of the film, but it's jarring to see everyone else as a normal animal while he just sticks out like a sore thumb. But despite all these major flaws, I will admit that I did find the film entertaining, as it does have a good enough flow to be watchable and enough funny and heartwarming moments to be thoroughly enjoyable. It's a movie that's definitely easy to sit through and can be enjoyable with the right mindset for it. I think kids who've never read the Garfield comics will probably get a kick out of this film. However, despite this movie being watchable, that still doesn't change the fact that this film left out somewhere around 80% of what made the comics good to begin with, and I can't recommend this film to anyone who are fans of the comics, as all it'll do is just disappoint everyone who's expecting to see there favorite comic remade for the big screen, as this film does a pretty terrible job at it. But, like I said, this movie is still pretty fun to watch, so I say to those who are not big fans of the comics to check this movie out, as it's definitely enjoyable for the most part, at least in my opinion. Overall, this is a fun movie that fails miserably to replicate the comics. With that said, just remember to proceed with caution.

FilmBuff1994 Garfield is a great family movie with great humor and a good storyline.Garfield is without a doubt my favorite comic strip character,I would usually read him at the back off the paper and I also use to love the series,I think that Bill Murray definitely had the perfect voice for Garfield.This movie shows you the origin of how Odie and Grfield first met,showing that Garfields owner John got the dog off Liz and Garfield being very jealous at the start.After John takes Odie to a dog show.A man called Happy Chapman wants to use Odie to advertise his dog products,Odie gets out of the house one night and goes missing and Happy Chapman finds him and does exactly what he had planned to do.Garfield see's Odie on TV but John and Liz are unaware,Garefield decides to head on a journey to save the dog who he realizes he is missing.

morrison-dylan-fan With having enjoyed watching the late 80s/early 90s animated TV series Garfield and Friends when I was growing up,I,became pretty happy when a friend of mine gave me a DVD of the film for a gift.Though the film has more of a Home Alone feel than the TV show had,it is still a very enjoyable family film.The plot:Garfield the cat and his owner Jon have been friends for many years,with Jon always letting Garfield relax round the house,and Garfield always being there to keep Jon company.Having him round the house also gives Jon a reason to constantly take him to the vets.Where,just by chance-his long-time crush Liz is working as a vet.On one of the visits,Garfield gets a horrible surprise,when he discovers that Jon has adopted a dog from Liz called Odie.As Jon gives all of his attention to Odie,and none at all to Garfield.Due to this,Garfield ends up snapping,and on one night,he chucks Odie out of the house!.What Garfield does not know is, that whilst he is sleeping in his nice warm bed,Odie runs away.As he sees how sad he has made Jon,Garfield decides to go on a very long journey to find Odie,and to get them both back home safely to Jon.View on the film:The main person who I feel deserves to get praised for their work on the film is the animation director,Chris Bailey.Bailey-who did great work on the sadly short lived Clerks cartoon series,does a very good job at making each of the animals look realistic,whilst giving each of them some very clear different personalities.With Garfield,Bailey really shows Garfields great,lazy attitude,that is expressed even more,with the excellent voice-over work of Bill Murray.The screenplay by Alex Sokolov and Joel "not the one that made Fargo" Cohen,disappointingly don't give anything for any of the humans in the film to do.The writers also seem to desperately want to make the film into a 90s-era John Huges slap-stick kids comedy.Something that I found,surprisingly a bit disturbing in the film,was the so-called "joyfull" moment in the film,Was when some of Garfields friends beat the main baddie in the film.Whilst the beat down was shown in silhouette,I feel that it is surprisingly very nasty,for what is meant to be such a good- natured film.Final view on the film:A fun family film,with good animation and some strong voice-over work from Bill Murray.

MartianOctocretr5 Annoying for adults; boring for children. This cat movie is a real dog.There's no story, and no plot. What works in the comic strip is torturous as a movie. Garfield spends 90 minutes or so of your time spewing mocking remarks about his companions, the hapless John Arbuckle and Odie the dimwitted dog. Odie and John stand there and take it, just making dopey looks amidst the poorly rendered animation. Odie is a real animal, while Garfield is animated; this is awkward, and makes no sense. They have one thing in common, though: neither of them is interesting or endearing in any way. Jennifer Love Hewitt (before she advised dead people in Ghost Whisperer), shows up every once in a while, also doing not much of anything. There's no identity with the characters, no fun, no involvement in whatever was going on (which wasn't much). Bill Murray impersonates the late Lorenzo Music as the jaded, apathetic, and sarcastic Garfield voice pretty well. But it was a much funnier routine when Music did Carlton the doorman, an offstage character that was never seen. We all would have been better off if Garfield had never been seen, either.