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The Garfield Movie

The Garfield Movie

2024

Mark Dindal

Animation, Voice: Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult ...

4.8

670

Animation. Comedy World-famous Garfield, the Monday-hating, lasagna-loving house cat, is about to have an adventure in the wild outdoors! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father - the scruffy alley cat Vic - Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced to leave their perfect, pampered lives behind as they join Vic on a very risky heist.

	Media	Author	Review
		Charles Bramesco The Guardian	"A baffling misunderstanding of the charm and appeal of the grouchy cartoon cat is one of many reasons to hate this atrocious new take, along with the many, many ads (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"None of these meta references will be entertaining for the very young target audience, nor are they amusing for their adult chaperones"
		William Bibbiani The Wrap	"When I say 'The Garfield Movie' is the best 'Garfield' movie, it's going to sound like faint praise. Because it is. But faint praise is still praise"
		Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"A disservice to both the character and the work of comic creator Jim Davis (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Neil Smith Total Film	"Stumbles at the same hurdle that has scuppered previous attempts to bring Garfield to the big screen: namely, the impracticality of crafting a satisfying full-length feature around a self-centered sourpuss (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Carlos Aguilar Variety	"A generic, if pleasantly animated narrative that misunderstands the characteristics that make Jim Davis' Garfield a singularly attractive character"
		Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"[It] is just an IP cash grab (...) My advice is just to find a better movie (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"Garfield has been cured of his depression. Good news for Garfield, I guess. Less so for anyone hoping his new animated film might in any way reflect Jim Davis's original, misanthropic feline (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Chicago Tribune	"It's cute and irreverent enough, and manages to bridge the generation gap, offering up a kid-friendly flick that can keep adults somewhat entertained (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Peter Travers ABC News	"A cynical cash grab propelled by the idiocy of turning our favorite mouthy, shamelessly lazy cat into a blah action hero voiced by Chris Pratt"
		John Nugent Empire	"[It] just feels plain lazy: pure kids’-movie-by-numbers. The cinematic equivalent of a Monday (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Coleman Spilde The Daily Beast	"'The Garfield Movie' fundamentally misunderstands the charm of Garfield"
		Marko Djurdjic' Exclaim!	"A light, fun and usually entertaining —albeit bland— addition to the Garfield canon"
		Rachel Labonte Screen Rant	"Despite an emotional father-son storyline, 'The Garfield Movie' feels lackluster and fails to bring anything new to the table (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Brandon Yu The New York Times	"In all his indolence, even Garfield would have dragged himself up to change the channel"
		Brian Lowry CNN	"Big and loud, the film loads up references and still manages to feel as stale as a week-old lasagna left out too long in the summer"
		Wendy Ide The Guardian	"A fun and frantic feline adventure (...) Voiced by Samuel L Jackson and Chris Pratt, this latest animated take on the plus-sized moggy is the cat’s whiskers (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A crushingly generic animation that just reuses bits of Chicken Run and Despicable Me (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Amy Nicholson The Washington Post	"Unlike lasagna, Garfield the cat lacks layers (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Zaki Hasan San Francisco Chronicle	"A reheated tray of stale lasagna (...) Rating: 0 (out of 4)"

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