Garfield: The Movie

like the cartoon. hate CGI junk,.

This movie never stayed true to the orignal comic strip!

I know Garfield and this isn't it. It's just a boring, generic, anaemic kids movie. Garfield looks like c***, most of the acting is poor (especially Jennifer Love Hewitt, who acts so forced) and the plot is not true to the comic. For example, Garfield hates Odie. He doesn't become friends with him like he does here. Liz also hates Jon. Any date they went on in the comic strip was a disaster. Here, they like each other. The only acceptable performance is from Bill Murray as Garfield. The villain is generic kiddy c*** I've seen a thousand times over, and is acted out as such. The rescue is both unoriginal and unexciting. The rest of the animals are just normal animals, which looks kind of cheap and they are only related to the comic by name (for example, Arlene doesn't appear to be Garfield's girlfriend). In conclusion, if you're a Garfield fan, don't see this. Garfield: The Movie could have been interesting to watch, but it just isn't. I like the comic. I hate this movie. 1/5 star... Read more

My youngest kid talked me into renting this the other day. I watched about fifteen minutes of it. That makes three bucks and fifteen minutes that I'd like back please.

3.5, it was a good movie but was expecting something better. I agree with spirit510, that's not what would happen in the comic. Liz hates Jon, Garfield hates Odie. Then they get along.(in the movie)

I didn't actually sit down for this movie, but working at a theater, I saw enough of it. I refuse to reward Jim Davis' next effort to over-commercialize his characters and grab more money with more than one star. I mean, the Garfield comic's storyline isn't complicated. Would it have been so difficult to stay true to it? Nermal is a cute, gray kitten. Arlene is tall and white. And having Liz give in to Jon's affections completely butchers the personalities of both characters. And would it have been so tough for ALL the animal characters to be CGI, and not just Garfield?

What a HORRIBLE adaptation!! I was very upset with this movie. Most of the characters look NOTHING like the ones in the comic strip, and the plot was very bad, But this is a kid's movie, so i'll have to give a point for that, but if you're above the age of 10 or 12, AVOID this.

I enjoyed it, probably because i didnt go into it expecting it to win any awards. It was a reasonably entertaining movie. Better suited for an afternoon with the kids than a date movie however. It didnt follow the comic strip exactly, but it was still a fun movie.

It wasn't what I expected, but still a good movie

This has got to be the ABSOLUTE WORST movie I have EVER seen!!!! I could not believe the producers would put out something this awful. There was none of that humor that makes the Garfield comic strips so funny. No kicking the crap out of Odie, no humorous jokes about Jon, no nothing. This movie lacked substance, it really did. I would rather have lost the $8.50 I spent on the ticket on the streets somewhere rather than sit for an hour and half forced to watch this mess because I don't like to waste money. I hated this film!!! The least they could have done was make Odie animated as well then maybe they could have done some of funny things they're known for doing to each other. But, you could tell that this sh*t was low-budget. The acting was terrible, the set was terrible, the cast was terrible, the plot ridiculous (Odie gets kidnapped by a TV show host because he can dance and the guy wants him for a co-host and Garfield sets out to rescue him). At the end Jon ends up with Liz the vet... Read more